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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple adds unlisted app distribution to the App Store, letting developers publish an app that can only be installed via a direct link and not found via search — Apple has deployed an interesting new App Store feature called ‘unlisted app distribution’. This means a developer can now publish …
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AppleInsider, iMore, Ars Technica, Ubergizmo, MacRumors, and Global Nerdy
Tweets: @stroughtonsmith, @mikeymikey, @rsgnl, @chronic, @markgurman, and @keleftheriou
| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
DeFi service Qubit Finance says a hacker stole ~$80M in Binance coins on January 27 and offers them a bug bounty in exchange for returning the cryptocurrency — A threat actor has used an exploit to steal approximately $80 million from Qubit Finance, a decentralized finance (DeFi) …
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CertiK, Qubit Finance, The Verge, ZDNet, Fast Company, Decrypt, Bloomberg, Bitcoin News, CryptoSlate, CoinQuora, and Blockworks
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| Corinne Reichert / CNET: |
Counterpoint and IDC: smartphone shipments grew about 5% to 1.35B+ units in 2021; Samsung took the top spot with 270M+ units, followed by Apple with 235M+ — Companies shipped 1.35 billion smartphones in 2021, a 5.7% increase over the previous year, market researcher IDC said Thursday.
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Internal messages detail Spotify's lax health content policy; the company told staff multiple Joe Rogan podcast episodes “didn't meet the threshold for removal” — Leaked messages reveal the company has reviewed every Rogan episode and none ‘meet the threshold for removal’
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TheStreet. Tweets: @reckless, @erratarob, @reckless, @mattdpearce, @dylanreeve, @mmasnick, @anildash, @themadstone, @kimzetter, and @reckless
| JR Raphael / Computerworld: |
A look at Google's history with tablets; Android co-founder Rich Miner's LinkedIn page says he has been working as Google's Android tablets CTO since March 2021 — This wild Android tablet concept could have completely changed the way we interact with our devices. Ready to pop the red pill?
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9to5Google, Fossbytes, The Verge, BGR, Ars Technica, Android Headlines, and Pocket-lint
Tweets: @richminer, @computerworld, @anandx, @liliputingnews, and @jrraphael
| Alexandra S. Levine / Politico: |
AI-driven suicide chat service Crisis Text Line shares anonymized data with for-profit spinoff Loris.ai, which uses it to market its customer service software — Crisis Text Line is one of the world's most prominent mental health support lines, a tech-driven nonprofit that uses big data …
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| New York Times: |
An investigation into the rise of NSO's Pegasus shows its widespread use by the CIA, UAE, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and others; the FBI bought but didn't use it — A Times investigation reveals how Israel reaped diplomatic gains around the world from NSO's Pegasus spyware — a tool America itself purchased but is now trying to ban.
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| Chris Stead / Finder: |
Q&A with two Ubisoft executives, one of whom says NFTs are a paradigm shift in gaming and gamers “don't get what a digital secondary market can bring to them” — We talk to Nicolas Pouard, VP at Ubisoft's Strategic Innovations Lab, about the launch of Ubisoft Quartz and the Digits NFTs.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Crypto-rich buyers are shifting the luxury home market, as real-estate builders jump through hoops to accept crypto and sellers advertise accepting it — People who have made fortunes investing in digital currency, or who helped build the vast crypto industry, are the new darlings of the high-end residential property market
Tweets: @lmatsakis
| Daniel Dale / CNN: |
Twitter stopped enforcing its “civic integrity policy” in March 2021 regarding lies about the 2020 US election — (CNN)Twitter quit taking action to try to limit the spread of lies about the 2020 election, the company said on Friday — a day after another social media platform …
Tweets: @ddale8, @rickhasen, @ddale8, @mollyjongfast, @ddale8, and @b_fung
| James Hale / Tubefilter: |
YouTuber Hank Green compares TikTok's creator fund, which pays creators less as more creators join, unfavorably to YouTube, which pays 55% of ad revenue — In 2020, TikTok established a creator fund that distributes $200 million annually to creators based in the U.S.
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple deprecates Python 2.7 in macOS 12.3 and points developers to alternative languages like Python 3; Python ended support for version 2 on January 1, 2020 — Apple will no longer bundle Python 2.7 with macOS 12.3, according to developer release notes for the upcoming software update.
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| Eva Szalay / Financial Times: |
Digital asset trading group Genesis starts accepting “blue-chip” NFTs as collateral for loans and derivatives deals — Decision to use the tokens to back crypto deals highlights boom in digital collectibles market — Digital asset trading group Genesis has started accepting non-fungible tokens …
Tweets: @gladstein and @seamusblackley
| Jordan Pearson / VICE: |
OpenSea says 80%+ of NFTs minted for free on its service are plagiarized works, fake collections, and spam, but reverses its decision to limit free NFT creation — After reversing course on a limit to the amount of free NFTs a user can create, OpenSea said the decision was due to the amount of fraud and spam.
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Gizmodo, Engadget, banklesstimes.com, PetaPixel, Slashdot, and CryptoSlate
Tweets: @carnage4life, @counternotions, @nm_nicknocturne, @chrismessina, and @carnage4life
| Washington Post: |
Sources: Diem Association was shuttered due to internal dispute, leaders' departure, and regulatory pushback, but a team of ~50 remains to run a pilot overseas — The social media giant's shuttering of the Diem project followed clashes over its direction and sustained opposition in Washington| Jonathan Browning / Bloomberg: |
The UK approves extraditing Autonomy founder Mike Lynch to the US to face criminal fraud charges, hours after he lost a court battle with HP; Lynch can appeal — The U.K. government approved the extradition of Mike Lynch to the U.S. to face criminal fraud charges, hours after a London judge ruled …
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| Jonathan Browning / Bloomberg: |
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
After a customer backlash, Google says legacy free G Suite accounts will be able to migrate their data to free, consumer accounts before the July 2022 shutdown — Last week, Google essentially told free G Suite users “pay up or lose your account.” — There is hope for users of Google's “legacy” free G Suite accounts.
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TechCrunch, MobileSyrup, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @ronamadeo, @leggett, and @laurenweinstein
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
iOS 15.4 beta adds Face ID use with a mask for iPhone 12 and newer, without needing Apple Watch authentication, by recognizing “unique features around the eye” — The iOS 15.4 beta that was introduced today added a new feature designed to allow Face ID to be used with a mask and without an Apple Watch for authentication.
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9to5Mac, Laptop Mag, The Verge, Gizchina, SlashGear, Liliputing, iMore, Engadget, Redmond Pie, Livemint, Appleosophy, iDownloadBlog.com, and GameSpot
Tweets: @brandonbutch, @viticci, @sdw, @viticci, @nikostratis, @bzamayo, and @brandonbutch
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
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Macworld, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, YouTube, iMore, Macworld, Digital Trends, MacDailyNews, ZDNet, Redmond Pie, AppleInsider, and Apple Must
Tweets: @viticci, @samifathi_, @tailosivetech, @jeffnolan, @apple_tomorrow, @iamevltwin, @cocoaphony, @gregotto, @zollotech, @dcseifert, @vadimyuryev, @film_girl, @scriptingosx, and @gizmodo
| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Will Cathcart says WhatsApp has no plans to support RCS, as Meta launches its first marketing push for WhatsApp in the US, touting its privacy compared to SMS — The Meta-owned messaging app wants to be as popular in the US as it is everywhere else — will a big marketing push work?
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