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Twitter suspends the accounts of several journalists, including NYT's Ryan Mac and CNN's Donie O'Sullivan; Musk says “same doxxing rules apply to journalists” — Twitter suspended several high-profile journalists Thursday evening who have been covering the company and Elon Musk.
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| Tim Peterson / Digiday: |
Five agency executives say Netflix is delivering ~80% of the expected viewers for its ad-supported tier and structured its ad deals to release any unspent money — For as quickly as Netflix brought its ad-supported tier to market, the streamer's advertising business is off to a slow start.
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| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Instagram launches a tool for getting help recovering a hacked account, accessing an account after forgetting the password, and reporting impersonation accounts — Instagram users who are victims of hacking now have a new way to try to claw back their account.
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| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
Microsoft quietly updates its TOS to prohibit crypto mining on Azure and other services without “prior written approval”, citing “disruption or even impairment” — Windows giant fears coin crafting may upend its servers — UPDATED Microsoft has quietly banned cryptocurrency mining …
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| Kellen Browning / New York Times: |
Amazon Games plans to publish Crystal Dynamics' next Tomb Raider, marking Amazon's first major, single-player game, currently in early development — The title will be the first major single-player game for Amazon. It is a coup for the retail giant, which has struggled to gain traction with its video game business.
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| David Klepper / Associated Press: |
CCDH: when researchers liked self-harm and eating disorder videos on TikTok in the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia, the app recommended more similar content — TikTok's algorithms are promoting videos about self-harm and eating disorders to vulnerable teens, according to a report published Wednesday …
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| Dave Lee / Financial Times: |
Filing: Elon Musk sells 22M Tesla shares, worth almost $3.6B, his fourth sale since his Twitter takeover bid and third since tweeting “no further TSLA sales” — Billionaire has sold $23bn of stock in EV group since announcing Twitter takeover — Elon Musk has offloaded another tranche …
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| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Google finishes rolling out the Matter smart home standard to Android and Nest, following Apple and Samsung; Amazon plans to support Matter by the end of 2022 — Google announced today that it has completed the initial rollout of Matter to its Google Nest products and Android OS.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft adds full Teams integration to HoloLens 2 headsets, letting users view calendars and more, the first major update since co-creator Alex Kipman left — Microsoft has long supported real-time video calls using Microsoft Teams on HoloLens 2 headsets, but now the company …
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An analysis of weekly realized gains and losses of personal crypto wallets in 2022: UST caused $20.5B in losses, Celsius and 3AC caused $33B, and FTX caused $9B — Allow us to state the obvious: There's been a lot of doom and gloom in conversations around cryptocurrency over the last month.| CNBC: |
After being named in an FTX lawsuit along with Tom Brady, Steph Curry, and Larry David, Shaquille O'Neal says he was “just a paid spokesperson for a commercial” — Shaquille O'Neal wants to make one thing clear: He doesn't believe in crypto, if he ever did.
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| Taryn Plumb / VentureBeat: |
Amazon Web Services, Meta, Microsoft, TomTom, and the Linux Foundation launch the Overture Maps Foundation, aiming to build interoperable, open-source map data — Think about it: Maps are fundamental to human evolution, exploration, innovation. — Since the first maps were drawn up in the 5th …
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[Thread] Meta is shutting down Super, a Cameo-like app that let people pay creators or celebrities to interact with them in a live stream, on February 15, 2023 — Facebook is shutting down its Cameo clone Super. As expected, the big social apps weren't committed to helping creators monetize, they were just afraid of them jumping ship. https://twitter.com/...
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The US Commerce Department puts 36 Chinese companies on its entity list, including chipmaker Yangtze Memory Technologies and AI chipmaker Cambricon — ‘Entity list’ changes are focused on limiting development of advanced chips in China — The US has placed three dozen Chinese companies …
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| Bloomberg: |
About 200 companies in China and Hong Kong, including Alibaba and JD.com, no longer face the threat of a US delisting after US inspectors reviewed their audits — About 200 companies based in China and Hong Kong are no longer facing an acute threat of being booted off American stock exchanges, sending shares surging.| Alexander Martin / The Record: |
Meta reports taking down 200+ coordinated inauthentic behavior operations since 2016, spread across over 100 countries, most focused on their domestic audience — Six years on from the shock discovery of Russian interference during the 2016 presidential election — and in the face …
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| Sebastian Moss / DCD: |
Sources: Meta reviews some of its 11 in-development data center projects globally and lays off a Danish contractor, as part of a design change for AI workloads — As it plans radical shift to AI data centers — Meta is reviewing a number of under-construction data center projects around …
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Brain-computer interface developer Synchron raised $75M from ARCH Venture, Bezos Expeditions, Gates Frontier, and others, bringing its total funding to $145M — Last March, brain-computing interface expert Tom Oxley sat down to dinner with Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos to talk … | Keerthi Vedantam / Crunchbase News: |
Salt Lake City-based MasterControl, which makes software to manage the development of life science products, raised a $150M Series A led by Sixth Street — A decades-old biotech SaaS startup announced its first round of funding on Thursday. With it came a $1.3 billion valuation.
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| Zack Beauchamp / Vox: |
A look at The Managerial Revolution, a book from 1941 predicting the “managerial class” supplanting capitalists, which could help explain Elon Musk's Twitter — The long shadow of James Burnham's The Managerial Revolution. — Since the launch of the so-called “Twitter Files” …
Tweets: @greenplusane, @lemieuxlgm, @paulblu, @davidastinwalsh, @davidastinwalsh, @czedwards, and @pt
| Greg Stohr / Bloomberg: |
Tech industry groups that include Meta and Google ask SCOTUS to overturn the Texas social media content moderation law, arguing it violates the First Amendment — Trade groups that represent Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.'s Google said they asked the US Supreme Court to overturn …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Adobe reports Q4 revenue up 10% YoY to $4.53B, Digital Media revenue up 10% YoY to $3.3B, and Digital Experience revenue up 14% YoY to $1.15B; stock is up 5%+ — - Adobe maintained its forecast for the new fiscal year. — The company's earnings for the fiscal fourth quarter was strong …
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| Keith Zhai / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: aiming for 5%+ economic growth in 2023, Chinese officials reassess their tech policies and plan to close lengthy investigations into internet companies — Senior officials are setting a robust GDP growth target of more than 5% for next year as they loosen Covid rules and de-emphasize ideology
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