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Facebook says it will test a reduction of political content in News Feed for some users in Canada, Brazil, and Indonesia this week, and the US in coming weeks — News feeds will start getting less political content in Canada, Brazil and Indonesia, the social network said, with the change reaching the U.S. in coming weeks.
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Sources: Facebook is building an audio chat product, currently in the earliest stages of development, that is similar to Clubhouse — The social network, which has a history of cloning its competitors, has started working on an audio chat product. — SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook is building …
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The Verge, Bloomberg, Daily Mail, 9to5Mac, CNET, Engadget, Vox, Input, Insider, Social Media Today, iPhone Hacks, Pocketnow, XDA Developers, and Android Central
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| Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer: |
A researcher was able to breach 35+ companies, including Microsoft and Apple, using a software supply chain attack that leveraged an open source ecosystem flaw — A researcher managed to breach over 35 major companies' internal systems, including Microsoft, Apple, PayPal, Shopify, Netflix …
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Alex Birsan. More:
Threatpost, Gizmodo, The Verge, BGR, MacRumors, The Overspill, Insider, Sonatype Blog, AppleInsider, WinBuzzer, SecurityWeek, 9to5Mac, The Hacker News, TechRadar, and Security Boulevard
Tweets: @rdbinns, @knurd42, @raredata, @benjaoming, @securestep9, and @youngnick
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Europol, working with US, UK, and others, says 10 people have been arrested for allegedly stealing $100M in cryptocurrency from celebrities via SIM-swap attacks — Eight men were arrested in England and Scotland as part of an investigation into a series of SIM swapping attacks targeting US celebrities.
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Europol, U.S. Department of Justice, PCMag, United States Secret Service, iTnews, InsideBitcoins.com, Finextra, HackRead, CyberScoop, BleepingComputer, Ars Technica, Engadget, and CoinDesk
Tweets: @usdoj_intl, @europol, and @campuscodi
| Justine Calma / The Verge: |
Tesla's $1.5B bitcoin purchase conflicts with its environmental goals, as mining the cryptocurrency consumes massive amounts of energy by design — Tesla's banking on a cryptocurrency that's inherently inefficient — Tesla just gave bitcoin a big boost that's likely to result …
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Reuters, BBC, Insider, Data Driven Investor, Newsweek, Bloomberg, and cryptodaily.co.uk
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says it has suspended 500+ accounts in India for violating rules but has not taken any action on accounts of journalists, activists, and politicians — Twitter said on Wednesday it has taken actions on more than 500 accounts and reduced visibility of some hashtags in India …
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Twitter, New York Times, BuzzFeed News, pib.gov.in, Voice of America, The Verge, The Economic Times, Agence France-Presse, Android Central, and Pocketnow
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| David Yaffe-Bellany / Bloomberg: |
Biden administration asks a federal judge to put litigation over Trump's proposed TikTok ban on hold while it undertakes a review — The Biden administration asked a federal judge in Washington to put on hold the litigation over a ban on the Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok that was pursued by former president Donald Trump.
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Tweets: @stuartklau, @jenniferjjacobs, @kylebrussell, @jchengwsj, @azeem, @matthewstoller, and @stokel
| Saqib Shah / Engadget: |
Google launches Google News Showcase in UK and Argentina, after debuting the service in Australia last week, and says it now has over 450 publications globally — Google News Showcase is starting to roll out to more countries worldwide, including the UK and Argentina, on the heels of its Australian launch last week.
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Tweets: @googlenewsinit, @googlenewsinit, @googlenewsinit, @glenngabe, @pete_nq, @jwhittingdale, @googleuk, and @googleuk
| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Uber reports mixed Q4 results: revenue drops 16% YoY to $3.2B, net loss narrows to $968M from $1.1B YoY; net loss in 2020 was $6.77B, down from $8.51B in 2019 — - Uber's losses are narrowing as delivery growth continues to outpace a drop in ride-sharing revenue.
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| Sharon Otterman / New York Times: |
How software developers in NY took action to build better websites for scheduling vaccine appointments, after government websites proved to be not user-friendly — New Yorkers with tech skills were appalled when they tried to make vaccine appointments for older relatives. They knew there was a better way.
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Washington Post. Tweets: @_david_edward, @mheadd, @j__velasquez, @nytimes, @shiraovide, @aarieff, and @auforga
| Sky Sports: |
Instagram to impose stricter penalties, including removing accounts, to prevent abusive messages in DMs, after racist abuse was directed at footballers — Instagram to remove accounts of people who send abusive messages while developing new controls to help reduce the abuse people …
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Instagram, BBC Sport, Sky News, SlashGear, Pocketnow, Engadget, Social Media Today, ESPN.com, 9to5Mac, The Verge, Neowin, The Guardian, Android Central, The Sun, and MUO
Tweets: @wantali_mac, @jules_k83, and @anthonyrjoseph
| The Information: |
Internal data shows only 11.3M US households regularly watch NBCU's Peacock; sources: NBCU has pitched ViacomCBS about bundling their streaming services — As Netflix and Disney cement their leads over an array of rivals in the video-streaming market, top executives at Comcast and its NBCUniversal arm are in a quandary.| Patrick Clark / Bloomberg: |
Zillow says it will acquire ShowingTime, which makes software to arrange home showings, for $500M, and announces record Q4: Zillow stock up 11%+ after hours — - Company shares surge in late trading on strong results — Stock had already rallied more than 600% since March
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ZDNet, GeekWire, Barron's Online, Chicago Business, GeekWire, PR Newswire, MarketWatch, HousingWire, and Inman. Tweets: @laz
| Bloomberg: |
Satya Nadella says social media platforms need clear laws to govern which accounts should be removed instead of making free speech decisions themselves — U.S. technology companies should be ready to face greater global competition—including from China, Nadella says| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: Apple has partnered with TSMC to develop advanced micro OLED displays that are built directly onto wafers, which makes them thin and light — IPhone maker works on tech for augmented reality devices at secretive Taiwan lab — TAOYUAN, Taiwan — Apple has partnered …
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The Verge, Financial Times, CNET, Gizmodo, HotHardware.com News, Patently Apple, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, Tom's Guide, TechSpot, Neowin, Pocketnow, phonearena.com, SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog, BGR, TechRadar, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @starfire2258, @chengtingfang, @nikkeiasia, @chengtingfang, and @arjunram
| Michael Novinson / CRN: |
Cybersecurity vulnerability management service Tenable says it will acquire French startup Alsid, which helps protect Microsoft Active Directory, for $98M — French startup Alsid leverages dynamic threat scoring and complexity ratings to recommend Active Directory remediations that don't require …
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Baltimore Business Journal, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, Tenable, Inc., Petri, and GlobeNewswire. Tweets: @frtechjournal
| Ben Miller / New York Business Journal: |
NYC-based lottery ticket app Jackpocket, available in nine US states, raises $50M Series C, bringing its total raised to $79.6M — Jackpocket, the app that lets users play lottery games in nine different states, said it's raised $50 million in Series C funding.| Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting Cable: |
Shares of ad tech company Viant, which acquired Myspace in 2016, jumped 90% in its Nasdaq debut after the company raised $250M in its IPO — Programmatic DSP cashes in on CTV growth — Viant stock jumped more than 90% after the programmatic software company made its initial public offering Wednesday.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Nobl9, which helps speed up feature development using software-defined Service Level Objectives, raises $21M Series B led by Battery Ventures and CRV — SLAs, SLOs, SLIs. If there's one thing everybody in the business of managing software development loves, it's acronyms.
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Sources: Stir Money, whose software helps video and audio producers, writers, and performers manage their income, raises Series A led by a16z at $100M valuation — Andreessen Horowitz recently won a competitive deal to lead the Series A financing of Stir Money, a startup whose software helps video …
Tweets: @joshuaogundu, @sarthakgh, @k17ubha, @seyitaylor, @averygrrl, @lauramandaro, @transitive_bs, @amir, and @kateclarktweets
| Sebastian Sinclair / CoinDesk: |
Mobile blockchain payments startup Celo, which is built on Ethereum, raises $20M from a16z and others, bringing its total raised to $65M — Celo offers a blockchain payments platform using customers' cellphone numbers to secure their public keys. — Mobile-focused blockchain payments startup Celo …
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Decrypt, Finextra, PR Newswire, The Celo Blog, and FinSMEs
| Bloomberg: |
Ahead of its debut Thursday, Bumble raises $2.15B in its IPO with shares priced at $43 each, up from the previous range of $37-39 — - Listing upsized, priced above already elevated range — Wolfe Herd is youngest female CEO to take big U.S. firm public
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Reuters, TechCrunch, and Investor's Business Daily
| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
AccessiBe, which provides an accessibility overlay to help companies become ADA compliant, raises $28M Series A — If you want to make your website accessible right now but lack the resources for the kind of serious revamp it would take, an “accessibility overlay” may take the pressure off while the work gets done.| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
French startup Powder, which helps users share clips of video games, raises $14M Series A led by Serena, bringing its total raised to $18M — Meet Powder, a French startup that helps you share video clips of your favorite games, follow people with the same interests and interact with them.
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