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Apple delays the rollout of recently announced child safety features, says it will take more time to collect feedback from stakeholders and make improvements — Last month, Apple announced a handful of new child safety features that proved to be controversial, including CSAM detection features for iCloud Photos.| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Apple made an unforced error by trying to tackle CSAM and child safety issues inside the Apple Park vacuum while adhering to its annual iOS release schedule — Hello friends, and welcome back to Week in Review. — Last week, we dove into the truly bizarre machinations of the NFT market.| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Harvard's Willy Shih on the global chip shortage, supply chains, and why Biden's $52B for chip manufacturing may not be enough for the US to catch up to TSMC — Since the beginning of the pandemic, the demand for microchips has far exceeded supply, causing problems in every industry that relies on computers.| Ryan Mac / New York Times: |
Facebook apologizes after its AI recommendation feature categorized a video of Black men as “about Primates”; Facebook disabled the feature and is investigating — Facebook called it “an unacceptable error.” The company has struggled with other issues related to race.| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
US Cyber Command and CISA urge US organizations to immediately patch a critical Atlassian Confluence remote code execution flaw that is under mass exploitation — US Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) has issued a rare alert today urging US organizations to patch a massively exploited Atlassian Confluence critical vulnerability immediately.| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Lyft and Uber say they will cover legal fees for drivers who are sued under Texas' new abortion law for transporting women to abortion clinics — - Lyft and Uber said Friday they would cover legal fees for drivers on their respective platforms who are sued under Texas' restrictive abortion law that went into effect this week.| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
How Amazon “roll-up” businesses, which acquire third-party sellers and have raised $8B to date, make profit by improving marketing and supply chain efficiencies — Ecommerce aggregators swoop for independent merchants even as online shopping slows| Carrie Mihalcik / CNET: |
#AppleToo publishes an open letter to Tim Cook, asking for transparent and fair compensation, reinvestigation of discrimination and harassment cases, and more — Among the requests in the open letter are transparent compensation and a reinvestigation of reports of discrimination and harassment.| Reuters: |
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Profile of Alvy Ray Smith, a Pixar co-founder who created the algorithms fundamental to animated movies and left after severe disagreements with Steve Jobs — Alvy Ray Smith helped invent computer animation as we know it—then got royally shafted by Steve Jobs. Now he's got a vision for where the pixel will take us next.| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Texas Right to Life whistleblower site is now using Epik for its name servers and as its domain registrar, as Digital Ocean appears to have cut off service — GoDaddy gave website “24 hours to move to a different provider.” — The Texas Right to Life group will have to find a new hosting provider … | Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: |
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Profile of Abu Dhabi-based music streaming service Anghami, which has 1.4M paying subscribers and 70M total users, as it goes public via a $220M SPAC merger — Anghami is a case study in how the music business is being gradually transformed from outside its core centers of New York, Los Angeles and London.| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Mexico-based Flat.mx, an online real estate marketplace for remodeled properties, raises $20M Series A led by Anthemis and 500 Startups — Flat.mx, which wants to build a real estate “super app” for Latin America, has closed on a $20 million Series A round of funding.| Quynh Nguyen / DealStreetAsia: |
Vietnamese startup KiotViet, which provides cloud-based POS software for SMBs, raises $45M Series B led by KKR, after raising a $6M Series A in 2019 — Vietnamese B2B startup KiotViet, a merchant platform for micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), has raised $45 million … | Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Amazon launches an app to provide info on crops to Indian farmers, as it looks to tap into the produce market that accounts for the bulk of India's retail spend — - It's promising timely info on crops via a mobile app — Amazon joins Reliance, Walmart in courting agriculture sector
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