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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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| 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, GitHub, Cointelegraph, cryptodaily.co.uk, Crypto Briefing, Decrypt, Blockworks, The Block, and Bitcoin Magazine
Tweets: @tbd54566975, @kr00ney, @jack, and @kelseyhightower
| 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
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
The Apple Podcasts app's review score went from 1.8 to 4.6 stars as Apple began prompting users to rate the app, confusing some into rating individual podcasts — Apple Podcasts rises above bad reviews, but at what cost? — You pissed off people by somewhat breaking your app, and they're leaving angry reviews.
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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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| 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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| Gillian Tan / Bloomberg: |
SoundHound, which offers voice AI tech to companies like Mercedes-Benz, Snap, and Mastercard, is going public via a SPAC merger at a ~$2.1B valuation — - Company counts Mercedes-Benz, Snap, Pandora among customers — Shazam competitor's technology can identify a song via humming
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| Zoe Schiffer / NBC News: |
Internal memo: Apple affirms that employees have the right to discuss working conditions and pay internally and externally — Following months of internal controversy about how much workers make at one of the highest valued companies in the world, Apple has announced that employees …
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AppleInsider. Tweets: @wndu, @veenadubal, @ashleygjovik, @lazerwalker, @ashleygjovik, and @mikeycampbell81
| Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: |
A writer created a politically bland Facebook profile to test the app's algorithm for extreme content, and 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 … | Steve Knopper / Billboard: |
Profile of Berlin-based Ableton, whose music production software changed the way recordings are produced and how DJs perform by eliminating cumbersome equipment — Gerhard Behles and his partners wrote the code that makes modern pop sing — and makes investors drool. But they're not selling.
Tweets: @henrikberggren, @mattetti, @markkilborn, and @edmacovaz
| 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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