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Biden will sign an EO instructing federal agencies to study the risks posted by digital assets, such as undermining sanctions, and investigate a digital dollar — Federal agencies to explore financial and environmental concerns and inform regulatory action
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| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
An in-depth look at Apple's M1 Ultra: combines two M1 Max chips using UltraFusion, 800GB/second memory bandwidth, 64 GPU cores to exceed the RTX 3090, and more — As part of Apple's spring “Peek Performance” product event this morning, Apple unveiled the fourth and final member of the M1 family of Apple Silicon SoCs, the M1 Ultra.
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| Pushkar / Bits and Bytes: |
A look at the symbiotic relationship between TSMC and Apple: TSMC gets a predictable, demanding, high volume partner and Apple gets cutting-edge chips at scale — The TSMC-Apple partnership has been one of the defining relationships of the mobile computing era.| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
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| Washington Post: |
As Western tech companies react to sanctions, Russian streamers on Twitch, gig workers on Upwork, and creators on OnlyFans have all lost their livelihoods — When Arina, a 22-year-old illustrator in Russia, first started using the freelance work platform Upwork last year, it changed her life.| Washington Post: |
Lumen becomes the second US backbone internet provider to exit Russia, after Cogent; Russia's remaining international data sources are in Sweden, Italy, and UK — Lumen, a leading American Internet provider to Russia, announced Tuesday that it was severing business relations in the country …
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| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Two Austrian entrepreneurs acquire the assets of LimeWire, the music sharing service shuttered in 2010, and plan to relaunch it as a music-focused NFT service — A pair of serial entrepreneurs in Austria has bought the rights to defunct music platform LimeWire with plans to revamp its image …
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Twitter launches a Tor onion service using a modified version of the Enterprise Onion Toolkit, letting users access Twitter via any Tor-compatible browser — The site may become the most significant onion service created if it allows people to access Twitter from censored countries. — Joseph Cox
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Substack launches an iOS app for reading; Android users can sign up for a waiting list — What you read matters — Today, we're launching an iOS app for reading. It's like your email inbox, but better. — For readers, the app brings all your Substack subscriptions together in one venue … | Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Branch, which offers a flexible workforce payments service, raises a $75M Series C led by Addition, following a $48M Series B in August 2021 — Branch, which aims to power faster payments to contract workers with its technology, has raised $75 million in a Series C funding round that has closed …
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| Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal: |
A bipartisan group of lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee ask the DOJ to investigate Amazon and its executives over obstructing Congress' antitrust probe — House Judiciary Committee accuses tech giant of withholding information during antitrust probe; Amazon has denied any attempts to mislead
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| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Apple debuts Mac Studio, designed like a taller Mac mini, with M1 Max or Ultra, front and back ports, up to 128GB of memory, and support for four 6K displays — It's a Mac Mini but way more powerful — Apple has announced the Mac Studio, a desktop system that looks like the Mac Mini …
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| Mathew Di Salvo / Decrypt: |
The SEC charges two siblings with defrauding investors out of $124M through their Ormeus Coin offering, alleging they acted as “modern-day snake-oil salesmen” — The “ground-breaking digital money system” Ormeus Coin was actually a scam, the SEC alleges. — In brief
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| Claire Fahy / New York Times: |
Weight Watchers agree to pay a $1.5M penalty for illegally collecting personal information from kids without parental consent through its Kurbo app — Kurbo by WW, a weight loss app geared toward children, illegally collected data from users as young as 8 without their parents' consent …
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Federal Trade Commission, Protocol, and The Guardian
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Better.com lays off 3,000+ employees in the US and India, citing “current market conditions”; some staff learned of layoffs after early rollout of severance pay — The mass layoffs at digital mortgage lender Better.com have reportedly started, according to employees and other sources … | Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: |
EU clarifies that sanctions placed on Russia and Belarus extend to crypto assets, as these are “transferrable securities” that can be used for loans and credit — Crypto assets fall into the category of “transferrable securities” and are therefore clearly included in the scope of sanctions, the EU said.
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| New York Times: |
A look at the rise of DAOs as they wrestle with infighting and other challenges; DeepDAO: the value of cryptocurrencies held in DAOs rose 3,200% in 2021 to $13B — The cryptocurrency boom has spawned enterprises democratically governed by a community of users. Or that's the theory.
Tweets: @annmlipton, @ericliptonnyt, and @ericliptonnyt
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Kuo: the 2022 MacBook Air will have a new form factor, an M1 chip, no mini-LED display, more color options, and is slated for production in late Q2 or Q3 2022 — Following today's event that saw the introduction of the Mac Studio, respected Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has provided some detail …
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Tweets: @mingchikuo, @chancehmiller, @tme_michael, @kevin_noon, and @nilsahrde
| Entrackr: |
Data collaboration software maker Atlan raises a $50M Series B led by Salesforce Ventures at a ~$450M valuation, following a $16M Series A in May 2021 — Data collaboration software provider Atlan has raised around $50 million in its Series B round from new and existing investors including …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Carl Pei's Nothing raises a $70M Series B to create smartphones with Qualcomm and expand in London; the company will host a product event on March 23 — For Nothing, Mobile World Congress was prelude. The young hardware startup spent the show in meeting rooms, behind the scenes, discussing what came next.| Sascha Segan / PCMag: |
Though marketed as a 5G iPhone, the new iPhone SE won't support mmWave 5G, and AT&T says it won't be able to use its upcoming 3.45GHz 5G network — AT&T is holding back some of its 5G prowess for later this year, but the new iPhone SE will not work on AT&T's upcoming 3.45GHz 5G network, the carrier confirmed to PCMag.
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