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| Zach Baron / GQ: |
An interview and profile of Tim Cook on running Apple, succeeding Steve Jobs, being an outsider, creativity, reducing smartphone time, Meta, Google, and more — As Apple CEO, he has defied his skeptics and refashioned the world's most creative company on his own exacting terms.
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Western Digital reports a network breach, saying the hacker obtained some company data but the full scope is unknown; some systems, like My Cloud, are offline — Western Digital announced today that its network has been breached and an unauthorized party gained access to multiple company systems.
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| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
After a revolt, the Arbitrum Foundation plans to break up its controversial governance package into separate votes, including on its 750M ARB token allocation — Arbitrum will hold a standalone vote on its 750 million token allocation. — Join the most important conversation in crypto …
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| Becky Peterson / The Information: |
The Saudi Public Investment Fund lists ~35 of its partnerships with US VC firms, like a16z, Coatue, Craft Ventures, Iconiq, Insight Partners, and Human Capital — For several years, venture capital firms have been cagey about whether they have raised money from Saudi Arabia …
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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Dogecoin's price spikes 25%+ after Twitter replaces its website logo with the dogecoin logo; Elon Musk is fighting to get a dogecoin-related lawsuit dismissed — Today Twitter users are noticing that an image of a dog has been added to a place of prominence.
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
The Tor Project partners with VPN maker Mullvad to launch the Mullvad browser, for Windows, macOS, and Linux, to reduce a user's “fingerprint” used for tracking — The Tor Project, the organization behind the anonymous network and browser, is helping launch a privacy-focused browser that's …
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| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Documents: Google cuts back on fitness classes, tape, staplers, and the frequency of staff laptop replacements; non-engineers will get a Chromebook by default — - In a rare companywide memo from CFO Ruth Porat, Google kicked off “multi-year” employee service cuts.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google Search adds travel features: a “price guarantee” tool for flights, a swipeable hotel browsing story format, and a new way to find attractions and tours — Google announced today that it's introducing three new Search features to make it easier for users to research hotels …
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| Stuart Dredge / Music Ally: |
Spotify shuts down its Clubhouse-style audio app Spotify Live, previously called Locker Room, acquired as part of its €57M Betty Labs acquisition in March 2021 — Spotify is shutting down its live-audio app Spotify Live, but says it will continue experimenting with live features in its main service.
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| Diane Bartz / Reuters: |
The US DOJ settles an antitrust complaint against Activision Blizzard over salary limits in professional esports leagues for Overwatch and Call of Duty — The U.S. Justice Department filed an antitrust complaint against Activision Blizzard (ATVI.O) on Monday, according to a court filing.| Bloomberg: |
One year after Rishi Sunak pledged to turn the UK into a crypto hub, UK crypto executives say banks are less willing to support companies trading digital assets — Edouard Daunizeau's crypto company SavingBlocks has an office in East London's technology hub and more than 200 customers testing its services.
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@emilyjnicolle, @ingridlunden, @smtuffy, and @smdiehl
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Unlike modern capable-but-boring laptops, Framework's repairable, sustainable, and upgradeable models are exciting, reminiscent of the early 2000s computing era — It's not often that I get too excited about new laptops these days. Modern laptops are extremely capable devices, with few glaring flaws.| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Twitter updates the description of blue checkmarks to say “This account is verified because it's subscribed to Twitter Blue or is a legacy verified account” — On Sunday, Twitter did something different: It updated the language in the description of verified users …
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@robdenbleyker, @oalexanderdk, @mayavada, @seanburkeshow, @timsweeneyepic, @hankgreen, @racheltobac, @chrismessina, @nirmaltv, @oalexanderdk, @kenklippenstein, @wongmjane, @jsamditis, @samuelaadams, @hasanthehun, @rufustsuperfly, @mc_of_a, @mountain_goats, @cwarzel, @kevinokeefe, and @getwired
| Aaron McDade / Yahoo Finance: |
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