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Twitter says it is “investigating a possible system irregularity currently affecting all Twitter API v2 endpoints” that is causing issues for some users — Users on the east coast in the US started reporting problems Friday night — It looks like problems on Twitter …
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Sources: Ant Group is exploring options for founder Jack Ma to divest his stake and give up control to appease Chinese regulators — Ant Group is exploring options for founder Jack Ma to divest his stake in the financial technology giant and give up control, as meetings with Chinese regulators signaled …
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How Aurora, now the owner of Uber's ATG, is moving to bring its self-driving tech to market via deals with Volvo in trucking, Uber and Toyota in taxis, more — On Feb. 11, about a month after closing on the acquisition of Uber's Advanced Technologies Group, or ATG, the self-driving-car startup Aurora held an all-hands meeting.| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
Big tech whistleblowers describe the severe emotional toll that standing up to gigantic companies takes and how it sets them on the path to advocacy — Last summer, just before she published a viral Twitter thread about the discrimination she said she faced at Pinterest … | Rest of World: |
Internet blackouts following a military coup have shut down swathes of the online economy in Myanmar, where internet penetration had surged to around 43% — Amid internet blackouts, economic isolation, and massive strikes, a decade of development is unwinding.
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As the EU considers new regulations for AI, 60+ NGOs ask the EC to ban automatic gender recognition systems, which rely on outmoded understandings of gender — Dangers posed by facial recognition like mass surveillance and mistaken identity have been widely discussed in recent years.
Tweets: @thedextriarchy, @mistydemeo, @accessnow, @cendemtech, @jjvincent, and @autistichoya
| Naaman Zhou / The Guardian: |
Australian Federal Court rules Google misled Android users into thinking it would not collect their location data when they turned location history off — Google collected data on some Android and Pixel phones even when customers ticked ‘No’ or ‘Do not collect’
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Dogecoin, the cryptocurrency that started out as a joke in 2013, now has a market cap of $40B+ after growing nearly 400%+ in the past seven days — - Dogecoin is a cryptocurrency based on the “Doge” meme, which rose to popularity in late 2013. It started out as a joke.
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| Shen Lu / Protocol: |
How Weibo helps Chinese authorities quash the feminist movement by deleting activist accounts, while also profiting from their nationalist harassers — Prominent feminist activist Xiao Meili had never expected to find herself in the center of a nationalist storm.
Tweets: @ninedragons2, @johnhemmings2, @dwertime, @grantwyeth, @theasianfmnst, @theasianfmnst, and @letahong
| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Interview with Initialized Capital's Garry Tan on the firm's seed investment in Coinbase, Ohanian's departure, building a presence on social media, and more — Covering venture capital, software and startups — In March 2012, Garry Tan received an email from the founder of a new startup called Bitbank, Brian Armstrong.| Kristin Robinson / Variety: |
As Spotify turns 15, a look at the ways in which it changed how people listen to music, like breaking down boundaries between genres through “mood playlists” — Ask any executive what the music business was like in the '00s and their face may take on an expression more commonly associated … | Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Sources detail Amazon's tactics during the Alabama union campaign, including “captive audience meetings”, as workers explain why the union was unconvincing — - Last week, workers at one of Amazon's Alabama warehouses overwhelmingly voted against joining the Retail …
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New York Times. Tweets: @gastropoda, @matthuber78, @edasante77, @veenadubal, @mrianleslie, @casparshaller, @jbrous41, @dealbook, @halsinger, and @foustband. Thanks:@mattrosoff
| Jem Aswad / Variety: |
Looking at payment per stream metrics for music streaming services can be misleading when considering artist pay, as many factors determine streaming royalties — Early Friday, Apple Music sent a carefully worded letter to artists, music labels and publishers that briefly explained … | Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal: |
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