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Leaked audio from 80+ internal TikTok meetings: ByteDance staff in China repeatedly accessed data about US TikTok users between September 2021 and January 2022 — For years, TikTok has responded to data privacy concerns by promising that information gathered about users in the United States …
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TikTok says it has completed migrating its US users' data to Oracle's servers in the US — TikTok has completed migrating its U.S. users' information to servers at Oracle Corp (ORCL.N), in a move that could address U.S. regulatory concerns over data integrity on the popular video app, the company confirmed to Reuters.
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Crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital is exploring financial options, including asset sales and a rescue by another firm, and says it invested ~$200M in Luna — Firm's founders say they still believe in the future of cryptocurrencies — Cryptocurrency-focused hedge fund Three Arrows Capital Ltd …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
The UK publishes its final response to a data reform consultation to diverge from EU rules, including replacing cookie consent pop-ups with browser opt-outs — The UK government has published its final response to a data ‘reform’ consultation it kicked off last year, laying out how it intends … | Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
A group of Senate Democrats calls on the US Commerce Department to follow the EU and create a strategy to require a common charging port for all mobile devices — No more Lightning ports? — A group of Senate Democrats is calling on the US Commerce Department to follow Europe's lead … | Andrea Peterson / The Record: |
The US DOJ says RSocks, a Russian botnet used to hijack millions of devices worldwide for use as proxy servers, was disrupted in an international operation — The Department of Justice announced Thursday that the U.S. and international law enforcement partners in the United Kingdom, Germany …
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TSMC details its roadmap: a high volume 3nm chip production starting in H2 2022, with five 3nm-class N3 node iterations, and 2nm-class N2 introduction in 2025 — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. on Thursday kicked off its 2022 TSMC Technology Symposium, where the company traditionally shares …
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Some employees say that Musk sounded genuinely enthusiastic about owning and running Twitter, but the meeting reinforced their mostly negative beliefs about him — Musk says he has big plans for the company. Employees wonder how he'll achieve them
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| Ryan Mac / New York Times: |
Sources: SpaceX fired employees who helped write and distribute an open letter calling Elon Musk's behavior “a frequent source of distraction and embarrassment” — In an email, Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX's president, said the letter had made other employees “feel uncomfortable, intimidated and bullied.”
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| Freya Pratty / Sifted: |
Proximie, whose AR tech enables surgeons to virtually collaborate during surgeries, has raised an $80M Series C, bringing its total funding to $129M — Proximie, which was founded in 2016, states its mission as saving lives by creating a “borderless operating room”.
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Meta unveils Avatars Store, where users can buy digital clothes for avatars, and plans to make it a marketplace where developers can create and sell clothing — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today that the company is launching a digital designer clothing store called the “Meta Avatars Store.”
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Snap is internally testing Snapchat Plus, a paid subscription service that will give users early access to exclusive, experimental, and pre-release features — It's currently in “early internal testing” — Snap is doing internal tests of a paid subscription called Snapchat Plus …
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