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Facebook attacks Apple in full-page newspaper ads, claiming upcoming iOS 14 changes that limit data gathering and targeted ads are bad for small businesses — - Ads criticize Apple's plan to require opt-in for ad tracking — Facebook placed ads in the NYT, WSJ and Washington Post
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Facebook says it will assist Epic Games in its legal battle against Apple, including providing supporting documents — Social-networking company also dials up criticism of Apple's plan to allow iPhone users to restrict access to personal data — Facebook Inc. said it would assist …
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Facebook for Business, New York Times, Agence France-Presse, CNBC, Patently Apple, and MacDailyNews. Tweets: @jstrauss
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Substack launches Substack Reader, an RSS reader for tracking newsletter subscriptions and other feeds, in beta — Substack Reader is now available in beta — If you're worried about all your newsletter subscriptions getting lost in your inbox, Substack may have a solution.
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Substack Blog, 9to5Mac, and Engadget
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| Jacob Cohen Donnelly / A Media Operator: |
Tweets: @can, @annehelen, @mathewi, @jryedinak, @tomcritchlow, @jaycodon, and @mdudas
| Washington Post: |
CISA's Einstein, which cost billions and monitors US agencies' networks for bad actors, missed the SolarWinds hack, which now counts the NIH among its victims — When Russian hackers first slipped their digital Trojan horses into federal government computer systems, probably sometime in the spring … | Washington Post: |
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Krebs on Security, Gizmodo, CRN, and CyberScoop
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
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Tweets: @msftsecintel, @jennamc_laugh, @campuscodi, and @chicagocyber
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Google says its new Chromecast with Google TV will get an Apple TV app in early 2021, giving users access to TV+ originals and iTunes purchases — Coming in early 2021 to the Chromecast with Google TV — Google's latest Chromecast with Google TV is filling in one of its biggest missing apps … | Axios: |
Texas AG says the state and nine others have filed a lawsuit against Google, claiming Google illegally hurt competition in the ad tech market — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Wednesday that he's leading a multi-state lawsuit against Google, accusing the search giant …
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New York Times, Washington Post, United States District Court, CNN, Reuters, Politico, Business Insider, The Verge, The Guardian, Gizmodo, Reuters, The Hill, CNBC, Protocol, CNET, AppleInsider, Bloomberg, and Android Central
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Google's Stadia arrives on iOS and iPadOS in beta for mobile web, letting users access their game library on Apple devices — Playing Cyberpunk 2077 on an iPad is pretty great — Google Stadia has finally made its way to iOS over a year after launch. The company's mobile web beta …
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TechCrunch, 9to5Google, XDA Developers, Thurrott, Android Police, Engadget, TechSpot, Lifehacker, Gamasutra, MakeUseOf, SlashGear, The Mac Observer, Gizmodo, HotHardware.com News, AppleInsider, Redmond Pie, VentureBeat, Trusted Reviews, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors, 9to5Google, iPhone Hacks, Wccftech, iPhone in Canada Blog, and iMore
Tweets: @googlestadia, @martinsfp, and @tomwarren
| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Twitter says it will start removing tweets that spread harmful COVID-19 vaccine misinformation starting next week and will label conspiracies starting in 2021 — It may apply labels early in 2021 — Twitter announced Wednesday that it will remove tweets making false or misleading claims about COVID-19 vaccinations.
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Twitter, TechCrunch, The Hill, New York Times, CNET, Reuters, Engadget, and NBC News
Tweets: @twittersafety, @yoyoel, @noupside, and @markdistef
| Manuel Vonau / Android Police: |
Netflix is rolling out a Video Off button at the top of the full-screen video player and an audio only mode in settings for its Android app — Netflix might not be playing nicely with Google TV for some reason, but the company is pouring tons of resources into its Android app.| Adrienne LaFrance / The Atlantic: |
A pessimistic look at Facebook and its enormous, uncontrollable impact on the US and world, giving Zuckerberg incredible power with little oversight — The Doomsday Machine was never supposed to exist. It was meant to be a thought experiment that went like this: Imagine a device built … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Roku and WarnerMedia have reached an agreement to distribute HBO Max on the Roku platform, starting Thursday — Roku and WarnerMedia have reached an agreement for the distribution of the HBO Max on the Roku platform — nearly seven months after the streaming service launched.| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Mozilla releases Firefox 84 with native support for Apple M1 Macs, saying the browser launches over 2.5 times faster and web apps are now twice as responsive — Mozilla today released Firefox version 84 with native support for Apple Silicon Macs with the M1 chip, touting …
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Microsoft 365 Blog, ZDNet, Softpedia News, Computerworld, Lifehacker, AppleInsider, The Verge, Laptop Mag, Android Headlines, and Wccftech
Tweets: @chrismessina and @alternativeto
| CoinDesk: |
Bitcoin crosses $20K to reach an all-time high after doubling in the past three months — After testing investor patience for three weeks, bitcoin has finally crossed above $20,000 to reach fresh all-time highs. — The number one cryptocurrency by market value jumped …
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CoinDesk, Gizmodo, Bloomberg, CNBC, Fortune, Bloomberg, TechSpot, TechCrunch, ZDNet, Neowin, Bitcoinist.com, Axios, Bitcoin Magazine, Forbes, Mashable, and coinspeaker.com. Tweets: @carnage4life
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Apple AirPods Max review: high-luxury design, terrific sound quality, and very effective noise cancellation, but they are heavy and the case is an abomination — Apple's over-ear headphones have tremendous build quality and sound, but there's no denying they're expensive
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AppleInsider, Rolling Stone, Android Police, Apple Terminal, and iDownloadBlog.com
Tweets: @maxwinebach, @tomwarren, @ourielohayon, @cnet, @chriswelch, and @mkbhd
| danah boyd / LinkedIn: |
The Biden administration needs a VP of Engineering to debug problems that prevent government agencies from successfully building and deploying technical systems — If you look at the roster of the Biden-Harris transition team, it's quickly apparent that the incoming administration is tech-forward.
Tweets: @zephoria, @frankpasquale, @ldrogen, @internetrebecca, @mikeolson, @kimfox, @rypan, and @anildash
| The Guardian: |
Invoices show Israeli surveillance firm Rayzone leased access to SS7 traffic from a Channel Islands mobile operator to spy on cell communications and locations — Crofton Black, Stephanie Kirchgaessner and Dan Sabbagh — The Israeli private intelligence company Rayzone Group appears …
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The Bureau of Investigative …. Tweets: @jsrailton, @jsrailton, @zackwhittaker, @jsrailton, @jsrailton, @karlbode, @vijayshekhar, @tbij, @campuscodi, @jsrailton, @ronwyden, and @razhael
| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Pinterest says it will adopt recommendations from a special committee created to address racial and gender discrimination, including unconscious bias training — Pinterest has committed to adopting the recommendations from its special committee of the Board of Directors, the company wrote in a blog post today.
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Fast Company, The Verge, Pinterest Newsroom, and Social Media Today
| Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News: |
At an end-of-year, company-wide meeting, Facebook said it is working on TLDR, an AI tool that would summarize longform articles in bullet points — Facebook told employees on Tuesday that it's developing a tool to summarize news articles so users won't have to read them.
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CNET, Reclaim The Net, Input, KnowTechie, Voicebot.ai, and Business Insider
Tweets: @rmac18, @stephaniemlee, @xtophercook, @jamesrbuk, @emilybell, @rmac18, @jfagone, @mattlynley, @mattlynley, @mattlynley, @audreyhasnews, @mattlynley, @shortformernie, and @mg
| Joe Tidy / BBC: |
Dutch prosecutors find researcher Victor Gevers did successfully log into Donald Trump's Twitter account; the White House and Twitter denied the incident — Dutch prosecutors have found a hacker did successfully log in to Donald Trump's Twitter account by guessing his password - “MAGA2020!”| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Coalition for App Fairness says Digital Content Next, representing NYT, NPR, WaPo, and others, has joined; the coalition calls for the regulation of app stores — A group of major U.S. news publishers have joined the Coalition for App Fairness (CAF), the advocacy group pushing …
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Engadget, Forbes, Coalition for App Fairness, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Apple Terminal, and AppleInsider
Tweets: @appfairness and @carnage4life
| Igor Bosilkovski / Forbes: |
CloudTrucks, which helps truck drivers find work and advises them on which loads to take to increase revenue, raises $20.5M Series A led by Caffeinated Capital — CloudTrucks, a platform helping truck drivers find work and organize their business announced today that it has raised $20.5 million …
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FreightWaves, FinSMEs, and PR Newswire
| Hirsh Chitkara / Protocol: |
Interview with Stanford comp lit professor Adrian Daub on the naiveté of undergrads eager to work in tech, “useless” VC Twitter, and challenges to SV narratives — In the early 2010s, professor Adrian Daub began noticing changes in some Stanford undergraduates that troubled him.
Tweets: @chrmanning, @protocol, @toddwalker, @dancharvey, and @issielapowsky
| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Discord says iOS and Android users will now be able to share their screens — The super popular chat app Discord is getting a much-requested feature starting today: mobile screen sharing. — As the name suggests, mobile screen sharing lets users capture and broadcast everything …
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Android Police, 9to5Mac, MakeUseOf, Engadget, and Apple Terminal
| Caitlin McCabe / Wall Street Journal: |
Leaked doc: Massachusetts securities regulators are expected to file a complaint against Robinhood claiming it exposed investors to “unnecessary trading risks” — The wildly popular trading platform exposed Massachusetts investors to ‘unnecessary trading risks,’ according to the complaint
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NBC News, CNBC, Finextra, Financial Times, New York Post, Cointelegraph, Crowdfund Insider, and CoinDesk
Tweets: @davidgerard, @michaelsantoli, @timsteno, and @jeffjohnroberts
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