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Apple plans AirTags updates to reduce stalking: Precision Finding for unknown AirTags, displaying alerts with sound, earlier tracking alerts, and louder sounds — Apple today announced that it is making some updates to AirTags with the aim of cutting down on unwanted tracking.
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| Catie Keck / The Verge: |
YouTube details creator updates: new video effects, editing capabilities, and monetization tools for Shorts, Shopping expansion, Studio improvements, and more — A lot of new features are in the works for 2022 — YouTube is expanding the ways creators can monetize their content …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google releases the first Android 13 developer preview, emphasizing security and privacy, dynamic colors, and more, available exclusively on Pixels — Right on schedule, Google today announced the first developer release of Android 13. These very early releases, which are only meant …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google says Samsung, OnePlus, Oppo, Vivo, Realme, Xiaomi, and others will adopt Android 12's dynamic color themes; currently, the feature is mostly on Pixels — One of Android 12's signature features is coming to more phones — Google's Material You dynamic color theming …
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Senator Blumenthal admits the EARN IT Act won't “offer a blanket exemption to using encryption as evidence”, after denying for two years it targets encryption — Senator Richard Blumenthal has now admitted that EARN IT is targeting encryption, something he denied for two years, and then just out and said it.
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
The Senate Judiciary Committee advances the EARN IT Act, targeting Section 230 sexual exploitation content protections, despite numerous free speech concerns — Critics say the EARN IT Act would ‘make it far riskier for platforms to host user-generated content’
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| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
Binance invests $200M to help Forbes with its plan to go public via a SPAC in Q1 2022, making Binance one of Forbes' biggest two owners after its listing — - Binance, the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange, is making a $200 million strategic investment in Forbes, the 104-year old magazine and digital publisher, CNBC has learned.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Apple releases iOS and iPadOS 15.3.1 and macOS Monterey 12.2.1 to patch a WebKit 0-day that may have been actively exploited, its third 0-day patch in 2022 — Apple has released security updates to fix a new zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild by attackers to hack iPhones, iPads, and Macs.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Twitter misses with Q4 revenue of $1.57B, up 22% YoY, net income of $182M, down 18% YoY; 217M mDAUs, up from 192M YoY; FY 2021 revenue hit $5.08B, up 37% YoY — - Twitter reported earnings for the fourth quarter of 2021 Thursday that missed analyst estimates on earnings, revenue and user growth.
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| Reed Albergotti / Washington Post: |
Apple confirms it changes every ex-employee's job title to “associate” in job verification databases, after #AppleToo leader Cher Scarlett's SEC complaint — In job databases used by employers to verify resume information, every former Apple employee's title gets erased and replaced with a generic title| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Kioxia and WD report contamination at two NAND production factories, impacting up to 6.5EB of storage; TrendForce says NAND prices could rise 5%-10% in Q2 — Update 2/10/2022, 3am PT: Analyst firm TrendForce has now reported that the incident could cause NAND flash prices to spike 5 to 10% in Q2 … | Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Foxconn says there will be a major improvement in component shortages in Q1; TSMC and others have indicated shortages will continue through 2022 — The biggest assembler of iPhones said component shortages that have plagued electronics production for more than a year are showing signs of easing … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Apple Music on Android beta code suggests Apple's classical music streaming service, coming in early 2022, is called Apple Classical — The latest beta version of Apple Music is rolling out on Android this evening with a very sizable upgrade to homescreen widgets, while possibly also revealing … | Brandy Betz / CoinDesk: |
Sardine, which offers fintechs real-time fraud scores based on users' identities, devices, and behavior, raises a $19.5M Series A from a16z, NYCA, and Experian — a16z, NYCA and Experian joined in the capital raise for the San Francisco startup. — Sardine, a fraud and compliance platform for fintechs … | Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg: |
France's CNIL data regulator says Google Analytics fails to sufficiently protect EU citizens' data from potentially illegal US surveillance and could be banned — Alphabet Inc.'s Google Analytics doesn't sufficiently protect European Union citizens' data from potentially illegal U.S. surveillance and could be banned altogether.
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| Bloomberg: |
Netflix in 2021: 51.7% of workers were women, up from 48.7%; 13.3% of US leaders were Black, up from 10.9%, and 8.6% of US workers were Hispanic, up from 7.9% — Netflix has increased the diversity of its U.S. staff, including more Black top executives, as the company looks to have its workforce better mirror the broader population.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Salt Security, which develops AI-based software to protect API libraries from malicious use, raises a $140M Series D led by CapitalG at a $1.4B valuation — Salt Security, an API vulnerability and protection platform used by companies such as Equinix and Telefónica, has raised $140 million in a series D round of funding.| Mars W. Mosqueda Jr / DealStreetAsia: |
Philippine Digital Asset Exchange, which lets Filipinos buy and sell cryptocurrencies, raises a $50M+ Series B led by Tiger Global and says it has 500K users — Editor's note: An earlier version of this story pegged Tiger Global's latest investment in PDAX at $28.93 million and the Series B funds … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
ShareChat and MX Player agree to merge Moj and MX TakaTak, a move that would create India's largest-short video platform; a source says the deal is worth $900M — Tiger Global-backed ShareChat and Times Internet-owned on-demand video streaming service MX Player have agreed to “strategically merge” …
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| Charlie Taylor / The Irish Times: |
EU ombudsman opens an inquiry into how GDPR is applied in Ireland, after claims that 98% of privacy infringements complaints remain unsolved by the Irish DPC — EU ombudsman acts after complaint from ICCL — EU ombudsman Emily O'Reilly has opened an inquiry into the European Commission's failure … | Emily Bary / MarketWatch: |
Affirm tweets some Q2 info early: revenue rose 77% YoY to $361M, GMV grew 115% to $4.5B, and net loss hit $159.7M, up from $26.6M YoY; stock fell as much as 26% — Company was supposed to post results after the closing bell Thursday … Shares of Affirm Holdings Inc. were plunging …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Superconductive, which plans to commercialize its Great Expectations open-source data quality tool in 2022, raises a $40M Series B led by Tiger Global — Data quality — the practice of testing and ensuring that the data and data sets you are using are what you expect them to be …
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| Mehnaz Yasmin / Reuters: |
Branch, whose tools help businesses measure marketing programs, raises $300M led by NEA at a $4B valuation; PitchBook: Branch had a $1B valuation in 2019 — Palo Alto-based Branch, which makes tools that help businesses measure their marketing programs, said on Thursday it raised $300 million …
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