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April 3, 2023, 2:55 PM
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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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The Verge, 9to5Mac, Metaverse Post, Insider, Axios, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, SlashGear, AppleInsider, The Apple Post, BGR, MacRumors, CNBC, iMore, Patently Apple, iClarified, and WRAL TechWire
LinkedIn:
Ben Williams and Jeff Frick
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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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Business Wire, TechCrunch, Silicon Valley Business …, SC Media, XDA Developers, The Record, Security Affairs, Android Police, SiliconANGLE, HotHardware, Reuters, The Hacker News, Cybersecurity Dive, Tech Monitor, iPhone in Canada Blog, PetaPixel, Neowin, PCMag, The Register, HackRead, SecurityWeek, Security Boulevard, gHacks Technology News, Help Net Security, and TechRadar. Mastodon:
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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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| 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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Tor Project blog, Mullvad VPN, Mullvad VPN, PCMag, SiliconANGLE, CNET, Wired, TechRadar, HackRead, gHacks Technology News, and Slashdot
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@mullvadnet, @sethforprivacy, @mullvadnet, @mullvadnet, and @torproject
| 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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9to5Google and Silicon Valley Business …
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@jenn_elias, @mikeisaac, @epro, @mikeisaac, @rustybrick, and @tomgara
| 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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The Keyword, Android Authority, CNET, Bloomberg, 9to5Google, Techlusive, USA Today, BigTechWire, and PhocusWire
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@glenngabe and @google
| CNN: |
Source: soon after Pinduoduo removed backdoor exploits from its app, the company moved most of the team working on them to Temu, which tops US download charts — It is one of China's most popular shopping apps, selling clothing, groceries and just about everything else under the sun to more than 750 million users a month.
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BBC, GovInfoSecurity.com, InfoRiskToday.com, International Business Times, Techaeris, and Fox News
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@andyyen, @zichenwanghere, @dalperovitch, @bhaskark_la, @mrbcyber, @oneangryitguy, and @cnn
| 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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Cointelegraph, Inside Bitcoins, crypto.news, Bitcoinist.com, Decrypt, Crypto Daily, CryptoPotato, Blockworks, CryptoGlobe, Cryptopolitan, and PYMNTS.com
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@emilyjnicolle, @ingridlunden, @smdiehl, and @smtuffy
| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Dogecoin's price spikes 20%+ 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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Gizmodo, Bloomberg, The Block, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, Fortune, NewsBTC, iPhone in Canada Blog, CryptoSlate, Watcher Guru, Wccftech, Forbes, Blockworks, CryptoGlobe, Tech Startups, ZyCrypto, and Bitcoinist.com
Mastodon:
@rodhilton@mastodon.social and @mmasnick@mastodon.social
| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
In a referendum, Parisians voted 89% against keeping shared e-scooters in the city; Lime, Dott, and Tier will have to pull their fleets out by September 1, 2023 — In a major blow to shared micromobility companies Lime, Dott and Tier, Paris has voted to ban rental e-scooters from their streets.
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Wall Street Journal, Reuters, The Register, BBC, France 24, PYMNTS.com, Gizmodo, Politico, The Guardian, New York Times, Associated Press, TNW, Al Jazeera, PCMag, Forbes, Fortune, Silicon Republic, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Engadget, Intelligent Transport, Livemint, and Digital Trends
LinkedIn:
Peter Griffiths, Craig Smith, Alex Pazuchanics, and Hedi Mardisoo
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@davidzipper, @cllrnicksmall, @populismupdates, @news_by_nick, @catherine_lucey, @parismarx, and @ryangirdusky
| 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 all 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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The Verge, Fortune, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Forbes, Bloomberg, gHacks Technology News, Phandroid, Cointelegraph, MakeUseOf, Engadget, Comic Book, Mashable, Deadline, Techlusive, and Dexerto
LinkedIn:
Larry Madowo. Mastodon:
@AnarchoNinaWrites …, @mimsical@mastodon.social, @mmasnick@mastodon.social, @webmink@meshed.cloud, @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social, @lauren@mastodon …, @ct_bergstrom@fediscience.org, @mmasnick@mastodon.social, and @mmasnick@mastodon.social
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@robdenbleyker, @oalexanderdk, @mayavada, @hankgreen, @seanburkeshow, @timsweeneyepic, @racheltobac, @chrismessina, @nirmaltv, @oalexanderdk, @kevinokeefe, @kenklippenstein, @wongmjane, @jsamditis, @samuelaadams, @getwired, @cwarzel, @hasanthehun, @rufustsuperfly, @mc_of_a, and @mountain_goats
| Aaron McDade / Yahoo Finance: |
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Washington Post, CNN, Axios, Techdirt, Forbes, International Business Times, Associated Press, NBC News, Livemint, Forbes, and Insider
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@Green_Footballs … and @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social
| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
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@elonmusk, @elonmusk, @mattbinder, @cb_doge, @nicoleperlroth, @mattbinder, @shayan86, @elonmusk, @micsolana, @washingtonpost, @isabelledotjpeg, @mattyglesias, @ruthbenghiat, @robtornoe, @oliverdarcy, @drewharwell, @kenroth, @genepark, @donmoyn, @loudmouthjulia, @wongmjane, @mollyjongfast, @notabigjerk, and @wilson__valdez
| Financial Times: |
Comparing ChatGPT, trained for in-depth replies, and Bard, trained for natural dialog, on how the chatbots summarize articles, pick stocks, tell jokes, and more — We ask the generative AI systems from OpenAI and Google to pick stocks, tell jokes and imagine the Xi-Putin summitSponsor Posts
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