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| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
TikTok sends US users a push notification saying Congress plans a total ban, with a link to find representatives, after the White House supported a TikTok bill — A push notification warns that the move ‘strips 170 million Americans of their Constitutional right to free expression.’
More: Platformer, The Information, Barron's Online, CNBC, Cyber Daily, New York Times, Kansas Reflector, Variety, Yahoo News, Engadget, New York Magazine, Rolling Stone, Business Insider, TechCrunch, The Daily Dot, Forbes, Tech Brew, Euronews, Mashable, JURIST, Windows Central, WinBuzzer, Reuters, Axios, Washington Examiner, Agence France-Presse, Reason, The Hill, Fortune, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Semafor, Financial Times, South China Morning Post, and The Indian Express
Threads: @sineadbovell, @mattnavarra, @drewharwell, and @ianbremmer
X: @tiktokpolicy, @stevescalise, @congressmanraja, @neerajka, @libsoftiktok, @james_t_quinn, @antgoldbloom, @cameronwilson, @lulumeservey, @rebeccamkern, @maxwelltani, @ali_lev, @devin_vering, @mattocko, @zacharybasu, @zeffmax, @congressmanraja, @jakesherman, @terronk, @munster_gene, @mchalfant16, @mikeisaac, @byrnehobart, and @roybahat. LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski
Forums: r/neoliberal and r/technology
| Axios: |
Congressional offices are being flooded with calls from angry constituents following TikTok's push notification asking users to call their representatives — - House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said he supported the bill being marked up on Thursday, just two days after it was unveiled …
More: Ars Technica, NBC News, Washington Post, The Information, Fox Business, UPI, Silver Bulletin, New York Post, Associated Press, FOX 32 Chicago, Just The News, The Daily Dot, Nikkei Asia, Fast Company, twitchy.com, The Daily Caller, Hindustan Times, Semafor, Gizmodo, Daily Mail, The Hill, Engadget, Punchbowl News, Mashable, and CNBC
X: @cat_zakrzewski, @teroterotero, @olivia_beavers, @benjysarlin, @olivia_beavers, @stluedke, @amir, @zeffmax, @pkafka, @carnage4life, @luke_metro, @mchalfant16, @jwherrman, and @olivia_beavers. Forums: r/politics
| Mathias Hammer / Semafor: |
The US House Energy and Commerce Committee advances a bill that would force ByteDance to divest TikTok, after TikTok's campaign reportedly enraged legislators — Semafor Signals — Insights from The New York Times, Financial Times, and CNN — The News
More: Financial Times, Mercury News, 9to5Mac, Reuters, International Business Times, The Information, Roll Call, Bloomberg, Nikkei Asia, Mashable, The Hill, Digital Music News, Washington Times, CBS News, New York Sun, Fast Company, Daily Mail, TIME, The National Pulse, The Charlotte Observer, The Daily Caller, HuffPost, Courthouse News Service, Silicon UK, NTD, Scrippsnews.com, 118th Congress, Deadline, What's Trending, E&C Committee, and NBC News
Threads: @daveleebbg. X: @mattocko, @ellenjdasilva, @autismcapital, @katienotopoulos, @broderick, @binarybits, @samfbiddle, @rabois, @antgoldbloom, @olivia_beavers, @broderick, @mattocko, and @eric_seufert. Forums: r/democrats
| Eva Dou / Washington Post: |
As the EU's DMA takes effect, sources say the Biden administration, which sent two letters protesting the DMA, stopped short of pushing the issue with the EU — The European Union's landmark Digital Markets Act comes into effect today, requiring changes at five U.S. internet giants
More: TechCrunch, European Commission, Reuters, CNBC, The Hollywood Reporter, FSFE, WinBuzzer, Fortune, Reuters, Associated Press, International Business Times, The Hill, Financial Times, TNW, BEUC, and The Register
Threads: @documentingmeta, @benedictevans, and @eric_seufert
X: @jb_bax, @beuc, @digitaleu, @florian4gamers, @thierrybreton, @rita_wezenbeek, @max_bank, @fsfe, @adamkovac, @eu_commission, @maxvonthun, @eu_competition, @cat_zakrzewski, @reneweurope, and @jb_bax. LinkedIn: Dominique Thomas
| Wall Street Journal: |
How the EU's DMA could impact Apple and Google's rivalry; sources say Google lobbied EU officials in 2023 to let users download apps from alternative app stores — Under the new rules, the iPhone maker will open up parts of its lucrative app ecosystem, providing an opportunity for rivals like Google
More: Open Web Advocacy, iMore, Associated Press, Washington Post, Chamber of Progress, Six Colors, MacRumors, TechCrunch, and TechCrunch
Mastodon: @Jeremiah@alpaca.gold. X: @gartenberg, @dannymoerkerke, @openwebadvocacy, and @eric_seufert. Forums: Hacker News
| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
The EU confirms requesting further explanations from Apple over removing Epic's developer account under the DMA, and is examining if Apple broke any other rules — - Epic Games barred by Apple from opening own iPhone app store — EU says it is looking to see if firm has broken new tech law
More: Reuters, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, Financial Times, BGR, Eurogamer.net, MacRumors, Associated Press, Android Headlines, PCMag, Marketplace, Ars Technica, TechSpot, KitGuru, Mashable, MobileSyrup, Pocket Gamer.biz, AppleInsider, ExtremeTech, Stratechery, GameSpot, Thurrott, Global Competition Review, GSMArena.com, Dot Esports, iPhone in Canada Blog, PYMNTS.com, Business Times, Proactiveinvestors UK, Engadget, The Verge, games fray, Pocket-lint, and Supercharged
Mastodon: @jamesthomson@mastodon.social, @tolmasky@mastodon.social, @stroughtonsmith …, and @stroughtonsmith …
X: @ugambini, @lewis_crofts, @vestager, @ttoboyle, @matthewstoller, @thierrybreton, @samuelstolton, @rjonesy, @mgsiegler, @games_fray, and @lewis_crofts
Forums: r/technology, r/apple, and Beehaw
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
More: Epic Games, Computerworld, Video Games Chronicle, Wall Street Journal, Hypebeast, HotHardware, Laptop Mag, Fortune, Developer Tech News, MediaNama, Gizmodo, iThinkDifferent, iMore, MacDailyNews, and The Verge
Mastodon: @ambulephabus@mastodon.social and @ChanceHMiller@mastodon.social
X: @timsweeneyepic, @timsweeneyepic, @nivi, @drbarnard, @keleftheriou, @paulg, @ryansadams, @eshear, and @dhh. Forums: r/LinusTechTips
| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
MacBook Air (2024) review: sturdy and sleek, fast M3 chip, excellent 13- and 15-inch displays, great keyboard, and solid speakers, but USB-C is only on one side — Apple's M3 chip is a decent speed bump, but the M2 MacBook Air remains a great deal. — It's hard to expect much from Apple's new M3-equipped MacBook Airs.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Apple plans to let EU-based iPhone users uninstall Safari by 2024's end and is working on a more “user-friendly” way to let them switch to Android by fall 2025 — Apple is preparing to allow EU-based iPhone users to uninstall its first-party Safari browser by the end of 2024 …
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Forums: r/technology, r/Android, r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| John Tozzi / Bloomberg: |
UnitedHealth says electronic prescribing is restored and expects its payments platform back online by March 15, after a hack prompted disruptions two weeks ago — Electronic prescribing is now restored. The company's payments platform will be back online March 15, and testing … | New York Times: |
Analysis: Temu and Shein are spending billions on Facebook, X, and YouTube ads in the US; Temu placed ~1.4M ads globally across Google services in the past year — Temu, Shein, and streaming and gaming apps looking to break into the U.S. market are spending huge sums to get their wares in front of American consumers.| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Inflection launches Inflection-2.5, which for weeks has helped its chatbot Pi perform “neck and neck with” OpenAI's GPT-4, and says Pi has 1M DAUs and 6M MAUs — - CEO Mustafa Suleyman said he is particularly pleased that Inflection 2.5 achieved these results while using only 40% of the training compute as GPT-4.
More: Inflection, Inc.com, ZDNet, Simon Willison's Weblog, VentureBeat, and SiliconANGLE
| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Microsoft announces a New Era of Work event on March 21 at 9am PT, where updates to Windows 11, Microsoft Copilot, Surface Pro, and Surface Laptop are expected — New Surface hardware and Windows 11 features will be announced on March 21. — What you need to know| New York Times: |
Sources: OpenAI CTO Mira Murati brought questions about Sam Altman's management to the board last year before he was ousted; a new board is expected imminently — Mira Murati, OpenAI's chief technology officer, brought questions about Mr. Altman's management to the board last year before he was briefly ousted from the company.
More: Business Insider. Threads: @karissabe. X: @garymarcus, @eshumarneedi, @silvermanjacob, @ericnewcomer, @ericnewcomer, and @mikeisaac. Forums: r/OpenAI
| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
LinkedIn says its premium subscriptions unit hit $1.7B in revenue in 2023; COO Dan Shapero says premium subscribers rose 25% in 2023 — LinkedIn on Thursday for the first time disclosed sales for its premium subscription business, saying the unit hit $1.7 billion in revenue in 2023 …
More: PYMNTS.com and iTnews
| Reuters: |
Spotify plans to raise its prices in France due to a new tax law that adds a 1.2% tax on streaming companies' revenue to help finance local music creation — Swedish streaming service Spotify (SPOT.N) on Thursday said it would increase its prices in France due to a new tax, which it argued would fail to accomplish its intended goal.
More: Spotify, TechCrunch, Engadget, Digital Music News, RAIN News, Neowin, and Music Ally. Forums: r/technology
| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Kuo: Apple's only foldable device with a “clear development schedule” is the 20.3-inch MacBook, which is expected to enter mass production in 2027 — We've been hearing a lot of rumors about Apple working on multiple foldable devices. While most of them refer to devices similar … | Kevin Townsend / SecurityWeek: |
Tel Aviv-based Sweet Security, which offers cloud runtime security tools, raised a $33M Series A, after emerging from stealth with a $12M seed in August 2023 — Sweet Security announces a $33 million Series A funding round just six months after emerging from stealth with an initial $12 million seed funding.| Jason Del Rey / Fortune: |
Amazon Lending, launched in 2011, discontinues underwriting new loans for sellers in the US and the UK, but third-party financing options will still be offered — More than a decade after first offering loans to merchants who sell goods through its online marketplaces …
More: Fortune. X: @cahwit, @ecommercejack, @myamazonguy, @jomcjohnson, @tonafba, @jackcah39272126, and @delrey
| Cynthia Kroet / Euronews: |
After IAB Europe appealed a 2022 decision, the EU's highest court rules that IAB's online advertising model uses personal data and is therefore subject to GDPR — After clarification from Luxembourg, the Belgian Court of Appeal will now rule on the case. — IAB Europe's online advertising …
More: Irish Council …, IAB Europe, and TechCrunch
X: @johnnyryan, @johnnyryan, @jason_kint, and @jason_kint
| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
How Microsoft has run a Chinese version of Bing since 2009, helping Beijing maintain its Great Firewall; China accounted for 1.8% of Microsoft's sales in 2020 — The company's search engine does good business in China, a market Google and Facebook abandoned years ago.
Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social. X: @rj_gallagher, @martijnrasser, @rj_gallagher, @fxshaw, @rj_gallagher, @mattmday, @rj_gallagher, and @williamturton
| James Reddick / The Record: |
FBI: in 2023, Americans reported $12.5B+ in losses to online fraud, up 22% YoY; losses to investment fraud grew 38% YoY to $4.57B, with $3.94B related to crypto — More than $12.5 billion was lost in 2023 to online fraud in cases reported by the American public, according … | Tatiana Siegel / Variety: |
Sources: Apple spent $700M+ of its reported $1B+ 2023 studio spend on just Napoleon, Killers of the Flower Moon, and Argylle, which earned $466M combined — On March 10, the tech giant has 13 shots to take home an Oscar via two historical epics, “Killers of the Flower Moon” and “Napoleon …
More: Digital Trends, Dexerto, iPhone in Canada Blog, MobileSyrup, and 9to5Mac
Threads: @michaelbtech. X: @pureevilbich, @aysrick, @lazlosghost, @thewhisperofc, @mattzollerseitz, @brndnstrssng, @vinnyebenau, @docno1r, @johnhpiette, @tatianasiegel27, @variety, @nick_field90, and @pdergarabedian
Forums: r/entertainment, r/tvPlus, and r/boxoffice
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