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Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says it will spend $20B on two fabs in Chandler, Arizona and will reconfigure its external Foundry Services to serve new chip customers — The new CEO of Intel, Pat Gelsinger, has today outlined his vision for Intel over the coming years.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
During an event announcing Intel Foundry Services, CEO Pat Gelsinger said it would pursue Apple as a client; Apple currently relies on TSMC as its sole supplier — Apple in November started releasing Macs with Apple-designed M1 chips, and the Apple silicon technology will eventually replace … | Axios: |
Ahead of House hearing, Mark Zuckerberg calls for Section 230 reform that makes protections conditional on platforms' ability to identify and remove content — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will tell lawmakers his plan for “thoughtful reform” of a key tech liability shield rests …
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
House committee releases testimony from Twitter's Dorsey and Google's Pichai, outlining stances on fighting misinformation, changing Section 230, and more — - The CEOs of Facebook, Google and Twitter will again face Congress on Thursday to discuss misinformation and defend the liability shield that helped establish the industry.
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| David Pierce / Protocol: |
Slack launches Connect DMs, letting users DM any other Slack user regardless of their organizations, making it a full-on messaging app — Forget email. The final frontier for Slack, as it tries to reimagine the way millions of people communicate at work, is the text message.
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| Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE: |
Medium offers buyouts to everyone on its editorial staff, as it shifts focus from its own publications to supporting independent writers on its platform — After what workers describe as a successful union-busting campaign, Ev Williams has announced to journalists who work for him that they should feel free to go.
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Tencent founder Pony Ma confirms he met with Chinese antitrust regulators this month to discuss compliance, a sign China's antitrust crackdown is spreading — (Reuters) - Pony Ma, the founder of Tencent Holdings, China's biggest social media and video games company, met with antitrust watchdog officials … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Hundreds of free software advocates sign open letter seeking removal of Richard Stallman and entire FSF board saying he “has no place” in their community — Open letter signed by hundreds: RMS “has no place” in free software community. — Richard Stallman's return …
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| Jim Salter / Ars Technica: |
Firefox 87 launches with Smart Block feature, which improves the rendering of pages when blocking third-party tracking scripts by using local “stand-in” scripts — An improved referrer policy also trims URLs from embedded images and scripts. — Mozilla released Firefox 87 …
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| Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
Despite easing of restrictions starting Wednesday, several of SV's largest tech companies, including Twitter and Google, will keep their offices largely closed — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Several of San Francisco Bay Area's largest technology companies including Twitter Inc and Google plan … | Paul Vigna / Wall Street Journal: |
Blockchain.com, which provides cryptocurrency services to retail and institutional clients, raises $300M at a $5.2B valuation — The investment round gave the company a $5.2 billion valuation — Blockchain.com, a London-based firm that provides a variety of cryptocurrency services to retail …
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| Janice Min / TIME: |
Former Pinterest COO Françoise Brougher and two former employees, Ifeoma Ozoma and Aerica Shimizu Banks, reflect on sexism and racism at the company — The day Françoise Brougher was fired from Pinterest began like so many of her workdays. It was April 2, 2020 …
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| Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
Seattle-based social gaming startup Rec Room raises $100M led by Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures at a $1.25B valuation, bringing its total raised to $149M — Seattle-based Rec Room has raised $100 million in new funding. The game development startup is now valued at $1.25 billion … | Liana Baker / Bloomberg: |
Online used car marketplace ACV Auctions prices its Nasdaq IPO at $25 per share, raising $414M and valuing the company at $3.9B — Shareholders of used car online auction company ACV Auctions Inc. raised $414 million in an initial public offering priced above its marketed range.| Sam Shead / CNBC: |
Elon Musk says people can now buy a Tesla with bitcoin in the US and later this year outside the US — - The automaker last month revealed that it had bought $1.5 billion worth of bitcoin. — People outside the U.S. will be able to buy a Tesla with bitcoin “later this year.”
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| Avaaz: |
Study of US election misinfo shows Facebook could have prevented 10.1B views from Pages that spread misinfo; these Pages saw interactions rise 3x YoY — How Facebook Failed Voters and Nearly Set Democracy Aflame — Section One - From Election to Insurrection: How Facebook Failed American Voters
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| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
Leaked moderator docs say Facebook users may call for death of public figures, so long as the individual is not tagged or “purposefully exposed” to such calls — Exclusive: public figures considered to be permissible targets for otherwise-banned abuse, leaked moderator guidelines show
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| Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: |
Amazon is forcing delivery drivers to sign a “biometric consent” form that lets Amazon use AI-powered cameras in its efforts to detect distracted driving — The new cameras, which are being implemented nationwide, use artificial intelligence to access drivers' location, movement, and biometric data.
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Neighbor, which operates a peer-to-peer self-storage marketplace, raises $53M Series B led by Fifth Wall — Neighbor, which operates a self-storage marketplace, announced Wednesday that it has raised $53 million in a Series B round of funding. — Fifth Wall led the financing … | Kellen Browning / New York Times: |
Dozens of Coinbase users share stories of basic customer service support failures, most related to account takeovers or suddenly being barred from accounts — As Coinbase prepares to be the first major cryptocurrency company to go public, it is struggling with basic customer service, users said.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India's antitrust body orders a probe into WhatsApp's privacy policy changes, saying the app contravened laws through “exploitative and exclusionary” conduct — WhatsApp's planned policy changes aren't sailing smoothly in India, the instant messaging service's biggest market by users.| Taylor Lyles / The Verge: |
Amazon says it is opening a new game studio in Montreal, which will create original AAA games, and the studio will be led by the creators of Rainbow Six Siege — It's Amazon's fourth studio — Amazon is illustrating its commitment to game development with a new studio opening … | Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Satya Nadella predicts the next decade will be defined by people sharing their own content in groups, as Microsoft reportedly considers acquiring Discord — Talks with Discord, Pinterest line up with Nadella's strategy of adding engaged communities — Microsoft Corp.'s latest takeover targets … | Bloomberg: |
Xiaomi reports Q4 revenue of ~$10.8B, up 25% YoY, and net income of ~$491M, up 37% YoY and beating estimates, as smartphone shipments grew 32% YoY — - Share of China's smartphone market climbed to nearly 15% in 4Q — President of international operations Chew Shou Zi resigns
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| Allison Schiff / AdExchanger: |
Google says FLoC, its tool for advertisers to perform behavioral targeting, might not be compatible with GDPR and hence is stopping its testing in Europe — Google will not make FLoC-based cohorts available for testing in countries where GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive are in effect.Sponsor Posts
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