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Coinbase, FTX, eToro, and other apps surge in popularity after multiple crypto Super Bowl ads; Coinbase rose from 186th to 2nd on US App Store after QR code ad — Crypto apps shot up App Store download charts in the US on Monday morning, after a Super Bowl studded with digital assets advertising.
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| John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal: |
Texas sues Meta over its use of facial recognition from 2010 to late 2021 in the state; source: Texas seeks hundreds of billions of dollars in civil penalties — State says social-media giant violated privacy protections in lawsuit, seeks hundreds of billions of dollars in civil penalties
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Protocol, New York Times, Texas Attorney General, The Verge, TechCrunch, The Hill, Reuters, CNBC, New York Post, and The Mac Observer
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| Billy Perrigo / TIME: |
Interviews and documents reveal traumatic working conditions at a Facebook content moderation facility in Nigeria, run by Sama, with pay as low as $1.50/hour — This story is based on interviews with more than a dozen current and former Sama employees, as well as hundreds of pages …
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| New York Times: |
A profile of Peter Thiel, who plans to leave Meta's board to focus on politics, funding far-right MAGA candidates who peddle conspiracies and deny Biden won — Peter Thiel, one of Donald J. Trump's biggest donors in 2016, has re-emerged as a prime financier of the Make America Great Again movement.
Tweets: @nycsouthpaw, @mollyjongfast, @nytimes, @espiers, @akarl_smith, @hunterw, @_zeets, @junkscience, @ryanlcooper, @shanegoldmacher, @jbouie, @flitteronfraud, @jbouie, @bigmeaninternet, @jbouie, @brendannyhan, @rmac18, @rmac18, @rmac18, @jswatz, @rmac18, @digiphile, @kbandersen, @rmac18, and @tonyromm
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft tells employees it will fully reopen its facilities in Washington state starting February 28, citing high rates of COVID-19 vaccination in King County — One of the longest “three weeks” in history will soon come to an end. — Nearly two years after asking its employees to work …
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The Official Microsoft Blog, New York Times, and OnMSFT.com. Tweets: @toddbishop. Thanks:@taylor_soper
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UK's HMRC tax authority seizes three NFTs in a £1.4M fraud case involving 250 alleged fake companies, the first UK law enforcement agency to seize an NFT — The UK tax authority has seized three Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) as part of a probe into a suspected a VAT fraud involving 250 alleged fake companies.
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Tweets: @hendopolis, @paperghost, @cryptinish, @richard_littler, and @wublockchain
| Yimou Lee / Reuters: |
Foxconn says it will invest $118.7M for a 40% stake in a joint venture with Indian conglomerate Vedanta to make semiconductors in India — Taiwan's Foxconn (2317.TW) said on Monday it had partnered with Indian conglomerate Vedanta Ltd (VDAN.NS) to make semiconductors in the South Asian country … | Tom Mitchelhill / Cointelegraph: |
Ethereum L2 scaling project Optimism fixes bug that left it open to unlimited ETH token creation in its accounts; $2M+ bounty given to Jay Freeman of Cydia fame — Ethereum scaling startup Optimism disclosed a “critical bug” fix in the project's Geth fork that would have allowed malicious hackers to create infinite ETH
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Protos, Cryptopolitan, Crypto Adventure, The Times Hub, NDTV Gadgets 360, DeFi Rate, and Bitcoin News
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| The Block: |
SEC fines crypto lending company BlockFi $100M, which will register its high-yield crypto savings product and offer it as a security as part of the settlement — The Securities and Exchange Commission announced Monday that it fined crypto lending firm BlockFi $100 million …
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CoinDesk, Payments Dive, Reuters, Protocol, Finextra, Wall Street Journal, Axios, Financial Times, Politico, Benzinga, Blockworks, and Cointelegraph. Tweets: @ryan_browne_
| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Snapchat is testing mid-roll ads in the Stories of some US creators, ahead of a wider rollout, and will share revenue based on engagement and other metrics — The feature is currently in beta testing — Snapchat is introducing a new way for creators on the app to earn money.
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9to5Mac, TechCrunch, Neowin, Tubefilter, and Snap Newsroom
Tweets: @mattnavarra and @carnage4life
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
London-based Tripledot, which makes a Solitaire app, Woodoku, and other casual mobile games, raises a $116M Series B led by 20VC at a $1.4B valuation — Casual mobile games have reached a fever pitch of interest with consumers, and so too with investors, who are rushing to back the biggest …
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VentureBeat, Crunchbase News, Tech.eu, Hollywood Reporter, Game Developer, Forbes, and Pocket Gamer.biz
| David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: |
As bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies appreciate in value, tracking and valuing holdings is becoming a major source of contention in US divorces — Dividing the family's Bitcoin stash has become a major source of contention in divorce cases. — The divorce dragged on for eight years, almost as long as the marriage.
Tweets: @kingpriyom, @edmundlee, @akm1410, @dealbook, @brockpierce, @annmlipton, and @dannygroner
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