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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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| 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 bird logo with a doge image; 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. You can see it for yourself on Twitter.com, where you will be greeted with a pup:
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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@google and @glenngabe
| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Sources and leaked images: the next Microsoft Surface Dock will debut in coming weeks with Thunderbolt 4 support, a slimmer design, and no proprietary connector — Here's a first look at the next Surface Dock. — What you need to know — Images of Microsoft's upcoming Surface Dock have leaked.| 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: |
Sources: the resignation of Chris Inglis, the first US cyber director, was largely over clashes with another senior cybersecurity official, Anne Neuberger — On March 2, US President Joe Biden's administration proposed some of the most aggressive measures to fight cyberattacks to date.
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@ericgeller
| Aaron McDade / Yahoo Finance: |
In a now-deleted tweet, Elon Musk said Twitter would give verified accounts “a few weeks grace” but take away their checkmarks if “they tell they won't pay now” — - The first day of Twitter's previously announced axing of “legacy” verified checks nearly passed without incident.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
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Larry Madowo. Mastodon:
@AnarchoNinaWrites …, @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io, @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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| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
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