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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple announces an event, dubbed “Peek performance”, on March 8 at 10am PT — Apple today announced that it will be holding its first event of 2022 on Tuesday, March 8 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time at the Steve Jobs Theater on the Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California.
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| Stephen Harrison / Slate: |
How Russia's war with Ukraine is playing out on Wikipedia; Russian Wikipedia editors decided to call an invasion what it is, rejecting the Kremlin's narrative — On Thursday, President Vladimir Putin issued the order for Russian forces to invade Ukraine. Since then, Russians …
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VICE and Digital Threat Digest
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| Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today: |
Meta releases its Widely Viewed Content report for Q4, showing the most viewed Facebook Page was removed for violating policies; Meta would not reveal its name — Safe to say that Meta's efforts to refute the idea that Facebook amplifies divisive political content are not going exactly as it would have hoped.
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| Ethan Diamond / Bandcamp Updates: |
Bandcamp CEO Ethan Diamond says the company has been acquired by Epic Games — I'm excited to announce that Bandcamp is joining Epic Games, who you may know as the makers of Fortnite and Unreal Engine, and champions for a fair and open Internet. — Bandcamp will keep operating …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple pauses all product sales in Russia, removes RT News and Sputnik News from the App Store outside Russia, and disables Apple Maps' live traffic in Ukraine — Apple today confirmed that it has stopped all product sales from its online website in Russia, which means customers in Russia …
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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel, AMD, Arm, TSMC, Samsung, and others introduce the Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) consortium, seeking to standardize die-to-die designs — A broad range of blue-chip industry promoters, like Intel, AMD, Arm, TSMC, and Samsung, among others, introduced … | Washington Post: |
A profile of Mykhailo Fedorov, one of Ukraine's deputy prime ministers, who is using his Twitter account to pressure tech giants into standing up to Russia — Six months ago, Mykhailo Fedorov, one of Ukraine's deputy prime ministers, made a pilgrimage to Silicon Valley to discuss his country's digital transformation.| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
SOTU: Biden asks Congress to pass new rules to enhance child safety on social media, including banning targeted ads to, and data collection of, children — He wants to ban targeted advertising to kids — President Joe Biden called on Congress to pass new rules to enhance child safety …
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
US CPSC and Fitbit recall Fitbit Ionic smartwatches, after receiving 118 reports of burn injuries; Fitbit sold ~1M units in the US and 693K internationally — Fitbit has issued a voluntary recall for Ionic smartwatches that it manufactured and sold from 2017 through 2020.
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Tweets: @richontech, @mhbergen, @uscpsc, and @dcrainmakerblog
| Vikas SN / Moneycontrol: |
Netflix acquires Finnish game developer Next Games for around $72M; the studio specializes in games based on entertainment franchises, such as Stranger Things — Next Games had released ‘Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales’, a role-playing game based on the streaming giant's hit 80s horror drama series in October last year.| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
A look at Twitter's internal support for decentralization, led by Parag Agrawal, seeking to give users control, avoid regulation, and generate more revenue — The company is undertaking a far-reaching effort to change how it works. For some, it is an echo of their early idealism and a vision for what the internet could have been.
Tweets: @kateconger and @kateconger
| BuzzFeed News: |
Google Maps is removing newly added user content, like pins, in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus, amid claims of its use in coordinating Russian military activity — Responding to claims that its Maps were being used to coordinate Russian military activity in Ukraine, Google …
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The Keyword, Android Police, BetaNews, Engadget, infosecurity-magazine.com, and Neowin
Tweets: @jsrailton, @sundarpichai, @sarahnemerson, @susanwojcicki, @sarahnemerson, and @google
| Ciaran Martin / Lawfare: |
An in-depth look at Russia's offensive cyber capabilities, their potential use in Ukraine, the limitations of cyber power, and implications for the West — It turns out that the next war was not fought in cyberspace after all. Or at least the start of it has not been.| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Nine days after the launch of Truth Social, valued at $3.5B+, Trump has not posted, the app has fallen to #57 in US App Store, and many remain on the waitlist — Former President Trump is blowing the launch of his new social media company, via a series of unforced errors.
Tweets: @levynews, @edbott, @pkafka, @stevekovach, @stevekovach, and @jyarow
| Washington Post: |
Twitter's crowdsourced fact-checking program Birdwatch remains a small pilot project 13 months after launch, with only 359 contributors flagging tweets in 2022 — With the Ukraine war unfolding on social media, parsing fact from fiction has never been trickier — or, for those involved, more urgent.
Tweets: @willoremus, @kcoleman, @shannonpareil, @carnage4life, @willoremus, @mantzarlis, @kcoleman, and @blackamazon
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Connecteam, which helps employers manage their deskless workforce, raises a $120M Series C led by Stripes and Insight, source says at an $800M+ valuation — After years of being overlooked, frontline employees and others who do not sit at desks all day are taking center stage in a new wave of workplace productivity apps.
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Geektime, Crunchbase News, VentureBeat, and SiliconANGLE
| George Anadiotis / ZDNet: |
Faros AI, which offers an analytics tool for engineering teams, raises a $16M seed led by SignalFire and releases an open source version of its tool — What if what you think you know about developer productivity and the value of software is off the mark, and that is hurting the quality of your software …
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TechCrunch, VentureBeat, and Faros.ai
| J. Clara Chan / Hollywood Reporter: |
Snap halts ads in Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine, pledges $15M to relief orgs in Ukraine, and is helping relocate 300+ Ukrainian staff of its AR platform Looksery — Three hundred Snap employees are from Ukraine, according to a message shared on Tuesday.Sponsor Posts
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