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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, VICE, Vox, Insider, XDA Developers, Engadget, Social Media Today, Android Central, iPhone Hacks, Reuters, Mashable, and Pocketnow
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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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The Verge, Threatpost, Insider, The Overspill, MacRumors, Sonatype Blog, AppleInsider, WinBuzzer, SecurityWeek, The Hacker News, 9to5Mac, TechRadar, and Security Boulevard
Tweets: @rdbinns, @knurd42, @raredata, @benjaoming, @securestep9, @youngnick, @adam_k_levin, and @weldpond
| 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, BuzzFeed News, New York Times, pib.gov.in, The Verge, Agence France-Presse, The Economic Times, TechRadar, Android Central, Pocketnow, International Business Times, Financial Times, Neowin, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Gizmodo, and The Next Web
| 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, Bloomberg, Data Driven Investor, Newsweek, cryptodaily.co.uk, and Nikkei Asia
| 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, iTnews, United States Secret Service, Ars Technica, CoinDesk, Engadget, HackRead, CyberScoop, and BleepingComputer
Tweets: @usdoj_intl, @europol, and @campuscodi
| 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: @jenniferjjacobs, @kylebrussell, @jchengwsj, @azeem, @matthewstoller, and @stokel
| 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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Tweets: @starfire2258, @chengtingfang, @nikkeiasia, @chengtingfang, and @arjunram
| 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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The Keyword, The Verge, The Keyword, Trusted Reviews, Neowin, The Keyword, MacRumors, and 9to5Google
Tweets: @googlenewsinit, @googlenewsinit, @googlenewsinit, @glenngabe, @pete_nq, @jwhittingdale, @googleuk, and @googleuk
| 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, @shiraovide, @auforga, @aarieff, @j__velasquez, and @nytimes
| Bloomberg: |
Satya Nadella says social media platforms need clearer laws to help decide whether controversial accounts, like Donald Trump's, have a place on their services — U.S. technology companies should be ready to face greater global competition—including from China, Nadella says| 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, Engadget, Social Media Today, Sky News, The Verge, MUO, The Sun, ESPN.com, 9to5Mac, Neowin, The Guardian, and Android Central
Tweets: @wantali_mac, @jules_k83, and @anthonyrjoseph
| 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.| 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.| 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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TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, Tenable, Inc., Petri, and GlobeNewswire
| 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, FinSMEs, Finextra, PR Newswire, and The Celo Blog
| 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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| Marcella McCarthy / TechCrunch: |
SmartHop, which helps interstate truckers make their routes more efficient and lucrative, raises $12M Series A led by USV, bringing its total raised to $16.5M — If you are a founder and launched a startup last February of 2020 just before the pandemic hit, then you may have felt like you were living the ultimate business nightmare.| 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.| 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.| Campbell Kwan / ZDNet: |
Huawei files a lawsuit against the FCC for its decision to designate the company as a national security threat, says the order was beyond FCC's scope of powers — It has accused the FCC of making the designation without providing substantial evidence. — Huawei has once again filed … | Michael Vizard / VentureBeat: |
Vivun, which offers a SaaS product to automate the management of presales processes, raises $35M Series B led by Menlo Ventures — Vivun provides a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform dubbed Hero that automates the management of presales processes. Today the company revealed …
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| Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
Tel Aviv-based CYE, which uses AI and human hackers to test a company's security resilience, raises $120M led by EQT — The soaring number of cyberattacks has propelled a massive expansion of potential solutions as startups and incumbent security providers jostle to address the market opportunity.
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TechCrunch, CTech, Bloomberg, PR Newswire, Silicon Republic, and SiliconANGLE
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
In iOS 14.5 beta, Maps adds a feature letting US users report accidents, hazards, and speed checks along their route using Siri or CarPlay — The iOS 14.5 beta, available to developers and public beta testers, adds a new Apple Maps feature that lets you report accidents, hazards …
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The Verge, ZDNet, USA Today, Trusted Reviews, MacDailyNews, PCMag, techadvisor.co.uk, Apple Must, SlashGear, MUO, 9to5Mac, phonearena.com, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, MSPoweruser, KnowTechie, and Mashable
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