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Craig Federighi says introducing two similar features, iMessage protections for children and CSAM scanning of iCloud photos, at the same time caused confusion — Facing criticism about eroding privacy on the iPhone, Apple's Craig Federighi says new tools aimed at best ensuring privacy while fighting illegal images
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Disney+ beats Q3 subscriber estimates, reaching 116M subscribers vs. 114.5M expected; ESPN+ subscribers rose 75% YoY to 14.9M, Hulu grew 21% YoY to 42.8M — Disney's streaming service is seeing improved growth, after initially seeing slower numbers of subscriber additions in Q2 as Covid lockdowns and mask mandates came to an end.
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Divvy Homes, which buys homes on behalf of renters and helps them become owners, raises $200M at a $2B valuation, co-led by Tiger Global and Caffeinated Capital — - San Francisco company seeks to enable renters to own homes — Caffeinated Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, GIC also invested| Reuters: |
Poly Network offers a $500K “bug bounty” to the hacker who returned $340M+ in assets and placed the rest in a wallet jointly controlled by the hacker and Poly — Poly Network, the cryptocurrency platform which lost $610 million in a hack earlier this week, confirmed on Friday …
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Researchers at Berlin-based AlgorithmWatch say they abandoned their research project monitoring the Instagram algorithm after legal threats from Facebook — A chilling echo of NYU ad observatory issues — Researchers at AlgorithmWatch say they were forced to abandon their research project monitoring … | Henry Ward / Medium: |
Equity management software company Carta raises $500M Series G led by Silver Lake at a valuation of $7.4B — Carta raised a $500M Series G, valuing the company at $7.4B. The round was led by Silver Lake. Of our eight rounds of capital raised, this was the largest and also the simplest.
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Nvidia says part of its April keynote was led by a virtual replica of CEO Jensen Huang, created by scanning Huang and then training an AI to mimic his gestures — Nvidia pulled off a stunt to promote and showcase its latest technology by digitizing its CEO Jensen Huang in a conference keynote.| Hirsh Chitkara / Protocol: |
Illustrators say Corporate Memphis, an art aesthetic synonymous with tech marketing, has stuck around because execs continue to overlook the value of their work — You may not have heard of “Corporate Memphis,” but you've almost certainly seen it. The illustration style can be found …
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Reddit is quietly rolling out a TikTok-like video feed button on iOS — From Instagram's Reels to Snapchat's Spotlight, most social media platforms are looking toward the TikTok boom for inspiration. Now, even Reddit, a discussion-based forum, is making short-form video more pronounced on its iOS app.| Rory Smith / New York Times: |
How soccer industry database Transfermarkt arrives at its highly influential player valuations, even as its data is crowdsourced from volunteers and staff — Soccer takes the player valuations posted on the website Transfermarkt extremely seriously. It has never really stopped to ask where they come from.
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A look at community NFT projects like Pudgy Penguins, which have become a new kind of financial and social status symbol on the internet — Is this what the metaverse looks like? — Earlier this week, I got attacked by penguins. — Not real ones, mind you.| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Ualá, which offers a finance management app in Argentina, raises $350 Series D led by SoftBank Latin America Fund and Tencent, at a $2.45B valuation — The dollars keep flowing into Latin America. — Today, Argentine personal finance management app Ualá announced …
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UK's CMA says it has provisionally found that Facebook's Giphy acquisition could negatively impact competition, such as by denying competitors access to GIFs — The merger of social media giant Facebook and Giphy, the largest provider of GIFs, has run into a roadblock from the U.K.'s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).
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