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Meta will temporarily allow some violent speech, like “death to the Russian invaders”, in some countries; internal email: it will allow calls for death of Putin — Meta Platforms (FB.O) will allow Facebook and Instagram users in some countries to call for violence against Russians …
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Russia moves to ban Instagram and designate Meta as an “extremist organization”; source says WhatsApp won't be affected as it is a means of communication — Russian prosecutors have asked a court to ban Meta Platforms Inc.'s Facebook and Instagram as “extremist,” Interfax reported …
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| Financial Times: |
EU and the UK open an antitrust probe into Google and Meta's Jedi Blue deal on online ads; EU is also probing whether Google acted without Meta's knowledge — Europe's competition chief Margrethe Vestager tells FT that ‘Jedi Blue’ deal represents ‘giant problem’ in industry
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Sources: new MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro, both with M2, coming this year; Apple has M2 Pro, Max, and Ultra in the works, the latter being a 24-core CPU — It has been almost two years since Apple announced the transition from Intel Macs to Apple Silicon, and while there's still …
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| Osato Avan-Nomayo / The Block: |
UK's Financial Conduct Authority gives notice to crypto ATM operators to shut down their machines or face penalties since they are unlicensed — The UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has contacted crypto ATM operators to shut down their machines or face penalties since they are unlicensed.
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| Anup Roy / Bloomberg: |
The Reserve Bank of India orders Paytm Payments Bank to stop taking new customers, pending a comprehensive audit of its IT systems — The Reserve Bank of India barred Paytm Payments Bank, founded by One 97 Communications Ltd's. Vijay Shekhar Sharma, from accepting new customers … | Financial Times: |
After a peak of $248M in February, daily trading volumes of NFTs on OpenSea fell 80% to ~$50M in March; average price of a Bored Ape NFT fell 44% since Feb. 24 — Internet collectibles ranging from cartoon apes to artsy doodles have plunged in value as real-world conflict …
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| Tarush Bhalla / The Economic Times: |
Byju's raises $800M, including $400M from CEO Byju Raveendran, sources say at a $22B valuation; sources say Byju's is exploring a SPAC IPO at a $40B valuation — Bengaluru: Edtech major Byju's has closed a $800 million funding round as a part of its pre-IPO fundraise, the company said on Friday.
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Twitter and Meta removed posts by Russia's embassy in London that claimed images from the Mariupol hospital bombing in Ukraine were fake — Major social networks aren't done cracking down on Russian misinformation following that country's invasion of Ukraine.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Didi suspends its Hong Kong IPO plans after Chinese regulators said its proposals to prevent data leaks fell short; its main apps will remain suspended — Didi Global Inc. has suspended preparations for its planned Hong Kong listing after failing to appease Chinese regulators' demands …
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| Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek: |
WhatsApp teams up with Cloudflare to unveil Code Verify, an open-source browser extension that verifies the authenticity of code served to the browser — Facebook parent company Meta this week announced the release of Code Verify, an open source browser extension meant to verify the authenticity of code served to the browser.
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| Annie Njanja / TechCrunch: |
India-based 100ms, which lets developers add video conferencing to their apps, raises a $20M Series A, bringing its total funding to $24.5M — 100ms, the live video conferencing infrastructure startup based in India, has raised $20 million in Series A funding to power the next generation of live video apps … | Tom Parker / Reclaim The Net: |
DuckDuckGo, which has touted its “unbiased” search results for years, says it will down-rank sites “associated with Russian disinformation” — The founder of DuckDuckGo, a Google-alternative search engine that has touted its “unbiased” search results for years …
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| Alexandra Alper / Reuters: |
Ingas and Cryoin, two Ukrainian companies that produce an estimated 45% to 54% of the world's semiconductor-grade neon, confirm they have halted operations — Ukraine's two leading suppliers of neon, which produce about half the world's supply of the key ingredient for making chips … | Reuters: |
Sources: TikTok is nearing a deal for Oracle Corp to store US users' data and ringfence it from ByteDance, hoping to address US national security concerns — TikTok is nearing a deal for Oracle Corp (ORCL.N) to store its U.S. users' information without its Chinese parent ByteDance having access to it …
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Tweets: @ebakerwhite and @walldo
| Jessica Lucas / Input: |
A look at Loli Police Department, a police roleplay group in VRChat allowing nearly 11,000 of its members move through the ranks based on their activity level — Early last year, Jura was at the spa, chilling in a communal bath and having a casual chat with friends, when the Loli Police Department burst into the building.
Tweets: @leadlagreport, @inputmag, @jenyetagain, @dst6n01, @brooklynmarie, @samswey, @zhugeex, and @inputmag
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