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[Thread] Twitter suspends accounts of journalists who cover Elon Musk, including WaPo's Drew Harwell, NYT's Ryan Mac, CNN's Donie O'Sullivan, and Aaron Rupar — Journalists who cover Elon Musk have been suspended on Twitter tonight: @Donie O'Sullivan from CNN, Aaron Rupar and the Washington Post's @drewharwell. Rupar tells me he has “no idea” why it happened.
| Tim Peterson / Digiday: |
Five agency executives say Netflix is delivering ~80% of the expected viewers for its ad-supported tier and structured its ad deals to release any unspent money — For as quickly as Netflix brought its ad-supported tier to market, the streamer's advertising business is off to a slow start.
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The Information, The Hollywood Reporter, Neowin, Yahoo Entertainment, Android Headlines, The Streamable, IndieWire, and Deadline
| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Instagram launches a tool for getting help recovering a hacked account, accessing an account after forgetting the password, and reporting impersonation accounts — Instagram users who are victims of hacking now have a new way to try to claw back their account.
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Instagram, Livemint, TechCrunch, CNET, Meta, Neowin, Adweek, SlashGear, Social Media Today, KnowTechie, PetaPixel, BGR, and Engadget
Tweets: @fashionluvr, @mattnavarra, and @mattnavarra
| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
Microsoft quietly updates its TOS to prohibit crypto mining on Azure and other services without “prior written approval”, citing “disruption or even impairment” — Windows giant fears coin crafting may upend its servers — UPDATED Microsoft has quietly banned cryptocurrency mining … | Dave Lee / Financial Times: |
Filing: Elon Musk sells 22M Tesla shares, worth almost $3.6B, his fourth sale since his Twitter takeover bid and third since tweeting “no further TSLA sales” — Billionaire has sold $23bn of stock in EV group since announcing Twitter takeover — Elon Musk has offloaded another tranche … | David Klepper / Associated Press: |
CCDH: when researchers liked self-harm and eating disorder videos on TikTok in the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia, the app recommended more similar content — TikTok's algorithms are promoting videos about self-harm and eating disorders to vulnerable teens, according to a report published Wednesday …
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| Kellen Browning / New York Times: |
Amazon Games plans to publish Crystal Dynamics' next Tomb Raider, marking Amazon's first major, single-player game, currently in early development — The title will be the first major single-player game for Amazon. It is a coup for the retail giant, which has struggled to gain traction with its video game business.
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Tweets: @tombraider, @henereyg, @kenbimbo, @discussingfilm, @wario64, @wario64, @stephentotilo, and @amzngamestudios
| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Google finishes rolling out the Matter smart home standard to Android and Nest, following Apple and Samsung; Amazon plans to support Matter by the end of 2022 — Google announced today that it has completed the initial rollout of Matter to its Google Nest products and Android OS.
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The Keyword, Android Police, Google Nest Community, Droid Life, Ars Technica, Android Central, CNET, Gizmodo, Tom's Guide, Android Headlines, MUO, ZDNet, 9to5Google, Thurrott, Digital Trends, Pocket-lint, TechHive, Engadget, SlashGear, and Phone Scoop. Tweets: @madebygoogle
| Chainalysis: |
An analysis of weekly realized gains and losses of personal crypto wallets in 2022: UST caused $20.5B in losses, Celsius and 3AC caused $33B, and FTX caused $9B — Allow us to state the obvious: There's been a lot of doom and gloom in conversations around cryptocurrency over the last month.| Josh Constine / @joshconstine: |
[Thread] Meta is shutting down Super, a Cameo-like app that let people pay creators or celebrities to interact with them in a live stream, on February 15, 2023 — Facebook is shutting down its Cameo clone Super. As expected, the big social apps weren't committed to helping creators monetize, they were just afraid of them jumping ship. https://twitter.com/...
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft adds full Teams integration to HoloLens 2 headsets, letting users view calendars and more, the first major update since co-creator Alex Kipman left — Microsoft has long supported real-time video calls using Microsoft Teams on HoloLens 2 headsets, but now the company …
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| Taryn Plumb / VentureBeat: |
Amazon Web Services, Meta, Microsoft, TomTom, and the Linux Foundation launch the Overture Maps Foundation, aiming to build interoperable, open-source map data — Think about it: Maps are fundamental to human evolution, exploration, innovation. — Since the first maps were drawn up in the 5th …
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| CNBC: |
After being named in an FTX lawsuit along with Tom Brady, Steph Curry, and Larry David, Shaquille O'Neal says he was “just a paid spokesperson for a commercial” — Shaquille O'Neal wants to make one thing clear: He doesn't believe in crypto, if he ever did.
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Tweets: @emilyjnicolle, @nagaavannomayo, @adamscochran, @nagaavannomayo, and @hsakatrades
| Financial Times: |
The US Commerce Department puts 36 Chinese companies on its entity list, including chipmaker Yangtze Memory Technologies and AI chipmaker Cambricon — ‘Entity list’ changes are focused on limiting development of advanced chips in China — The US has placed three dozen Chinese companies …
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Tweets: @lizrhoffman, @dimi, @michaelsobolik, @chadbown, @joshuasteinman, and @dimi
| Alexander Martin / The Record: |
Meta reports taking down 200+ coordinated inauthentic behavior operations since 2016, spread across over 100 countries, most focused on their domestic audience — Six years on from the shock discovery of Russian interference during the 2016 presidential election — and in the face …
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Meta, CyberScoop, The Guardian, Meta, Dark Reading, SiliconANGLE, and Wired
Tweets: @guyro, @ngleicher, @benimmo, @mattnavarra, @lutzguellner, @metanewsroom, and @ari_ben_am
| Sebastian Moss / DCD: |
Sources: Meta reviews some of its 11 in-development data center projects globally and lays off a Danish contractor, as part of a design change for AI workloads — As it plans radical shift to AI data centers — Meta is reviewing a number of under-construction data center projects around …
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| Bloomberg: |
About 200 companies in China and Hong Kong, including Alibaba and JD.com, no longer face the threat of a US delisting after US inspectors reviewed their audits — About 200 companies based in China and Hong Kong are no longer facing an acute threat of being booted off American stock exchanges, sending shares surging.
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| Zack Beauchamp / Vox: |
A look at The Managerial Revolution, a book from 1941 predicting the “managerial class” supplanting capitalists, which could help explain Elon Musk's Twitter — The long shadow of James Burnham's The Managerial Revolution. — Since the launch of the so-called “Twitter Files” …
Tweets: @greenplusane, @lemieuxlgm, @paulblu, @davidastinwalsh, @davidastinwalsh, @czedwards, and @pt
| Al Weaver / The Hill: |
The US Senate unanimously passes the No TikTok on Government Devices Act over security concerns about China-based ByteDance, after 13 states set similar bans — The Senate on Wednesday unanimously approved legislation that would ban the use of TikTok on government phones and devices as part …
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Bloomberg, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal, Slashdot, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Senator Josh Hawley, Washington Post, SlashGear, Digital Music News, Forbes, Neowin, AfroTech, PCMag, Newser, Financial Times, Digital Trends, PetaPixel, WinBuzzer, and Android Headlines
Tweets: @hawleymo, @hawleymo, @adam_k_levin, @sentomcotton, @juliezebrak, and @brendancarrfcc
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Adobe reports Q4 revenue up 10% YoY to $4.53B, Digital Media revenue up 10% YoY to $3.3B, and Digital Experience revenue up 14% YoY to $1.15B; stock is up 5%+ — - Adobe maintained its forecast for the new fiscal year. — The company's earnings for the fiscal fourth quarter was strong …
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Bloomberg, MarketWatch, MarketWatch, and Adobe Press Releases
| Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: |
Brain-computer interface developer Synchron raised $75M from ARCH Venture, Bezos Expeditions, Gates Frontier, and others, bringing its total funding to $145M — Last March, brain-computing interface expert Tom Oxley sat down to dinner with Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos to talk … | Keith Zhai / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: aiming for 5%+ economic growth in 2023, Chinese officials reassess their tech policies and plan to close lengthy investigations into internet companies — Senior officials are setting a robust GDP growth target of more than 5% for next year as they loosen Covid rules and de-emphasize ideology
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CNBC. Tweets: @deitaone, @carlquintanilla, @jchengwsj, @deitaone, @michaelxpettis, and @jchengwsj
| Reuters: |
Sources: OpenAI told investors the company expects $200M revenue in 2023 and $1B by 2024; source: OpenAI was recently valued at $20B in a secondary share sale — ChatGPT, the new chatbot that is the talk of Silicon Valley, can spit out haikus, crack jokes in Italian and may soon be the scourge … | Bloomberg: |
Internal FTX documentation: a GitHub account bearing the name of former engineering director Nishad Singh authored code to hide Alameda's ballooning liabilities — A GitHub account bearing the name of former FTX executive Nishad Singh authored code that hid Alameda Research's ballooning liabilities …
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Ethereum World News and Blockworks
Tweets: @adamscochran, @hoffmang, @fredwalton216, @eking0x, @carnage4life, @eking0x, @unusual_whales, @thestalwart, and @bennetttomlin
| Byron Kaye / Reuters: |
Australia's e-Safety Commissioner says Apple and Microsoft are not doing enough to stop CSAM on their storage services, calling their responses “alarming” — An Australian regulator, after using new powers to make the tech giants share information about their methods …
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eSafety Commissioner, Al Jazeera, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Bloomberg, MacDailyNews, iMore, eSafety Commissioner, 9to5Mac, and AppleInsider
Tweets: @esafetyoffice and @signyarnason
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