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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.’
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Threads: @sineadbovell, @mattnavarra, @drewharwell, and @ianbremmer
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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 …
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| 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
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| 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
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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, Mobile Dev Memo, 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
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Mastodon: @jamesthomson@mastodon.social, @tolmasky@mastodon.social, @stroughtonsmith …, and @stroughtonsmith …
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Forums: r/technology, r/apple, and Beehaw
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
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Mastodon: @ambulephabus@mastodon.social and @ChanceHMiller@mastodon.social
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| 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 …
More: New York Times, Reuters, UnitedHealth Group, and CNBC
| 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, Simon Willison's Weblog, Inc.com, ZDNet, VentureBeat, and SiliconANGLE
| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
X announces Articles, a feature to write and share long-form content with a basic text-editing interface, for verified organizations and Premium+ subscribers — Long-winded VCs on X now have a new way to be exhausting on main. — Journalists, creators and long-winded VCs on X now have a new way to be exhausting on main.| 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.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says Gemini Nano won't come to the Pixel 8 due to “some hardware limitations”, but plans to bring the LLM to more “high-end devices in the near future” — During The Android Show today, Google shared more about Gemini Nano, including how it won't be coming to the Pixel 8.| 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| 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
| 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 and The Information
Threads: @karissabe. X: @garymarcus, @ericnewcomer, @silvermanjacob, @mikeisaac, @eshumarneedi, and @ericnewcomer. Forums: r/OpenAI
| 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
| 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.| FinSMEs: |
Colorado Springs-based Defense Unicorns, which provides open-source software and AI applications for US national security systems, raised a $35M Series A — Defense Unicorns, a Colorado Springs, CO-based software startup providing open source software and AI capabilities for National Security systems, raised $35M in Series A funding.
More: Yahoo Finance and Help Net Security
| 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
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