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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Twitter makes its v2 API, announced in August 2020, the default for developers, giving third-party apps more freedom as it aims to become more decentralized — Twitter's new API is finally official, which could mean good things for third-party clients — Twitter has announced …
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Twitter, Protocol, 9to5Mac, ZDNet, and SiliconANGLE
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| Packy McCormick / Not Boring: |
A look at ConstitutionDAO, which has taken $4M+ in crypto donations to bid at an auction on one of the original copies of the US Constitution, printed in 1787 — ConstitutionDAO, web3, and America … Today's Not Boring is brought to you by... Secureframe … Schedule a Secureframe Demo
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| Sam White / British GQ: |
As Xbox turns 20, Phil Spencer and other executives discuss future plans, including Game Pass and xCloud, exclusive games, Xbox history, and more — Phil Spencer saved Xbox. Now he wants to reinvent gaming. Ahead of Xbox's 20th anniversary, we sat down with him and Microsoft's gaming …
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| Miles Kruppa / Financial Times: |
Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam and ex-Sequoia partner Matt Huang announce Paradigm One, a $2.5B fund focused on crypto and Web3 — Fred Ehrsam is behind $2.5bn fund Paradigm One, to which investors jockeyed to commit money — Cryptocurrencies are booming, and a three-year-old investment firm …
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| Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: |
Substack says it has reached 1M paying subscribers, up from 250,000 last December — Many top journalists have left legacy media to go it alone on publishing platform — Newsletter start-up Substack has reached 1m paying subscribers, underlining the growing power of à la carte journalism …
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| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Peloton sues rival fitness companies Echelon and iFit, claiming that both violated patents related to its on-demand classes — This doesn't bode well for all those Peloton copycats — Peloton isn't too happy with its rivals. The company has filed lawsuits against Echelon and iFit … | Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
Ohio AG sues Meta on behalf of an Ohio pension fund and Meta investors, alleging Facebook execs misled the public about its products' negative impact on minors — Lawsuit filed on behalf of Meta investors and Ohio Public Employees Retirement System seeks to recover more than $100 billion
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| Suhauna Hussain / Los Angeles Times: |
Amazon agrees to pay $500K to California for concealing COVID-19 case numbers from its workers, the first such action under the state's new “right to know” law — Amazon has agreed to pay $500,000 to better enforce state consumer protection laws after California's attorney general …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers say they used a new Rowhammer exploit to successfully flip bits on all 40 PC-DDR4 DRAM devices they tested, defeating recent hardware mitigations — Researchers build “fuzzer” that supercharges potentially serious bitflipping exploits. — Rowhammer exploits that allow unprivileged attackers …
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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Apple defends its ads for third-party apps, saying they are marked as from the App Store, have been live for five years, and it regularly communicates with devs — Following allegations that Apple secretively buys ads for subscription-based apps to collect more commission … | Rob Pegoraro / PCMag: |
Pew: 42% of US users read Twitter primarily for entertainment, 20% for news; one-third of users visit Twitter less than once a week, 66% visit at least weekly — More tweeps read Twitter primarily for entertainment, but among the 69% who report getting news on Twitter … | Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Biden signs $1T+ infrastructure bill into law, with $65B to boost broadband access, $475M in grants to help low-income Americans acquire computing devices, more — It includes billions in EV and broadband infrastructure — On Monday, President Biden signed a historic $1 trillion infrastructure bill aimed …
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| Campbell Kwan / ZDNet: |
Google says it will invest AU$1B over five years into a new Australian Digital Future Initiative to create jobs and build its first research hub in the country — Google's investment of AU$1 billion over five years will be put into building Australia's technology talent, digital infrastructure, and developing local tech partnerships.| Emele Onu / Bloomberg: |
Nigeria says 488,000+ people downloaded the wallet for eNaira, its central bank digital currency, and ~78K merchants from 160+ countries enrolled to use it — - As many as 488,000 consumer wallets downloaded since October — Customers conduct transactions valued at 62 million naira| Fred Wilson / AVC: |
Seed rounds at $100M post-money valuations, now fairly common, are unlikely to perform well for investors, given dilution and early startups' high failure rate — We have been seeing quite a few seed rounds getting done in and around $100mm post-money and that concerns me for a few reasons:
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| TechCrunch: |
Bird reports Q3 revenue of $65.4M, up 63% YoY, vs. $65.7M expected, and a net loss of $36.9M, down from $43.8M YoY, in its first public earnings — Today after the bell, scooter-sharing company Bird disclosed its third-quarter earnings, the first time it has done so as a public company.| Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal: |
Doctors and researchers say social media is contributing to the rise of negative body image issues and eating disorder cases among boys — Griffin Henry, a promising young baseball player from Missouri, had his dreams derailed by anorexia — Eating disorders are on the rise among boys … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Big data analytics service Splunk announces CEO Doug Merritt will be stepping down and replaced by its board chair effective immediately; stock drops 18%+ — - Spunk's board chair, Graham Smith, is taking over from CEO Doug Merritt immediately as interim CEO.
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| Martin Matishak / The Record: |
DHS issues an interim rule that will, once finalized, let it hire cybersecurity professionals at salaries of up to $255,800 and up to $332,100 in special cases — The Homeland Security Department on Monday unveiled a new program that gives it more flexibility to recruit and retain cybersecurity personnel.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says it will block tools like EdgeDeflector that stop Windows 11 from using Edge to open Start menu search results, via an upcoming software update — Microsoft shouldn't need to force anyone to use Edge — Microsoft has already made it more difficult to switch default browsers in Windows 11 …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
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