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| Dan Sullivan / Tampa Bay Times: |
A Florida teen who hacked well-known Twitter accounts last summer and used them to ask for BTC, netting $100K+ worth, was sentenced to 3 years in a plea deal — Graham Ivan Clark, 18, agreed to plea guilty to fraud charges for a hack of several Twitter accounts last summer.
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| CNBC: |
SEC filing: Uber will reclassify its UK drivers as “workers”, granting them vacation pay, minimum wage, and pension plan access, but not full employee benefits — - Uber will reclassify all U.K.-based drivers as workers. — Under the new designation, more than 70,000 drivers …
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| Dara Khosrowshahi / London Evening Standard: |
Uber's thinking on UK driver rights has evolved and worker flexibility “should not come at the expense of social protections” — T — hree weeks after I became CEO of Uber in 2017, our licence to operate in London was revoked. It was not how I expected to start my new job …
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The Verge, BBC, TechCrunch, CNN, Associated Press, and Los Angeles Times
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| Noam Cohen / Wired: |
Wikimedia Foundation debuts Wikimedia Enterprise, a premium service for delivering Wikipedia content to companies like Google, but a free option will remain — The Big Four all lean on the encyclopedia at no cost. With the launch of Wikimedia Enterprise, the volunteer project will change that—and possibly itself, too.
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Diff, meta.wikimedia.org, AppleInsider, iMore, 9to5Mac, The Verge, Trusted Reviews, and Mashable
Tweets: @wikimedia, @romaindillet, @keynote2k, @wikidocjames, @timbray, and @wired
| Leah Nylen / Politico: |
Internal FTC docs: 2013 decision not to pursue a Google antitrust investigation was based on faulty logic and a misunderstanding of the internet's potential — Few moments in the power struggle between Washington and Silicon Valley have inspired more anger and bafflement than one in January 2013 …
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The Keyword. Tweets: @lutherlowe, @leah_nylen, @googlepubpolicy, @pauldemko, @matthewstoller, @matthewstoller, @privacymatters, @matthewstoller, @cbudoffbrown, @reddy, @aaronwall, @zephyrteachout, @karaswisher, @cbudoffbrown, @cbudoffbrown, @ryanchittum, @benpauker, @politicoeurope, @hawleymo, @politico, @leah_nylen, @politico, @politico, and @matthewstoller
| The Verge: |
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google announces second-generation Nest Hub with sleep tracking, powered by a Soli radar chip, for $100, shipping on March 30 — In deciding to not put a camera on what was initially called the Home Hub, Google made its first Assistant Smart Display ideal for nightstands.
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Facebook will begin testing its publishing platform, including website and newsletter tools, with a small group of writers, some of whom will be paid — Facebook will soon begin testing partnerships with a small group of independent writers for its new publishing platform, sources tell Axios.
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Facebook for Media, New Republic, BNet, Pocketnow, Social Media Today, Variety, and Wall Street Journal
| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Squarespace raises $300M in a round valuing it at $10B, two months after it filed confidentially to go public via a direct listing or an IPO — Squarespace has raised $300 million in a round of funding that values the company at a staggering $10 billion valuation.| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Facebook says it will publish an annual report detailing its impact on human rights and will establish a fund to support human rights activists and journalists — - Social media giant to give board formal updates on the issue — Company has been criticized for role in Myanmar, Sri Lanka
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| William Turton / Bloomberg: |
Leaked audio from a February 8 meeting reveals Parler's chief policy officer saying: “We are not going after misinformation in any way” — Leaked recordings of meetings detail role of Rebekah Mercer at social-media platform — Conservative donor Rebekah Mercer has been writing checks …
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Gizmodo. Tweets: @jsrailton, @brianjjackson, @slpng_giants, @williamturton, @kevinwhitelaw1, and @williamturton
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Intel's 11th Gen desktop chips launch, with the flagship Core i9-11900K sporting eight cores, two less than last gen, and boosted clock speeds of up to 5.3GHz — Rocket Lake-S looks to combine the best parts of Intel's 14nm process with its 10nm designs — Intel's next-generation desktop chips …
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Tweets: @fpiednoel, @kylealden, @tomwarren, @intelnews, @intelgaming, and @tapbot_paul
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Instagram says it's introducing new policies to limit interactions between teenagers and adults, including banning adults from DMing teens who don't follow them — Teen users will also be shown safety prompts when messaging ‘suspicious’ adults — Instagram is introducing …
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About Facebook, Social Media Today, CNET, Fortune, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacRumors, Neowin, SlashGear, TechSpot, Input, MUO, PCMag, and Tubefilter
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| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
GoPro refreshes its main smartphone app, now called Quik, and adds new features, including a private feed for organizing media — Another new direction for the camera company's software — GoPro is releasing a new version of its main smartphone app that will now be called “Quik.”
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9to5Mac, CNET, Android Police, AppleInsider, PetaPixel, phonearena.com, and Camera Jabber
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Sensor Tower: if reduced 15% commission was in place in 2020, Apple would have missed out on an estimated $595M or 2.7% and Google $587M or 5% in app store fees — - Apple and Google have announced changes to app store fees that impact app makers making less than $1 million per year.
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MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Wall Street Journal, AppleInsider, Adweek, iMore, The Hill, and MacDailyNews
Tweets: @mattbirchler, @zhugeex, and @fosspatents
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
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| Ryan Weeks / The Block: |
eToro, which lets users trade cryptocurrencies, commodities, stocks, and more, says it will go public via SPAC, valuing the company at $10.4B and raising $650M — Quick Take — The investment platform is merging with FinTech Acquisition Corp. V — The SPAC merger follows years …
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| Ian Carlos Campbell / The Verge: |
Dropbox says Dropbox Passwords, a management tool introduced in 2020 for businesses, will be free for Basic accounts starting in April, with a 50 password limit — Maybe an upsell, maybe a introduction to password security — Dropbox is adding a new feature on top of its usual offerings …
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Work in Progress, XDA Developers, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, PCWorld, Gizmodo, and Android Police
| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
SEC charges a California trader for allegedly using misleading claims to promote penny stocks on Twitter to his ~13K followers and then selling his holdings — The agency says social media was used in an alleged pump-and-dump scam. — The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) …
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U.S. Securities … and SlashGear
| Bloomberg: |
French data protection watchdog says it is investigating Apple after a complaint by lobbying group France Digitale about Apple's personalized ad features — - Apple set to get French antitrust ruling as soon as Wednesday — Software update plan aims to curb web tracking in privacy push| Bloomberg: |
Huawei says it will start charging Apple, Samsung, and other manufacturers royalties for 5G patents, a potentially lucrative scheme as US sanctions bite — - Executives pledge to charge rates below its competitors — Company is keen to expand its clout in global 5G networking
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CNBC, Huawei, Android Central, SlashGear, The Verge, iMore, Light Reading, iPhone Hacks, Redmond Pie, and Liliputing
Tweets: @benwood, @hdduncan, and @fosspatents
| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Oregon-based Dutchie, an e-commerce platform for cannabis dispensaries, raised $200M Series C at a $1.7B valuation, up nearly eight times from last August — Dutchie, a nearly four-year-old, Bend, Oregon company that charges cannabis dispensaries a monthly fee to create and run their websites … | Billy Tallis / AnandTech: |
Micron says it is ceasing all R&D on its 3D XPoint memory, which it developed with Intel, and has listed its fab in Lehi, Utah for sale — In a sudden but perhaps not too surprising announcement, Micron has stated that they are ceasing all R&D of 3D XPoint memory technology.
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Micron Technology, Tom's Hardware, Bloomberg, Forbes, HPCwire, MarketWatch, and Reuters
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Report: Apple will let the Russian government pre-install iOS apps in accordance with a new law; users can deselect the apps during setup or delete them after — Starting next month, Apple will allow the Russian government to pre-install apps on iPhones, iPads and other devices starting next month.
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The Verge, OSnews, MacRumors, iMore, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, The Moscow Times, Ubergizmo, Engadget, iDownloadBlog.com, Gizchina, Input, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @counternotions, @photovirus, @waltmossberg, @waltmossberg, @photovirus, @waltmossberg, and @markgurman
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
PatSnap, which offers an AI-powered service to help R&D teams analyze the intellectual property landscape, raises $300M Series E led by Tencent and SoftBank — Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. — PatSnap, which offers a patent …
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Telegraph, Tech.eu, FinSMEs, Bloomberg, SiliconANGLE, Crunchbase News, and PatSnap
| Financial Times: |
Huawei, Xiaomi, Tencent, and other Chinese internet companies remove Alibaba's popular UC Browser from app stores, following Xi's warning of a crackdown — Group accused over misleading advertising as Xi Jinping warns tech crackdown will continue — Chinese internet companies have pulled …
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Reuters, PYMNTS.com, and Tech News
Tweets: @chinausfocus, @jkynge, @sam_l_shead, and @ophirgottlieb
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Docker raises $23M Series B led by Tribe Capital as a new developer focus takes shape for the company after it sold its enterprise business in 2019 — It was easy to wonder what would become of Docker after it sold its enterprise business in 2019, but it regrouped last year … Sponsor Posts
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