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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple plans AirTags updates to reduce stalking: Precision Finding for unknown AirTags, displaying alerts with sound, earlier tracking alerts, and louder sounds — Apple today announced that it is making some updates to AirTags with the aim of cutting down on unwanted tracking.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google releases the first Android 13 developer preview, emphasizing security and privacy, dynamic colors, and more, available exclusively on Pixels — Right on schedule, Google today announced the first developer release of Android 13. These very early releases, which are only meant …
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Android Developers Blog, Android Developers, 9to5Google, SiliconANGLE, Ars Technica, 9to5Google, Android Developers, XDA Developers, Esper Blog, Thurrott, ZDNet, 9to5Google, Android Authority, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, The Verge, xiaomiui, Phone Scoop, Liliputing, Tom's Guide, Digital Trends, Phandroid, Android Central, and Droid Life
Tweets: @androiddev, @davey_burke, and @ronamadeo
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google says Samsung, OnePlus, Oppo, Vivo, Realme, Xiaomi, and others will adopt Android 12's dynamic color themes; currently, the feature is mostly on Pixels — One of Android 12's signature features is coming to more phones — Google's Material You dynamic color theming …
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Android Police, Android Developers Blog, Android Authority, Thurrott, XDA Developers, Android Police, MUO, Liliputing, and Droid Life
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| Catie Keck / The Verge: |
YouTube details creator updates: new video effects, editing capabilities, and monetization tools for Shorts, Shopping expansion, Studio improvements, and more — A lot of new features are in the works for 2022 — YouTube is expanding the ways creators can monetize their content …
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YouTube Official Blog, The Verge, Bloomberg, Decrypt, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, Protocol, Search Engine Land, Silicon Valley Business …, Reuters, ZDNet, Thurrott, Agence France-Presse, and Appleosophy
Tweets: @nealmohan, @reneritchie, @reckless, @fwiz, and @camdasilva
| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Senator Blumenthal admits the EARN IT Act won't “offer a blanket exemption to using encryption as evidence”, after denying for two years it targets encryption — Senator Richard Blumenthal has now admitted that EARN IT is targeting encryption, something he denied for two years, and then just out and said it.
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CyberScoop and Protocol
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
The Senate Judiciary Committee advances the EARN IT Act, targeting Section 230 sexual exploitation content protections, despite numerous free speech concerns — Critics say the EARN IT Act would ‘make it far riskier for platforms to host user-generated content’
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Washington Post, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, The Hill, and The Daily Dot
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| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
Binance invests $200M to help Forbes with its plan to go public via a SPAC in Q1 2022, making Binance one of Forbes' biggest two owners after its listing — - Binance, the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange, is making a $200 million strategic investment in Forbes, the 104-year old magazine and digital publisher, CNBC has learned.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Twitter misses with Q4 revenue of $1.57B, up 22% YoY, net income of $182M, down 18% YoY; 217M mDAUs, up from 192M YoY; FY 2021 revenue hit $5.08B, up 37% YoY — - Twitter reported earnings for the fourth quarter of 2021 Thursday that missed analyst estimates on earnings, revenue and user growth.
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| Reed Albergotti / Washington Post: |
Apple confirms it changes every ex-employee's job title to “associate” in job verification databases, after #AppleToo leader Cher Scarlett's SEC complaint — In job databases used by employers to verify resume information, every former Apple employee's title gets erased and replaced with a generic title| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Kioxia and WD report contamination at two NAND production factories, impacting up to 6.5EB of storage; TrendForce says NAND prices could rise 5%-10% in Q2 — Update 2/10/2022, 3am PT: Analyst firm TrendForce has now reported that the incident could cause NAND flash prices to spike 5 to 10% in Q2 … | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Apple releases iOS and iPadOS 15.3.1 and macOS Monterey 12.2.1 to patch a WebKit 0-day that may have been actively exploited, its third 0-day patch in 2022 — Apple has released security updates to fix a new zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild by attackers to hack iPhones, iPads, and Macs.
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Apple Support, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Engadget, The Verge, Macworld, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, and The Mac Observer
Tweets: @zackwhittaker, @maddiestone, and @aaronjschaffer
| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Foxconn says there will be a major improvement in component shortages in Q1; TSMC and others have indicated shortages will continue through 2022 — The biggest assembler of iPhones said component shortages that have plagued electronics production for more than a year are showing signs of easing … | Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg: |
France's CNIL data regulator says Google Analytics fails to sufficiently protect EU citizens' data from potentially illegal US surveillance and could be banned — Alphabet Inc.'s Google Analytics doesn't sufficiently protect European Union citizens' data from potentially illegal U.S. surveillance and could be banned altogether.
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cnil.fr, TechCrunch, Politico, iTnews, Adweek, noyb.eu, Reuters, Euractiv, The Register, Forbes, Silicon Republic, and AppleInsider
Tweets: @carnage4life, @stephaniebodoni, and @stephaniebodoni
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Apple Music on Android beta code suggests Apple's classical music streaming service, coming in early 2022, is called Apple Classical — The latest beta version of Apple Music is rolling out on Android this evening with a very sizable upgrade to homescreen widgets, while possibly also revealing … | Bloomberg: |
Netflix in 2021: 51.7% of workers were women, up from 48.7%; 13.3% of US leaders were Black, up from 10.9%, and 8.6% of US workers were Hispanic, up from 7.9% — Netflix has increased the diversity of its U.S. staff, including more Black top executives, as the company looks to have its workforce better mirror the broader population.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Salt Security, which develops AI-based software to protect API libraries from malicious use, raises a $140M Series D led by CapitalG at a $1.4B valuation — Salt Security, an API vulnerability and protection platform used by companies such as Equinix and Telefónica, has raised $140 million in a series D round of funding.| Mars W. Mosqueda Jr / DealStreetAsia: |
Philippine Digital Asset Exchange, which lets Filipinos buy and sell cryptocurrencies, raises a $50M+ Series B led by Tiger Global and says it has 500K users — Editor's note: An earlier version of this story pegged Tiger Global's latest investment in PDAX at $28.93 million and the Series B funds … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
ShareChat and MX Player agree to merge Moj and MX TakaTak, a move that would create India's largest-short video platform; a source says the deal is worth $900M — Tiger Global-backed ShareChat and Times Internet-owned on-demand video streaming service MX Player have agreed to “strategically merge” …
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Livemint, Moneycontrol, Entrackr, The Economic Times, Tech in Asia, Inc42 Media, and Reuters
| Emily Bary / MarketWatch: |
Affirm tweets some Q2 info early: revenue rose 77% YoY to $361M, GMV grew 115% to $4.5B, and net loss hit $159.7M, up from $26.6M YoY; stock fell as much as 26% — Company was supposed to post results after the closing bell Thursday … Shares of Affirm Holdings Inc. were plunging …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Superconductive, which plans to commercialize its Great Expectations open-source data quality tool in 2022, raises a $40M Series B led by Tiger Global — Data quality — the practice of testing and ensuring that the data and data sets you are using are what you expect them to be …
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| Mehnaz Yasmin / Reuters: |
Branch, which makes tools for Reddit and others to run marketing campaigns, raises $300M led by NEA at a $4B valuation; PitchBook: it was valued at $1B in 2019 — Palo Alto-based Branch, which makes tools that help businesses measure their marketing programs, said on Thursday it raised $300 million …
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| Nikita Richardson / New York Times: |
How The Sims, which lets avatars eat or cook 300+ dishes, has evolved into a world where players can farm, forage, cook, and learn how people experience food — The 22-year-old life-simulation video game has evolved into a world where players can farm, forage, cook and learn about the many ways people experience food.
Tweets: @zoescaman, @tanyasic, @nikitarbk, @hamburger, @lilsimsie, @bykatherineross, @juliey4, and @thesims
| Wall Street Journal: |
The US Senate follows the House in approving a bill barring companies from using forced arbitration in sexual assault or harassment claims; Biden will sign it — Some lawmakers want to ban such clauses for other complaints, such as racial discrimination — WASHINGTON—Companies would no longer …
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