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X appears to be blocking Signal's “Signal.me” links in DMs, posts, and profile pages, giving error messages and showing a warning page for users clicking them — Signal has been a primary method of communication for federal workers looking to blow the whistle on DOGE.
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Bluesky: @j4ck.xyz, @quillmatiq.com, and @cuthrell.com
Mastodon: @privacyguides@mastodon … and @psoutham@infosec.exchange
X: @mysk_co, @mattbinder, @mysk_co, @waltywang, and @whatisnuclear
Forums: Hacker News, r/Twitter, r/DailyTechNewsShow, r/DeFranco, r/signal, r/technology, r/fednews, r/privacy, r/portugueses, and r/EnoughMuskSpam
| Max Tani / Semafor: |
Documents: the NYT greenlights using select internal and external AI tools for editorial and product staff, including from OpenAI, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft — The Scoop — The New York Times is greenlighting the use of AI for its product and editorial staff, saying that internal tools …
More: The Verge, TechCrunch, Moneycontrol, TechSpot, Beyond Search, and Pivot to AI
Bluesky: @carnage4life, @davidgerard.co.uk, and @hypervisible
| Namanyay Goel / N's Blog: |
New junior developers are reliant on Copilot, Claude, and other AI tools, meaning foundational coding knowledge is now missing, creating problems down the road — 100k+ views 70+ votes 50+ votes — Something's been bugging me about how new devs and I need to talk about it.
Bluesky: @mariotoday. Mastodon: @rabc@hachyderm.io, @dwallach@discuss.systems, and @sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place
X: @deedydas, @nickadobos, @deedydas, @gergelyorosz, @deedydas, @namanyayg, and @elonmusk
Forums: Hacker News, r/ChatGPTCoding, and Slashdot
| Reuters: |
South Korea's data protection authority says DeepSeek app downloads have been suspended in the country after DeepSeek failed to follow its personal data rules — South Korea's data protection authority on Monday said it had temporarily suspended the domestic service of Chinese AI app DeepSeek since Saturday.
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Forums: r/China, r/privacy, and r/technology
| David Barnett / The Guardian: |
An interview with Nadia Odunayo on building Goodreads alternative StoryGraph, remaining bootstrapped, reaching 3.8M active users, not allowing DMs, and more — Software engineer and developer Nadia Odunayo created the social media readers' platform StoryGraph and its popularity has rocketed
Bluesky: @justsmudge, @ben-esse, and @davidmbarnett
Mastodon: @Climatehistories … and @DazzlingDamo@mastodon.ie
Forums: Hacker News, r/HappyBlackWomen, r/TheStoryGraph, r/books, and r/technology
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A look at Apple's and Meta's robotics efforts; sources say Apple is working on a 27" Studio Display successor to launch by 2026 and considering monetizing Maps — Apple and Meta are set to go toe-to-toe in another emerging area: AI-powered humanoid robots.
More: 9to5Mac, MacRumors, MacRumors, Thurrott, USA Today, Forbes, T3, iPhone in Canada Blog, Redmond Pie, TechPowerUp, AppleInsider, TechRadar, Cult of Mac, O'Grady's PowerPage, Android Headlines, BGR, Verdict, Ghacks, The Shortcut, International Business Times, Tom's Guide, Mashable, Digital Trends, Digit, nextpit, The Rundown AI, iLounge, Business Today, Benzinga, Neowin, PhoneArena, Laptop Mag, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, AppleInsider, and 9to5Mac
Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, r/applesucks, r/technology, r/technews, r/enshittification, r/applemaps, r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Bloomberg: |
Chinese President Xi meets with Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma, Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, and more, signaling Beijing's support for the long-marginalized sector — - Meeting signals a more supportive stance toward private firms — Xi promises relief from excessive fines, level playing field| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Mistral releases Mistral Saba, a 24B-parameter custom-trained model focused on Arabic language and culture, via its API; Saba outperforms Mistral Small 3 — The next frontier for large language models (LLMs), one of the key technologies underpinning the boom in generative AI tools, might be geographical.| Politico: |
X challenges a German court order requiring it to share metrics such as likes and shares with researchers before the February 23 election, in a test of EU's DSA — Elon Musk's X has challenged a German court decision that instructed the platform to share data with researchers, the court confirmed to POLITICO.
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Wall Street banks led by Morgan Stanley have offloaded almost all of Elon Musk's $12.5B in loans used to buy Twitter, and now hold $1B+ in X debt — Investor perception of debt has changed since Donald Trump's election victory — Wall Street banks have rid themselves of almost …
Bluesky: @bondhack.ft.com
| Gillian Tan / Bloomberg: |
Dream, which offers cybersecurity tools to governments and critical infrastructure firms, raised $100M led by Bain at a $1.1B valuation, up from $190M in 2023 — - Cybersecurity-focused firm raised $100 million in latest round — Dream targets $100 million in annual recurring revenue in 2025
More: SiliconANGLE, Reuters, Dream, and FinSMEs
| Bloomberg: |
An analysis of credit and debit card data shows TikTok Shop passed Shein and Temu in US sales in January 2025, growing 153% to Shein's 26% and Temu's 28% — The popular video app, which brought in-app shopping to its millions of American users in 2023, continued to surpass Shein …
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