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| Kelly Crow / Wall Street Journal: |
ConstitutionDAO, which crowdfunded over $40M, loses Sotheby's US Constitution auction to a $43.2M bid from Citadel CEO Kenneth Griffin — The 53-year-old billionaire paid $43.2 million for the historic document; he plans to lend it to a museum in Arkansas — Chicago hedge-fund billionaire …
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| Matt Burgess / Wired UK: |
DuckDuckGo launches App Tracking Protection for Android, a beta feature that blocks third-party trackers from Google and Facebook — The privacy-focused tech company's latest update promises to block invasive data collection across your whole phone. — At the end of April …
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Spread Privacy, Neowin, TechRadar, Fast Company, Reclaim The Net, KnowTechie, ExtremeTech, and Android Headlines
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| Reuters: |
Internal documents describe how Amazon's lobbying helped it kill or undermine privacy protections in more than three dozen bills across 25 US states — The governor of Virginia, Ralph Northam, speaking in 2018 after Amazon picked the state as the site of its new headquarters.
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| CoinDesk: |
Square's TBD division releases a white paper detailing tbDEX, a new decentralized protocol for exchanging digital and other assets — Payments giant Square released a white paper on Friday detailing a new decentralized protocol for exchanging digital and other assets known as tbDEX.
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@TBD54566975, tbDEX, Decrypt, Blockworks, The Block, Crypto Briefing, and Bitcoin Magazine
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Defense Department solicits bids from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle for cloud contracts; DoD canceled its $10B JEDI contract in July — - The U.S. Defense Department expects to dole out cloud contracts to multiple companies. — The new push comes after Pentagon scrapped its plans …
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Alphabet X's Everyday Robots says it now has a fleet of 100+ robot prototypes that are autonomously performing tasks like wiping tables around its offices — Plus: The man behind a famous paradox, the laws that will govern the metaverse, and a deadly swarm of scorpions. — Hi, everyone!
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Tweets: @astroteller, @stevenlevy, @theteamatx, @rustybrick, @stevenlevy, and @adamnash
| Matthew Gault / VICE: |
An artist and programmer in Australia creates The NFT Bay, a torrent website where anyone can download 15TB of NFT JPEGs — An artist and programer in Australia has uploaded 15 Terabytes of NFTs to a server. Here's the torrent for them. — Matthew Gault| Catie Keck / The Verge: |
A look at Open Connect, Netflix's in-house CDN that launched a decade ago and spans 17,000 servers across 158 countries — As hundreds of thousands of households worldwide tapped into Netflix's Squid Game last month, viewers may have taken something fairly extraordinary for granted.
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iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Google, and Slashdot
Tweets: @mikeconlow, @grady_booch, @saraislet, @sfedov, @viggy_krishnan, @wearenetflix, @ahmed, @this_hits_home, and @jake_k
| Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day: |
Thinkarete Lifestyle, cited by Facebook as Q3's most widely viewed Page in the US, seems to be a barely active drop-shipping scheme with stolen content — Read to the end for a fascinating thread about why music sucks now — Unmasking The Most Viral Page On Facebook
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The Markup. Tweets: @llegrarosenberg, @broderick, @caseynewton, @imbadatlife, @corintxt, and @juliaangwin
| Andy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle: |
As GameCube turns 20 in North America, former Nintendo employees share their memories of the failed console, including the decision to make it purple — ENGINEERS, MARKETING BOSSES AND GAME DEVELOPERS SHARE THEIR MEMORIES OF NINTENDO'S BOLD PURPLE BOX — Until the Wii U claimed …
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Tweets: @baseddrworm, @andyplaytonic, and @limitedrunjames
| Tim Starks / CyberScoop: |
US regulators approve a rule requiring banks to report cyberattacks that disrupt operations or impact the US financial system within 36 hours, starting May 2022 — Banks must report major cybersecurity incidents to federal officials within 36 hours under a rule that U.S. financial regulators finalized on Thursday.| Michelle F Davis / Bloomberg: |
Benchling, which makes cloud-based software to manage biotech R&D, raises a $100M Series F at a $6.1B valuation; Benchling was last valued at $4B in April — - New investor Franklin Templeton leads round with Altimeter — Companies using firm's software include Regeneron, Eli Lilly
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PR Newswire, ENDPOINTS NEWS, FierceBiotech, Reuters, and hitconsultant.net
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| David McCabe / New York Times: |
Google questions whether DOJ's new top antitrust official Jonathan Kanter can be impartial, citing his work with Yelp and the News Media Alliance — Google asked the Justice Department on Friday to investigate whether its new top antitrust official, who has represented Google rivals … | Shannon Bond / NPR: |
Meta says it's looking at how users from marginalized communities experience its products and releases a paper on changes to how it uses US demographic data — The parent company of Facebook and Instagram is looking into whether its platforms treat users differently based on race …
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BBC, Meta, Meta, Engadget, Meta, Meta, and Observer
Tweets: @rachelblevinson, @raustin_jr, @jesselehrich, @metanewsroom, @adl, @blackamazon, @kat__stafford, @prflaw, @aaronkbr, @spenceroverton, and @matt_cagle
| Gilad Edelman / Wired: |
Q&A with Integrity Institute's Jeff Allen on how Facebook's algorithm gives preference to engagement baiting, and how to address that from a design perspective — Jeff Allen, cofounder of the Integrity Institute and a former data scientist at Facebook, says social media companies need missions beyond “giving everyone a voice.”| Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: |
A writer created a nonpartisan Facebook account to test the app's algorithm for extreme content, but ended up being shown low-quality, clickbait posts — In 2019, a researcher at Facebook conducted an experiment to see whether the platform really has a tendency to send users down a rabbit hole of extreme and conspiratorial content.
Tweets: @kait_tiffany, @gabrielroth, @kait_tiffany, @jbouie, @saahil_desai, @kait_tiffany, and @tomscocca
| Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: |
DOJ says Iranian hackers breached a media company in fall 2020 and tested how to create false news content; sources say Lee Enterprises was targeted — Computer systems of Lee Enterprises, which owns dozens of daily papers, were targeted in disinformation campaign| Susan Decker / Bloomberg: |
ITC says it will review its preliminary finding that Google infringed on five patents owned by Sonos; a final decision is scheduled to be issued on January 6 — - ITC will review findings on Sonos's patents, Google's designs — Sonos is seeking an import ban on Google smart home devicesSponsor Posts
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