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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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| Wall Street Journal: |
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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| 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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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| 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 … | 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.| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
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| 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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| 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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| 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.| 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
| 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 … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Australian regulator sues Facebook for allegedly using its Onavo VPN app to spy on users for commercial purposes in 2016 and 2017 — Yet more trouble brewing for Facebook: Australia's Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is suing the tech giant over its use, in 2016 and 2017 …
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| 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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| 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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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
| 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!”| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
E-commerce marketplace Wish falls after its public debut, dropping 8%+ to under $22 after pricing shares at $24 — - Wish is an online marketplace that features a variety of discounted goods, ranging from cheap home wares and apparel to electronics and toys.| 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
| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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