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Facebook shelved its content transparency report in Q1 fearing public criticism, as the most-viewed link suggested a doctor died due to a COVID-19 vaccine — The company praised itself this week for being “the most transparent platform on the internet.” — When Facebook this week released …
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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
OnlyFans shares new TOS for “sexually explicit conduct”: no intercourse, masturbation, exhibition of genitals; any such content must be removed before Dec. 1 — Sex and masturbation, whether simulated or real, aren't allowed — On Thursday the video and image sharing site …
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| Jeong Park / Sacramento Bee: |
A California superior court judge rules that Prop 22 is unconstitutional because it infringes on the Legislature's power to set workplace standards — A California judge on Friday ruled that a 2020 ballot measure exempting rideshare and food delivery drivers from a state labor law … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources detail how Jack Ma's relationship with China's leadership soured, as he failed to keep up with Beijing's shifting views and tuned out warnings for years — The billionaire entrepreneur matched the heights of America's tech legends but failed to heed warnings that Chinese leader Xi Jinping still called the shots
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Chainalysis: global cryptocurrency adoption grew 881% YoY, led by Vietnam, India, and Pakistan, according to metrics such as P2P exchange trading volume — - Global crypto adoption has taken off in the last year, up 881%, with Vietnam, India and Pakistan firmly in the lead, according to new data from Chainalysis.
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| Matthew Hutson / New Yorker: |
Profile of Cerebras, which made the world's largest chip by using a “wafer-scale” approach that offers one possibility for AI chips to keep up with Moore's law — In the race to accelerate A.I., the Silicon Valley company Cerebras has landed on an unusual strategy: go big.
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| Benjamin Pimentel / Protocol: |
Profile of Thomas Templeton, an Apple hardware veteran building a bitcoin wallet for Square, and how he photographs retail countertops to inform product design — The Square executive leading Jack Dorsey's big plan for a bitcoin wallet is a veteran hardware technologist with a quirky hobby: taking pictures of countertops.
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| Eric Benjamin Seufert / Mobile Dev Memo: |
FTC's updated suit against Facebook incorrectly claims that Facebook has driven up ad prices via monopoly control over the personal social networking market — re-filed its antitrust lawsuit against Facebook — after a federal judge deemed that the agency failed to prove …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Cloudflare says it mitigated a 17.2M rps DDoS attack last month, ~3x larger than any previous DDoS attack, targeting a customer in the financial industry — Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare disclosed today that it mitigated the largest volumetric distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that was recorded to date.| Biz Carson / Protocol: |
Q&A with Nick Shenkin, an SF-based FBI special agent, on warning big tech companies about economic espionage and IP theft by Russian and Chinese spies and more — When FBI special agent Nick Shenkin starts talking about spies in Silicon Valley, he's not describing a James Bond movie …
Tweets: @caseyebabb
| Emily Birnbaum / Politico: |
A deep dive into the aggressive lobbying tactics that Apple is using to fight app store bills in Georgia, Arizona, North Dakota, Louisiana, and other US states — When Apple wanted to kill off two bills in Georgia this year, it rushed lobbyists to the state legislature …
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