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YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki plans to step down after nine years, to be replaced by Neal Mohan as SVP and head of YouTube; Wojcicki was Google's 16th employee — One of the most prominent women in tech — and one of Google's earliest employees — is leaving the company.
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| Reuters: |
Docs: Binance used secret access to a Binance.US bank account at Silvergate to move $400M+ in Q1 2021 to Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao's trading firm Merit Peak — Global cryptocurrency exchange Binance had secret access to a bank account belonging to its purportedly independent U.S. partner …
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CoinDesk, Blockworks, The Block, CryptoSlate, NewsBTC, Cointelegraph, and CoinGape
Tweets: @carlquintanilla, @tree_of_alpha, @aaberwick, @tier10k, @ldrogen, @bitfinexed, and @kairyssdal
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Apple's iOS 16.4 and iPadOS 16.4 betas add support for Safari web apps on the homescreen to send push notifications and show notification badges — Apple's new iOS and iPadOS 16.4 betas will let Safari web apps on your homescreen send you push notifications, according to a new post on the WebKit blog.
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WebKit, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Macworld, OS X Daily, AppleInsider, iMore, MacStories, MacRumors, The Apple Post, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, and Digital Trends
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| Bing Blogs: |
Microsoft on new Bing: 71% of users gave AI answers a thumbs up, Bing answers are not “necessarily helpful” or in the right tone after 15+ questions, and more — A little over a week ago, we shared an all new, AI-powered Bing search engine, Edge web browser, and integrated Chat …
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| Bloomberg: |
The US SEC sues Terraform Labs and its founder Do Kwon for selling unregistered securities and perpetrating a fraudulent scheme that lost $40B+ in market value — The US Securities and Exchange Commission is preparing to sue the company behind TerraUSD, a crypto stablecoin whose collapse …
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Tweets: @lex_node, @jacqmelinek, @carnage4life, @robinwigg, @valkenburgh, and @staska
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta launches Instagram Channels, a broadcast chat feature that lets select US creators share public, one-to-many text, images, and more with their followers — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today that the company is launching a new broadcast chat feature on Instagram called “Channels.”
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft authorizes Parallels Desktop 18 to support Windows 11 on Apple's M1 and M2 Macs, after previously only licensing ARM versions of Windows to OEMs — Microsoft is officially supporting Windows 11 on Apple's M1 and M2 Macs thanks to a partnership with Parallels to allow the operating system to run in a virtual environment.
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Tweets: @tomwarren, @vadimyuryev, @marypcbuk, @benbajarin, and @epro
| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
TikTok announces TikTok Trivia, a livestreamed trivia quiz with a $500K prize pool hosted daily between February 22 and 26, open to US users aged 18 and older — TikTok is taking a page out of HQ's playbook and launching a series of live trivia games, the company announced today.
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| Erika Wheless / Ad Age: |
TikTok quietly launches its in-app shopping checkout feature in the US; apparel brands Pacsun, Revolve, and Willow Boutique seem to be among the pilot partners — Pacsun and Revolve appear to be among the pilot brands — TikTok has quietly launched its shop pilot in the U.S. … | Jemima Kelly / Financial Times: |
A year on from Meta hyping its VR headsets in a dystopian Super Bowl ad, enthusiasm for a metaverse has drained away as Mark Zuckerberg talks up efficiency — Enthusiasm for a virtual future is draining away — and so is investment — Remember when we were all going to ditch our humdrum lives …
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DoorDash announces a $750M stock buyback program and says Chief Financial Officer Prabir Adarkar will replace President and COO Christopher Payne on March 1 — DoorDash Inc. forecast earnings that beat analyst expectations as cost-cutting efforts meet resilient consumer demand for pricey takeout.| Shane Huntley / The Keyword: |
An analysis of the cyber threat landscape one year after Russia invaded Ukraine shows Russia's aggressive, multi-pronged five-phase plan has had mixed results — One year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Google TAG, Mandiant, and Trust & Safety provide insights into changes in the cyber threat landscape triggered by the war.
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Bloomberg, Washington Post, The Record, and InfoRiskToday.com
Tweets: @shanehuntley, @naderzaveri, @shanehuntley, @philvenables, @mike_eckel, @hatr, @hanesydd, @shanehuntley, @mattbrittin, and @billyleonard
| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
PlayStation VR2 review: excellent OLED displays, comfortable fit, solid Sense controllers, and immersive headset haptics, but pricey and limited games at launch — The PlayStation VR 2 is the virtual reality upgrade console gamers have been waiting for — but is it really worth $550?
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| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
In an email, Google's Search SVP tells staff to rewrite Bard's bad responses in a “neutral tone” and to “not imply emotion” as the tool “learns best by example” — - Google executives sent a document to employees with the do's and don'ts of fixing bad responses …
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9to5Google, Bloomberg, Silicon Valley Business …, TechRadar, Neowin, and Mashable
Tweets: @alexandr_wang and @jenn_elias
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Snap says Snapchat now has 750M+ MAUs, up 25% from April 2022, 150M of which are in North America, Snapchat+ for $3.99/month has 2.5M subscribers, and more — At its Investor Day event on Thursday, Snap shared a handful of new metrics about its business and teased its prospects.
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Bloomberg, Engadget, The Information, Social Media Today, and MarketWatch
Tweets: @russcp, @russcp, @turnernovak, and @russcp
| Bloomberg: |
A profile of FTX co-founder and CTO Gary Wang, Sam Bankman-Fried's MIT roommate who is cooperating with the US; insiders: Wang knows what really happened at FTX — They'd come a long way together, from teenage mathletes to MIT frat brothers to crypto billionaires.
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PYMNTS.com, CoinDesk, Financial Times, and Crypto Briefing
Tweets: @ritholtz, @misyrlena, @emilyjnicolle, @cduhaime, @antoniabmassa, @annairrera, and @sidcoins
| Akane Otani / Wall Street Journal: |
Jaime Rogozinski, who created r/WallStreetBets, sues Reddit for “breach of contract” by removing him as a moderator in 2020, trademark dilution, and more — Jaime Rogozinski says site ousted him without claim; Reddit calls suit frivolous — WallStreetBets' founder is suing the site where it all began.| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
DocuSign plans to cut ~10% of its workforce, or ~700 people, after cutting 9% of its staff in September 2022; DocuSign had 7,461 employees in January 2022 — - E-signature software company DocuSign on Thursday announced plans to cut around 10% of its workforce.
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The Information, SiliconANGLE, USA Today, Tech Startups, and International Business Times. Tweets: @quinnypig
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A German court rules that police use of Palantir's automated data analysis to prevent crime in some states was unconstitutional; a rights group brought the case — A top German court ruled on Thursday that police use of automated data analysis to prevent crime in some German states was unconstitutional … | Clive Thompson / MIT Technology Review: |
A history of Rust, a programming language that started as a Mozilla side project with strict rules making code harder to write but enforcing memory safety — For decades, coders wrote critical systems in C and C++. Now they turn to Rust. — Many software projects emerge because … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Tile debuts an anti-theft mode that requires biometric data, a government ID, and a ToS letting Tile share info with police, to limit the misuse of its trackers — Apple took a big PR hit as news spread that its item tracker the AirTag was being used for stalking and car thefts …
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Gizmodo, Tech Advisor, CNBC, Life360, Engadget, Chris Hulls, PetaPixel, Digital Trends, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, and Pocket-lint. Tweets: @evacide
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Baltimore-based Apkudo, whose service manages connected devices, raised a $37.5M Series C, sources say at a ~$300M valuation, bringing its total funding to $75M — Apkudo, a Baltimore-based startup developing a platform to help manage, sell and test connected devices like smartphones and laptops …
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Sources: spooked by a regulatory crackdown, US banks are backing away from crypto companies and re-evaluating any exposure to the sector, no matter how small — SEC and banking overseers step up scrutiny following collapse of FTX — Crypto's Crash Has Been Swift but Largely Self-Contained.
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American Banker, DL News, crypto.news, and The Block
Tweets: @mayazi, @alderlaneeggs, @s_alderoty, @jcoviedo6, @davecbenoit, @smdiehl, @bitfinexed, @ap_abacus, @johnreedstark, and @smdiehl
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