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January 11, 2025, 11:05 AM

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Jordan Novet / CNBC:
On Joe Rogan's podcast, Mark Zuckerberg said Biden administration officials would “scream” and “curse” at Meta employees to take down vaccine content, and more  —  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan in a podcast published on Friday that his company was pressured …
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Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Zuckerberg slams Apple, saying it hasn't “really invented anything great in a while”, he's “optimistic” that Apple will “get beat by someone” soon, and more  —  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg joined the Joe Rogan Experience podcast today for a wide-ranging interview …
Angrej Singh / Axios:
Zuckerberg says Meta's fact-checking was “something out of 1984” and criticized the media for hounding Facebook to clamp down on misinfo after the 2016 election  —  - Zuckerberg told Rogan, who was a prominent sceptic of the COVID-19 vaccine, that the Biden administration would …
Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge:
A look at Zuckerberg's lies on Joe Rogan's podcast, as he tried to get listeners riled up about agencies like CFPB and give GOP a new tech target in Apple  —  I'll spare you the experience of listening to one of the richest men in the world whine and just tell you straight out …
New York Times:
Sources detail Zuckerberg's sprint to remake Meta after meeting with Trump at Thanksgiving; he no longer wants to keep his views of how Meta should be run quiet  —  After visiting President-elect Donald J. Trump in November, Mr. Zuckerberg decided to relax Meta's speech policies.
Alex Heath / The Verge:
Josh Wingrove / Bloomberg:
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Memo: Amazon halts some of its DEI programs, saying it is “winding down outdated programs and materials” as part of a broader review of hundreds of initiatives  —  Amazon is halting some of its diversity and inclusion initiatives, joining a growing list of major corporations …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Apple opposes a shareholder measure calling for an end to DEI efforts, saying the proposal was an inappropriate attempt to restrict Apple's business operations  —  Apple Inc. disclosed a 18% pay increase for Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook ahead of its annual meeting next month …
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Julie Bort / TechCrunch:
OpenAI's crawlers took down e-commerce site Triplegangers by relentlessly trying to scrape the entire site, whose robots.txt file was not properly configured  —  On Saturday, Triplegangers CEO Oleksandr Tomchuk was alerted that his company's e-commerce site was down.
Bloomberg:
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, and, a source says, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg are planning to attend Trump's inauguration events this month  —  - Tech companies, executives donated to Trump's inaugural fund  — Industry trying to boost relationship with new administration
Ming-Chi Kuo:
Sources: H1 2025 iPhone shipments to decline ~6%, annual shipments to remain flat at around 220M to 225M units; ultra-thin iPhone's thinnest part will be ~5.5mm  —  My latest industry research indicates that Apple will encounter more challenging hurdles in 2025, including nearly stagnant iPhone growth …
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
How the rise of self-imposed solitude in the US, accelerated by smartphones in the 21st century, is reshaping the country's civic and psychological identity  —  Americans are now spending more time alone than ever.  It's changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality.
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
A scammer details how voice phishing groups are abusing Apple's support line to generate “account confirmation” message prompts from Apple to their customers  —  Besieged by scammers seeking to phish user accounts over the telephone, Apple and Google frequently caution …

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