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Amid COVID-19 concerns, Meta, Amazon, Ring, and Twitter cancel in-person CES plans, T-Mobile and AMD plan a limited presence, and others monitor conditions — - Google, HTC, Samsung and Sony still currently plan to go — Host of CES conference remains steadfast in moving forward
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
An announcement bot for Justin Kan's NFT platform Fractal was hacked by a scammer who made off with about $150K, before the startup even launched its platform — Despite billions in VC investment, many web3 crypto platforms are still pretty hostile places for users new to the crypto world.| Mehul Srivastava / Financial Times: |
Sources detail how a 2019 NSO deal to sell Pegasus services to Uganda, followed by an attempt to hack US diplomats in Uganda using Pegasus, led to NSO's decline — For years, the Israeli spyware maker thrived through scandal. Then, US diplomats in Uganda got hacked by Pegasus
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Jack Dorsey's tweet sparks uproar: “You don't own ‘web3.’ ... VCs and their LPs do. It will never escape their incentives. It's ultimately a centralized entity” — Fresh off relinquishing the chief executive reins of Twitter Inc., Bitcoin enthusiast Jack Dorsey …
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TikTok.com was the most popular domain globally between August and December 2021, after passing Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon this year — Loading... Sofia Cardita — The years come and go, Internet traffic continues to grow (at least so far and with some ‘help’ from the pandemic) …
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| Mathew Olson / The Information: |
Meta says it acquired ImagineOptix, a North Carolina-based startup specializing in liquid crystal lenses, which could help reduce the size of VR headsets — It's time to add another company to the list of Meta's acquisitions in the AR/VR industry. Meta has acquired ImagineOptix … | Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Meta says over half of its Bulletin newsletter platform's 115 creators have over 1,000 free subscribers, “with many having more than 5,000 or 10,000” — Six months in and there are 115 publications writing on it — A new blog post from Meta marks the six-month anniversary of its newsletter publishing platform, Bulletin.| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
The UK's National Centre for Gaming Disorders, opened in 2019 in London, says ~70% of those treated were aged 18 or under and ~90% were male — Over a third of patients stuck on waiting list after referrals double in a year — More than a third of patients referred to the UK's … | Harry Brumpton / Bloomberg: |
Canadian legal software maker Dye & Durham will acquire Australian data and back office services provider Link Group for about $2.5B — - Cash offer at 15% premium over Link's Tuesday closing price — Deal includes Link's 43% stake in recently spun-out PEXA Group
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The UK's ad regulator bans two ads by Arsenal FC promoting its Socios-based Fan Tokens, saying the soccer club “failed to illustrate the risk of the investment” — A web page and a Facebook post by Arsenal football club promoting crypto-based fan tokens broke advertising rules, a watchdog has ruled.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
AT&T plans to sell its Xandr programmatic advertising marketplace to Microsoft; the deal would not include the ad sales business supporting DirecTV — Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed; the transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory reviews.
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Chinese state media says regulators suspended an info-sharing partnership with Alibaba Cloud over accusations it failed to promptly report a Log4j vulnerability — Chinese regulators on Wednesday suspended an information-sharing partnership with Alibaba Cloud Computing … | David Pierce / Protocol: |
Interview with Automattic's Matt Mullenweg on working from his always-connected RV, making “the Berkshire Hathaway of the internet”, and betting on open systems — In the early days of the pandemic, Matt Mullenweg didn't move to a compound in Hawaii, bug out to a bunker …
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