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Apple plans to launch Advanced Data Protection, offering E2EE on iCloud backups, Notes, Photos, and more, in the US in 2022 and globally including China in 2023 — ‘Advanced Data Protection’ will offer end-to-end encryption on iCloud backups, Notes, Photos and other services—a step that may draw ire from law enforcement
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Apple won't launch its CSAM detection tool for iCloud photos, instead focusing its anti-CSAM efforts on the Communication Safety features launched in 2021 — The company plans to expand its Communication Safety features, which aim to disrupt the sharing of child sexual abuse material at the source.| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
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| Shannon Liao / Washington Post: |
Microsoft agrees to a 10-year deal to bring Call of Duty to Nintendo Switch for the first time, pending FTC approval of its Activision deal, but offers no date — Microsoft has signed a deal to bring the Activision Blizzard-published Call of Duty franchise to Nintendo for the first time …
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| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
Indiana's AG sues TikTok for deceiving users about China's access to data and for exposing kids to mature content, in the first US state lawsuits against TikTok — The lawsuits are the first by an American state against TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, in a sign of mounting legal pressure.| Shawna Chen / Axios: |
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| Kalley Huang / New York Times: |
Sources: seeking to capitalize on the Twitter chaos, Meta brainstormed product ideas in November like expanding Instagram Notes and building a text-focused app — New start-ups and other social platforms sense opportunity as Twitter grapples with changes from Elon Musk, its new owner.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: FTX reached late stage negotiations with Taylor Swift for a $100M+ sponsorship deal, supported by Swift fan SBF but opposed by some FTX executives — Negotiations between singer-songwriter and Sam Bankman-Fried's crytpo group collapsed this spring
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| William Turton / Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk says Twitter Deputy General Counsel Jim Baker was “exited” over his possible role in the “suppression of information” related to the “Twitter Files” — Jim Baker, Twitter Inc.'s deputy general counsel, was pushed out of the company over his handling …
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| Tim Culpan / Bloomberg: |
Despite Joe Biden and Tim Cook celebrating TSMC's long-planned Arizona fabs, the tech will be old and the capacity small, a far cry from US chip independence — President Joe Biden is so proud of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.'s new facility that he went to Arizona to celebrate it.
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| Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: The Washington Post is exploring a spinoff or sale of its Arc XP publishing tool, which has ~250 staff globally and may generate $200M+ in ARR by 2027 — Company has embraced digital experimentation under tech-billionaire owner; spinoff of Arc business also possible
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft launches Discord-like communities in Teams for Android and iOS, letting users organize groups with its calendar, meeting, and chat features for free — Microsoft is launching a new communities feature for Microsoft Teams today, designed for consumers to use the best parts of Teams free …
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Microsoft 365 Blog, XDA Developers, PCWorld, Neowin, Engadget, TechCrunch, OnMSFT.com, ZDNet, Digital Trends, Windows Central, BigTechWire, and Petri IT Knowledgebase
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| Adam James / The Block: |
Auditing firm Mazars says Binance's bitcoin reserves have a 101% collateralization ratio, after doing a proof-of-reserves and proof-of-liabilities verification — - Mazars concluded that Binance's bitcoin reserves are fully collateralized, following a proof-of-reserves and proof-of-liabilities verification.
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Mazars, CoinDesk, PYMNTS.com, Decrypt, The Daily Hodl, crypto.news, Ethereum World News, Cointelegraph, Emage, and CoinGape
| Bloomberg: |
A look at the digital asset diehards at Art Basel Miami Beach, who tried to ignore the fallout from FTX's collapse while FTX merch was hidden away in storage — At a dazzling new hotspot in the center of Miami's crypto scene, the remains of Sam Bankman-Fried's collapsed empire are stuffed in trash bags.
Tweets: @emilyjnicolle, @ampressman, @solanaspaces, and @milenarodban
| Andrew Romero / 9to5Google: |
Telegram partners with Fragment to let users create an anonymous phone number to join the service, removing the need for a SIM card, and adds security features — For years, apps like Telegram and Whatsapp have restricted access to users who could sign up using a SIM card and phone number.
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Telegram, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Android Central, Wccftech, Gizchina, Appuals.com, Android Headlines, Bitcoin News, Neowin, and MobileSyrup
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Instagram debuts transparency tools to let users with professional accounts, like businesses and creators, know if their content is ineligible to be recommended — Instagram announced today that it's introducing new transparency tools so you can see whether your photos and videos are recommended in the app.
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Instagram, XDA Developers, TechRadar, The Verge, Engadget, and PetaPixel
Tweets: @signalapp, @andymstone, and @andymstone
| Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post: |
Twitter ads from ~40 major brands including Amazon, Snap, and Uber appeared on the pages of at least two white nationalists, whose accounts Elon Musk restored — Ads from dozens of major brands were appearing on white nationalist and extremist accounts — Ads for more than three dozen …
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Ars Technica, The Verge, MobileSyrup, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @mattnavarra, @emptywheel, @esqueer_, @brendannyhan, and @jesselehrich
| Mark Matousek / The Information: |
Sources: the SEC is investigating whether messaging app IRL misled investors; IRL raised $170M from SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 at a $1.17B valuation in June 2021 — The Securities and Exchange Commission has been investigating whether SoftBank-backed messaging app IRL violated securities laws … | David Pierce / The Verge: |
Snap says it has over 300,000 developers building AR products for Snap and that it is working with creators to build lenses that include buyable digital goods — Augmented reality isn't really a thing yet. But you know what is? Face lenses. Millions of users across Snapchat, Instagram … | Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Washington DC AG Karl Racine sues Amazon for allegedly withholding user tips from its Amazon Flex delivery drivers for two years, citing a 2021 FTC settlement — Washington DC's attorney general is suing Amazon.com Inc., seeking civil penalties for allegedly misleading consumers who thought …
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oag.dc.gov, Ars Technica, The Register, Gizmodo, Washington Post, CNN, The Verge, SlashGear, DCist, Engadget, and Reuters. Tweets: @mattmday
| Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI's ChatGPT could be a serious threat for Google, offering quick, clear, and comprehensive answers to difficult questions that require no further searches — A new chatbot from OpenAI took the internet by storm this week, dashing off poems, screenplays and essay answers that were plastered …
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Insider, Wired, Technical.ly, New York Post, Digital Trends, Forbes, Best Day Ever Media, and Android Police
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
The Pentagon awards Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle a cloud-computing contract of up to $9B each through 2028 under the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability — - Of the four companies receiving cloud-computing contracts from the Pentagon, all of them had received requests for bids from the U.S. federal agency last year.
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Seattle Business Journal, CRN, Associated Press, Nextgov, and FedScoop
Tweets: @levynews and @markthompson_dc
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Geneva-based Proton launches iOS and Android apps for its E2EE cloud storage service, offering 1GB for free, 200GB for $4 per month, or 500GB for $10 per month — Proton, a privacy startup best known for its Proton Mail encrypted email service, has just announced that its end …
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The Proton Blog, MacRumors, App Store, iThinkDifferent, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, BGR, Apple World Today, and PCMag
| David McCabe / New York Times: |
As the FTC prepares to test a novel argument to challenge Meta's $400M Within acquisition, officials expect a loss could push Congress to rewrite antitrust laws — As the Federal Trade Commission prepares to face off in court against Meta over a V.R. start-up deal, the agency is testing … | Alexandra Alper / Reuters: |
US senators scale back a measure that would have prohibited the government and its contractors from using some China-made chips after pressure from trade groups — U.S. senators scaled back a proposal that placed new curbs on the use of Chinese-made chips by the U.S. government and its contractors … | Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
Facing a large deficit in its treasury, DeFi protocol Sushi proposes diverting fees from the Kanpai protocol and reduces its runway requirement from $9M to $5M — Developers proposed to divert 100% of fees generated on the platform to Sushi's multisig for one year or until new tokenomics are implemented.Sponsor Posts
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