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February 12, 2024, 9:15 PM
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Meta begins testing “today's topics” on Threads in the US, surfaced in the app on the Search page and in the For You feed, that can feature political content  —  After acknowledging last week that Meta's X competitor Threads would not actively recommend political content …
Rachel Phua / Bloomberg:
Temu bought six Super Bowl ad slots, likely for tens of millions of dollars, to boost US growth; its US observed sales fell 12.5% MoM in Dec. and 4.8% in Jan.  —  - Observed sales and users fell month-on-month in Dec. and Jan.  — Chinese e-commerce app offers users $10 million in giveaways
John Archer / Forbes:
Amazon's Prime Video basic ad tier, which began on Jan. 29 in the US as a downgrade to subscribers, quietly cut Dolby Vision HDR and Dolby Atmos sound support  —  Amazon AMZN caused a furor recently when it announced that it was introducing advertisements right across its Prime Video streaming service.
Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register:
Cloudflare defeats another “patent troll”, invalidating parts of Sable Networks' patents after crowd-sourcing prior art findings through Project Jengo  —  The bounty payouts may be high, but Project Jengo doesn't miss  —  When it comes to defeating patent trolls with crowd-sourced prior art …
More: The Cloudflare Blog and WebProNews
Threads: @gergelyorosz_.  X: @cloudflare and @eastdakota.  LinkedIn: Steven Callahan.  Forums: Hacker News
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Appfigures data: 52% of Vision Pro-only apps are paid downloads, vs. 5% of apps in the wider App Store, with an average price of $5.67  —  Apple's Vision Pro offers consumers a new way to interact with apps via spatial computing, but it also offers app developers a way to generate revenue without subscriptions.
Michelle F Davis / Bloomberg:
ContextLogic agrees to sell the discount online retailer Wish for $173M to Singaporean company Qoo10; Wish had a $14B valuation when it when public in 2020  —  The parent of discount online retailer Wish has agreed to sell its assets and liabilities for $173 million to Singaporean e-commerce company Qoo10.
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Nvidia announces a $625 Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada Generation GPU, with 1.5x to 3x more performance than the previous gen and 16GB of GDDR6 ECC memory, up from 12GB  —  NVIDIA RTX 2000 ADA announced: AD107 GPU, 16GB VRAM and no power connector required  —  NVIDIA formally introduces another low-profile workstation GPU with Ada architecture
Eva Dou / Washington Post:
How the US plans to use open radio access networks, or Open RAN, to unseat Huawei's lead in telecom tech, including committing $1.5B+ to bolster global adoption  —  The Biden administration has committed more than $1.5 billion to try to persuade the world to use a technology …
Nate Raymond / Reuters:
A US federal judge blocks the enforcement of an Ohio law that would require children under 16 to get parental consent to use social media apps  —  A federal judge on Monday prevented Ohio from implementing a new law that requires social media companies, including Meta Platform's (META.O) …
Ben Hall / Financial Times:
Ukraine's GUR military intelligence unit says Russian forces are using Starlink terminals on the front line, corroborating multiple media reports in recent days  —  Adoption of satellite internet service by Moscow's troops ‘systemic’  —  Russian forces are using Starlink terminals …
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with the US DOJ's Jonathan Kanter on the Antitrust Division, its Google search monopolization and ad tech cases, media consolidation, the EU's DMA, and more  —  The assistant attorney general says “the resonance these issues have is something that I've never witnessed in my lifetime.”

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Paul Glynn / BBC:
HarperCollins UK drops children's author and comedian David Walliams following allegations of inappropriate behavior toward young women

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Interview with WPP CEO Cindy Rose, who says AI puts pressure on the ad agency's pricing and WPP has 10K data scientists and software engineers and 12K creatives

Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Lou Cannon, a veteran Washington Post reporter who wrote several influential biographies of Ronald Reagan, has died at 92

More News

Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Apple releases visionOS 1.0.3, the first update since the Vision Pro launch, adding an option to reset the device if the passcode has been forgotten
Stephen Alpher / CoinDesk:
Bitcoin pushes through $50K for the first time since December 2021, ahead of April's Bitcoin halving event, which will reduce mining rewards by half

Earlier Picks

Krystal Hu / Reuters:
Bugcrowd, which offers crowdsourced bug bounty tools, raised a $102M Series E led by General Catalyst to expand internationally, and has ~1,000 global customers
Toby Sterling / Reuters:
ASML begins gearing up to ship its new $350M High NA EUV machine, which is the size of a double decker bus, and expects to ship “a number” of them in 2024
Wes Davis / The Verge:
A crowd in San Francisco destroyed a Waymo car on February 11, amid tensions over autonomous vehicles; Waymo says the car “was not transporting any riders”
Elena Schneider / Politico:
Biden's campaign made its first TikTok post, during the Super Bowl, a year after the White House forced US agencies to remove the app from government devices
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