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Senators Wyden and Heinrich: declassified documents show a CIA bulk surveillance program collecting Americans' data without judicial or congressional oversight — The lawmakers called for the immediate declassification of details about the surveillance program and what data was collected
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
The UK's CMA accepts Google's plan to phase out and replace third-party cookies with the Privacy Sandbox and will closely monitor the product's development — The UK's competition regulator will keep a ‘close eye’ on development — Google's plan to phase out third-party cookies and replace …
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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel forms a Custom Compute Group to build blockchain hardware and plans to ship cryptocurrency mining chips in 2022; Block, Argo, and Griid are customers — Intel has officially entered the cryptomining business. — Intel's Raja Koduri penned a blog post that officially announces …
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| Tracy Wang / CoinDesk: |
FlamingoDAO, one of the most exclusive DAOs, has an estimated $1B NFT portfolio and its membership buy-in has increased from ~$23K in October 2020 to ~$8M — The exclusive DAO's membership buy-in has increased over 350-fold to 3,000 ETH, or a hefty $8 million.| Wall Street Journal: |
Zendesk rejected a $17B takeover from private equity firms that sources say are Hellman & Friedman, Advent, and Permira; sources: Thoma Bravo is also interested — Communications firm rejects bid from private-equity consortium; Thoma Bravo circles, too, and Jana Partners plans proxy fight
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
The European Publishers Council, whose members include News UK, files an EU antitrust complaint against Google for its alleged anti-competitive ad practices — Google (GOOGL.O) on Friday was targeted in an antitrust complaint by the European Publishers Council over its digital advertising business …
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
A look at Ethereum Name Service DAO token holders' vote to remove Brantly Millegan over his bigoted views by re-delegating their tokens away from him — The public face of Ethereum Name Service did a bad tweet. Does web3 fix this? — An aspiration that people have for what we have taken to calling … | Will Parker / Wall Street Journal: |
Zillow posted a consolidated net loss of $528M in 2021, up from $162M YoY, after losing $881M on its home-flipping business that it closed in November — Real-estate company says in a letter to shareholders that it is targeting revenue of $5 billion by 2025
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| Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: |
Report: Amazon has received $4.7B in tax breaks globally over the past decade; $4.1B was from the US and weak disclosure laws could put the rest well over $600M — The report highlights how little is known about the cost of Amazon's expansion to taxpayers around the planet. — Lauren Kaori Gurley
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A profile of Bolt Financial co-founder Ryan Breslow, who stepped down as CEO of the payments startup in January; sources: he retains a 25% stake worth ~$2.75B — Ryan Breslow has managed to alienate some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley. Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham tweeted …
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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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Tweets: @79semifinalist, @motherboard, @rebeccaarubin, @bbolander, @rob_sheridan, @evan_greer, and @caseynewton
| Nathan Grayson / Washington Post: |
How game studio Blackbird tested a four-day work week from September 2021 to December 2021, which resulted in a unanimous vote on Thursday to permanently switch — On Sept. 16 of last year, management at Blackbird Interactive, the 300-person studio behind “Hardspace: Shipbreaker” …
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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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