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Spotify is removing Neil Young's music after he gave the company an ultimatum between his music and Joe Rogan's podcast with COVID-19 vaccine misinformation — Folk-rock star had over six million monthly listeners on the service, which he blames for spreading fake info about vaccines
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is working to let businesses accept payments on their iPhones without extra hardware, thanks to tech from Mobeewave, which it acquired in 2020 — Apple Inc. is planning a new service that will let small businesses accept payments directly on their iPhones without any extra hardware …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Source: Meta-backed Diem Association is selling its technology to California bank Silvergate Capital, which serves crypto companies, for ~$200M — Diem Association is selling its technology to crypto-focused bank Silvergate Capital for $200 million — Facebook's ambitious effort to bring cryptocurrency to the masses has failed.
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Finbold, Politico, Reuters, Financial Times, Blockworks, Protocol, and CoinDesk
Tweets: @lucasmtny, @treyditto, @0xtuba, @paulvigna, @lutherlowe, @joshelman, @c_georgen, and @rudegeair
| Sohee Kim / Bloomberg: |
Samsung reports Q4 operating profit of ~$11.6B, up 53% YoY, on revenue of ~$63.8B, up 24% YoY, but misses with ~$8.9B net income, below the ~$9.2B expected — Samsung Electronics Co. is stepping up spending on advanced chipmaking technology as it sees growing demand for its smartphones, displays and memory products.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Reddit is conducting a “small, internal test” of a feature that lets users set any NFT they own as their profile picture — Reddit is testing a feature that would allow its users to set any NFT they own as their profile picture — not only its own Ethereum-based NFTs, called … | Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Fanhouse, an OnlyFans-like platform, introduces a 50% surcharge for iOS IAP's, after pushing back in 2021 on Apple's 30% commission on creator earnings — Fanhouse previously tried to push back against Apple's fees and was granted a six-month extension to come into compliance
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| Jeff Benson / Decrypt: |
CoinTracker, which helps crypto investors track their tax liabilities and earnings, raises a $100M Series A led by Accel at a $1.3B valuation — With a fresh $1.3 billion valuation, CoinTracker has achieved unicorn status right before tax time. — In brief — CoinTracker is crypto tax software.
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Adobe-led tech coalition finalizes standard for digital content provenance, identifying the source and edits of photos and videos, to help catch deepfakes — As part of its effort to fight deepfakes, a coalition of tech companies led by Adobe has finalized the details for a standard … | Chris Mills Rodrigo / The Hill: |
YouTube permanently bans Fox News' Dan Bongino for trying to evade a previous suspension; the pro-Trump pundit previously said he planned to leave the platform — YouTube on Wednesday permanently banned conservative commentator Dan Bongino from the platform, saying he attempted to evade a previous suspension.
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Axios, Washington Post, The Daily Beast, UPI, Raw Story, The Wrap, HuffPost, Mediaite, National Review, Forbes, and Deadline
| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Valve will release the Steam Deck on February 25 and says reservations will be filled in weekly batches, after supply chain issues delayed its launch last year — You'll need a reservation — Valve announced that the Steam Deck will go on sale starting February 25th.
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Tech Advisor, Club386, GamesIndustry.biz, Polygon, Ubergizmo, Pocketnow, Gamereactor UK, Pocket-lint, Tom's Guide, Ars Technica, Destructoid, KnowTechie, XDA Developers, Game Rant, and Tom's Hardware
Tweets: @steam, @fourzerotwo, @brianwfoster, @ryanludwick_, @matttwood, and @sadlyitsbradley
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft plans to launch a public preview of Android apps for Windows 11, taskbar improvements, redesigned Notepad and Media Player apps, and more in February — New Notepad and Media Player apps also on the way — Microsoft is planning to launch a public preview of its Android apps …
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Windows Blog, Club386, PC Gamer, IT PRO, Gizchina, BGR, Softpedia News, HotHardware.com News, XDA Developers, Windows Report, SiliconANGLE, and Pocketnow
Tweets: @bdsams, @panos_panay, and @alex
| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Fireblocks, which lets users store, transfer, and issue digital assets, raises a $550M Series E at an $8B valuation, after raising $310M in July 2021 — Quick Take — The Series E round brings Fireblocks' total funding to date to over $1 billion. — Fireblocks CEO Michael Shaulov …
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TechCrunch, Bloomberg, CoinDesk, Blockworks, Decrypt, Financial Times, and Forbes
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Discord experienced a widespread API outage, preventing many users from joining calls or chatting; Discord says services are back online after over two hours — A major outage was affecting Discord — Discord experienced a widespread outage Wednesday afternoon, preventing many users from connecting to the communications app.
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IGN, BleepingComputer, iMore, Destructoid, Android Central, DCD, 9to5Mac, XDA Developers, Engadget, Dot Esports, Game Rant, and PC Gamer
Tweets: @discord, @discord, @lordravenscraft, and @illuviumio
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Apple says it is rolling out a fix for a bug in CloudKit's backend that for months intermittently prevented third-party apps from syncing with iCloud — Apple is rolling out a fix for the months-old issue — Apple has identified and is rolling out a fix for the bug that intermittently …
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9to5Mac, MacRumors, iThinkDifferent, and iPhone Hacks
| Lauren Rosenblatt / The Seattle Times: |
Washington's AG orders Amazon to pay $2.25M and to shut down its third-party “Sold by Amazon” program over price fixing and unreasonably restraining competition — Amazon is shutting down its “Sold by Amazon” program after an investigation from Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson found …
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Washington State, GeekWire, Slashdot, Washington Post, Engadget, ZDNet, Neowin, New York Times, and Tech Xplore
Tweets: @kristakbrown, @bobfergusonag, @leah_nylen, and @chriskeall
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Intel reports Q4 revenue of $19.5B, up 4% YoY vs. estimates of $18.31B, Data Center Group revenue of $7.3B, up 20% YoY, IoT Group revenue of $1.1B, up 36% YoY — - Intel reported fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday. — Intel's largest business, its Client Computing Group …
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Intel, Wall Street Journal, ZDNet, PC Gamer, TechCrunch, The Verge, The Register, Reuters, MarketWatch, Investor's Business Daily, Tom's Hardware, Protocol, Channel Futures, SiliconANGLE, Bloomberg, and VentureBeat
Tweets: @dylan522p, @kifleswing, @patrickmoorhead, @tiernanraytech, and @ldignan
| Aisha Majid / Press Gazette: |
Ipsos: Apple News was the most widely used UK news app in December 2021 with 13.2M users and 1.2B minutes spent; BBC News had 12.5M users and 2.2B minutes spent — The Apple News app narrowly beat BBC News to take the spot of most popular news app in the UK in December, according to data from Ipsos iris.| Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers find a 12-year-old vulnerability in Polkit that local attackers can use to gain root privileges on all major Linux distributions; an exploit is out — A vulnerability in Polkit's pkexec component that is present in the default configuration of all major Linux distributions …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases iOS 15.3 and macOS Monterey 12.2 with a fix for the IndexedDB API bug in Safari, as well as iPadOS 15.3, watchOS 8.4, tvOS 15.3, and HomePod 15.3 — Apple's latest round of software updates is now rolling out to the public. iOS 15.3 is now available to iPhone users …
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AppleInsider, The Verge, TechCrunch, MacRumors, Pocketnow, Ars Technica, CNET, OS X Daily, iMore, The Mac Observer, Gizmodo, and TidBITS
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Domestika, an online learning community that offers video tutorials and courses, raises a $110M Series D led by Zeev Ventures at a $1.3B valuation — The creative community has been a ripe target for startups building tools and services to serve their interests and needs as they transition …
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Tech.eu, FinSMEs, and Business Wire
| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Singapore-based Cialfo, which helps international students apply to hundreds of colleges in one form, raises a $40M Series B, bringing its total funding to $55M — Applying to colleges is one of the hardest parts of high school, especially for students who want to study abroad.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
DigitalOwl, which uses NLP tech to analyze medical records to let insurers combat fraud, underwrite health plans, and execute claims, raises a $20M Series A — In health care, the process of underwriting and claims analysis can be both labor-intensive and error-prone.
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| Corin Faife / The Verge: |
The White House tells agencies to adopt a zero trust cybersecurity strategy, including using hardware-based authentication tools over push notifications or SMS — Federal departments will have two months to outline their response — The White House released a new cybersecurity strategy Wednesday aimed …
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CSO, The White House, CNN, ZDNet, and The Hill
Tweets: @argvee, @cisagov, @goldbe, @snapattackhq, @homelanddems, @eaescob, @jimlangevin, @adam_k_levin, @b_fung, and @cisajen
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Oslo-based PortalOne, which is building a “hybrid” gaming platform, raises a $60M Series A led by Tiger Global, following a $15M seed in April 2021 — Gaming has been one of the most popular entertainment categories in the last two years of pandemic living.
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Tech.eu, FinSMEs, Silicon Canals, Talis, Pocket Gamer.biz, and Forbes
| Evgenia Pismennaya / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Putin plans to tax and regulate crypto mining, confining it to regions with electricity surpluses, rejecting a central bank proposal to ban mining — President Vladimir Putin backs a Russian government proposal to tax and regulate mining of cryptocurrencies, rejecting …
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Coinspeaker, CryptoPotato, and Bitcoinist.com
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