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Joe Rogan apologizes for his past use of the N-word after a compilation video of him using the slur went viral; 70 JRE episodes have been removed from Spotify — His apology came as listeners said that as many as 70 episodes of “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast had been quietly taken off Spotify …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Twitter tests adding a DM icon to tweets on iOS to help “start a conversation”; some say the shortcut could make users even more susceptible to harassment — The feature will let you send a DM straight from a tweet — Twitter is exploring a new way to send DMs on iOS … | Max Read / Read Max: |
Many celebrities promoting NFTs, like Paris Hilton and Jimmy Fallon, are either represented by, or have links to, OpenSea investor Creative Artists Agency — Where do celebrities even hear about “bored apes”? Who is recommending that they buy one? Is this really the best thing any of them can think to do with their money and fame?
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| Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News: |
An investigation reveals the identities of two founders of the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection: Gargamel is Greg Solano and Gordon Goner is Wylie Aronow — The buzzy NFT collection has raked in millions and the eager support of dozens of celebrities. But its founders' anonymity raises questions …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to unveil a 5G iPhone SE and an iPad Air with a faster processor and 5G in an online presentation on or near March 8 — Apple Inc. is targeting a date on or near March 8 to unveil a new low-cost iPhone and an updated iPad, according to people with knowledge of the matter …
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GoFundMe will automatically refund $7M+ in donations to Canada's Freedom Convoy 2022, which it says sparked violence while protesting vaccine mandates — GoFundMe will automatically refund all donations made to a multi-million dollar campaign for a group of Canadian truckers protesting vaccine mandates …
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| Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day: |
Meta, which ignored creators for years, has only “shameless” publishers and their content to fall back on in its pivots to video and eventual irrelevance — Read to the end for a tremendous meditation on February — Facebook Made Its Own World And Now It's Stuck In It
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| José Adorno / 9to5Mac: |
Gurman: Apple may release an entry-level MacBook Pro with an M2 processor in 2022, without a Touch Bar, ProMotion, or miniLED — In his latest edition of the Power On newsletter, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman brings some tidbits about a new entry-level MacBook Pro with the rumored M2 processor.
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The FCC notifies Congress that service providers requested ~$5.6B to replace Huawei and ZTE equipment in US networks, up from the FCC's $1.8B estimate in 2020 — In 2020 the estimate was $1.8 billion — now it's $5.6 billion — The estimated cost of replacing Huawei and ZTE equipment in US networks has increased substantially.| Riana Pfefferkorn / The Center for Internet and Society: |
A close look at how the EARN IT Act, which is modeled after FOSTA and was recently reintroduced in Congress, would harm online speech, privacy, and security — This is the latest entry in my lengthy archive of writing, talks, and interviews about the EARN IT Act:
| Ian Bogost / The Atlantic: |
Digital assets like NFTs give us a glimpse into a future where every aspect of human life that can be digitally recorded is collateralized and securitized — Twitter has begun allowing its users to showcase NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, as profile pictures on their accounts.
Tweets: @ibogost, @hblodget, @cydharrell, @savvylindz, @asemota, @asemota, @rheaplex, @moonalice, @ruchowdh, @wolfiechristl, @mayazi, @frankpasquale, @noctambulate, @elonjames, @julie_bush, @ibogost, @alex_danco, @ibogost, and @jstn
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Profile of Charlie Bell, who leads Microsoft's 10,000-person security engineering organization, as the company passes $15B annual revenue from security products — “Your code will be attacked.” — That warning, so obvious today, was a blunt wake-up call 20 years ago for many of the …
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OnMSFT.com. Tweets: @toddbishop, @maryjofoley, @toddbishop, @gossithedog, @arekfurt, and @davidly. Thanks:@taylor_soper
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