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| Washington Post: |
Meta paid Republican consulting firm Targeted Victory to orchestrate a campaign against TikTok in the US, including placing op-eds in regional news outlets — Facebook parent company Meta is paying one of the biggest Republican consulting firms in the country to orchestrate a nationwide campaign seeking …
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International Business Times, The Verge, The Guardian, Variety, Engadget, The Hill, Daily Mail, Dexerto, Protocol, Forbes, Input, New York Post, The Week, Mashable, Raw Story, iMore, and KnowTechie
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| Andrew Thurman / CoinDesk: |
The Ronin Network, which supports Sky Mavis' Axie Infinity game, says it was hacked, and 173,600 ETH and 25.5M USDC was stolen, worth $600M+; RON is down ~20% — It may be the largest exploit in DeFi history. — The latest crypto hack may be the largest yet.
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Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At, Ronin's Newsletter, Metacurity, Livemint, Decrypt, Binance, Game Developer, Web3 is going just great, Washington Post, Ars Technica, Hit Points, Security Affairs, Foot Guns, Liberty's Highlights, TNW, CoinGape, Bloomberg, Coinspeaker, GamesTX, CoinQuora, ExchangeWire.com, CoinGeek, Bitcoin Price Prediction, Infosecurity, Kaicho Alpha Insights, Kyrian Alex's Newsletter, Waivly, Cryptonews, TechCircle, TechRadar, The Overspill, Numlock News, Coinmonks, Silicon Republic, ZDNet, The Verge, Elaborate VC, PYMNTS.com, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, Financial Times, Barron's Online, and Input
Tweets: @ronin_network, @ronin_network, @ronin_network, @axieinfinity, @wublockchain, @web3isgreat, @cz_binance, @edzitron, @coindesk, @sbf_ftx, @caspiancey, @josephfcox, @benedictevans, @zrachess, @jihoz_axie, @the_postman_, @cobie, @lawmaster, @kelvinfichter, @frankresearcher, @carnage4life, @jrhennessy, @smooch_axie, @epsilontheory, @web3isgreat, @epsilontheory, @adamscochran, @j0hnnyxm4s, @dclblogger, @johnreedstark, @nischalshetty, @ibogost, @mitsuhiko, @ryanlcooper, @malwarejake, @mkapor, @munecatmusic, @ben_mckenzie, @villi, @simonyusea, @thedextriarchy, @rleshner, @kyle_chasse, @fredbenenson, @mikeisaac, @iboudreau, @carnage4life, @matthew_d_green, @frankresearcher, @danlesac, @bigblackjacobin, @adamsinger, @musalbas, @iansherr, @bcrypt, @krugermacro, @discoverxnft, @dogetoshi, @zackwhittaker, @mattbinder, @silvermanjacob, @broderick, @epro, @adrianweckler, @kelvinfichter, @adamscochran, @adamscochran, @adamscochran, @adamscochran, @adamscochran, @nft_guru, @nft_guru, @nft_guru, @nft_guru, @kelvinfichter, @degenapeacademy, @kelvinfichter, @staffordphilip, @joepostingg, @phabcd, @joepostingg, @alexhern, @mintroyale, @blockanalia, @blockanalia, @livercoin, @livercoin, @0xpepo, @caseynewton, @tomaxwell, @zackseward, @edzitron, @caseynewton, @cobie, @hosseeb, @loopifyyy, @cryptodefilord, @_prestwich, @hosseeb, @hosseeb, @jonrussell, and @chainlinkgod
| Bloomberg: |
Sky Mavis COO Aleksander Larsen says the company is “committed to reimbursing” Axie Infinity players and is “working on a solution” — The company behind the popular Axie Infinity crypto game said it will reimburse online participants who lost funds after hackers stole …
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The Hill and CoinDesk
Tweets: @psycheout86, @tinssoldier, @axieinfinity, @psycheout86, @silvermanjacob, @psycheout86, @psycheout86, @can, and @silvermanjacob
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Arm plans to transfer shares from its China joint venture, which it has struggled to control and audit, to SoftBank to speed up a New York listing — Shifting stake in chip designer's joint venture to a SoftBank special purpose vehicle would ease New York flotation
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The Register, Tom's Hardware, Bloomberg, TechSpot, Benzinga, CNBC, and Reuters
Tweets: @paulmozur, @muradahmed, @dylan522p, and @jamesplloyd
| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Google adds expanded Markdown support to Docs on the web, off by default, as part of its autocorrect feature — ## An alternative to keyboard shortcuts — Google is adding Markdown support to Google Docs on the web, letting you format your document using text shortcuts rather than keyboard ones.
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Google Workspace Updates, Thurrott, XDA Developers, Chrome Unboxed, MSPoweruser, 9to5Google, Phandroid, and 512 Pixels
Tweets: @maguay, @pierce, @anildash, @ow, @triketora, and @tomeraberbach
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: China is planning expanded restrictions on its huge live-streaming industry, including capping daily tipping and tighter content censorship — Regulators are planning rules limiting virtual tipping of live-streaming hosts and time spent by young people on the apps
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Benzinga and TechSpot
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google adds a “booking page” to Calendar, letting users present available periods for a meeting — Calendar can now generate a webpage of available time slots for a user to pick from. — Google Calendar's latest update promises to take a lot of the back-and-forth out of booking appointments.
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Google Workspace Updates, 9to5Google, Protocol, TechRadar, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @werty, @chrismessina, @carnage4life, and @vaibhavsisinty
| Gilad Edelman / Wired: |
A look at the ECASH Act, which would direct the US Treasury to pilot digital dollars that would be stored on hardware and not on a distributed blockchain ledger — If you want the privacy of paper money, you need something that leaves no paper trail. — When you hear the phrase “digital cash,” what comes to mind?
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Congressman Stephen Lynch, The Verge, and TechRadar
Tweets: @jerrybrito, @repstephenlynch, @raulacarrillo, @giladedelman, @repstephenlynch, and @repstephenlynch
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Waymo plans to offer fully autonomous rides in San Francisco, without a human safety driver, as part of a growing test, and expands in Arizona — The company is also expanding its service area in Phoenix — Waymo plans to start offering rides in its fully autonomous vehicles …
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Waypoint, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, Reuters, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and The Last Driver License Holder
Tweets: @dmitri_dolgov and @waymo
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google will use its ML learning model MUM to offer better results for those searching in a crisis, including those of a personal nature, directing them to help — Directing more searches to help and support — In a personal crisis, many people turn to an impersonal source of support: Google.
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Engadget, Protocol, TechCrunch, and The Keyword
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta updates Messenger with Slack-like shortcuts, /silent to reply without a notification and @everyone to notify all, and plans to add more, like /pay and /gif — There's also one that pings everyone, so please use it responsibly — Meta, the parent company of Facebook …
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Messenger News, Silicon Republic, MacRumors, TechCrunch, KnowTechie, Gizchina, BGR India, PhoneArena, Android Police, Pocket-lint, and iMore
| New York Times: |
Sources detail internal confusion from Meta moderators and employees over how to enforce content rules during Russia's invasion of Ukraine — The rules over what war content is permitted on Facebook and Instagram keep changing, causing internal confusion. — Meta, which owns Facebook …
Tweets: @rmac18, @satariano, @shiraovide, @rmac18, @jhdearen, @rmac18, and @rmac18
| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
The UK's FCA extends a key deadline, set for Thursday, for approving crypto companies; the FCA has so far approved 33 companies — The U.K.'s financial regulator is extending a Thursday deadline for its approval of crypto operations, giving a dozen firms more time to get their applications or affairs in order.
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Bloomberg, CNBC, Finextra, CoinDesk, CoinDesk, CoinGape, and The Times
Tweets: @emilyjnicolle, @emilyjnicolle, @emilyjnicolle, and @emilyjnicolle
| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Nova Labs, formerly Helium, a network of 500K+ cryptocurrency-mining hotspots offering p2p networking, confirms it raised a $200M Series D at a $1.2B valuation — Decentralized wireless communication startup Helium Inc. today announced a change of name to Nova Labs Inc. and confirmed …
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Decrypt and CryptoSlate
| Malique Morris / The Information: |
Sources: Stripe-backed one-click checkout service Fast generated just ~$600K in 2021 revenue; source says Fast tried raising a $100M Series C in late 2021 — Several startups have been racing to sell software known as one-click checkout to retailers such as The Honest Company and Forever 21 …
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TechCrunch. Tweets: @carnage4life, @amir, @lauramandaro, @nikmilanovic, @carnage4life, @bobbyallyn, and @buccocapital
| TechCrunch: |
A brief overview of Y Combinator's Demo Day for the Winter 2022 batch, with 414 companies in total and the first batch to receive YC's new standard deal — The TechCrunch team spent today covering the first day of Y Combinator's Winter 2022 Demo Day, which featured half of the 394 companies that plan to virtually present.
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Y Combinator Blog. More:
TechCrunch, TechCrunch, Y Combinator, and Tech in Asia
Tweets: @marshallk and @joonian
| Dade Hayes / Deadline: |
As Netflix cracks down on password sharing, a survey of 4,400 US consumers shows 33% of subscribers share their password — About one-third of U.S. subscribers to Netflix share their login credentials with others, according to new data from Leichtman Research Group.
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Leichtman Research Group, TIME, Light Reading, BGR, PCMag, iMore, Pop Culture Brain Daily, and MobileSyrup
| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
DeepMind says it made changes to its policies after a female former staff member accused the Google-owned company of mishandling sexual misconduct allegations — Former employee at artificial intelligence group raises concerns about grievance procedure following assault and harassment by senior researcher
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Newslit Daily, City A.M., and ConcernedDeepMinder
Tweets: @madhumita29, @georginaclee, @orientaljanedoe, @madhumita29, @madhumita29, @mikarv, @alphabetworkers, and @sam_l_shead
| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
FedEx partners with Elroy Air to trial the Chaparral C1 autonomous drone, which can carry up to 500 pounds of packages, in Texas next year — FedEx plans to test a different method of moving goods between depots starting next year, which could speed up the delivery process.
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PCMag, Forbes, Barron's Online, TechSpot, and Mashable
| Kate Kaye / Protocol: |
Q&A with 2021 Turing Award winner Jack Dongarra, an expert in linear algebra algorithms at the University of Tennessee, on hyperscale cloud computing and more — Even Jack Dongarra has a hard time wrapping his head around the number used to represent “exascale” computing: 1018.
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CNET, Fortune, Axios, ZDNet, New York Times, GlobeNewswire News Room, and Forbes
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp says its users send an average of 7B voice messages daily and announces features, including a waveform visualization and out of chat playback — Like most smartphone users in India, I use WhatsApp a lot. But I have never sent anyone a voice message — ever. Turns out, others do.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify expands Blend, which lets two friends merge their tastes in a playlist, to up to 10 users and selected artists, including BTS and Charli XCX — Spotify's popular playlist creation tool, Blend, is getting its biggest update since its offiical launch last year.| James Cridland / Podnews: |
A leaked YouTube presentation for podcast publishers shows it is working a podcasts homepage with direct RSS feed ingestion, monetization features, and more — - Exclusive: YouTube is planning tighter integration, monetisation and analytics for podcasts — Despite no announcement … | Reuters: |
Sources: the DOJ is investigating whether Google bundling Maps with its other software illegally stifles competition — The U.S. Justice Department has breathed new life into an investigation of Google Maps to determine if bundling the service together with other Google software illegally …
Tweets: @leah_nylen
| Jim Waterson / The Guardian: |
Ofcom: around 16% of UK three and four-year-olds view TikTok content, rising to around 33% of children aged five to seven — Three-year-olds are on the video-sharing platform and it may be affecting their attention span — British toddlers are increasingly likely to be users of TikTok … | Giles Turner / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Yandex, which operates a search engine, ride-hailing services, and more, could run out of semiconductors for servers in 12-18 months due to sanctions — Russia's omnipresent tech company, which created products ranging from the country's dominant search engine to its biggest ride-hail service …
Tweets: @tonyhalpin
| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Scammers are advertising access to Facebook's Media Partner Portal, used by media and PR agencies to resolve issues, to allegedly get users verified — Alleged “ghost agencies” advertise their privileged access to the “Facebook Media Partner Portal” for sale to scammers. — Joseph Cox
Tweets: @unspecific, @kimcrayton1, and @josephfcox
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