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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 … | Ashley Gold / Axios: |
Texas AG says the state and other unspecified ones are filing a lawsuit against Google today, claiming Google illegally hurt competition in the ad tech market — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Wednesday that he's leading a lawsuit against Google, accusing the search giant …
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| 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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| Washington Post: |
SolarWinds' top investors Silver Lake and Thoma Bravo sold a combined $286M worth of stock in the company on Dec. 7, six days before the hack was made public — The timing of the trades raises questions about whether major shareholders used inside information to avoid stark losses after the attack.
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Krebs on Security, CRN, and CyberScoop
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| 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 … | 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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Tweets: @googlestadia and @martinsfp
| 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, Medianama, Input, KnowTechie, Voicebot.ai, and Business Insider
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| 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, @kimfox, @frankpasquale, @ldrogen, @rypan, @internetrebecca, @mikeolson, and @anildash
| 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, Android Police, iDownloadBlog.com, Rolling Stone, and Apple Terminal
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| 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, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, Fortune, Axios, CNBC, Bloomberg, Forbes, New York Post, Neowin, Bitcoinist.com, Bitcoin Magazine, Forbes, Mashable, and coinspeaker.com. Tweets: @carnage4life
| 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, New York Times, Reuters, Chicago Tribune, and NBC News
Tweets: @twittersafety, @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.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft is rolling out native M1 support for many Microsoft 365 Mac apps, iCloud account integration in Outlook, and updated collaboration tools — Microsoft's new ‘Universal’ Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote apps for Mac will work on both Apple's M1 Arm silicon and Intel processors.
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
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Computerworld, The Verge, AppleInsider, Softpedia News, Laptop Mag, ZDNet, Android Headlines, and Wccftech
Tweets: @chrismessina and @alternativeto
| 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, @jsrailton, @zackwhittaker, @vijayshekhar, @tbij, @jsrailton, @razhael, @ronwyden, @jsrailton, @karlbode, and @campuscodi
| 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, MacRumors, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, iClarified, and Apple Terminal
Tweets: @appfairness and @carnage4life
| 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: @toddwalker, @dancharvey, @issielapowsky, @protocol, and @chrmanning
| 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!”| 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, 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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CNET, Financial Times, Finextra, New York Post, Cointelegraph, Crowdfund Insider, and CoinDesk
Tweets: @davidgerard, @michaelsantoli, @timsteno, and @jeffjohnroberts
| Matt Marshall / VentureBeat: |
Vercel, which provides a platform to build front-end applications using open source Next.js, raises $40M Series B led by GV, bringing its total raised to $61M — Vercel, which provides a platform for building front-end applications, today announced an additional $40 million in series B funding …
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Vercel News, Crunchbase News, and DevOps.com
| Alex Heath / The Information: |
Sources: Facebook is building a tool within Marketplace that lets users find and book services like home repairs, competing with Fiverr, TaskRabbit, and others — Facebook is planning to let its users find and book services through its app, a move that could position the social media giant … | William Boston / Wall Street Journal: |
Germany says it will permit the use of Huawei's 5G tech after receiving assurances from the company about its safety, pending parliamentary approval — New network-security legislation is latest rebuke to U.S. effort to rein in Chinese tech giant — BERLIN—The German government …
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