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Apple signs a multiyear NFL deal to have Apple Music replace Pepsi as the main sponsor for the Super Bowl halftime show; sources say the NFL was seeking ~$50M — Apple's pursuit of an N.F.L. media package has broadened to include a sponsorship of one of TV's most-watched events.
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Leaked audio: at a Google all-hands, Sundar Pichai expressed some annoyance at employees asking about cost cutting, telling them not to “equate fun with money” — - Google CEO Sundar Pichai spent much of this week's all-hands meeting addressing employee concerns about company cost-cutting measures.
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CFTC fines blockchain protocol bZeroX and its team $250K for illegal off-exchange digital asset trading and files a civil action against its successor, Ooki DAO — The commission said bZeroX offered illegal, off-exchange trading of digital assets, and has also filed a civil action against the Ooki Dao.| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
Ex-Twitter employee Anika Navaroli reveals she is the whistleblower who testified to the January 6 committee about the company's failure to curb Donald Trump — In an exclusive interview with The Washington Post, a former Twitter official explains what motivated her startling Jan. 6 committee testimony| Nicholas Quah / Vulture: |
A look at the crowded podcast market, where competition has made almost everything in the business more difficult, and some say no one is taking creative risks — It's been ages since the last blockbuster narrative show. What does that mean for the medium as an art form?| New York Times: |
A look at Germany's hate speech laws, more restrictive than other Western countries, as 1,000+ have been charged or punished since 2018 for online speech crimes — Battling far-right extremism, Germany has gone further than any other Western democracy to prosecute individuals for what they say online …
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Adobe argues Figma will help the company rethink design tools for the cloud era; Adobe's competing product, XD, generated just $15M in ARR after seven years — Adobe executives think there's a lot that critics of its $20 billion purchase of Figma are missing.| Alice Uribe / Wall Street Journal: |
Optus, one of Australia's largest telecoms, says it was breached and hackers could have accessed the data of up to 9.8M customers; the police are investigating — Australian telecoms company says mass breach could have exposed birth dates, phone numbers and other personal data
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Google's Mandiant says it observed four instances of pro-Russian hacktivist groups publishing data within 24 hours of it being stolen by GRU using wiper malware — 'We have never previously observed such a volume of cyberattacks, variety of threat actors, and coordination of effort … | Tory Newmyer / Washington Post: |
DARPA launches a review of cryptocurrencies to assess threats to national security and law enforcement posed by the rise of digital assets — New project is part of the U.S. government's wider crackdown on illicit uses of digital assets — The military's innovation office is launching … | Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
Alibaba Cloud, the third-largest public cloud provider with an estimated 9.5% market share in 2021, commits $1B to boost overseas alliances over three years — Alibaba is known for its sprawling e-commerce empire, but like Amazon, cloud service has been a big driver of its revenues in recent years.| Morgan Meaker / Wired: |
How an 8-year-old Danish kid's YouTube account sparked a nationwide debate on Google's ubiquity in the country's schools and its handling of children's data — An 8-year-old's YouTube snafu—and one unlikely parent activist—sparked a nationwide debate on the tech giant's ubiquity and handling of children's data.
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