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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Twitter makes its v2 API, announced in August 2020, the default for developers, giving third-party apps more freedom as it aims to become more decentralized — Twitter's new API is finally official, which could mean good things for third-party clients — Twitter has announced …
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TNW, Protocol, iMore, 9to5Mac, ZDNet, SiliconANGLE, and Reuters
Tweets: @twitterdev, @backlon, @stevestreza, @dr, @green_footballs, @jack, @vladsavov, @caseynewton, @quinnypig, and @sub8u
| Packy McCormick / Not Boring: |
A look at ConstitutionDAO, which has taken $4M+ in crypto donations to bid at an auction on one of the original copies of the US Constitution, printed in 1787 — ConstitutionDAO, web3, and America … Today's Not Boring is brought to you by... Secureframe … Schedule a Secureframe Demo
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Tweets: @packym, @brett_ftxus, @m1guelpf, @constitutiondao, @gnovak_, @jowyang, @constitutiondao, @packym, @brouhaha, @ys_3commas, @jposhaughnessy, @hhorsley, @alexisohanian, @bashco_, @morganhousel, @alexdrocca, @albertbridgecap, @ljin18, @businessbarista, @timccopeland, @constitutiondao, @carnage4life, @cswenberg_, @businessbarista, @businessbarista, @businessbarista, @jason_koebler, @crypto_texan, @programmer, @matthewesp, @edwinwee, @businessbarista, @carnage4life, @chrismessina, and @grady_booch
| Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: |
Substack says it has reached 1M paying subscribers, up from 250,000 last December — Many top journalists have left legacy media to go it alone on publishing platform — Newsletter start-up Substack has reached 1m paying subscribers, underlining the growing power of à la carte journalism …
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Tweets: @hamishmckenzie, @ljin18, @andrewchen, @ggreenwald, @apompliano, @mediaevan, and @carnage4life
| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Apple defends its ads for third-party apps, saying they are marked as from the App Store, have been live for five years, and it regularly communicates with devs — Following allegations that Apple secretively buys ads for subscription-based apps to collect more commission …
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| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
Ohio AG sues Meta on behalf of an Ohio pension fund and Meta investors, alleging Facebook execs misled the public about its products' negative impact on minors — Lawsuit filed on behalf of Meta investors and Ohio Public Employees Retirement System seeks to recover more than $100 billion
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Facebook: Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost. Tweets: @yost4ohio, @dseetharaman, @ohioag, and @michaelssmithii
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Twitter will no longer automatically refresh timelines on the web with new tweets, after users complained about disappearing tweets — Twitter is updating its web platform to change the way users see new tweets. The social media giant will no longer automatically refresh timelines on the web …
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| Suhauna Hussain / Los Angeles Times: |
Amazon agrees to pay $500K to California for concealing COVID-19 case numbers from its workers, the first such action under the state's new “right to know” law — Amazon has agreed to pay $500,000 to better enforce state consumer protection laws after California's attorney general …
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| Bloomberg: |
UK supermarket Sainsbury's becomes the first known customer for Amazon's Just Walk Out tech outside the US, starting with a London store opening November 29 — - Sainsbury is first ‘Just Walk Out’ customer outside the U.S. — Grocery expected to open Nov. 29 with shop-and-go technology
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers say they used a new Rowhammer exploit to successfully flip bits on all 40 PC-DDR4 DRAM devices they tested, defeating recent hardware mitigations — Researchers build “fuzzer” that supercharges potentially serious bitflipping exploits. — Rowhammer exploits that allow unprivileged attackers …
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Tweets: @tylerglaiel, @myriachan, @kjhealy, @pauldokas, and @campuscodi
| Fred Wilson / AVC: |
Seed rounds at $100M post-money valuations, now fairly common, are unlikely to perform well for investors, given dilution and early startups' high failure rate — We have been seeing quite a few seed rounds getting done in and around $100mm post-money and that concerns me for a few reasons:
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| Rob Pegoraro / PCMag: |
Pew: 42% of US users read Twitter primarily for entertainment, 20% for news; one-third of users visit Twitter less than once a week, 66% visit at least weekly — More tweeps read Twitter primarily for entertainment, but among the 69% who report getting news on Twitter …
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| Bloomberg: |
China is warning state firms to exit cryptocurrency mining and is considering punitive measures for those that do not comply — China is warning its own state-owned enterprises to get out of cryptocurrency mining and is considering imposing punitive measures in the form of higher power prices …
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| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Peloton sues rival fitness companies Echelon and iFit, claiming that both violated patents related to its on-demand classes — This doesn't bode well for all those Peloton copycats — Peloton isn't too happy with its rivals. The company has filed lawsuits against Echelon and iFit … | Juro Osawa / The Information: |
Sources: ByteDance's gross revenue is on track to rise 60% YoY to $63B this year, slightly slower than last year's growth — ByteDance's gross revenue is on track to rise about 60% to 400 billion yuan (about $63 billion) this year, cementing the TikTok owner's position as one of the world's … | Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
TikTok users show that Disney's text-to-speech Rocket the Raccoon voice wouldn't say words like “gay”, “lesbian”, or “queer”; the decision has now been reversed — Whatever was causing LGBT-related words to be silenced appears to have been reversed
Tweets: @tricksyliesmith, @gwynbr, @harvjavivr, @anxietypwincess, and @ruddlematthew
| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
A look at VR meeting startup Spatial, which in January pivoted to hosting NFT auctions in virtual spaces — Yes, that's a really a thing now. — Jacob Loewenstein started off his talk at the Augmented World Expo by apologizing. — It was a small crowd—fewer than a hundred people …
Tweets: @spatialxr, @wired, @laurengoode, and @tacolamp
| Sam White / British GQ: |
As Xbox turns 20, Phil Spencer and other executives discuss future plans, including Game Pass and xCloud, exclusive games, Xbox history, and more — Phil Spencer saved Xbox. Now he wants to reinvent gaming. Ahead of Xbox's 20th anniversary, we sat down with him and Microsoft's gaming …
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Tweets: @seamusblackley, @xbox, @xbox, @stevenspohn, @seamusblackley, @xboxp3, @seamusblackley, @klobrille, @aarongreenberg, @samwrite, and @samwrite
| Carolina Millan / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Latin American e-commerce platform MercadoLibre, the region's most valuable company by market cap, plans to raise over $1B in a secondary share sale — - Company selling a million shares in secondary share sale — MercadoLibre plans to use proceeds on ‘general purposes’
Tweets: @business
| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Biden signs $1T+ infrastructure bill into law, with $65B to boost broadband access, $475M in grants to help low-income Americans acquire computing devices, more — It includes billions in EV and broadband infrastructure — On Monday, President Biden signed a historic $1 trillion infrastructure bill aimed …
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CoinDesk, The Block, New York Times, Coinspeaker, NPR, MarketWatch, GeekWire, PYMNTS.com, Wall Street Journal, Cointelegraph, and CNET
Tweets: @potus, @reckless, @potus, @gavinnewsom, and @kellymakena
| Campbell Kwan / ZDNet: |
Google says it will invest AU$1B over five years into a new Australian Digital Future Initiative to create jobs and build its first research hub in the country — Google's investment of AU$1 billion over five years will be put into building Australia's technology talent, digital infrastructure, and developing local tech partnerships.
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The Keyword. More:
CNBC, CNET, BBC, Australian Financial Review, 9News, Sydney Morning Herald, and news.com.au
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