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Sources: Apple plans to fund original, exclusive podcasts and has reached out to media companies, in a bid to compete with Spotify — - Tech giant looks to use exclusives to compete with Spotify — Company has recently added new Podcasts Mac app, web interface
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Highlights from the Senate hearing with Facebook's David Marcus on the proposed Libra cryptocurrency, and what was left unanswered — Facebook will only build its own Calibra cryptocurrency wallet into Messenger and Whatsapp, and will refuse to embed competing wallets …
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| Elizabeth Schulze / CNBC: |
Swiss regulator that Facebook's David Marcus said would oversee privacy protections for Libra says it hasn't heard from those behind the proposed cryptocurrency — KEY POINTS — David Marcus, the head of Facebook's digital currency project, said during a hearing in the U.S. Senate …
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| Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
Four of the seven Google employees who organized a 20,000-person walkout in November have resigned from the company — FOUR OF THE seven Google employees who organized a 20,000-person walkout in November have resigned from the company, including two women who claimed Google retaliated against them for their internal activism.
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| Bloomberg: |
Meredith Whittaker, who helped lead employee protests at Google over its military and AI work, and sexual harassment policies, is leaving the company — Meredith Whittaker, who helped lead employee protests at Google over the search giant's military work, artificial intelligence and policies, is leaving the company.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Apple says it is sending out another silent update for macOS to fix a webcam vulnerability affecting apps using Zoom's tech including RingCentral and Zhumu — RingCentral and Zhumu are now patched — Apple informed us that it has sent out a silent security update to Macs to remove software …
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Trump threatens to “take a look” at Google for alleged China ties, in a tweet that cited claims Peter Thiel made at a conference and repeated on Fox News — President Trump on Tuesday appeared to threaten that his administration would “take a look” at Google … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Sprint says hackers had access to customers' names, billing, device details, and more via Samsung's website, fails to disclose the number affected — Hackers had access to customer info such as names, billing, device details, and more. — US mobile network operator Sprint said hackers broke …
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Pearson, the world's largest education publisher, says all future releases of its 1,500 active US titles will be “digital first” and updated on an ongoing basis — The world's largest education publisher has taken the first step towards phasing out print books by making all its learning resources “digital first”.
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| Jeff Kauflin / Forbes: |
Finix, a payments infrastructure platform that lets companies own and control their payment processing, raises $17.5M Series A led by Bain Capital — In the U.S., electronic payments is a highly regulated business whose esoteric ins and outs can make your eyes glaze over.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC authorizes funding for ISPs to provide broadband access for 220,000+ unserved rural homes and businesses in 24 states as part of the Connect America Fund — Tens of millions of Americans still don't have broadband Internet. — More than 220,000 unserved rural homes and businesses …
Tweets: @jbrodkin
| VICE: |
Inside a lawsuit against Girls Do Porn, one of Pornhub's popular channels, which 22 women allege post videos without proper consent, leading to doxxing and more — Pornhub is hosting videos that have been viewed hundreds of millions of times. The women in them say they thought the videos …
Tweets: @katiedrumm, @jason_koebler, @josephfcox, @barry, @samleecole, @josephfcox, @samleecole, @samleecole, @samleecole, and @jason_koebler
| Joe Maring / Android Central: |
LG Pay, with both NFC and magnetic stripe terminal support, is now available in the US for the LG G8, will expand to other LG phones in the coming months — LG Pay, LG's copy and paste alternative to Samsung Pay, has been available in South Korea ever since 2017.
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PR Newswire, The Verge, Android Authority, and Engadget
| Bloomberg: |
Highlights from the House's antitrust hearing, where Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook executives fought criticism that their companies dominate their markets — U.S. technology giants are headed for their biggest antitrust showdown with Congress in 20 years as lawmakers and regulators demand …
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Patreon, which helps content creators manage paid membership communities for fans, raises $60M Series D led by Glade Brook Capital — Patreon, the San Francisco-based platform that helps over 100,000 online content creators manage paid membership communities for their most dedicated fans, has raised $60 million in Series D funding.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Uber open sources Plato, a tool for developing and testing conversational AI across many deep learning frameworks including TensorFlow and PyTorch — Designing conversational AI isn't as Sysiphean as it sounds. Tools like Google's Dialogflow, Microsoft's Bot Framework …
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SiliconANGLE, Uber Engineering Blog, PYMNTS.com, and GitHub
| Aoife White / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon faces a full-blown EU antitrust probe within days; Qualcomm could face a second hefty EU penalty as soon as next week for underpricing chips — - EU to escalate investigation targeting Marketplace platform — Qualcomm also set to face further EU fine in coming days
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Vanity Fair, GeekWire, CNBC, Tom's Hardware, TechSpot, FutureSin, Business Insider, PYMNTS.com, Thurrott, and Slashdot. Tweets: @business
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Google Maps will now show bike-sharing station information on Android and iOS in 23 new cities globally, more than a year after debuting the feature in NYC — Google Maps is bringing bike-sharing station information to global markets from today, more than a year after first debuting the feature in New York City.
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The Verge, The Keyword, 9to5Google, and Engadget
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Newsletter platform Substack raises $15.3M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, says Substack newsletters now have 50,000 paying subscribers — Andreessen Horowitz is betting that there's still a big opportunity in newsletters — the venture capital firm is leading a $15.3 million Series A in Substack.| Angel Krasimirov / Reuters: |
Bulgaria says hackers stole millions of taxpayers' financial data in June; an expert says nearly all adult citizens' personal records may have been compromised — SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria's finance minister apologized to the country on Tuesday after admitting hackers had stolen millions …
Tweets: @jc_stubbs
| Jeff Stone / CyberScoop: |
Ukrainian hacker Mikhail Rytikov, sought by the US since 2013 for running a dark web network used by criminals at scale, arrested in Ukraine with US and UK help — Ukrainian police have arrested an accused cybercriminal who allegedly facilitated a web hosting scheme that made it possible …
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