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October 27, 2021, 10:10 PM

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New York Times:
Facebook tells employees to preserve internal docs and communications related to its business since 2016, as governments and legislative bodies begin inquiries  —  Facebook has told employees to “preserve internal documents and communications since 2016” that pertain to its businesses …
Casey Newton / Platformer:
Ex-Facebook integrity member says articles on Haugen leaks are based on internal posts and comments, making it hard to assign credibility as names are redacted  —  A former integrity worker on Facebook's internal “posting culture” and why it's easy to misread the Haugen leaks
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: FTC staff are investigating whether Frances Haugen's documents show Facebook violated a 2019 privacy settlement that included a record $5B fine  —  Lawmakers want agency to determine if Facebook engaged in deceptive conduct; company says internal research is mischaracterized
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify cites Edison Research and its own internal data to claim it “recently became” the most-used podcast platform in the US and says it has 3.2M podcasts  —  In September, analysts at eMarketer predicted Spotify was poised to overtake Apple Podcasts in U.S. listenership sometime this year.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Jon Porter / The Verge:
Instagram rolls out link stickers to all users, expanding on verified and high-follower accounts  —  They can add links in Stories posts but not your feed  —  Instagram's link stickers, which let you include hyperlinks in Stories in the form of stickers, will now be available to everyone on the platform …
Zoe Schiffer / The Verge:
Internal docs show Netflix tried to minimize public backlash to the film Cuties by stopping it from appearing in some search results and recommendations  —  In September 2020, Netflix was in turmoil as the company battled its most significant PR scandal to date.
Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:
Google unveils Android 12L update focused on tablets, foldables, and Chromebooks, which tweaks big screen UI layouts, adds a taskbar, more, coming early 2022  —  Android 12L brings tablet-focused features, like a dock and dual-pane interfaces.  —  Have you heard about the new version of Android?
Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge:
Intel launches its 12th-gen Alder Lake chips, led by the flagship Core i9-12900K CPU with 16 cores for $589, shipping November 4  —  A new era for Intel begins  —  Intel's 12th Gen Alder Lake chips have finally arrived, ushering in a new era of the company's chips, lead by the flagship Core i9-12900K CPU …
Nancy Scola / New York Magazine:
Interview with FTC Chair Lina Khan on leading the agency, its regulatory failures and avoiding future missteps, Facebook, Amazon, Alphabet, and more  —  Lina Khan was an associate professor at Columbia Law, working remotely from Texas, when she found out that President Joe Biden wanted her on the Federal Trade Commission.
Aria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch:
Skyryse, which develops a flight automation operating system called FlightOS, raises a $200M Series B co-led by Fidelity and Monashee Investment Management  —  Five-year-old startup Skyryse has raised a $200 million Series B to develop FlightOS, a flight automation technology stack …
Justine Calma / The Verge:
Microsoft sets a goal to reduce data center water consumption by 95% by 2024, building on broader 2030 climate commitments  —  It's turning to new technology to cool servers without using water  —  Microsoft ramped up its commitments today to conserve water and energy in its data centers …
David McCabe / New York Times:
A look at online age verification checks being implemented by countries, including the UK, EU members, Japan, and China, and companies like Facebook and YouTube  —  To protect children online, more companies and governments are forcing users to prove how old they are.
Ed Ballard / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Stripe's carbon-removal investments, including $9M in 10 projects; nearly 9K businesses use Stripe Climate to divert some revenue to carbon-removal  —  The technology for removing billions of tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere isn't ready.  Stripe wants to speed things up.
TechCrunch:
Brazilian neobank Nubank files for a US IPO and plans to “negotiate a program of Brazilian Depositary Receipts”; Nubank raised $750M at a $30B valuation in June  —  This morning Brazilian neobank Nu, better known as Nubank, announced that it has filed to go public.
Kyle Orland / Ars Technica:
Amid harassment fallout, Blizzard says it will pause plans for next year's BlizzCon event to focus on supporting its teams and game development  —  Feb. show nixxed in favor of “supporting our teams and progressing development...”  —  Following an online-only BlizzCon earlier this year …
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
EU opens an investigation into Nvidia's planned Arm acquisition on competition grounds, the latest setback for the deal  —  Nvidia (NVDA.O) suffered a setback on Wednesday as EU antitrust regulators opened a full-scale investigation into its $54 billion bid for British chip designer ARM …
Eli Tan / CoinDesk:
QuickNode, which helps developers build blockchain apps, raises a $35M Series A led by Tiger Global, following a $5.3M seed round in May  —  The Series A follows a $5.3 million seed round earlier this year and includes participation from Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian and entrepreneur Anthony Pompliano.

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