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| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
Tim Wu, an outspoken critic of Big Tech, is joining the National Economic Council as a special assistant to President Biden for tech and competition policy — Tim Wu's appointment to the National Economic Council would signal a confrontational approach by the Biden administration.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Leaked interface shows that Twitter's “undo send” feature may be a button that also doubles as a progress bar showing how much time a user has to undo — A work-in-progress interface has been unearthed — A potential animation for Twitter's long-rumored “undo send” …
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| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Sources: EU is set to press antitrust charges against Apple over App Store rules for competing music streaming services, following a complaint by Spotify — Brussels set to formally press charges alleging tech company used its dominance to squeeze out App Store rivals
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft rolls out new features for Edge, including vertical tabs and a feature that it says can improve startup times by 29% to 41% after a device reboots — Microsoft Edge gets some new features for March — Microsoft is rolling out some new improvements to its Edge browser this month.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google says it is speeding up the Chrome release cycle and will ship a new milestone every four weeks instead of the current six weeks — Google today announced that its Chrome browser is moving to a faster release cycle by shipping a new milestone every four weeks instead of the current six-week cycle …
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
In the past month, three of the longest-running Russian cybercrime forums have been hacked, leaking their users' email addresses, login metadata, and more — Over the past few weeks, three of the longest running and most venerated Russian-language online forums serving thousands of experienced cybercriminals have been hacked.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple clarifies that users can't actually set a default music service in iOS 14.5 but has a feature that lets Siri attempt to learn preferred listening apps — Apple has clarified that the iOS 14.5 beta is not actually allowing users to select a new default music service, as has been reported.
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| Saqib Shah / Engadget: |
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon Sound, an initiative to enhance the wireless sound experience by lowering latency and improving connection issues — Just days after it unveiled its project to bring — advanced haptics to Android, Qualcomm has announced another ambitious venture aimed at bridging the gaps in device performance.
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| Katherine Rosman / New York Times: |
Square acquires a majority stake in Jay-Z's streaming service Tidal for $297M; Jay-Z will join Square's board — What did Jay-Z and Jack Dorsey talk about when they went yachting around the Hamptons together last summer? Perhaps only Beyoncé knows. — Maybe now we do, too.
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| Bennett Cyphers / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Google's FLoC, which helps advertisers perform behavioral targeting, avoids privacy risks of 3rd-party cookies, but creates new privacy issues in the process — The third-party cookie is dying, and Google is trying to create its replacement. — No one should mourn the death of the cookie as we know it.
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Turntable.fm has relaunched with involvement from its founder and a separate site, Turntable.org, is expected to launch in beta in April with a subscription fee — A tale of two turntables — It's rare that apps come back from the dead, but it seems like that may be what's happening with Turntable.fm …
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| Joshua Franklin / Reuters: |
Sources: Instacart is considering going public through a direct listing, concerned that it could leave money on the table through a traditional IPO — (Reuters) - U.S. grocery delivery app Instacart is considering going public through a direct listing, concerned that it could leave money …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Leaked images show Sonos Roam, the company's smallest portable speaker, expected to ship on April 20 for $169 — You're looking at the first images of the next speaker from Sonos. Set to be priced at $169, the new device — it's called the Sonos Roam — is much smaller than the Sonos Move …
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Tweets: @chriswelch, @dcseifert, @chriswelch, @jonporty, @backlon, and @reckless
| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
AdGuard publishes a list of 6K+ trackers abusing the CNAME cloaking technique, which lets trackers bypass many ad-blocking and anti-tracking protections — Assuming your content blocker can scrutinize DNS — AdGuard on Thursday published a list of more than 6,000 CNAME-based trackers …
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Reddit hires Drew Vollero as its first chief financial officer to prepare the company for an eventual IPO — The addition of Drew Vollero, formerly of Mattel and Snap, is a move toward developing operations more like publicly traded social networks. — SAN FRANCISCO — The world's … | Taylor Lorenz / New York Times: |
As Clubhouse grows in popularity, companies like the just-launched Audio Collective seek to cater to creators, offering event planning and brand consulting — A new company called Audio Collective has launched to help build businesses on Clubhouse as brands rush to leverage the platform.| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
In a letter, a bipartisan group of senators call on FCC to change their definition of high speed broadband to above 100/100 Mbps, up from the current 25/3 Mbps — The Pai FCC decided to maintain the current standard — The federal government's definition of high-speed broadband …
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