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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 … | Dina Temple-Raston / NPR: |
Company officials, victims, experts, and intel officials discuss the SolarWinds hack, which successfully compromised ~100 companies and a dozen govt. agencies — “This release includes bug fixes, increased stability and performance improvements.” — The routine software update … | Ira Boudway / Bloomberg: |
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.| Cristiano Lima / Politico: |
Facebook Oversight Board, which had 90 days to review Trump's indefinite suspension, delays its decision to “the coming weeks”, citing immense public interest — Facebook suspended the former president's account in the wake of the Jan. 6 siege on the Capitol.
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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 … | 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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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
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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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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.
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| 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 …
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Sources: at least four types of equipment vital to chip production are in short supply and lead times for wire bonding machines have grown to 10-12 months — Longer delivery times mean slower ramp-up of production capacity — TAIPEI/TOKYO — Trying to solve the global chip crunch?
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