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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google releases Android 12 developer preview, available for Pixel devices, with under-the-hood changes adding security, support for more media formats, and more — The big, consumer-facing changes will come later this year — Google is releasing a developer preview for the next version of Android …
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Tweets: @androidpolice, @mishaalrahman, @androiddev, @keyboardsurfer, @mishaalrahman, @androidstudio, and @mishaalrahman
| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Facebook's refusal to pay a misguided media tax, pushed by Rupert Murdoch, is a defense of the open web and criticizing it for rejecting a link tax is bizarre — None of this should have been a surprise. Back in September we wrote about Facebook publicly saying that if Australia went forward …
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| Damien Cave / New York Times: |
As news disappears from Facebook in Australia, while leaving plenty of conspiracy theories, many Australians are outraged but remain divided over what to do — The social network's decision to block journalism rather than pay for it erased more than expected, leaving many outraged and debating what should happen next.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Google adds the Apple TV app to its newest Chromecast device with Google TV and has made it available on Sony and TCL smart TVs that have Google TV — Plugging a notable gap in its streaming lineup, Google has added the Apple TV app — the only way to get the Apple TV Plus service — to its newest Chromecast device.
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| Usman Pirzada / Wccftech: |
Nvidia announces dedicated crypto mining GPUs and says RTX 3060 GPU will detect the Ethereum cryptocurrency mining algorithm and limit the hash rate by 50% — NVIDIA has finally conceded to the overwhelming mining demand facing the GPU market right now and launched a lineup …
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| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Court filing says a Facebook manager warned that the company reported revenues it “should have never made” by overstating how many users advertisers could reach — Lawsuit cites product executive's qualms over figures provided to advertisers — A Facebook employee warned …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces new standalone versions of Office: Office 2021, available for Windows and macOS later this year, and Office LTSC for commercial customers — Microsoft Office LTSC is also arriving for businesses — Microsoft is announcing two new versions of Office today …
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, and Jack Dorsey are scheduled to testify at the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on platform misinformation March 25 — The hostility toward Big Tech that had taken hold in Washington has intensified after the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol
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Democrats …, Bloomberg, The Hill, Axios, CNET, Engadget, Politico, Reuters, and CNBC. Tweets: @shannonpareil
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Microsoft completes its probe into its SolarWinds-related breach, finds hackers stole some source code but no evidence that they abused its internal systems — Microsoft says it has completed its investigation into its SolarWinds-related breach. — Microsoft's security team said today … | Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Thursday's House Committee hearing focused very little on social media's role in the GameStop squeeze and instead focused on Robinhood's influence — A Redditor, a FinTech bro, and two hedge fund managers walk into a hearing room — This story is part of a group of stories called
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Dropbox beats Q4 expectations with revenue of $504.1M, up 14% YoY, vs estimates of $498M, says it has 15.48M paying users, up from 14.31M YoY — The company said paying users now sit at 15.48 million, as compared to 14.31 million for the same period last year.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
House Republicans introduce the CONNECT Act, which aims to expand broadband connectivity and competition, but would limit government-run municipal networks — GOP claims ban would “promote competition by limiting government-run networks.” — House Republicans have unveiled their plan for … | Noam Bardin: |
Former Waze CEO reflects on his time at Google and the impact of the acquisition on autonomy, the brand, hiring and firing, distribution, compensation, and more — It's been two weeks since I left Google and I keep getting asked “why did I leave now”? I think the better question is “why did I stay for so long”?| Ben Geman / Axios: |
Facebook says it will expand its program to fight climate lies to other regions, will debunk climate change myths, adds labels to climate change posts in the UK — Facebook is expanding the geographic reach of its recently launched online portal to counter misinformation about climate change … | Bloomberg: |
Google will restructure its Responsible AI teams to centralize them under a single Black executive, Marian Croak, in wake of Timnit Gebru's departure — - Company seeks to stabilize department amid internal rancor — Responsible AI teams to be centralized under single executive
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Tweets: @nicoagrant, @alexhanna, @tsimonite, @mmitchell_ai, @timnitgebru, @timnitgebru, @mjb_sf, @tsimonite, @robaeprice, and @laurenceb
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Roku beats with Q4 revenue of $650M vs $615M expected, up 58% YoY, net profit of $65.2M vs an expected loss; 14.3M active accounts were added for FY2020 — Roku grew revenue in the fourth quarter 58%, to a record $649.9 million — and posted a $65.2 million net profit for the quarter, whereas Wall Street had expected a loss.| Mara Hvistendahl / The Intercept: |
Docs: Oracle has been marketing its data analytics tools to Chinese police, touting its ability to mine DNA, vehicle records, and facial recognition databases — Police in China's Liaoning province were sitting on mounds of data collected through invasive means: financial records …
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| Tim Anderson / The Register: |
Microsoft releases version 1.0 of Dapr, one of its open-source projects to simplify app development for Kubernetes — API now stable, more on the way — Microsoft has released version 1.0 of its Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr), aimed at providing building blocks to simplify application development for Kubernetes.
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| Ian Carlos Campbell / The Verge: |
WhatsApp says it will offer users the ability to review its new privacy policy through a banner inside its app, ahead of the update's May 15 launch — The company is trying to set the record straight on private messages and what's changing — WhatsApp has a new plan to explain …
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PCMag, CNET, WhatsApp.com, The Next Web, TechCrunch, phonearena.com, and Android Police
Tweets: @wcathcart and @ylecun
| João Carrasqueira / Neowin: |
Facebook adds multi-user support and app sharing to Oculus Quest, so that purchases from one account can be shared with the rest of the users on the same device — Facebook is making Oculus Quest headsets easier to share with others with a couple of new features being rolled out starting today.
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Oculus Blog, Engadget, Social Media Today, Mashable, SlashGear, UploadVR, and CNET
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
CrowdStrike announces plans to acquire UK-based log data analysis startup Humio for $400M; Humio had raised $30M+ to date from backers including Dell and Accel — CrowdStrike, a cloud-native cybersecurity company focused on endpoint protection and threat intelligence for enterprises …
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CrowdStrike, CRN, Business Wire, SiliconANGLE, Dark Reading, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @stockmarketnerd and @crowdstrike
| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
The Internet Association, whose members include Facebook and Google, joins a lawsuit from the US Chamber of Commerce challenging Maryland's digital services tax — The lawsuit from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and groups such as the Internet Association, whose members include Amazon …
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