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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple plans AirTags updates to reduce stalking: Precision Finding for unknown AirTags, displaying alerts with sound, earlier tracking alerts, and louder sounds — Apple today announced that it is making some updates to AirTags with the aim of cutting down on unwanted tracking.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google releases the first Android 13 developer preview, emphasizing security and privacy, dynamic colors, and more, available exclusively on Pixels — Right on schedule, Google today announced the first developer release of Android 13. These very early releases, which are only meant …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google says Samsung, OnePlus, Oppo, Vivo, Realme, Xiaomi, and others will adopt Android 12's dynamic color themes; currently, the feature is mostly on Pixels — One of Android 12's signature features is coming to more phones — Google's Material You dynamic color theming …
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Senator Blumenthal admits the EARN IT Act won't “offer a blanket exemption to using encryption as evidence”, after denying for two years it targets encryption — Senator Richard Blumenthal has now admitted that EARN IT is targeting encryption, something he denied for two years, and then just out and said it.
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CyberScoop, Protocol, Platformer, and Electronic Frontier Foundation
| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
The Senate Judiciary Committee advances the EARN IT Act, targeting Section 230 sexual exploitation content protections, despite numerous free speech concerns — Critics say the EARN IT Act would ‘make it far riskier for platforms to host user-generated content’
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Washington Post, AppleInsider, The Daily Dot, and Gizmodo
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Apple releases iOS 15.3.1, iPadOS 15.3.1, and macOS Monterey 12.2.1 to fix a WebKit flaw that may have been actively exploited, its third zero-day patch in 2022 — Apple has released security updates to fix a new zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild by attackers to hack iPhones, iPads, and Macs.
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| Catie Keck / The Verge: |
YouTube details creator updates: new video effects, editing capabilities, and monetization tools for Shorts, Shopping expansion, Studio improvements, and more — A lot of new features are in the works for 2022 — YouTube is expanding the ways creators can monetize their content …
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YouTube Official Blog, The Verge, Reuters, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Benzinga, Android Headlines, Decrypt, NFT Entrepreneur, Fast Company, Search Engine Journal, Seattle Business Journal, Tech Xplore, Protocol, ZDNet, Thurrott, and Search Engine Land
Tweets: @cryptogucci, @reckless, @sytaylor, @reneritchie, @nealmohan, and @defifundamental
| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
Binance invests $200M to help Forbes with its plan to go public via a SPAC in Q1 2022, making Binance one of Forbes' two largest owners after its listing — - Binance, the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange, is making a $200 million strategic investment in Forbes, the 104-year old magazine and digital publisher, CNBC has learned.
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| Reed Albergotti / Washington Post: |
Apple confirms it changes every ex-employee's job title to “associate” in job verification databases, after #AppleToo leader Cher Scarlett's SEC complaint — In job databases used by employers to verify resume information, every former Apple employee's title gets erased and replaced with a generic title
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| Brandy Betz / CoinDesk: |
Sardine, which offers fintechs real-time fraud scores based on users' identities, devices, and behavior, raises a $19.5M Series A from a16z, NYCA, and Experian — a16z, NYCA and Experian joined in the capital raise for the San Francisco startup. — Sardine, a fraud and compliance platform for fintechs …
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Andreessen Horowitz, Finextra, FinSMEs, and TechCrunch
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| Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters: |
OnlyFans launches NFT profile pictures minted on the Ethereum blockchain; creators' NFT profile pictures will show an Ethereum symbol to mark them as authentic — (Reuters) - OnlyFans, an online subscription platform known for adult content, has launched a feature for users to display verified NFTs …
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Decrypt, The Block, Cointelegraph, and TechCrunch
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Twitter misses with Q4 revenue of $1.57B, up 22% YoY, net income of $182M, down 18% YoY; 217M mDAUs, up from 192M YoY; FY 2021 revenue hit $5.08B, up 37% YoY — - Twitter reported earnings for the fourth quarter of 2021 Thursday that missed analyst estimates on earnings, revenue and user growth.
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| Mike Sorrentino / CNET: |
MoviePass will relaunch as a credit-based marketplace and announces PreShow, an ad platform that uses facial detection to track whether a viewer watched an ad — MoviePass plans to make its big return this summer, with a retooled movie ticket service that the company likens to more of a credit-based marketplace.
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The Verge, 9to5Mac, VICE, TechCrunch, Engadget, New York Post, NBC News, Hollywood Reporter, The A.V. Club, CINEMABLEND, SlashFilm, IndieWire, Variety, SlashGear, Deadline, and Slashdot
Tweets: @bbolander, @rob_sheridan, @evan_greer, and @caseynewton
| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Kioxia and WD report contamination at two NAND production factories, impacting up to 6.5EB of storage; TrendForce says NAND prices could rise 5%-10% in Q2 — Update 2/10/2022, 3am PT: Analyst firm TrendForce has now reported that the incident could cause NAND flash prices to spike 5 to 10% in Q2 …
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Business Wire, TrendForce, AppleInsider, Bloomberg, PetaPixel, Android Authority, and DCD
| Akayla Gardner / Bloomberg: |
Messari: NFTs account for only 1% of the overall cryptocurrency market, or $16B in combined value, a sliver of the ~$2T cryptocurrency ecosystem — NFTs seem to be everywhere as of late, whether being touted by celebrities ranging from Justin Bieber to Heidi Klum, but data show they account … | Nathan Grayson / Washington Post: |
How game studio Blackbird ran a trial of a four-day work week from Sept. to Dec. 2021, which resulted in a unanimous vote to permanently adopt the change — On Sept. 16 of last year, management at Blackbird Interactive, the 300-person studio behind “Hardspace: Shipbreaker” …
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| Mehnaz Yasmin / Reuters: |
Branch, whose tools help businesses measure marketing programs, raises $300M led by NEA at a $4B valuation; PitchBook: Branch had a $1B valuation in 2019 — Palo Alto-based Branch, which makes tools that help businesses measure their marketing programs, said on Thursday it raised $300 million …
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| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Foxconn expects a component shortage improvement in Q1 2022 and supply constraints to ease in H2 2022; TSMC and others say chip supply will remain tight in 2022 — The biggest assembler of iPhones said component shortages that have plagued electronics production for more than a year …
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MacRumors, Light Reading, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacDailyNews, Gizmodo, iThinkDifferent, iMore, and AppleInsider. Tweets: @appleinsider
| Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg: |
France's CNIL data regulator says Google Analytics fails to sufficiently protect EU citizens' data from potentially illegal US surveillance and could be banned — Alphabet Inc.'s Google Analytics doesn't sufficiently protect European Union citizens' data from potentially illegal U.S. surveillance and could be banned altogether.
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cnil.fr, TechCrunch, Politico, noyb.eu, The Record, Reuters, Adweek, Euractiv, The Register, and Silicon Republic
Tweets: @laukaya, @carnage4life, @po8crg, @stephaniebodoni, @sbarrosvale, @profcarroll, @stephaniebodoni, and @vmanancourt
| Emily Bary / MarketWatch: |
Affirm tweets some Q2 info early: revenue rose 77% YoY to $361M, GMV grew 115% to $4.5B, and net loss hit $159.7M, up from $26.6M YoY; stock fell as much as 26% — Company was supposed to post results after the closing bell Thursday … Shares of Affirm Holdings Inc. were plunging … | Charlie Taylor / The Irish Times: |
EU ombudsman opens an inquiry into how GDPR is applied in Ireland, after claims that 98% of privacy infringement complaints to the Irish DPC remain unsolved — EU ombudsman acts after complaint from ICCL — EU ombudsman Emily O'Reilly has opened an inquiry into the European Commission's failure … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Apple Music on Android beta code suggests Apple's classical music streaming service, coming in early 2022, is called Apple Classical — The latest beta version of Apple Music is rolling out on Android this evening with a very sizable upgrade to homescreen widgets, while possibly also revealing …
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Android Police, Releases, XDA Developers, Tom's Guide, TechSpot, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, and MacDailyNews
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Tel Aviv-based Deepdub, which uses AI to dub an actor's voice into another language, handling mixing, and more, raises a $20M Series A led by Insight Partners — Netflix's Korean drama “Squid Game” was one of the most-watched dubbed series of all time, proving the massive potential …
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VentureBeat, deepdub.ai, Hollywood Reporter, and CTech
| Bloomberg: |
Netflix in 2021: 51.7% of workers were women, up from 48.7%; 13.3% of US leaders were Black, up from 10.9%, and 8.6% of US workers were Hispanic, up from 7.9% — Netflix has increased the diversity of its U.S. staff, including more Black top executives, as the company looks to have its workforce better mirror the broader population.Sponsor Posts
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