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Mark Zuckerberg lamented the rise of “culturally neutered” companies that have sought to distance themselves from “masculine energy” — - Rogan interview is latest in sign of shift toward Trump — CEO says Biden staffers would ‘scream’ and ‘curse’ about Covid
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| Aitor Hernández-Morales / Politico: |
Zuckerberg urged Trump to stop the EU from fining US tech companies, which he says were forced by EU to pay $30B+ for legal violations over the past two decades — Comparing the bloc's antitrust penalties to tariffs, the Meta boss argued that Brussels is “screwing with” American industry.
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LinkedIn: Andrew Soteriou, Alberto Alemanno, and Noah Gift
Forums: r/europeanunion, r/politics, r/AnythingGoesNews, r/europe, r/inthenews, r/Destiny, and r/eutech
| Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: |
In Joe Rogan's softball interview, Zuckerberg pointed to Apple and agencies like CFPB as new targets for the GOP, without mentioning GOP's pressure on Meta — I'll spare you the experience of listening to one of the richest men in the world whine and just tell you straight out …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
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| Angrej Singh / Axios: |
| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Matt Mullenweg deactivates the accounts of several WordPress.org members, some of whom have been leading a push to create a new fork of the open-source project — Automattic CEO and WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg has deactivated the accounts of several WordPress.org community members …
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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.| 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Memo: Amazon halts some of its DEI programs, saying it is “winding down outdated programs and materials” as part of a broader review of hundreds of initiatives — Amazon is halting some of its diversity and inclusion initiatives, joining a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 …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
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LinkedIn: Tanya Hayles, Joanne Lipman, Sara Sperling, Keirsten Greggs, Joelle Emerson, and Kristen Parisi
| 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 …
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X: @mingchikuo, @iryantldr, @tgod34748, @wave7jeff, @9to5mac, and @spercharged. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
An interview with Arkady Volozh, CEO of Nebius, formerly Yandex NV, on selling Yandex's Russian business in 2024, competing with US AI startups, and more — The co-founder of internet company Yandex went into exile after the war began. — It's noon, and Arkady Volozh is ready to christen … | 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 … | The News Minute: |
Bengaluru traffic police booked 17K+ cases against delivery personnel in a single week of November 2024, as Swiggy and others rolled out rapid delivery services — Bengaluru traffic police registered 17,218 cases against delivery personnel in a single week of November, including wrong-side driving … | David Shepardson / Reuters: |
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says TSMC has begun producing advanced 4nm chips “on par in yield and quality with Taiwan” for US customers in Phoenix, Arizona — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (2330.TW) has begun producing advanced four-nanometer chips for U.S. customers in Arizona … | Jo Constantz / Bloomberg: |
A look at the burgeoning underground market connecting job seekers to anonymous employees willing to make a referral at Microsoft, Nvidia, Spotify, and others — Recommending strangers to companies like Microsoft and Nvidia has become a side hustle for enterprising employees — Copy, paste, refer.| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Roy Austin, Meta's VP of Civil Rights and Deputy General Counsel, announces he is leaving the company at the end of March 2025, after joining in January 2021 — When Roy Austin was hired to run a new civil rights team in 2021, the company called it “an incredibly important role for Facebook and for the tech industry.”
More: Axios. Threads: @parkermolloy. X: @jason_kint, @ericcolumbus, @ericcolumbus, @inafried, @swumintheocean, and @mikeisaac. LinkedIn: Roy Austin
| Josh Wingrove / Bloomberg: |
| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
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