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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Microsoft backtracks on price hike for Xbox Live Gold subscriptions announced Friday and says free-to-play games will also no longer require a Gold subscription — Free-to-play games will also no longer require a Gold subscription — Microsoft has reversed its controversial Xbox Live price increase.
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| Crispian Balmer / Reuters: |
Italy tells TikTok to block all unverified user accounts after a 10-year-old girl dies while allegedly participating in the “blackout challenge” on the app — ROME (Reuters) - The Italian data privacy watchdog ordered video app TikTok on Friday to block the accounts of any users …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft president Brad Smith defended the company's political contributions in a meeting with employees after some questioned donations from its PAC — - Brad Smith, Microsoft's president, said the company needs the Microsoft Political Action Committee. — The company is looking …
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| USA Today: |
Facebook said a “configuration change” caused some users to be logged out of their apps in Saturday morning; issue is now fixed — “Why am I logged out of Facebook?” The question ricocheted around the internet as an untold number of people across the nation found themselves logged out of their apps Friday night.
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| The Information: |
Sources: VCs have approached Clubhouse about investing in its next round at ~$1B valuation, a 10X increase from the previous round; a16z is expected to lead — The race to invest in social audio app Clubhouse is on again. Venture capital firms have approached the startup's founders …
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / FinLedger: |
Interview with Chase CIO Rohan Amin on managing Chase's $4B tech budget, API integrations, and this year's rise in digital mortgage applications and banking — When the coronavirus pandemic hit in 2020, banks were among the many institutions moving quickly to adapt to all the changes that came with it.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Ex-ADT technician pled guilty to computer fraud and invasive visual recording for viewing home security camera feeds he installed in ~200 homes over 9,000 times — Employee for ADT accessed ~200 customer cams on more than 9,600 occasions. — A home security technician has admitted …
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| William Boston / Wall Street Journal: |
How Volkswagen's ID.3, the automaker's long-awaited answer to Tesla, was beset by faulty in-car software, prompting a reboot of the company's software business — Faulty software set back a bid by the world's largest car maker for electric-vehicle dominance
Tweets: @kushalbhagia, @doubleeph, @wsj, @nicolasmagand, @hardmaru, @wsj, @davidmwessel, @tomgara, @ue, @jboogie, @voltequity, @patrickc, @adamnash, @teslany, @jackkramer, @rachelkonrad, @nalanpog, and @patrickmcgee_
| Will Knight / Wired: |
A look at the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, a government-sponsored research lab, and its work on a new language model similar to GPT-3 — China produces as many artificial intelligence researchers as the US, but it lags in key fields like machine learning. The government hopes to make up ground.
Tweets: @lsenews, @willknight, and @wired
| Charlie Savage / New York Times: |
Unclassified memo: Defense Intelligence Agency analysts have used commercial databases of location data from smartphone apps to track Americans without warrants — The disclosure comes amid growing legislative scrutiny of how the government uses commercially available location records.
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The Verge, Ars Technica, Wall Street Journal, CNET, CyberScoop, and The Hill
Tweets: @arianapekary, @all_thirty_two, @charlie_savage, @jesselynradack, @eff, @markszaidesq, and @zackwhittaker
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
MoffettNathanson survey: 62% of Apple TV+ subscribers were on free offers in Q4 2020, only 30% said they plan to renew at the regular $4.99/month price — Apple has said it wants to bulk up revenue from services — including Apple TV Plus, which is just over one year old.
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Patently Apple, MacDailyNews, AppleInsider, iMore, 9to5Mac, and iDownloadBlog.com
Tweets: @ballmatthew, @agoyal00, @jnavok, @lanceulanoff, @tvgrimreaper, @ballmatthew, @colettelala, @lanceulanoff, and @tealambition
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
FTC fines three bot-powered ticket scalping operations a total of $3.7M, the first time the agency applied a 2016 anti-bot law called the BOTS Act — The three will pay a total of $3.7 million — The Federal Trade Commission issued multimillion-dollar fines against three bot-powered ticket scalping operations.
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Federal Trade Commission, Wired, Gizmodo, Input, and TechSpot
Tweets: @ftc and @rkslaughterftc
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