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Sources: following Haugen's leaks, Meta sought to divide lawmakers along partisan lines to forestall regulation, as Zuckerberg told employees not to apologize — Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg drove response to disclosures about company's influence; sending deputies to testify in Congress
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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Fortnite servers are back online after a major five-hour outage prevented players from logging on, among other issues — The hit battle royale game told players “You do not have permission to play Fortnite.” — There was some bad news if you're on winter break and hoping to play some Fortnite …
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As the US faces record COVID-19 infections, effective use of exposure notification apps is unlikely, given slow adoption and poor data on their efficacy — The United States is grappling with record-high infections, but adoption of the system is still far behind what its creators and proponents envisioned
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Samsung cuts output at its two fabs in Xi'an, China, which account for 42.5% of its NAND production volume, amid COVID-19 lockdown; Micron output also affected — Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) and Micron Technology (MU.O), two of the world's largest memory chip makers … | Brian Newar / Cointelegraph: |
South Korea tells Apple and Google to remove play-to-earn games, which require in-app purchases before playing, from their app stores — The Games Committee has strengthened its stance against P2E games by saying those games should not receive an age rating needed to get listed on app marketplaces.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
HDMI Forum will introduce HDMI 2.1a, the latest standard, at CES 2022, with minor updates that only further complicate the system's haphazard device support — Brace yourself for yet another new HDMI standard — The HDMI standards are a mess. HDMI 2.1, in particular, is a uniquely frustrating mess …
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| Reuters: |
Six women who work at Foxconn's Indian iPhone plant describe crowded dorms and food crawling with worms, which sickened 250+ workers, leading to protests — For women who assembled iPhones at a Foxconn plant in southern India, crowded dorms without flush toilets and food sometimes crawling …
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Apptopia: Amazon ranked #4 in global shopping app installs in 2021, down from first in 2020, as e-commerce apps Shopee and Shein rose to #1 and #2, respectively — Amazon's leading position in U.S. e-commerce is well-documented, but the latest global rankings for app installs show the potential … | Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel closes the first phase of the sale of its SSD and NAND businesses to SK hynix and says SK hynix's Solidigm subsidiary will operate the Dalian fab in China — Intel and SK hynix seal the first phase of the deal. — Intel announced this evening that it has closed the first phase …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
T-Mobile confirms reports of a data breach caused by SIM swap attacks on a “very small number of customers”, following six other data breaches since 2018 — T-Mobile confirmed that recent reports of a new data breach are linked to notifications sent to a “very small number of customers” who fell victim to SIM swap attacks.| Wall Street Journal: |
Google, Microsoft, and Oracle invest in potential cloud clients to beat AWS; Google claims 6% cloud market share, behind AWS at 41% and Microsoft at 20% — Alphabet company and others invest in potential clients as they look to close gap with Amazon in fast-growing sector
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| New York Times: |
How tech founders and investors use the Qualified Small Business Stock tax break, a 1990s-era provision for SMBs, to minimize taxes on their investment profits — Once aimed at small businesses, a 1990s-era tax break has become a popular way for Silicon Valley founders and investors to avoid taxes on their investment profits.
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