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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Facebook says the leaked 533M records are a different data set that attackers created by abusing a flaw in a Facebook contacts import feature, not by hacking — The company's explanations have been confusing and inconsistent, but there are finally some answers.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Signal says it has added support for privacy-focused cryptocurrency MobileCoin to let users send and receive money, starting in the UK on iOS and Android — The encrypted messaging app is integrating support for MobileCoin in a bid to keep up with the features offered by its more mainstream rivals.| Jeff John Roberts / Decrypt: |
Ahead of its April 14 direct listing, Coinbase reports a record quarter, with estimated profits of $730M-$800M in Q1 on revenue of ~$1.8B and 56M verified users — Coinbase announced its 2021 first quarter earnings on Tuesday, revealing that the crypto giant made a profit of between $730 million …
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Jeff Bezos says Amazon supports a rise in the corporate tax rate and making bold investments in US infrastructure, but stops short of supporting Biden's plan — - Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Tuesday voiced support for raising the corporate tax rate but stopped short of saying he supports President Joe Biden's plan for the increase.
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Sources: Clubhouse is in talks to raise funding from investors in a round valuing the business at about $4B, following its reported valuation of ~$1B in January — Clubhouse, the buzzy audio-based social network, is in talks to raise funding from investors in a round valuing the business …
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| Maria Armental / Wall Street Journal: |
Patreon raises $155M Series F led by Tiger Global Management at a $4B valuation, up from $1.2B in September, bringing its total raised to $411M — Online company raises $155 million in latest round, led by new investor Tiger Global Management — Patreon Inc., an online platform …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
YouTube says that 18 out of every 10K views in Q4 2020 were of videos that violate its policies, down from 72 out of every 10K views in Q4 2017 — ‘Violative View Rate’ fell steeply after 2017 — YouTube wants the world to know that it's doing a better job than ever of enforcing its own moderation rules.
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| Evan Selinger / OneZero : |
Interview with researcher Luke Stark on the promises and pitfalls of emotion-sensing AI, and social media's attempt to translate emotive expression into data — A conversation with the professor who just turned down a $60,000 grant from Google — Emotion A.I., affective computing … | Bloomberg: |
BitMEX cofounder Arthur Hayes turns himself in to US authorities six months after BitMEX was accused of trying to avoid implementing money laundering controls — - Hayes and his co-founders are accused of flouting banking laws — BitMEX was a pioneer in opening crypto to smaller investors
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| Pranob Mehrotra / XDA Developers: |
New software update for the Google Pixel lineup reportedly dramatically boosts Pixel 5's GPU performance, which had been poor for a Snapdragon 765G-based phone — The latest software update for the Google Pixel lineup recently started rolling out to users.
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Report: employees at 1,803 public agencies in the US used Clearview AI for ~340K facial recognition searches without informing the public or their departments — A controversial facial recognition tool designed for policing has been quietly deployed across the country with little to no public oversight.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Grab is set to go public in the US through a SPAC merger that will value it at ~$35B, as soon as this week — Deal with Altimeter Capital's blank-cheque vehicle will value technology start-up at $35bn — Grab, south-east Asia's most valuable start-up, is set for the largest merger between … | Alnoor Peermohamed / The Economic Times: |
API Holdings, the parent company of Indian online pharmacy Pharmeasy, raises $350M; sources say the deal gives Pharmeasy a post-money valuation of $1.5B — Bengaluru: Prosus Ventures and US-based private equity firm TPG Capital are leading an investment of $350 million (about Rs 2,570 crore) …
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| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
A first person narrative on the persistence of digital memories and how social media and photo apps that surface old photos make painful memories hard to forget — In 2019, I made a painful decision. But to the algorithms that drive Facebook, Pinterest, and a million other apps, I'm forever getting married.
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512 Pixels, Pixel Envy, and The Verge
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| Amplifi Media: |
Apple podcast data indicates that there are 2M podcasts, but of those, 26% only have one episode, 44% have three or fewer, and only 36% have 10+ episodes — Today's post breaks down the numbers of how many podcasts you're actually up against. — It seems everyone has a podcast. Or do they?
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple launches an app for enterprises to test devices that work with Apple's Find My network, ahead of its expected launch of its own new AirTags accessory — Apple has launched a new app, Find My Certification Asst., designed for use by MFi (Made for iPhone) Licensees …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Google open sources Lyra in beta, an audio codec that uses ML to create high-quality voice calls for low-bandwidth networks or archiving large amounts of speech — Google today open-sourced Lyra in beta, an audio codec that uses machine learning to produce high-quality voice calls.
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| Washington Post: |
Rhett Lindsey, a former Facebook recruiter, and other Black employees involved in hiring, describe a problematic hiring process that hinders diversity goals — The recruiter quit after 11 months, adding fuel to claims that it discriminates against Black applicants
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| Aamir Siddiqui / XDA Developers: |
Google announces the Android Open Source Project now supports Rust for developing the OS itself, providing more memory safety guarantees than C and C++ — Android as a complete OS solution involves a lot of moving parts. Very broadly speaking, these parts are the app ecosystem and then the OS itself.
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| Parmy Olson / Wall Street Journal: |
UK launches the Digital Markets Unit, a watchdog with limited powers, initially tasked with stopping big tech companies from exploiting market dominance — Digital Markets Unit to police how largest global technology firms wield their market power — LONDON—The U.K. launched … Sponsor Posts
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