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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Interviews with 14 current and former Medium employees portray a dysfunctional company; Medium started 2021 with 700K paid subs, on track for $35M+ in revenue — I. — Last week, a partnerships manager at Medium working with the White House found that there was a strange problem with the platform …
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says it has disrupted a network of China-based hackers using its platform to target the Uyghur community abroad and draw them to malicious websites — Facebook on Wednesday announced new actions to disrupt a network of China-based hackers leveraging the platform to compromise targets in the Uyghur community.
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| 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: |
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Analysis of Intel's Foundry Services event: a transparent and clarifying keynote outlining a bold plan to overcome Intel's problems by using its strengths — Three notes about today's update: — First, the Intel keynote I'm going to write about, along with the analyst Q&A session that followed …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
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| Dr. Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
| David Pierce / Protocol: |
Slack debuts Connect, letting users DM any Slack user regardless of organization, and has updated its opt-in invite flow after feedback that it could be abused — 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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Tweets: @44, @pierce, @lorenzofb, @klonick, @nickstatt, @44, @kevincollier, @mpgphd, @emilygorcenski, @dixie3flatline, @beesmygod_, @codingo_, @wiczipedia, @edmundlee, @alfredwkng, @boop, @jamesrbuk, @jason, @ashleymayer, @racheltobac, @mollywood, @zackwhittaker, @jacobwolf, @hillelogram, @nickstatt, @aliciakennedy, @ow, @ericlevitz, @nymag, @ct_bergstrom, @carnage4life, @millie, @0xabad1dea, @byrontau, @anildash, @zackwhittaker, @gregotto, @papapishu, @timmarchman, @tomnamako, @rynchantress, and @amywestervelt
| The Markup: |
Analysis of vaccine appointment sites for every US state, Puerto Rico, and DC shows some have issues maintaining users' privacy, loading on mobile devices, more — The results, measuring accessibility and privacy protections, were not always great — Christine Meyer, a Pennsylvania doctor …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Report: Apple updates factory guidelines to prevent leaks, including criminal background checks on workers, surveillance cameras, and component tracking — Apple has made several changes to its factory security guidelines to help prevent leaks, according to a new report from The Information.
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| Johana Bhuiyan / Los Angeles Times: |
How Google handles user data requests from DHS, ICE, and other agencies, often giving users little time to obtain a court order quashing the request — You're scrolling through your Gmail inbox and see an email with a strange subject line: A string of numbers followed by “Notification from Google.”
Tweets: @aaschapiro, @conmijente, @latimes, @jmbooyah, @zackwhittaker, @jason_kint, @jmbooyah, @latimes, and @jmbooyah
| Craig Chapple / Sensor Tower Blog: |
Freemium mobile game Genshin Impact becomes the fastest title to reach $1B in player spending on the App Store and Google Play worldwide, in just under 6 months — The mobile version of Genshin Impact from miHoYo has surpassed $1 billion in player spending in less than six months following …
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Twinfinite, Destructoid, Wccftech, PC Gamer, Kotaku, Game Rant, and Kotaku Australia. Tweets: @sensortower
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Cloud infrastructure service DigitalOcean closed 10% down at $42.50 in its market debut, after pricing shares at $47, valuing the company at $4.48B — - DigitalOcean raised $775 million in its initial public offering. — Unlike larger cloud rivals, the company hasn't built … | Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: |
A look at Remember the Internet, a series of pocket-sized books dedicated to immortalizing subcultures and combating the ephemerality of being online — How do we memorialize life online when it's constantly disappearing? — For many of us, for better or for worse, the internet is home.| Arielle Pardes / Wired: |
Interviews with low-wage contract workers at Silicon Valley campuses show the existential threat to livelihoods from longterm COVID-19 closures — As tech campuses became ghost towns, the people who kept them running—cooks, custodians, drivers—faced an existential threat to their livelihoods.
Tweets: @willknight, @pardesoteric, @caitlin__kelly, @wired, and @laurengoode
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Arizona Senate skips vote on bill HB2005, which would have forced Apple and Google to let apps in their app stores use alternative in-app payment systems — The bill went poof — The Arizona State Senate was scheduled to vote an unprecedented and controversial bill on Wednesday …
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ZDNet, CNET, AppleInsider, iMore, and MLex Market Insight
Tweets: @dhh, @azhousegop, @nickstatt, @lukemiani, @dhh, @backlon, @matthewstoller, @timsweeneyepic, and @dhh
| Reuters: |
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 …
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Financial Times, CNN, and Wall Street Journal
| Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE: |
The SEC confirms it is investigating SoftBank, according to the SEC's response to a FOIA request; SoftBank was alleged to be a “Nasdaq whale” last year — A response to a Freedom of Information request about Softbank's trading activity has revealed that the Uber and Wework investor is under investigation.
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Tweets: @bigblackjacobin, @mattdrange, and @bigblackjacobin
| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Researchers find 204 “fleeceware” apps, which charge users extortionate subscription fees after enticing them with free trials, on Play Store and App Store — Free trials can cost mobile app users thousands of dollars in the long run. — Researchers have discovered hundreds … | Washington Post: |
Analysis of content moderation at the entire stack of internet infrastructure companies, from platforms to CDNs to ISPs, and how they see their responsibilities — Moderating content isn't just something Facebook and Twitter do. There's a ‘stack’ of companies that run the Internet — and they are under pressure to act.
Tweets: @geoffreyfowler, @joshuawbaron, @evelyndouek, @karaswisher, @geoffreyfowler, and @the_iap
| Paul Tamburro / GameRevolution: |
Reddit says it has cut ties with a controversial former UK politician who it had recently hired, after 200+ subreddits, like r/Music, went private to protest — UPDATE: Reddit has now confirmed that it has fired Aimee Knight from her position with the company.| Taylor Lyles / The Verge: |
Disney+ will cost $1 more per month starting March 26, increasing to $7.99/month or $80/year, marking the first price hike for the service — The price is going up to $7.99 a month for subscribers in the US starting on March 26th — You have just two days left to lock in Disney Plus at its current price.| 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 …
Tweets: @dinabass, @gavinsbaker, and @business
| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Sydney-based Baraja, which makes a Spectrum-Scan LIDAR with no moving parts, raises $31M Series B led by Blackbird Ventures, after $32M Series A two years ago — Lidar companies across the planet are going SPAC, but Baraja isn't in a hurry to go public. The Australian lidar maker has raised … | Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Ketch raises $23M Series A to help companies automate privacy and data compliance; its founders previously started Krux, which sold to Salesforce for ~$700M — Ketch, a startup aiming to help businesses navigate the increasingly complex world of online privacy regulation and data compliance … Sponsor Posts
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