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Meta begins testing “today's topics” on Threads in the US, surfaced in the app on the Search page and in the For You feed, that can feature political content — After acknowledging last week that Meta's X competitor Threads would not actively recommend political content …
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| Dan Mangan / CNBC: |
US court notice: the sentencing of Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao for money laundering has been postponed until April 30, 2024; CZ is free on a $175M release bond — - The sentencing of former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao on a money laundering rule charge has been postponed until April 30, a notice in Seattle federal court shows.
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| John Archer / Forbes: |
Amazon's Prime Video basic ad tier, which US subscribers who didn't pay extra were downgraded to on January 29, doesn't support Dolby Vision HDR and Dolby Atmos — Amazon AMZN caused a furor recently when it announced that it was introducing advertisements right across its Prime Video streaming service.
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Mastodon: @witewulf@mastodonapp.uk. X: @bigjohnnyarcher. Forums: Hacker News, r/AmazonPrimeVideo, and Ars OpenForum
| Rachel Phua / Bloomberg: |
Temu bought six Super Bowl ad slots, likely for tens of millions, to win back US shoppers; its US observed sales fell 12.5% MoM in December and 4.8% in January — - Observed sales and users fell month-on-month in Dec. and Jan. — Chinese e-commerce app offers users $10 million in giveaways
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| Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register: |
Cloudflare defeats a second “patent troll”, invalidating parts of three Sable Networks' patents after crowdsourcing prior art findings through Project Jengo — The bounty payouts may be high, but Project Jengo doesn't miss — When it comes to defeating patent trolls …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Founders Fund bought $100M in bitcoin and $100M in ether from late summer to early fall 2023; the VC sold its crypto portfolio in 2022, making ~$1.8B — Founders Fund, the venture capital firm founded by billionaire Peter Thiel, is investing once again in bitcoin and ether … | Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
EveryNoise, a music encyclopedia using Spotify data, has ceased updating after Spotify laid off the employee running it in December, pissing off the site's fans — Now, Glenn McDonald's beloved Every Noise At Once project is in jeopardy — On a brutal December day, 17% of Spotify employees found …
Mastodon: @misc@mastodon.social. X: @devilontheshore, @everynoise, @glenn_mcdonald, @akinikolaidis, @everynoise, @gareth_simpson, @johnaustinperry, @fringemusicfix, @akinikolaidis, @carlzoilus, @everynoise, @everynoise, @everynoise, @akinikolaidis, @thediscovertab, @mavoyofficial, @conradev, @charliebaranski, @glenn_mcdonald, @martinmwiener, @akinikolaidis, @tedolsen, @glenn_mcdonald, and @mavoyofficial
Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| Zoë Schiffer / Platformer: |
Q&A with Mastodon founder Eugen Rochko on the state of the platform, its future, collaborating with Meta on ActivityPub, Bluesky's AT protocol, and more — The news last week that Bluesky is open to the public left me wondering how Mastodon, the original federated social network, is faring these days.| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Analysts estimate that Microsoft Azure's revenue, thanks in part to its close relationship with OpenAI, is ~75% as big as AWS', up from ~50% five years ago — - Microsoft's cloud is growing significantly faster than Amazon Web Services of late, thanks in part to its cozy OpenAI relationship.| Nate Raymond / Reuters: |
A US federal judge blocks the enforcement of an Ohio law that would require children under 16 to get parental consent to use social media apps — A federal judge on Monday prevented Ohio from implementing a new law that requires social media companies, including Meta Platform's (META.O) … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Appfigures data: 52% of Vision Pro-only apps are paid downloads, vs. 5% of apps in the wider App Store, with an average price of $5.67 — Apple's Vision Pro offers consumers a new way to interact with apps via spatial computing, but it also offers app developers a way to generate revenue without subscriptions.
More: 9to5Mac, Immersive Wire, MobileSyrup, Spyglass, PC Guide, Appfigures, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, PYMNTS.com, KitGuru, and The Verge
| Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
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