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Neil Cybart / Above Avalon:
Apple's hardware categories are now gaining record new users after a 2017/2018 strategy change that let product groups independently update major product lines  —  During Apple's “Peek Performance” event held last month, the company announced not only a brand new Mac category with the Mac Studio …
damsondao / P — Mirror:
Unpacking Terra's design for its algorithmic stablecoins and how partial collateralization using bitcoin reserves could impact its price stabilization mechanism  —  As Terra climbed crypto market cap rankings at the start of 2022 while most of the market dumped or stalled …
Washington Post:
How Binance, which trades on its own exchange and plays several roles that may pose conflicts of interest, remains mostly unaccountable to its customers  —  On May 19, 2021, Francis Kim thought he had hit it big.  The Australia-based entrepreneur had been dabbling in derivatives trading …
Zac Bowden / Windows Central:
Microsoft moves Surface Duo OS, SwiftKey, Phone Link, Microsoft Launcher, and other teams to a new dedicated Android division under EVP and CPO Panos Panay  —  A new ‘Microsoft Android’ division houses Duo, SwiftKey, Launcher, and more.  —  What you need to know
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
A deep look at the benefits of content moderation in open forums, and how it can support free speech by creating spaces where more people feel free to talk  —  Obviously over the past few years there's been all of these debates about the content moderation practices of various websites.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Justin Kan's game-focused NFT marketplace Fractal has raised a $35M seed led by Paradigm and Multicoin Capital, with a16z, Solana Labs, and others participating  —  Twitch cofounder Justin Kan's Fractal has raised $35 million to build out its marketplace for gaming non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Workers at Amazon's Staten Island facility secure enough votes to unionize, by a 2,654 to 2,131 margin, a first for an Amazon warehouse in the US  —  - Amazon workers at a Staten Island warehouse voted Friday to join a union, the first time that's happened at one of the company's U.S. facilities.
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Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE:
The Discord servers of some NFT projects, including BAYC, were compromised on Friday as part of a phishing scam seeking to trick users into “minting” fake NFTs  —  This isn't the first hack of Discord-based crypto communities, and it's not likely to be the last.
BBC:
UK police charge a 16-year-old with five counts and a 17-year-old with six counts of cyber offenses related to the Lapsus$ gang; the teenagers remain in custody  —  Two teenagers from the UK have appeared in court charged with hacking for a major cyber-crime gang.

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Jaimie Ding / Los Angeles Times:
The California Journalism Preservation Act, a state bill unveiled this week, would force Google and Meta to pay a “journalism usage fee” to fund newsroom jobs

Howard Cohen / Miami Herald:
Alberto Ibargüen, president and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, is retiring, describing the change as “stepping down” after 18 years

Martin Baron / Washington Post:
Objectivity is a journalistic principle and is neither a false balance, a false equivalence, both-sidesism, nor neutrality, but a call for open-minded reporting

More News

Megha Paul / Tech.eu:
Deepki, a Parisian provider of an ESG data intelligence platform for real estate, raises a €150M Series C round co-led by One Peak and Highland Europe
Jane Lanhee Lee / Reuters:
Experts say chipmakers lack the ability to track where many of their lower-end products end up, which could stymie the enforcement of new US sanctions on Russia
Andy Chalk / PC Gamer:
Twitch stops its Boost Train test, which let viewers boost a channel by purchasing subscriptions and bits, after users pushed porn to the site's front page

Earlier Picks

Washington Post:
A look at the growing skepticism from Silicon Valley investors and companies of Russian money, once welcomed, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine
Mitchell Clark / The Verge:
Samsung partners with NFT auction service Nifty Gateway to let users “browse, display, and interact with NFTs” on select premium 2022 TVs
Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg:
DWAC, Trump's Truth Social SPAC, has lost 31% of its value since the app launched; Apptopia says downloads are down 95% from its peak and the app has ~513K DAUs
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