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| Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: |
Senators Wyden and Heinrich: declassified docs show a CIA bulk surveillance program collecting Americans' data without clear 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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| Mishaal Rahman / Esper Blog: |
A deep dive into Android 13's new features and changes, including a photo picker, per-app language preferences, Quick Settings tiles, a Hub mode, and UI changes — Although Google only just unveiled the final beta release of Android 12L, the feature update for tablets and other large screen devices …
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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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| 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 … | 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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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google will wind down Currents, the paid and private Google+ for enterprises, starting in 2023; Google shut down the consumer version of Google+ in April 2019 — Who remembered that “Google Currents” was still available for businesses? Anybody? — Google+ is dead—again!
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| New York Times: |
A real life test to secretly follow a person using AirTags, Tiles, and a LandAirSea GPS tracker — A vast location-tracking network is being built around us so we don't lose our keys: One couple's adventures in the consumer tech surveillance state. — In mid-January, my husband and I were having an argument.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
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| Bloomberg: |
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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| 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 … | Marguerite Reardon / CNET: |
The FCC forms a group to create rules to prevent ISPs from discriminating against communities of color; the infrastructure law requires rules by November 2023 — The agency must come up with rules by November 2023 to address discrimination by broadband companies that disproportionately leave behind communities of color.| 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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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
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