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Amazon confirms it is investigating claims that its employees in US and China accepted bribes for internal data and other confidential info on Amazon merchants — Employees, through intermediaries, are offering internal data to help merchants increase their sales on the website
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CNET, Engadget, Business Insider, and Bloomberg
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Twitter now puts live broadcasts started by accounts users follow, including breaking news, personalities, and sports, at the top of their timelines in its app — Twitter will now put live streams and broadcasts started by accounts you follow at the top of your timeline, making it easier to see what they're doing in realtime.
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Social Media Today, Marketing Land, Adweek, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @twitter and @coffeegeek
| Horace Dediu / Asymco: |
Durable iPhones can result in lower replacement rates but they expand Apple's client base via resales which can then be monetized via accessories and services — I think Lisa Jackson's presentation at the September 2018 iPhone launch event was perhaps the most interesting and most profound.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt. Tweets: @triketora, @kpfrahm, @iansherr, @hallstephenj, @saji, @fionaosaurusrex, and @neiltwitz
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Facebook is hiring a Director of Human Rights Policy to steer investigations into human rights abusers on its platforms — Facebook has faced criticism for its slow response to the Myanmar government's use of its social network to fuel atrocities, and it's determined to prevent that from happening again.
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Axios, TechCrunch, Isle Of Wight Radio, and OnManorama
Tweets: @sarasous, @techcrunch, @mathewi, @axios, and @caseynewton
| Alana Semuels / The Atlantic: |
California law, mandating cannabis-delivery drivers to be classified as employees, shows the real-world effects of changes in gig-economy worker classification — Drivers for cannabis companies in California now have to be classified as employees, rather than independent contractors.
Tweets: @aaronklein, @moreymark, @theatlantic, @alanasemuels, and @alanasemuels
| Sigal Samuel / The Atlantic: |
How citizen journalists and scholars are using the internet to find Uighur internment and “reeducation” camps and expose the persecution of minorities in China — The country is using high-tech methods of repression, but even the simplest tech may be enough to expose it.| Brady Dale / CoinDesk: |
After running Tezos blockchain network in beta since June, Tezos Foundation will officially launch its protocol on Monday — The “experimental” phase for the Tezos blockchain is over. — On Monday morning, the Tezos Foundation will officially announce that the protocol will no longer be in a beta period …
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Bitcoinist.com, CryptoGlobe, Anycoin.news, NewsBTC, NullTX, and SludgeFeed. Tweets: @tezosfoundation
| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
New York's regulator sues the US government claiming it usurped state powers by awarding national bank charters to online lenders and payment companies — NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York state's top banking regulator on Friday sued the federal government to void its decision to award national bank charters … | Owen Thomas / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Tech companies like Salesforce, now the biggest private employer in San Francisco, are reacting to the city's limits by expanding and hiring faster elsewhere — Politics, economics and real estate could make jobs boom elsewhere — Politics, economics and real estate could make jobs boom elsewhere
Tweets: @owenthomas
| CB Insights Research: |
Research: healthcare AI startups have raised $4.3B across 576 deals since 2013, topping all other industries in AI deal activity — AI needs doctors. Big pharma is taking an AI-first approach. Apple is revolutionizing clinical studies. We look at the top artificial intelligence trends reshaping healthcare.| Sean Hollister / CNET: |
Apple responds to viral customer complaint about deleting movies from his iTunes library, says it does not delete movies that users have already downloaded — Perhaps you've heard a story that goes like this: — “Apple's ‘buy’ button is a sham, because Apple has the right to remove movies …
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9to5Mac, TorrentFreak, Cult of Mac, and ExtremeTech
| NASDAQ.com: |
SurveyMonkey sets IPO range to $9 to $11/share, plans to raise $135M at the midpoint of the range and additional $40M via private placement at $1.3B valuation — SurveyMonkey, which operates a freemium online survey service, announced terms for its IPO on Thursday.Sponsor Posts
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Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
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Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running them. 100+ sessions, workshops, and speakers from OpenAI, Arm, and Cloudflare across AI, security, and performance.
Zoho:
The 90-day recognition cliff: Why praise programs fade, and what keeps them alive — Recognition programs often start with enthusiasm. Employees participate, managers share shoutouts, and teams have a new way to celebrate achievements.
The 90-day recognition cliff: Why praise programs fade, and what keeps them alive — Recognition programs often start with enthusiasm. Employees participate, managers share shoutouts, and teams have a new way to celebrate achievements.
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.Featured Podcasts
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Sources:
Factory CEO on why AGI is already here
Candid conversations with the leaders shaping what's next in AI and the broader tech industry. Hosted by Alex Heath, who has covered Silicon Valley for more than a decade.
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