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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
SVB Financial files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the SDNY Bankruptcy Court and “believes it has approximately $2.2B of liquidity”  —  One week after trading was halted for SVB Financial and regulators took control of the holding company for Silicon Valley Bank and other subsidiaries …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
YouTube lifts its restrictions on Donald Trump's channel, imposed after the January 6 insurrection, after evaluating the “continued risk of real-world violence”  —  YouTube will lift its restrictions on former President Trump's channel Friday, a spokesperson confirmed to Axios.
Kris Holt / Engadget:
Meta debuts Verified in the US for $12/month on the web or $15/month on Android/iOS, with a blue badge, proactive impersonation protection, and customer support  —  Meta's paid verification program is available in the US starting today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote on his Instagram channel.
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Google's Project Zero finds 18 zero-day vulnerabilities, including four top-severity flaws, affecting some Samsung phones and other devices with Exynos chipsets  —  Google's security research unit is sounding the alarm on a set of vulnerabilities it found in certain Samsung chips included …
New York Times:
Sources: Twitter explored licensing music rights from three major labels but negotiations stalled after Elon Musk's takeover and were abandoned due to costs  —  Twitter didn't move forward with the music licensing deals because of costs, people with knowledge of the matter said.
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
The FCC is requiring carriers to block SMS messages from “invalid, unallocated, or unused numbers”, targeting the increasing scam robotexts sent to consumers  —  First robotext rule requires blocking of texts from invalid and unused numbers.  —  The Federal Communications …
Alexander Martin / The Record:
Q&A with two Meta security experts about the company's Online Operations Kill Chain, a framework for responding to threats like election influence operations  —  Next year will feature some of the most geopolitically significant elections of our times.  Voters will be heading …
Wall Street Journal:
A shortage of skilled workers is impeding Micron's goal of a chip manufacturing campus in Syracuse, NY, where it plans to invest $100B and hire 9K employees  —  Micron plans to hire 9,000 employees at a new suburban Syracuse campus amid shortage of skilled workers
Alex Konrad / Forbes:
Around 20 investors and founders say some individual investors and small firms actively helped startups during the SVB crisis while many big firms disappointed  —  Covering venture capital, cloud and startups  —  When founders scrambled to make payroll after the closure of SVB …
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Michael Kozlowski / Good e-Reader:
Amazon stops selling newspaper and magazine subscriptions for Kindle and in print, and plans to shut down its Kindle Newsstand subscription on September 4, 2023  —  Amazon has announced they are abandoning the Kindle for Periodicals or the Kindle Newsstand, which will completely shutter on September 2023.
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
In a presentation about the new Copilot features, Microsoft acknowledges AI's tendency to produce inaccurate responses but says the tech can be “usefully wrong”  —  - Microsoft debuted ChatGPT-like features dubbed Copilot that will eventually come to its business apps like Word and Excel.
Bloomberg:
Microsoft announces Microsoft 365 Copilot, which will bring OpenAI's GPT-4 to Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Word, and its other Office apps in the coming months
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Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
Letter: Tennessee Deputy Governor Stuart McWhorter urged David Ellison to move Paramount's corporate headquarters from California to Tennessee

Reuters:
Sources: Lionsgate has attracted takeover interest from France's Bolloré Group, owner of Canal+, and Banijay, which just completed an $8B merger with All3Media

Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
BBC DG Matt Brittin says the BBC and UK public service broadcasting face “real jeopardy” as license fee erosion drives BBC's third consecutive annual deficit

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@zoeschiffer:
Sources: Twitter has downranked accounts from its rivals like Instagram, Snap, and TikTok since December 2022, plus accounts like the US Department of Health's
Mitchell Clark / The Verge:
Twitter starts showing the number of times a tweet has been bookmarked, but not by whom, initially for iOS users on the tweet details page, with plans to expand

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Patricia Nilsson / Financial Times:
Private equity firm Ethical Capital Partners acquires Pornhub owner MindGeek, which had $460M in 2018 revenue and sources say profit margins near 50% at times
Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch:
Twitch CEO Emmett Shear steps down after 16 years at the company, replaced by president Dan Clancy, effective immediately; Shear is a Justin.tv co-founder
Sam Kessler / CoinDesk:
The Arbitrum Foundation, which develops the Ethereum Layer 2 network Arbitrum, plans to airdrop its long-awaited ARB token on March 23 and transition to a DAO
Mia Sato / The Verge:
TikTok adds a Refresh button to For You, resetting the recommendation algorithm to show videos like for a new user, after testing the feature in February 2023
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