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Filing: Meta agrees to pay $725M to settle a class-action lawsuit accusing the company of letting third parties, including Cambridge Analytica, access user data — Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc (META.O) has agreed to pay $725 million to resolve a class-action lawsuit accusing …
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Sources: Elon Musk had Twitter remove safety resources related to suicide, child sexual exploitation, and more; Twitter says they will return after a revamp — Twitter Inc removed a feature in the past few days that promoted suicide prevention hotlines and other safety resources to users looking … | Emily Baker-White / Forbes: |
ByteDance fired four employees after finding that they had accessed data on US TikTok users, including reporters, while trying to learn the sources of a story — ByteDance confirmed it used TikTok to monitor journalists' physical location using their IP addresses, as first reported by Forbes in October.
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A look at challenges facing Apple's semiconductor group; sources: Apple cut a next-gen GPU with ray tracing from iPhone 14 Pro due to battery and thermal issues — For more than a decade, Apple's silicon engineering group has helped give Apple a competitive edge in smartphones and laptops.
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Court transcript from plea hearing: Caroline Ellison said she and Sam Bankman-Fried knowingly misled lenders about how much Alameda was borrowing from FTX — Sam Bankman-Fried and other FTX executives received billions of dollars in secret loans from the crypto mogul's Alameda Research …
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After pushback, the IRS delays a requirement for e-commerce platforms, including Venmo and PayPal, to send tax forms to small businesses with $600+ transactions — The Internal Revenue Service is delaying a requirement for e-commerce platforms, including Venmo, PayPal, Cash App and Etsy …
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The FTC orders Mastercard to provide customer data to its competitors for debit card payments, alleging Mastercard used tokenization to block competing networks — The Federal Trade Commission ordered Mastercard Inc. to start providing its competitors with customer account information …
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A look at Microsoft's “nice guy” strategy to close its Activision deal; sources: Microsoft hopes to win over EU regulators, which could force the US to settle — Federal regulators have sued to block the $69 billion acquisition, but the company has settled on a path forward and is preparing to force the issue.
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Jack Sweeney brings back @ElonJet as @ElonJetNextDay, tracking Elon Musk's jet with a 24-hour delay, after Twitter banned sharing others' real-time location — The college student who ran the now-banned @ElonJet Twitter account that used public information to track Elon Musk's private jet … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Blue subscribers can now upload up to 2GB, 60-minute 1080p videos on the web; iOS and Android users are still limited to 512MB, 10-minute 1080p videos — After taking over Twitter, Elon Musk had long promised that the company is working toward making the platform more appealing to video creators.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
An interview with Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko on scaling the network, plans for a split revenue model “like Mozilla's” and no ads, talking to investors, and more — Is federated really the future? — Twitter is in crisis these days. Under new owner Elon Musk …
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AT&T plans to launch broadband services in states it doesn't currently serve via a joint venture with BlackRock, initially reaching 1.5M customer US locations — Telecom company forms joint venture with BlackRock to fund project — AT&T Inc. said it would launch broadband services … Sponsor Posts
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