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Sources: Apple issued rare bonuses of restricted stock worth $50K-$180K to select engineers, after Meta poached ~100 Apple engineers over the past few months — Apple Inc. has issued unusual and significant stock bonuses to some engineers in an effort to retain talent …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Waymo partners with Chinese automotive company Geely to bring a “rider-first” EV with no steering wheel to its US robotaxi Waymo One fleet in the coming years — Waymo One is Alphabet's Lyft/Uber competitor that's live in Phoenix and currently undergoing testing in San Francisco.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Some LastPass users say their master passwords were compromised and used in blocked login attempts from unknown IPs; LastPass blames “credential stuffing” — Many LastPass users report that their master passwords have been compromised after receiving email warnings that someone tried …
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| Cobie: |
The Dogecoin bull run in 2021 and recent airdrop of $SOS tokens by a third party to OpenSea users shows that the only scarce resource in crypto is attention — People talk a lot about scarcity in crypto. Whether it's enforcing digital scarcity through NFTs or the idea that “there's 55m millionaires but only 21m bitcoins”.
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| Bloomberg: |
Apple places Foxconn's southern India factory on probation following worker protests and an investigation that revealed substandard living conditions — - Foxconn apologized for lapses in worker living conditions — Apple has asked for corrective actions before factory reopens| Tanzeel Akhtar / CoinDesk: |
DeBank, which lets users track and analyze their DeFi investments, raises $25M led by Sequoia China at a $200M valuation — Decentralized finance (DeFi) portfolio firm DeBank has raised $25 million in a funding round that was led by venture capital firm Sequoia China.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: in the wake of Haugen's leaks, Meta attempted to divide lawmakers along partisan lines and avoid tougher regulation at Mark Zuckerberg's direction — Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg drove response to disclosures about company's influence; sending deputies to testify in Congress| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Adam Mosseri says in 2022 Instagram will “double down” on video, consolidate its video products around Reels, and focus on creators, transparency, and messaging — In a brief year-end video message, Instagram head Adam Mosseri offered some insight into what's ahead for the platform.
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| Reuters: |
A California federal judge rules that Sundar Pichai can be questioned for up to two hours in a privacy lawsuit over Chrome's Incognito mode — Dec 28 (Reuters) - Plaintiffs who accused Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google of unlawfully tracking their internet use while on “Incognito” … | Laura Forman / Wall Street Journal: |
Early pandemic winners, including Cathie Wood's ARK fund, Peloton, Zoom, Poshmark, DocuSign, Chegg, and Zillow, have seen their market value decline in 2021 — Those former tech sweethearts that experienced a reversal in fortune this year could remain in the dumps in 2022
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MacDailyNews and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @neilcybart, @carnage4life, @carnage4life, @neilcybart, and @neilcybart
| Monica Alleven / Fierce Wireless: |
US appeals court rules in favor of the FCC's decision to designate a large swath of the 6 GHz band to unlicensed users, after AT&T challenged the FCC — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled in favor of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) …
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9to5Mac, The Verge, WifiForward, Wi-Fi Alliance, Public Knowledge, SiliconANGLE, Bloomberg Law, and FCC
Tweets: @benlovejoy, @jaycuthrell, @brendancarrfcc, and @brendancarrfcc
| Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
China's control over online culture has grown under Xi's “common prosperity” drive, removing 20K influencers in 2021 and leaving mostly “wholesome” content — Beijing's efforts to control online culture have increased since Xi's ‘common prosperity’ drive
Tweets: @ziadramley
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