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March 14, 2021, 1:00 AM

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Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:
Apple says it is discontinuing the original HomePod to focus on HomePod mini, will provide HomePod owners software updates and support via Apple Care  —  After 4 years on the market, Apple has discontinued its original HomePod.  It says that it will continue to produce and focus on the HomePod mini, introduced last year.
Bloomberg:
Federal judge rules Google must face a class action suit alleging that it collects browsing history and other data even when a user is in private browsing mode  —  - Judge concludes company didn't notify users of data collection  — Class action suit alleges Google knows ‘who your friends are’
Joseph Cox / VICE:
US DOJ indicts CEO of encrypted phone company Sky for selling devices to drug traffickers, the second such company to face charges after Phantom Secure  —  “The indictment alleges that Sky Global generated hundreds of millions of dollars providing a service that allowed criminal networks around …
Hamish McKenzie / Substack Blog:
Substack co-founder on how Substack Pro works: year one, writers get upfront pay, Substack keeps 85% of revenue; later, writers keep 90% revenue, no minimum pay  —  The thinking behind Substack Pro  —  When we started Substack in mid-2017, the future for writers was frightening.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Microsoft will adjust its release cycle for Edge to match the four-week release cadence of Chrome, starting with Edge 94, which is set for release in September  —  The change will go into effect in September  —  Microsoft is going to adjust its release cycles for Microsoft Edge to match …
James Tarmy / Bloomberg:
MetaKovan, an anonymous digital asset investor and founder of NFT focused crypto-based investment fund Metapurse, is the buyer of the $69M Beeple NFT  —  A digital asset investor who goes by the handle Metakovan and refuses to give his full name, announced that he is the buyer …
Tom Krazit / Protocol:
An oral history of Amazon's cloud storage service S3, which debuted 15 years ago to store 20B objects and has scaled to store 100T objects by 2020  —  In late 2005, Don Alvarez was just another software entrepreneur struggling to get a new business off the ground when a friend working …
Brian Heater / TechCrunch:
Nimble Robotics, which develops imitation learning-based warehouse robotic systems, raises $50M Series A, and adds Fei-Fei Li and Sebastian Thrun to its board  —  Warehouse automation company Nimble Robotics today announced that it has raised a $50 million Series A. Led by DNS Capital …
BuzzFeed News:
An internal doc at Facebook, co-written by Chris Cox, aims to equip employees with rebuttals to the perception that the company's products fuel polarization  —  In a Thursday presentation, Facebook executives told employees the company isn't to blame for social division in the country.
Micah Singleton / Billboard:
Source: decentralized social network BitClout was selling “Creator Coins” of top 15,000 Twitter influencers without their permission, before it went offline  —  Over the past few months, music stars have been scrambling to cash in on the latest craze in collectibles by selling art …
Patrick Howell O'Neill / MIT Technology Review:
ESET: at least ten, mostly state-backed hacking groups are exploiting Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities on thousands of servers in over 115 countries  —  Days before Microsoft released a fix for a secret attack on its email systems, hackers ramped up their activity.  Now experts say swift action is required.
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