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Google says Microsoft's support of a bill for greater bargaining power for news pubs is “self-serving” and intended to distract from the SolarWinds hack — Google has always been committed to providing high-quality and relevant information, and to supporting the news publishers who help create it.
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| Brad Smith / Microsoft On the Issues: |
In House hearing, Brad Smith says monetizing referral traffic has become increasingly difficult for news pubs because Google squeezes out most of the profit — Editor's Note: On Mar. 12, Microsoft President Brad Smith testified before the House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law
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Marco Rubio says he is endorsing Amazon workers' unionization efforts in Alabama because Amazon leadership is waging “culture war against working-class values” — Amazon is waging a culture war against working-class values and is not helping workers or our economy.
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In a letter to GOP Senators, Amazon says it removed a book because of its policy not to sell books that frame LGBTQ+ identity as a mental illness — Company states policy in response to inquiry by several Republican senators over recent removal of book by conservative author| Matt Burgess / WIRED UK: |
UK Home Office confirms trial of web surveillance tool that can track users' browsing history in partnership with two unnamed ISPs and National Crime Agency — The Investigatory Powers Act, or Snooper's Charter, was introduced in 2016. Now one of its most contentious surveillance tools is being secretly trialled by internet firms
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| Patrick Howell O'Neill / MIT Technology Review: |
ESET: at least ten, mostly state-backed, hacking groups are exploiting Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities on thousands of servers in over 115 countries — Days before Microsoft released a fix for a secret attack on its email systems, hackers ramped up their activity. Now experts say swift action is required.| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Facebook announces a project to train its AI to understand what is happening in videos, using data from videos publicly available on Facebook — AI that can understand video could be put to a variety of uses — Teaching AI systems to understand what's happening in videos as completely … | James Tarmy / Bloomberg: |
MetaKovan, an anonymous digital asset investor and founder of NFT focused crypto-based investment fund Metapurse, is the buyer of the $69M Beeple NFT — A digital asset investor who goes by the handle Metakovan and refuses to give his full name, announced that he is the buyer …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Epidemic Sound, a marketplace for online creators looking for background music, raises $450M from Blackstone and EQT Growth, at a valuation of $1.4B — The popularity of video and other streamed content like podcasts is continuing to grow at a breakneck speed, and today a startup called Epidemic Sound … | Eric Martin / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the Biden administration has informed some Huawei suppliers it is imposing more explicit prohibitions on the export of 5G components to the company — - Conditions for licensed exporters went into effect this week — Move builds on Huawei prohibitions implemented under Trump
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
A look at the history of Twine, an open-source tool for producing web-based interactive fiction and games with text, as it remains a significant force in gaming — IN THE VIDEO GAME Howling Dogs, released in 2012, players wake up in a prison with few options: a shower, a nutrient dispenser …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple sues its former materials lead Simon Lancaster for allegedly stealing trade secrets and leaking them to the media — Apple is taking legal action against its former materials lead, Simon Lancaster, over allegedly leaking trade secrets to the media. The lawsuit accuses Lancaster of abusing his … | Daniel McCoy / Wichita Business Journal: |
Boston-based Valo Health, which analyzes clinical data to identify molecules and predict their chances for use in drugs, raises $300M Series B — A Boston-based company working to improve the way drugs are brought to the market has secured $110 million in Series B funding from Koch Disruptive Technologies.
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Ant Group chairman Eric Jing will also become its CEO, after the company's current CEO Simon Hu resigned unexpectedly — Ant Group Co. Chief Executive Officer Simon Hu resigned from the company, according to a person with knowledge of the matter, as the company overhauls its business, Bloomberg News reports.
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Sources: Bilibili has received a nod for its proposed $3B second listing in Hong Kong; its US shares are up ~10x since US IPO, giving it a market value of $39B — - Streaming platform's U.S. shares up ninefold since 2018 IPO — U.S.-listed Chinese technology firms flocking to Hong Kong| Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review: |
Facebook sidelined AI experts and weakened initiatives to clean up misinfo because leadership didn't want to hurt Zuckerberg's desire for growth — Joaquin Quiñonero Candela, a director of AI at Facebook, was apologizing to his audience. — It was March 23, 2018 …
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