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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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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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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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| David Pierce / Protocol: |
Slack launches Connect DMs, an opt-in feature letting users direct message any other Slack user regardless of their organizations — Forget email. The final frontier for Slack, as it tries to reimagine the way millions of people communicate at work, is the text message. — Email is a useful tool, but a blunt one.
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Johana Bhuiyan / Los Angeles Times: |
A look at 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.”| 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: @pardesoteric, @caitlin__kelly, @wired, and @laurengoode
| 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.| 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 …
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| 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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| 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 … | 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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| 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 …
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TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, Road to VR, VRFocus, Gamasutra, and GamesIndustry.biz. Thanks:@taylor_soper
| 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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Tweets: @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @martinsfp, @heygleb, @brianroemmele, and @scottmelker
| Karin Matussek / Bloomberg: |
Facebook's challenge to German antitrust scrutiny of its ad business, which mandated an overhaul in 2019, will head to EU's top court — - Dusseldorf court asks ECJ to weigh in on scope of data rules — Social network is fighting German antitrust attack on ad model
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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 … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Bevy, which helps enterprises stage virtual and hybrid events, raises $40M at a $325M valuation, from investors including 25 Black leaders — Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. — Bevy has raised $40 million at a $325 million valuation …
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| Uri Berkovitz / Globes Online: |
Wiz, which helps companies identify cybersecurity threats across their cloud networks, raises $130M at a $1.7B valuation, after raising $100M in December 2020 — The Israeli company, which simplifies cloud security, raised $100 million just four months ago.| 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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Fortune. Tweets: @jessicalessin, @joannelipman, @emmajune, @rightsxtech, @nilofer, @sesmith, @sososoohoo, @janicemin, @logophilicmind, @erikashimizu, and @janicemin
| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Voter registration info of ~6.5M Israeli citizens and detailed personal info for ~3.2M was leaked online on Monday, two days before elections for its parliament — The voter registration and personal details of millions of Israeli citizens were leaked online on Monday … | Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
A look at Sky Bet, the UK's most popular gambling app, which collects extensive player data, critics say to keep users hooked rather than identify addictions — Sky Bet, the most popular one in Britain, compiled extensive records about a user, tracking him in ways he never imagined.
Tweets: @satariano, @sherman4949, @nytimesbusiness, @nytimesbusiness, and @cademetz
| 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.| 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 …
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