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Charles “Chuck” Geschke, who co-founded Adobe in 1982 with John Warnock and helped develop PDF technology, died on Friday at 81 — Charles “Chuck” Geschke, co-founder of the iconic Silicon Valley company Adobe Inc. and prominent cheerleader of downtown San Jose, died Friday at age 81.| Raphael Satter / Reuters: |
US investigators probing a breach at Codecov, a software auditing company, that affected some of its 29K customers; the breach was in Jan. but detected in April — U.S. federal investigators are probing an intrusion at San Francisco-based software auditing company Codecov that affected …
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Codecov, Ars Technica, The Verge, BleepingComputer, Gizmodo, Decipher, BankInfoSecurity, CyberScoop, and SC Media
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Clubhouse has raised a Series C led by Andreessen Horowitz, with DST Global, Tiger Global, and Elad Gil participating — Since then we have grown faster than expected, as Clubhouse has expanded across hundreds of countries around the world. With millions of new users bouncing around the hallways …
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Tweets: @andrewchen, @joinclubhouse, @eladgil, @joinclubhouse, @scottnover, @firstadopter, @alexeheath, and @wongmjane
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
A look back at the netbook explosion of the late 2000s and how iPads, Chromebooks, and appliance-like computers took the netbook's place — The sound of a slow processor screaming — There's an Apple event next week, and it's looking fairly likely that we'll see updated models of the iPad Pro and perhaps the iPad Mini.
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| Will Goodbody / RTÉ: |
Newly filed Google Ireland Holdings accounts show $75B+ in profits moved through the subsidiary in 2019, the last year Google used the “double Irish” tax scheme — Newly filed accounts show that over $75bn in profits moved through a subsidiary of Google that was incorporated in Ireland in 2019 … | Todd Feathers / The Markup: |
A look at lobbying efforts by Facebook, Apple, Google and others in Connecticut, Texas, and other US states crafting consumer privacy bills — The Markup found industry fingerprints on at least five bills around the country—weak laws, experts say, that are designed to preempt stronger protections
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
A former alt-right YouTuber details how he tailored videos for the “echo chamber”, including focusing squarely on confrontations to drive views on YouTube — Focus on conflict. Feed the algorithm. Make sure whatever you produce reinforces a narrative. Don't worry if it is true.
Tweets: @nytimesbusiness, @markhurst, @jgreenblattadl, @frankpasquale, @nytmedia, @anthony, and @clearing_fog
| Julie Zhu / Reuters: |
Sources: Ant Group is exploring options for founder Jack Ma to divest his stake and give up control to appease Chinese regulators — Ant Group is exploring options for founder Jack Ma to divest his stake in the financial technology giant and give up control, as meetings with Chinese regulators signaled …
Tweets: @richardturrin, @azeem, @isaacstonefish, @niubi, and @niubi
| Dina Temple-Raston / NPR: |
Company officials, victims, experts, and intel officials discuss the SolarWinds hack, which successfully compromised ~100 companies and a dozen govt. agencies — “This release includes bug fixes, increased stability and performance improvements.” — The routine software update …
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Tweets: @mevstatieva, @hausofcait, @wandermiles, @adam_k_levin, @daytonpubpolicy, @nancynoco24, @nprdina, and @npr
| Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal: |
Roblox is working on content ratings for games and on ways to make parental controls easier to find and use, to address sexual content issues on its platform — Sexual role-play and ‘dating’ are common on the children's gaming platform; parental controls help make it a safer space| Ira Boudway / Bloomberg: |
How Aurora, now the owner of Uber's ATG, is moving to bring its self-driving tech to market via deals with Volvo in trucking, Uber and Toyota in taxis, more — On Feb. 11, about a month after closing on the acquisition of Uber's Advanced Technologies Group, or ATG, the self-driving-car startup Aurora held an all-hands meeting.
Tweets: @bw, @tweetermeyer, @iboudway, @mavolpi, and @greylockvc
| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
Big tech whistleblowers describe the severe emotional toll that standing up to gigantic companies takes and how it sets them on the path to advocacy — Last summer, just before she published a viral Twitter thread about the discrimination she said she faced at Pinterest …
Tweets: @issielapowsky, @protocol, @folletto, @joyehoward, @runasand, @tri_becca90, @mmitchell_ai, @hotmessjess__, @krotondo, @erikashimizu, @ifeomaozoma, @ekp, @chelseyglasson, @issielapowsky, @eminietfeld, @nandoodles, @cindygallop, @byjacobward, @iayori, @find_evil, @lizjosullivan, and @chelseyglasson
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