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Twitter will let iOS users of its Blue subscription service use NFTs as hexagon-shaped profile pictures — Service will be available to some users of the company's Blue subscriber service — Twitter Inc. will start allowing some users to use nonfungible tokens as their profile pictures …
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Twitter terminated its head of security Peiter “Mudge” Zatko this week, and CISO Rinki Sethi will depart in the coming weeks; both execs joined Twitter in 2020 — Parag Agrawal, Twitter's new chief executive, terminated the company's head of security this week.
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| Alana Semuels / TIME: |
Intel commits $20B to build at least two semiconductor fabrication plants on a 1,000-acre site by 2025, employing at least 3,000 people in New Albany, Ohio — The announcement comes amidst a push to increase domestic manufacturing of semiconductors. Partly because of enormous incentives offered …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Netflix reports Q4 revenue of $7.71B, up 16% YoY, net income of $607M, 222M paid subscribers, and $30B in 2021 revenue, up 19%; stock down 25%+ on weak guidance — Netflix ended 2021 with a slightly lower-than-expected subscriber gain in the fourth quarter, and its stock took a dive with a weak Q1 outlook.
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| Tiernan Ray / ZDNet: |
Meta details Data2vec, a self-supervised algorithm that unifies the process of training a neural network to learn the same across speech, images, and text — By eschewing data-specific outputs for internal representations, Meta aims for a more-general sort of AI.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
The Senate Judiciary votes 16-6 to advance the American Innovation and Choice Online Act, which would stop platforms from favoring their products over rivals' — The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 16-6 Thursday to advance a major tech competition bill, which some experts consider lawmakers' best shot …
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| Jim Dallke / Chicago Business Journal: |
BigTime Software, which helps companies monitor and manage their finances through budgeting, tracking, and invoicing, raises $100M from Vista Equity Partners — Chicago tech firm BigTime Software has landed a large investment from Vista Equity Partners as it looks to grow its software for professional services firms.
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DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman is leaving Google to join Greylock Partners; Suleyman was stripped of some duties in 2019 for allegedly bullying staff — Mustafa Suleyman, a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence, is leaving Google to join the venture capital firm Greylock Partners.| Andrew Asmakov / Decrypt: |
Crypto.com says its breach affected 483 users, resulting in unauthorized cryptocurrencies withdrawals worth ~$33.84M, and all users were reimbursed the same day — Cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com has lost roughly $34 million in a recent security incident, according to a post-mortem released on Thursday.
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Investigation finds that Binance withheld info from regulators and maintained weak checks on customers even as it publicly welcomed regulatory oversight — In public, Binance said it welcomed government oversight. At the same time, the firm was withholding information from regulators … | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
OpenSea suffered a database outage affecting some services that rely on its APIs to display NFTs, including Twitter and MetaMask; the issue has been fixed — A Thursday outage interfered with the ability of MetaMask, which depends on OpenSea, to automatically display new NFTs. — Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases iOS 15.3 RC and macOS Monterey 12.2 RC with a fix for Safari 15's IndexedDB API that leaked users' browser history and Google ID to other sites — We recently reported that Apple was working on a fix for a Safari bug that led to the leaking of users' browsing history and Google ID.Sponsor Posts
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