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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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| New York Times: |
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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| 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, United States Secret Service, PCMag, HackRead, BleepingComputer, Ars Technica, InsideBitcoins.com, iTnews, CyberScoop, and Engadget
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| 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 … | Daniel Goldblatt / The Wrap: |
Facebook says Instagram has removed Robert F Kennedy Jr's account for making false claims about COVID-19 and vaccines — Move comes as the company is expanding efforts to crack down on conspiracy theory content — Instagram removed Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s account on Wednesday … | Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Users noticed Google iOS apps warning them the apps were out of date, despite Google not updating them since before Apple's Dec. 8 privacy label change — Though Google has promised to update its suite of apps with App Privacy labels to comply with App Store rules that Apple began enforcing in December …
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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: @jenniferjjacobs, @kylebrussell, @jchengwsj, @azeem, @matthewstoller, @stokel, and @stuartklau
| 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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| 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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| 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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Tweets: @mattrosoff, @mattrosoff, and @lorakolodny
| 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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| 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.| 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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Threatpost, Gizmodo, MacRumors, The Verge, BGR, The Overspill, Sonatype Blog, Insider, AppleInsider, WinBuzzer, TechRadar, SecurityWeek, Security Boulevard, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @jacobian, @rdbinns, @doctorow, @knurd42, @raredata, @benjaoming, @samnewman, and @securestep9
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Microsoft made an offer to acquire Pinterest in recent months; talks are not active right now — Exclusive: Software group looked at potential deal for $51bn social media company — Microsoft approached Pinterest in recent months about a potential deal to acquire … | 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, Engadget, The Verge, Pocketnow, Neowin, Social Media Today, SlashGear, Android Central, 9to5Mac, The Guardian, and ESPN.com
Tweets: @wantali_mac, @jules_k83, and @anthonyrjoseph
| 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.
Tweets: @_david_edward, @mheadd, @j__velasquez, @nytimes, @shiraovide, @aarieff, and @auforga
| The Information: |
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
| 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| 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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| 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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| 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.| 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, and @chengtingfang
| 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, Tenable, Inc., SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, Petri, infosecurity-magazine.com, and GlobeNewswire. Tweets: @frtechjournal
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