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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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| 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 … | 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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| 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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Disney adds Disney+ and ESPN+ to Hulu + Live TV, and will raise its monthly price by $5 to $70 for the ad-supported tier and $76 for ad-free, starting Dec. 21 — Softening the blow of a monthly price hike, Disney is offering subscribers to Hulu's live TV service access to Disney+ and ESPN+ at no extra charge.
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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 … | 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
| 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 … | 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.”Sponsor Posts
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