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The January 6 House committee subpoenas Meta, Alphabet, Reddit, and Twitter after their “inadequate responses” to requests for information about the riot — The House committee investigating Jan. 6 on Thursday subpoenaed Reddit, Twitter and the parent companies of Google and Facebook after their …
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Block says it is building an open-source bitcoin mining system to make mining more “distributed and efficient”, after Jack Dorsey teased the idea in October — The payment services company formerly known as Square is open to building new mining computers and is hiring for a new engineering team.
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Ukraine says a cyberattack brought down websites of several government agencies for hours but no sensitive data was stolen — Ukraine said a cyberattack brought down the websites of several government agencies for hours. Authorities didn't immediately comment on the source of the outage …
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Meta faces a $3.1B UK class action suit alleging it abused Facebook's market dominance and set an “unfair price” for 44M UK users' data from 2015 to 2019 — A competition legal expert, backed by a powerful litigation fund, is to mount a multibillion-dollar class action suit …
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Following the White House's open-source security summit, Google proposes setting up an organization to serve as a marketplace for open source maintenance — We welcomed the opportunity to participate in the White House Open Source Software Security Summit today, building on our work …
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Q&A with Wordle creator Josh Wardle on the game's origin story, reasons for keeping it simple, app clones, and handling the traffic from its newfound popularity — “People have an appetite for things that transparently don't want anything from you.” — The internet loves …
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A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduces the TLDR Act, which would require sites and apps to offer easy-to-digest, nutrition label-like summaries of their TOS — Happy Thursday! Below: The FCC proposes new data breach rules for telecom and the White House meets with tech leaders on cyber.| Joanna Partridge / The Guardian: |
Google will buy London's Central Saint Giles development, which includes 408K sq. ft. of office space, for $1B — Site will have space for 10,000 UK employees who will work under hybrid workplace model — Google has announced a $1bn (£871m) deal to buy the London development Central Saint Giles …
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| Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: |
Crypto exchange FTX launches a $2B venture fund, aiming to invest across startups stages, investing from $100K to hundreds of millions of dollars — FTX Ventures will invest in crypto startups across sectors — Crypto exchange FTX Trading Ltd. has launched a $2 billion venture fund … | Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
A look at Android 12's rollout, one of the buggiest launches in the past few years, as Samsung and OnePlus pause their stable Android 12-based updates — Android 12 is one of the platform's most ambitious updates in recent history, bringing a major design overhaul to every corner of the operating system.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Fortnite returns to iOS and Android through a closed beta in Nvidia's GeForce Now game streaming service designed to run in mobile browsers — Nvidia's GeForce Now is finally bringing Fortnite back to the iPhone — Fortnite is back on iOS today... sort of.
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| Aislinn Keely / The Block: |
Near Foundation, which develops the proof-of-stake Near blockchain, raises $150M led by Three-Arrows Capital, with a16z and others participating — The NEAR Foundation has closed a $150 million funding round less as it looks to become the hub of an open web3.
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