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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Internal documents show Facebook is struggling to attract American users under the age of 30, with US teenage users declining by 13% since 2019 — The world's largest social network is internally grappling with an existential crisis: an aging user base — Earlier this year …
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| Alexandra S. Levine / Politico: |
Internal documents show Facebook had no clear playbook for handling the dangerous content delegitimizing the US elections ahead of the January 6 riots — Facebook's rules left giant holes for U.S. election falsehoods to metastasize. On the day of the Capitol riot, employees began pulling levers to try to stave off the peril.
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| Leah Nylen / Politico: |
Internal Facebook docs show employees touted its scale and dominance in presentations, including showing 78% of US adults and nearly all teens use its services — Documents collected by whistleblower Frances Haugen could give the company “a lot to regret” in its fights to prove it's not a monopoly.
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| Washington Post: |
Sources detail Zuckerberg's decisions putting growth over safety, like censoring “anti-state” posts in Vietnam and opposing a US voting info center in Spanish — Late last year, Mark Zuckerberg faced a choice: Comply with demands from Vietnam's ruling Communist Party …
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| Associated Press: |
Facebook docs detail issues with moderating non-English speech, leading to inflammatory language in Afghanistan, bans on common words in Palestine, and more — DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — As the Gaza war raged and tensions surged across the Middle East last May …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft says the Russian-backed Nobelium group, responsible for the SolarWinds hack, is still targeting global IT supply chain with 14 breaches since May 2021 — Microsoft says the Russian-backed Nobelium threat group behind last year's SolarWinds hack is still targeting the global IT supply chain …
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Internal docs reveal farewell posts by some Facebook employees detail disappointment and dissatisfaction with a company unwilling or unable to change — The “badge posts” of the company's former researchers offer the parting thoughts of the disillusioned. — The Facebook Papers
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| Gilad Edelman / Wired: |
Leaked docs offer a blueprint for solving Facebook's problems: improve products by deprioritizing engagement, reduce AI reliance, focus on developing countries — Internal research documents provide a blueprint for solving the company's biggest problems. — The Facebook Papers
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
MacBook Pro (2021) hands-on: re-adding ports and removing the Touch Bar is welcome, miniLED display looks great, and 1080p webcam is an improvement — New chips, familiar ports, and actual volume buttons — it might be love — It's easy to be excited about the new MacBook Pros …
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Internal docs: Facebook tested hiding the Like button to alleviate stress and anxiety, which didn't work and caused users to interact with and share fewer posts — Likes and shares made the social media site what it is. Now, company documents show, it's struggling to deal with their effects.
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TechCrunch and Bloomberg
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| Jennifer Surane / Bloomberg: |
Mastercard partners with Bakkt to help banks offer cryptocurrency rewards on credit and debit card purchases — Mastercard Inc. is making it easier for banks to offer cryptocurrency rewards on their credit and debit cards as part of the payment network's recent embrace of digital currencies.
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Business Wire, CNBC, PCMag, The Verge, Forbes, Decrypt, Finextra, The Block, and Bitcoin Magazine
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Pixel 6 Pro review: an impressive flagship with excellent cameras, all day battery, and charging speeds up to 30W, but fingerprint sensor is “not super quick” — 2016 marked a major year for Google, with the launch of Assistant and its first self-made smartphone, the Google Pixel.
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| Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo: |
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
AirPods (third-gen) review: less conspicuous design, IPX4 water resistance, and improved sound quality, but spatial audio is inconsistent and no ANC — The new regular AirPods get a lot right even before the gimmicky spatial audio part — For the first time since their introduction in 2016 …
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CNET, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Engadget, MacRumors, CNET, 9to5Mac, MobileSyrup, PCMag, MacRumors, Pocket-lint, Input, YouTube, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, PCMag, and Medium
Tweets: @chriswelch and @dcseifert
| Ben Hubbard / New York Times: |
Citizen Lab: the iPhone of Ben Hubbard, an American reporter for NYT, was hacked in 2020 and 2021, likely by Saudi Arabia using NSO's Pegasus; NSO denies claim — Invasive hacking software sold to countries to fight terrorism is easily abused. Researchers say my phone was hacked twice, probably by Saudi Arabia.
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The Citizen Lab. More:
AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, Beyond Search, Security Affairs, and The Hacker News
Tweets: @jsrailton, @nytben, @nytben, @film_girl, @doctorow, @doctorow, @adamgoldmannyt, @doctorow, @doctorow, @doctorow, @doctorow, @adam_k_levin, @jsrailton, @jsrailton, @jsrailton, @jsrailton, and @jsrailton
| Crystal Tse / Bloomberg: |
Thrasio, which aggregates third-party sellers on Amazon, raises $1B+ led by Silver Lake, source says at a $5B+ valuation — Thrasio Holdings Inc., an aggregator of Amazon.com Inc. products, has raised more than $1 billion in a private funding round led by technology investor Silver Lake.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Teachmint, which helps teachers create their own virtual classrooms using their phones, raises a $78M Series B co-led by Rocketship.vc and Vulcan Capital — As scores of Indian startups populate their catalogs with live and recorded courses to reach and serve students in the world's second …
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Entrackr, Moneycontrol, The Economic Times, DealStreetAsia, Tech in Asia, and Inc42 Media
| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Tesla rolls back its FSD beta from version 10.3, which improved many items like brake light and turn signal detection, to 10.2 after “seeing some issues” — Elon Musk didn't specify what issues the company found — Tesla's decision to test its “Full Self Driving” …
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TechCrunch, MobileSyrup, VICE, BBC, Newser, CNET, Benzinga, Coinspeaker, Electrek, and TeslaNorth.com
Tweets: @gwenckatz, @waltisfrozen, and @notgrubles
| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Hotel booking startup Selfbook raises a $25M Series A led by Tiger Global at a $125M valuation after pivoting from a consumer app to B2B — Tiger Global leads the financing for the startup, which pivoted from B2C to B2B — Selfbook, a hotel payment software startup … Sponsor Posts
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