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Square is changing its name to Block, effective December 10, and renaming Square Crypto to Spiral, as its business shifts toward technologies like blockchain — - Payments giant Square will change its corporate name to Block, effective Dec. 10. — The move comes as Square expands beyond …
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Meta expands the number of eligible regulatory licenses for running crypto ads on Facebook and Instagram from three to 27 — - Facebook on Wednesday announced its decision to reverse long-standing policy that prevented most cryptocurrency companies from running ads on its services.
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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
In its end-of-year threat report, Meta says it took down several global disinformation networks, including anti-vaccine groups and groups linked to state actors — The takedowns described in the company's latest threat report demonstrate how the cat-and-mouse game between Facebook and bad actors is escalating| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3, a 5nm chip with 5G and Wi-Fi 6, promising up to 85% better CPU and up to 60% faster GPU performance compared to Gen 2 — Third time's the charm? — Qualcomm has announced its latest flagship chip for PCs: the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3, which … | Haje Jan Kamps / TechCrunch: |
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Sources: Apple, which cut its projected iPhone 13 production targets for 2021 by up to 10M units, tells suppliers that it may not make up the shortfall in 2022 — Apple Inc., suffering from a global supply crunch, is now confronting a different problem: slowing demand.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
DOJ charges an ex-employee of IoT manufacturer Ubiquiti with data theft and for attempting to extort his employer while posing as a whistleblower and a hacker — Nickolas Sharp, a former employee of networking device maker Ubiquiti, was arrested and charged today with data theft and attempting …
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Tweets: @bleepincomputer, @randomoracle, @kevinmitnick, @magoo, @troyhunt, and @campuscodi
| Michelle Singletary / Washington Post: |
The CFPB's rule that lets debt collectors send texts, emails, and private social media messages to debtors, and requires opt-out instructions, goes into effect — Federal regulators have given debt collectors the okay to pursue debtors via email, text messages and social media sites
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces Teams Essentials, a standalone version of Teams for SMBs with a simplified UI, focus on meetings, and no Office apps for $4 per user/month — This standalone version of Teams is even more of a Zoom competitor — Microsoft is creating its first standalone version of Microsoft Teams for small businesses.
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| James Clayton / BBC: |
Meta will no longer block searches nor remove praise of Kyle Rittenhouse on Facebook and Instagram, after designating him a shooter in a “mass murder” in 2020 — Facebook has reversed a decision to block searches on its platform for a US teenager who was acquitted of killing two people during unrest in Wisconsin.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple announces the best apps and games of 2021, across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Watch, and the most downloaded apps of the year — Apple today released its anticipated annual list of the best apps and games of the year across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV and Apple Watch.| The Verge: |
Federal judge blocks a Texas law that limits large social media platforms' ability to moderate content, saying it violates the platforms' First Amendment rights — ‘Social media platforms have a First Amendment right to moderate,’ wrote the judge — A federal judge has blocked a Texas law … | Berber Jin / The Information: |
Sources: Instacart is planning to launch a 15-minute-or-less grocery delivery pilot for US customers, from existing partner stores — For Instacart, the leading U.S. grocery delivery company, being fast may not be fast enough. — The $39 billion-valuation startup is planning to launch …
Tweets: @eliotwb, @elizabeth_joh, and @sarthakgh
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TikTok adds monetization tools for creators, including Stripe-powered Tips and Video Gifts, starting in the US, the UK, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain — TikTok is today introducing new ways for its creators to make money from their content. While already, the short-form video platform allowed creators …
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TikTok, TikTok Creator Portal, Tubefilter, Social Media Today, Protocol, and The Verge
Tweets: @collision, @minney_cat, and @devmachette_
| Washington Post: |
Planned Parenthood Los Angeles says a hacker gained access to its network in October, compromising the information of ~400,000 patients including clinical data — A hacker gained access to the personal information of hundreds of thousands of Planned Parenthood patients in October …
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BleepingComputer, ABC News, The Hill, CNN, New York Times, and Los Angeles Times
Tweets: @marissaaevans, @w7voa, @joseph_marks_, and @brettcallow
| Mack DeGeurin / Gizmodo: |
UN report: 2.9B people, or 37% of the world's population, have never used the internet, while internet users rose from 4.1B in 2019 to 4.9B in 2021 — But the pandemic has fueled a rapid surge of worldwide internet users. — Alerts — Nearly two-thirds of the world's population …
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| Yinka Adegoke / Rest of World: |
A look at China's extensive tech investments in Africa, including undersea cables, data centers, and fintech apps, as part of its “Digital Silk Road” initiative — As the Chinese “tech stack” leads from undersea cables to smartphones and fintech apps, concerns grow for the digital future of ordinary Africans.
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Goalsetter, which offers a financial literacy education app for kids, raises a $15M Series A led by Seae Ventures — Goalsetter, a financial education platform for kiddos, has announced the close of a $15 million Series A financing round. The funding was led by Seae Ventures …
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LinkedIn adds Hindi support in India after initially supporting only English, which is spoken by less than 20% of India's 1.3B people — Less than 20% of India's 1.3 billion people speak English. But LinkedIn, the largest professional social network globally, has so far catered … | Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
AWS announces SageMaker Studio Lab, a free version of SageMaker in public preview to help customers with little experience build, train, and deploy ML models — At re:Invent, the cloud giant also announced a new $10 million AI & ML scholarship program for underrepresented and underserved students.Sponsor Posts
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