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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; 113 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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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Source: Spotify took down episodes of the Joe Rogan Experience at Rogan's request; all the removed episodes were recorded before he signed a deal with Spotify — Joe Rogan apologized Saturday for using a racial slur in past episodes of his popular podcast, many episodes of which have been removed from Spotify without explanation.
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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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| 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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GoFundMe will automatically refund all donations to a campaign protesting vaccine mandates in Canada that it says sparked violence; the campaign had raised $7M+ — GoFundMe will automatically refund all donations made to a multi-million dollar campaign for a group of Canadian truckers …
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| 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:
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| The Seattle Times: |
The Washington State Department of Licensing says over 250,000 licensed professionals may have had personal data exposed, including SSNs, in a database breach — The personal information of more than a quarter-million licensed professionals may have been exposed in a breach …
| Nico Grant / Bloomberg: |
A breakdown of Google Cloud's rivalry with AWS and Azure as analysts expect $26B in 2022 GCP revenue and IDC predicts ~30% YoY cloud market growth until 2025 — When Amazon's cloud computing network went down on Dec. 7, it hampered a broad swath of companies that rely on its servers, including Disney, Netflix, and Ticketmaster.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Profile of Charlie Bell, who leads Microsoft's new 10,000 person security engineering org, as the company's annual revenue from security products surpasses $15B — “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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| 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.
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| Douglas Soltys / BetaKit: |
Koho, a challenger bank that lets Canadian users access up to 50% of their paycheck every day, raises a CAD$210M Series D in equity and debt led by Eldridge — Spurred by the growth of financial products designed to support Canada's underbanked, Toronto-based FinTech startup Koho … | Crystal Tse / Bloomberg: |
Dog walking startup Wag will go public via a SPAC at a $350M valuation; SoftBank, which invested $300M in 2018, sold its 50% stake back to Wag in 2019 at a loss — Wag Labs Inc., the developer of dog-walking app Wag!, has agreed to go public through a merger with a blank-check company.
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