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| Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
Mark Gurman: high-end M1X Mac mini with an updated design and more ports than the current M1 Mac mini should replace the Intel model in the next several months — Apple can be expected to launch an updated high-end Mac mini with a new design and a faster “M1X” Apple silicon processor in the …
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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
Facebook releases a previously shelved Q1 content transparency report, acknowledging the widespread reach of content casting doubt on COVID vaccines — The social-media platform's Saturday evening acknowledgment comes after a lengthy internal debate over whether to share data.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Elon Musk's “Tesla Bot” is a distraction and an empty promise, considering the progress of Boston Dynamics' Atlas, which has been in development for 10+ years — A distraction and an empty promise — After a dense presentation about the undeniably impressive work Tesla is doing with AI …
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| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Wired: |
Report says Roblox exploits young game developers, many of them children, including by making it difficult to withdraw money earned through microtransactions — A new report claims that the massive video game platform can exploit young developers. — ROBLOX has become a video game titan …
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
A bug in Razer's Synapse software, which Windows fetches and installs when a Razer accessory is plugged in, lets anyone with a Razer mouse gain admin privileges — A Razer Synapse zero-day vulnerability has been disclosed on Twitter, allowing you to gain Windows admin privileges simply by plugging in a Razer mouse or keyboard.
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PCMag, Windows Central, BetaNews, Tom's Hardware, XDA Developers, PC Gamer, KnowTechie, TechSpot, Neowin, TechRadar, SlashGear, Security Affairs, and MSPoweruser
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
PayPal will launch its cryptocurrency service in the UK this week, the product's first international expansion since it debuted in the US in 2020 — - PayPal will let British customers buy, hold and sell digital currencies, starting this week. — It marks the first international expansion …
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| Tilly Kenyon / FinTech Magazine: |
London-based online payments company Paysafe will acquire LATAM-focused e-commerce payment service SafetyPay for $441M in cash — Paysafe's latest acquisition of SafetyPay enables it to further scale in the high-growth Latin American region Paysafe, a specialised payments platform …
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| Gillian Tan / Bloomberg: |
Nigerian mobile payments service OPay raises $400M led by Vision Fund 2 at a $2B valuation, marking SoftBank's first investment in Africa — - Sequoia Capital China and Redpoint China also participated — Investment marks Vision Fund 2's first bet in Africa
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| Daniel Kuhn / CoinDesk: |
How Facebook has struggled to scale Diem, and Libra before it, due to data privacy issues and regulatory scrutiny, as Diem's Novi wallet readies for market — Is diem what the world needs? “It's a start,” economist Darrell Duffie says. — Facebook learned pretty quickly it wouldn't be able to …
Tweets: @zackseward and @coindesk
| Edd Gent / IEEE Spectrum: |
Interview with Unreal Engine's Mark Petit on his view of the Metaverse as an immersive version of the internet, the need to have open standards for it, and more — A vast digital mirror world accessible through virtual reality is just around the corner, if you believe the latest pronouncements coming out of Silicon Valley.
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VentureBeat. Tweets: @ballmatthew, @liberationtech, @chetfaliszek, @mwjgary, @lordfusitua, @snowden, @snowden, and @kentbye
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Bangalore-based Zetwerk, a business-to-business marketplace for manufacturing items, raises $150M Series E led by D1 Capital Partners at a $1.33B valuation — An Indian startup that operates a business-to-business marketplace for manufacturing items is the latest to attain the coveted unicorn status in the South Asian market.
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The Economic Times, Business Standard, Livemint, Moneycontrol, VCCircle, The Economic Times, Business Standard, OfficeChai, and The Financial Express. Tweets: @ettech
| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
YouTube says its Partner Program has 2M creators and the number of new channels joining the program in 2020 doubled YoY as channels making $100K+ grew 35% YoY — The program to pay its creators launched 14 years ago — YouTube's Partner Program, which allows users to make money off their videos …
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| Post-Culture / @postcultrev: |
[Thread] OnlyFans is banning sexually explicit content because new Mastercard rules, in force from October 1, make hosting such content prohibitively expensive — A lot of people are getting the OnlyFans story wrong, and the reality of it is a lot more damaging and concerning to both the livelihood of sex workers and online freedom in general.
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