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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Platformer is leaving Substack and migrating to Ghost, saying it doesn't believe Substack will publicly commit to proactively removing pro-Nazi material — We've seen this movie before — and we won't stick around to watch it play out — After much consideration, we have decided to move Platformer off of Substack.
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Internal memo: Discord CEO Jason Citron says the company is laying off 17% of its staff, or 170 people, after growing its workforce “by 5x since 2020” — Discord is laying off 17 percent of its staff, a move that CEO Jason Citron said is meant to “sharpen our focus and improve …
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| Reuters: |
LSEG: US bitcoin ETFs saw $4.6B worth of shares traded on January 11, their first day of trading; Grayscale, BlackRock, and Fidelity dominated trading volumes — U.S.-listed bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) saw $4.6 billion worth of shares trade hands as of Thursday afternoon …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft briefly unseated Apple as the world's most valuable publicly traded company in early trading on Thursday but closed out the day under Apple — - Microsoft on Thursday briefly unseated Apple as the world's most valuable publicly traded company in early trading but closed out the day under Apple.| Alanna Durkin Richer / Associated Press: |
eBay will pay $3M to resolve charges over a harassment campaign by staffers who sent spiders and other disturbing items to those behind the EcommerceBytes blog — Online retailer eBay Inc. will pay a $3 million fine to resolve criminal charges over a harassment campaign waged by employees …
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| Jon Victor / The Information: |
Alphabet Union says Wednesday's layoffs at Google impacted more than 1,000 people, making it the largest round of cuts since January 2023 — A spokesman for a union representing workers at Google's owner, Alphabet, said Wednesday's layoffs at Google impacted more than 1,000 people …
More: BBC, Washington Post, South China Morning Post, The Messenger, and Dexerto
X: @alphabetworkers, @danielthall, @carnage4life, @jon_victor_, and @google_jp_union. Forums: Hacker News
| Louise Matsakis / Semafor: |
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple says Al Gore and James Bell will retire from its board this year, and Wanda Austin, ex-president and CEO of The Aerospace Corporation, will join the board — Both Al Gore and James Bell are retiring from Apple's board of directors, Apple announced today.
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| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
Google formally endorses right to repair and will testify in favor of a law in Oregon, says regulators should ban “parts pairing”, a tactic used by Apple — Google says repair should be easy and “parts pairing” should be illegal. — Google formally endorsed the concept of right …
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| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI has signed up 260 enterprise customers with 150K+ employees combined for the corporate version of ChatGPT, barely four months after launching the product — - Startup launched ChatGPT Enterprise barely four months ago — Product is part of push to boost revenue from AI chatbot| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google plans to allow more real-money games on the Play Store, starting with India, Brazil, and Mexico in June 2024, in compliance with local laws — Google announced today that the company plans to support more real-money games (RMG) on the Play Store this year by allowing more types of games in the category following local laws.
More: Android Developers Blog, 9to5Google, The Verge, and Android Authority
| Tom Coates / plasticbag.org: |
Notes on Meta's plans for Threads integration with the fediverse, which, at least superficially, the company is carrying out cautiously and in good faith — This is an exceptionally long post detailing pretty much everything I learned at an event shortly before Christmas at Meta's offices in San Francisco.
| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Ivanti confirms hackers are exploiting two critical vulnerabilities in its corporate VPN software, but says patches won't be available until the end of January — U.S. software giant Ivanti has confirmed that hackers are exploiting two critical-rated vulnerabilities affecting …
More: Volexity, The Register, CSO, Rapid7, PaymentSecurity.io, Cyber Daily, Qualys Security Blog, Malwarebytes, SiliconANGLE, and PCMag
| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
The FCC sends letters to nine of the largest automakers, raising concerns about abusive partners using connected car apps to harass and track their victims — The Federal Communications Commission is concerned about abusive partners using connected car apps to harass and track their victims.| David W. Chen / New York Times: |
As deepfakes warp elections overseas, US state legislators race to enact laws, with varying penalties, requiring disclosure of the use of AI in political ads — Sophisticated political deepfakes have warped elections overseas. Can U.S. legislators act fast enough to make A.I. campaign ads more transparent?| Financial Times: |
Sources: the UK plans to publish “key tests” that need to be met to pass new AI laws, including if its new AI Safety Institute fails to identify risks — Ministers keep threat of future curbs but persist with light-touch regulatory regime — The UK government is set to publish … | Forbes: |
How Menlo Ventures is using a special purpose vehicle to lead Anthropic's unusual $750M fundraise, helping, in part, to price bets by Amazon and Google — The startup's new round led by Menlo Ventures surprised some industry insiders due to its form — a special purpose vehicle …
X: @alexrkonrad
| Reuters: |
Sources: PE firms Bain Capital and Hellman & Friedman are competing to buy DocuSign but may partner to clinch a deal; an outcome is expected in the coming weeks — Bain Capital and Hellman & Friedman are competing to acquire DocuSign Inc (DOCU.O), the provider of online signature services …
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