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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Interviews with 14 current and former Medium employees portray a dysfunctional company; sources say Medium has 700K paid subs, suggesting $35M+ in revenue — Last week, a partnerships manager at Medium working with the White House found that there was a strange problem with the platform: President Joe Biden was being served porn.
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says it has disrupted a network of China-based hackers using its platform to target the Uyghur community abroad and draw them to malicious websites — Facebook on Wednesday announced new actions to disrupt a network of China-based hackers leveraging the platform to compromise targets in the Uyghur community.
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| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Chrissy Teigen, who had 13.7M Twitter followers and was once called “unofficial mayor of Twitter” by the company, quits the platform after years of harassment — The former model and media personality was a prolific tweeter — Chrissy Teigen, a prolific tweeter the company once called … | Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Arizona Senate skips vote on bill HB2005, which would have forced Apple and Google to let apps in their app stores use alternative in-app payment systems — The bill went poof — The Arizona State Senate was scheduled to vote an unprecedented and controversial bill on Wednesday …
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| Paul Lilly / HotHardware.com News: |
Samsung announces 512GB DDR5 memory, still in verification stage, that delivers over twice the performance of DDR4 at up to 7,200 Mbps, for advanced workloads — As we inch closer to Intel's Alder Lake and AMD's Zen 4 architectures (late this year and/or early next, barring any delays) …
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| Paul Tamburro / GameRevolution: |
Reddit says it has cut ties with a controversial UK activist who it had recently hired, after 200+ subreddits, like r/Music, went private to protest — UPDATE: Reddit has now confirmed that it has fired Aimee Knight from her position with the company. In a statement posted …
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| Asha Barbaschow / ZDNet: |
Apple tells Australia's consumer watchdog that iOS developers have alternative channels to reach users as “distribution is far from limited” to App Store — Telling the ACCC that users of iOS can go to a website to purchase and consume digital content or services …
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| Bloomberg: |
Deliveroo is facing a revolt from investors and riders concerned about the way it treats the latter; hundreds of couriers plan a strike next week — - Fund managers Aberdeen and Aviva say they won't buy shares — IWGB says hundreds of riders expected to participate in strike| Craig Chapple / Sensor Tower Blog: |
Freemium mobile game Genshin Impact becomes the fastest title to reach $1B in player spending on the App Store and Google Play worldwide, in just under 6 months — The mobile version of Genshin Impact from miHoYo has surpassed $1 billion in player spending in less than six months following …
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| Benjamin Bain / Bloomberg: |
SEC starts implementing a law that would delist foreign companies like Alibaba and Baidu from US stock exchanges if they don't comply with US auditing standards — - Regulator takes initial step on requiring audit inspections — Alibaba, Baidu among firms under pressure from Washington
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| Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
Morphisec, which helps mid-size companies thwart cyberattacks and says it helps reduce the costs of security tools, raises $31M led by JVP — Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. — With cybersecurity companies going after the big enterprise fish … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Holberton, which started out as a coding school, pivots to become an edtech SaaS company and raises $20M Series B, bringing its total raised to $33M — Holberton, the education startup that started out as a coding school in San Francisco and today works with partners to run schools in the U.S. … | Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post: |
Anyone with an iPhone can now make deepfakes. We aren't ready for what happens next. — Realistic videos of people doing things that never really happened have become shockingly easy to create. Now is the time to put in some safety guardrails.
| The Markup: |
Analysis of vaccine appointment sites for every US state, Puerto Rico, and DC shows some have issues maintaining users' privacy, loading on mobile devices, more — The results, measuring accessibility and privacy protections, were not always great — Christine Meyer, a Pennsylvania doctor …
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| Linda Hardesty / FierceTelecom: |
Comcast pledges $1B investment over the next decade to provide 50M low-income people with broadband, says its Internet Essentials program has helped 10M people — Comcast today said it would invest $1 billion over the next 10 years to help close the digital divide in the United States.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Report: Apple updates factory guidelines to prevent leaks, including criminal background checks on workers, surveillance cameras, and component tracking — Apple has made several changes to its factory security guidelines to help prevent leaks, according to a new report from The Information.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
During an event announcing Intel Foundry Services, CEO Pat Gelsinger said it would pursue Apple as a client; Apple currently relies on TSMC as its sole supplier — Apple in November started releasing Macs with Apple-designed M1 chips, and the Apple silicon technology will eventually replace …
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| James Warrington / CityAM: |
UK's CMA finds that Facebook's acquisition of Giphy raises competition concerns about digital ads and “supply of GIFs”, gives them five days to address concerns — The competition watchdog has given Facebook and Giphy five working days to address concerns their merger could harm … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Cloud infrastructure service DigitalOcean closed 10% down at $42.50 in its market debut, after pricing shares at $47, valuing the company at $4.48B — - DigitalOcean raised $775 million in its initial public offering. — Unlike larger cloud rivals, the company hasn't built … Sponsor Posts
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