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Truth Social, like Parler and Gettr, looks to be structured for mostly one-way communication, broadcast primarily to an audience of Trumpist dead-enders — Conservative alternative social networks keep making the same mistakes — I. — Today, let's talk about some of the less obvious ways … | Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
Trump's Truth Social has been almost entirely inaccessible in its first days due to technical glitches, a 13-hour outage, and 300,000-person waitlist — Former president Donald Trump, a longtime critic of how Democrats debuted Healthcare.gov, is facing a bungled website launch of his own.
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
With Meta handicapped by Apple's ATT privacy changes, Shopify should build an advertising business to complement Shop Pay and the Shopify Fulfillment Network — Tobi Lütke, who famously started Shopify when he realized that the software he built to run his snowboard shop …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
A look at nine Android spyware apps, installed on ~400K phones, which connect to servers controlled by Vietnam-based 1Byte and share a critical security flaw — A fleet of spyware apps share the same security flaw — Much of the spyware you hear of today are the powerful nation-state backed exploits …
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| Kellen Browning / New York Times: |
Despite letting some employees permanently work from home, tech companies are spending billions of dollars expanding their office spaces across the US — Even as they allow some employees to change how often they come into the office, tech companies are rapidly buying and leasing properties around the country.| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon sues AppSally and Rebatest, alleging the sites had their combined 900K+ users post fake Amazon reviews to boost third-party sellers' product rankings — - Amazon on Tuesday filed lawsuits against two companies that allegedly acted as fake review brokers.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Meta rolls out Facebook Reels to over 150 countries, following the feature's US launch in September 2021, alongside new creative tools and ad formats — After publicly launching in the U.S. this past September, Facebook Reels today is becoming globally available in over 150 countries.
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| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
DappRadar: OpenSea's seven-day trading volume is down 37%, as active traders dropped 19% to 227,272, after a hacker used a phishing attack to steal 254 NFTs — Activity on OpenSea, the world's largest marketplace for digital collectibles, likely dropped precipitously after a phishing attack …
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New York-based Timescale, which develops the open-source TimescaleDB time series database, raises a $110M Series C at a $1B+ valuation led by Tiger Global — Timescale, a New York-based creator of TimescaleDB, a relational database for time-series, raised $110M in Series C funding at a valuation of over $1 billion.
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| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
A court grants Waymo a preliminary injunction in its lawsuit against the California DMV, letting it keep autonomous vehicle tech and safety details secret — Waymo, the autonomous driving arm of Alphabet, was granted a win on Tuesday when a California court ruled it could keep certain details regarding its AV technology secret.| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Canada-based eSentire, which provides a managed threat detection and response service, raises $325M at a $1B+ valuation, bringing its total funding to $411.2M — Canadian managed detection and response startup eSentire Inc. today said it has raised $325 million in new funding to invest in research and development and hire more people.
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| Reade Pickert / Bloomberg: |
Analysis: 43% of West Coast tech company job listings were posted in Texas, Virginia, NY, Georgia, and others outside the region in 2021, up from 30% in 2019 — When West Coast tech firms are hiring, they're increasingly posting jobs in Texas, Virginia and Georgia.Sponsor Posts
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