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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Internal documents show Facebook is struggling to attract US users under the age of 30, with US teenage users of the Facebook app declining by 13% since 2019 — The world's largest social network is internally grappling with an existential crisis: an aging user base
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| Leah Nylen / Politico: |
Internal Facebook docs: employees touted its scale and dominance in presentations, including showing 78% of US adults and nearly all US teens use its services — Documents collected by whistleblower Frances Haugen could give the company “a lot to regret” in its fights to prove it's not a monopoly.| Alexandra S. Levine / Politico: |
Internal documents show Facebook had no clear playbook for handling the dangerous content delegitimizing the US elections ahead of the January 6 riots — Facebook's rules left giant holes for U.S. election falsehoods to metastasize. On the day of the Capitol riot, employees began pulling levers to try to stave off the peril.
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| Emily Birnbaum / Politico: |
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| Washington Post: |
Sources detail Zuckerberg's decisions to put growth over safety, like to ban anti-state posts in Vietnam and to halt a WhatsApp US voting info center in Spanish — Late last year, Mark Zuckerberg faced a choice: Comply with demands from Vietnam's ruling Communist Party to censor anti-government dissidents …
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| Associated Press: |
Facebook docs detail issues with moderating non-English speech, leading to inflammatory language in Afghanistan, bans on common words in Palestine, and more — DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — As the Gaza war raged and tensions surged across the Middle East last May …
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| Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: |
Apple M1 Pro and Max review: CPU and GPU improvements offer an unparalleled combination of raw performance, unique acceleration, and power efficiency — Last week, Apple had unveiled their new generation MacBook Pro laptop series, a new range of flagship devices that bring with them significant updates …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
MacBook Pro (2021) hands-on: bringing back ports and removing the Touch Bar is welcome, mini-LED display looks great, and the 1080p webcam is an improvement — New chips, familiar ports, and actual volume buttons — it might be love — It's easy to be excited about the new MacBook Pros …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft says Russia-backed Nobelium, behind the 2020 SolarWinds hack, is still targeting the global IT supply chain with 14 providers breached since May 2021 — Microsoft says the Russian-backed Nobelium threat group behind last year's SolarWinds hack is still targeting the global IT supply chain …
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Internal docs reveal farewell posts of some Facebook employees disillusioned with a company unwilling or unable to change — The “badge posts” of the company's former researchers offer the parting thoughts of the disillusioned. — The Facebook Papers — “Hi, all,” reads a note …
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| Gilad Edelman / Wired: |
Leaked docs detail staff's suggestions to solve Facebook's problems: deprioritize engagement, reduce AI reliance, and focus on safety in developing countries — Internal research documents provide a blueprint for solving the company's biggest problems. — The Facebook Papers
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| Facebook: |
Facebook reports Q3 revenue up 35% YoY to $29.0B, profit of $9.2B, up 17% YoY, DAUs up 6% to 1.93B, headcount up 20% to 68,177, and ups share buybacks by $50B — Third Quarter 2021 Operational and Other Financial Highlights 1 Facebook daily active users (DAUs) - DAUs were 1.93 billion …
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
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| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Pixel 6 Pro review: an impressive flagship with excellent cameras, all day battery, and charging speeds up to 30W, but fingerprint sensor is “not super quick” — 2016 marked a major year for Google, with the launch of Assistant and its first self-made smartphone, the Google Pixel.| Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo: |
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Internal docs: Facebook tested hiding the Like button to alleviate stress and anxiety, which didn't work and caused users to interact with and share fewer posts — Likes and shares made the social media site what it is. Now, company documents show, it's struggling to deal with their effects.
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Bloomberg and TechCrunch
Tweets: @miriamelder, @ceciliakang, @nytimes, @anildash, @justinhendrix, @nytimes, @mikeisaac, and @nytimes. Thanks:@thekenyeung
| Jennifer Surane / Bloomberg: |
Mastercard partners with Bakkt to let banks offer cryptocurrency rewards on credit and debit card purchases; Bakkt's stock closes at $30.60, up 234.43% — Mastercard Inc. is making it easier for banks to offer cryptocurrency rewards on their credit and debit cards as part of the payment network's recent embrace of digital currencies.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
AirPods (third-gen) review: less conspicuous design, IPX4 water resistance, and improved sound quality, but spatial audio is inconsistent and no ANC — The new regular AirPods get a lot right even before the gimmicky spatial audio part — For the first time since their introduction in 2016 …
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9to5Mac, TechCrunch, CNET, Engadget, Gizmodo, iThinkDifferent, Laptop Mag, CNBC, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Pocket-lint, CNET, Input, 9to5Mac, YouTube, Cult of Mac, MobileSyrup, PCMag, MacRumors, Wall Street Journal, iPhone Hacks, and PCMag. Tweets: @chriswelch
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple releases iOS 15.1 and iPadOS 15.1 with SharePlay, iPhone 13 ProRes video capture, a toggle for automatic macro mode, vaccine cards in Wallet, and more — Apple today released iOS and iPadOS 15.1, the first major updates to the iOS 15 operating system that was released …
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| Crystal Tse / Bloomberg: |
Thrasio, which aggregates third-party sellers on Amazon, raises $1B+ led by Silver Lake, source says at a $5B+ valuation — Thrasio Holdings Inc., an aggregator of Amazon.com Inc. products, has raised more than $1 billion in a private funding round led by technology investor Silver Lake.
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PYMNTS.com, Fast Company, and TechCrunch
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Teachmint, which helps teachers create their own virtual classrooms using their phones, raises a $78M Series B co-led by Rocketship.vc and Vulcan Capital — As scores of Indian startups populate their catalogs with live and recorded courses to reach and serve students in the world's second …
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FinSMEs, Entrackr, Moneycontrol, The Economic Times, DealStreetAsia, and Tech in Asia
| Ben Smith / New York Times: |
How Frances Haugen maximized the impact of her leaked Facebook documents, rolling them out first to WSJ and then broadening to a large group of outlets — In a time of mega-leaks, journalists' sources have become power players. Frances Haugen, the former Facebook executive who shared company documents …
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