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A Florida teen who hacked well-known Twitter accounts last summer and used them to ask for BTC, netting $100K+, was sentenced to three years in a plea deal — Graham Ivan Clark, 18, agreed to plea guilty to fraud charges for a hack of several Twitter accounts last summer.
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| Sohee Kim / Bloomberg: |
Samsung says it is considering skipping launch of a new Note this year to streamline its line-up and warns of a “serious imbalance” in semiconductors globally — - It's seeing a ‘serious imbalance’ in global semiconductors — The warning suggests shortages may spread beyond autos
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| Dara Khosrowshahi / London Evening Standard: |
Uber's thinking on UK driver rights has evolved and worker flexibility “should not come at the expense of social protections” — T — hree weeks after I became CEO of Uber in 2017, our licence to operate in London was revoked. It was not how I expected to start my new job …
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| CNBC: |
SEC filing: Uber will reclassify its UK drivers as “workers”, granting them vacation pay, minimum wage, and pension plan access, but not full employee benefits — - Uber will reclassify all U.K.-based drivers as workers. — Under the new designation, more than 70,000 drivers … | Noam Cohen / Wired: |
Wikimedia Foundation debuts Wikimedia Enterprise, a premium service for delivering Wikipedia content to companies like Google, but a free option will remain — The Big Four all lean on the encyclopedia at no cost. With the launch of Wikimedia Enterprise, the volunteer project will change that—and possibly itself, too.
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| Bloomberg: |
A profile of Clubhouse co-founder Paul Davison, who previously had built social apps like Highlight and Shorts that nudged people to share more by default — “He's got more momentum than force,” says a former colleague. “Paul is just always moving forward.”
Tweets: @business, @dearsarah, @dearsarah, @ellenhuet, and @hkanji
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Squarespace raises $300M in a round valuing it at $10B, two months after it filed confidentially to go public via a direct listing or an IPO — Squarespace has raised $300 million in a round of funding that values the company at a staggering $10 billion valuation.
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Facebook says it will publish an annual report detailing its impact on human rights, and will establish a fund to support human rights activists and journalists — - Social media giant to give board formal updates on the issue — Company has been criticized for role in Myanmar, Sri Lanka
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| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
France says Apple's upcoming IDFA ad privacy changes are not abusive but will investigate if Apple has stricter rules for third-party apps than for its own apps — French competition authority says Apple's changes 'don't appear to be abusive' — France's competition regulator rejected …
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Facebook's interest in newsletters stems from its shift in product development to focus on private messaging and Groups, not the News Feed — Hint: it's all about Groups. PLUS: Substack fumbles — Today let's talk about platforms' growing interest in building newsletter tools …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Coalition, which offers security tools and cybersecurity insurance against data breaches, raises $175M led by Index Ventures — Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. — Coalition, an enterprise-grade cybersecurity platform that specializes in insurance …
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| Danny Palmer / ZDNet: |
McAfee researchers detail a Chinese cyberespionage campaign targeting at least 23 telcos in the US, Europe, and SE Asia to steal data, including for 5G tech — Cybersecurity researchers at McAfee detail an ongoing cyber espionage campaign which is targeting telecoms companies around the world.
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Tweets: @mcafee_labs, @mcafee, @mcafee_labs, and @dannyjpalmer
| Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
Apple says it has generated 1.2 GW of clean energy and removed an average of 921K metric tons of carbon emissions annually, as part of its $4.7B Green Bond — In a press release today, Apple touted the significant progress it has made as part of its $4.7 billion Green Bond.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Incredibuild, a developer of grid computing software, raises $140M from Insight Partners, and says it has seen a 55% increase in revenue over the past year — Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. — Incredibuild, a developer …
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| Billy Tallis / AnandTech: |
Micron says it is ceasing all R&D on its 3D XPoint memory, which it developed with Intel, and has listed its fab in Lehi, Utah for sale — In a sudden but perhaps not too surprising announcement, Micron has stated that they are ceasing all R&D of 3D XPoint memory technology.
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Sensor Tower: if a 15% commission was in place in 2020, Apple would have missed out on an estimated $595M, or 2.7%, and Google $587M, or 5%, in app store fees — - Apple and Google have announced changes to app store fees that impact app makers making less than $1 million per year.
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Stripe's Patrick Collison, Microsoft's Brad Smith, Google's Thomas Kurian, and Cloudflare's Matthew Prince discuss moderation in internet infrastructure — It was Patrick Collison, Stripe's CEO, who pointed out to me that one of the animating principles of early 20th-century Progressivism …
Tweets: @stratechery, @tomgara, @mathewi, @mattzeitlin, @seanrose, @marklittlenews, @sarthakgh, @alecstapp, and @scottew
| Cade Metz / Wired: |
A book excerpt provides a look at how Google edged out Baidu, Microsoft, and DeepMind to acquire DNNresearch, which was founded by AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton — How the shape of deep learning—and the fate of the tech industry—went up for sale in Harrah's Room 731, on the shores of Lake Tahoe.
Tweets: @pmddomingos, @hardmaru, @wired, and @ankurhandos
| The Verge: |
A group of 15 AGs update their antitrust complaint against Google, taking aim at Chrome's Privacy Sandbox and other privacy updates related to ad targeting — ‘Google is trying to hide its true intentions behind a pretext of privacy,’ say prosecutors — State antitrust watchdogs …
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Politico, SlashGear, The Register, MSPoweruser, Techdirt, The Hill, Engadget, and Reuters
Tweets: @jason_kint, @johnwilander, @autumncapital, and @wbm312
| Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg: |
France's data protection watchdog says it has opened a probe into Clubhouse to assess whether EU's GDPR applies to the app — - Probe aims to confirm whether GDPR applies to Clubhouse — German regulator also looking at how app protects user privacy| Keith Zhai / Wall Street Journal: |
Pinduoduo's founder and chairman has stepped down; its 788.4M annual active buyers in 2020 exceeded Alibaba's 779M, making it China's largest e-commerce company — Mr. Huang's departure comes as Pinduoduo overtakes Alibaba as China's biggest e-commerce company| William Turton / Bloomberg: |
Leaked audio from a February 8 meeting reveals Parler's chief policy officer saying: “We are not going after misinformation in any way” — Leaked recordings of meetings detail role of Rebekah Mercer at social-media platform — Conservative donor Rebekah Mercer has been writing checks …
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