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Sources: while Trump was in office, the Trump Org negotiated a 40% stake in Parler in exchange for making it his main social network; the deal never finalized — Documents seen by BuzzFeed News show that Parler offered Trump 40% of the company if he posted exclusively to the platform.
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| Emily Birnbaum / Protocol: |
Democratic senators' SAFE TECH Act will strip Section 230 immunity for any ads or posts violating civil rights, antitrust, cyberstalking, human rights laws — Three top Democratic senators added to the stack of proposed Section 230 reforms Friday, introducing their own bill …
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Democrats' Sec. 230 bill is a dumpster fire of cluelessness that effectively wipes out protections for the entire internet while pretending it's a minor change — For the past few months we've been seeing a ton of terrible/ridiculous/awful/unconstitutio nal bills coming from mostly Republicans …
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| Ashley Gold / Axios: |
Microsoft suspends contributions for the rest of the 2022 election cycle to all members of Congress who voted to object to the presidential election results — Microsoft announced Friday it will suspend contributions for the rest of the 2022 election cycle to all members of Congress who voted …
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Draft bill in Nevada to establish “Innovation Zones” would let tech companies with large areas of land form governments with the same authority as counties — CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Planned legislation to establish new business areas in Nevada would allow technology companies …
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Leaked cellphone data from the siege at the Capitol demonstrates how advertising IDs can be used to identify and track the movement of specific individuals — Times Opinion was able to identify individuals from a trove of leaked smartphone location data. — Mr. Warzel and Mr. Thompson are writers in Opinion.
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| Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
Medical records “in the tens of thousands” from two U.S. hospitals have been published on the dark web, including diagnoses and other personal identifying info — Hackers have published extensive patient information from two U.S. hospital chains in an apparent attempt to extort them for money.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Myanmar's new military government orders local telecom operators and ISPs to block Twitter and Instagram, days after imposing a similar blackout on Facebook — Updated at 1.46AM PT February 6: Telenor says Myanmar Ministry of Transport and Communications (MoTC) has directed all mobile operators …
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| Ben Gilbert / Insider: |
Mark Zuckerberg made a surprise appearance on Clubhouse on Thursday, discussing VR, AR, Facebook's Reality Labs group, and remote work — - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared on a Clubhouse talk show on Thursday evening. — Zuckerberg appeared on The Good Times Show, a talk show on the buzzy new social networking app.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Google says it paid $6.7M in 2020, up from $6.5M in 2019, to 662 researchers from 62 countries as part of its bug bounty program — Sum is up from the $6.5 million the company paid security researchers a year before, in 2019. — Google said today it paid more than $6.7 million … | Mark Stenberg / Medialyte: |
A skeptical look at Clubhouse, where most conversations are boring and whose audio-centric, synchronous content may be far less compelling after the pandemic — I feel like I'm taking crazy pills! … Share Medialyte — Clubhouse in the dog house — On Sunday night … | Sam Shead / CNBC: |
Graphcore, which designs chips for AI applications, asks UK regulator to block Nvidia's acquisition of Arm on the grounds that it is anti-competitive — - Graphcore has objected to Nvidia's $40 billion acquisition of Arm Holdings, according to a key member of the British chipmaker's early developments
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| Arthur Holland Michel / Wired: |
A look at surveillance data fusion, which happens when thousands of disparate devices and tools become one all-seeing surveillance platform — Security cameras. License plate readers. Smartphone trackers. Drones. We're being watched 24/7. What happens when all those data streams fuse into one?
Tweets: @torproject, @wired, @gadgetlab, @wired, and @hypervisible
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC filing shows Starlink plans to offer a VoIP phone service with an optional battery backup, and discounted service via the FCC's low-income Lifeline program — SpaceX's latest petition to the FCC details some of its Starlink plans. — A new SpaceX filing outlines plans for Starlink …
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