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| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Square is changing its name to Block, effective December 10, and renaming Square Crypto to Spiral, as its business shifts toward technologies like blockchain — - Payments giant Square will change its corporate name to Block, effective Dec. 10. — The move comes as Square expands beyond …
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| David Z. Morris / CoinDesk: |
Square's Block rebranding comes after years of making crypto integrations mainstream, although Block has downplayed the crypto elements so far — As we wrap up a year jam-packed with high-profile adoptions of crypto by big players, yesterday may have given us the concluding exclamation mark.| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
In a filing in the Epic lawsuit, Apple says it “could charge a commission” if developers use a competing payments platform, following a similar Google policy — Although the appeal of the Apple-Epic lawsuit is ongoing, Apple is currently subject to the judge's decision …
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Scribd, XDA Developers, PYMNTS.com, AppleInsider, CNET, FOSS Patents, MacDailyNews, Pocketnow, and iDownloadBlog.com
Tweets: @drbarnard, @drbarnard, and @iansherr
| The Markup: |
Investigation finds US predictive policing tool PredPol, used countrywide, often perpetuates biases by directing police to poor, Black, and Latino neighborhoods — Plainfield, N.J. Plainfield, N.J. Los Angeles — Orange County, Fla.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple, which cut its projected iPhone 13 production targets for 2021 by up to 10M units, tells suppliers that it may not make up the shortfall in 2022 — Apple Inc., suffering from a global supply crunch, is now confronting a different problem: slowing demand.| Tim Copeland / The Block: |
DeFi protocol BadgerDAO is investigating after security researchers say $120.3M was stolen from users via its compromised front end — Quick Take — DeFi protocol BadgerDAO was exploited earlier today for $120 million. — It appears that its front end was compromised and users were tricked into making unwanted transactions.
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VICE, CoinDesk, Bitcoin News, Decrypt, Coinspeaker, Crypto Briefing, CryptoSlate, and Blockworks
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple announces the best apps and games of 2021, across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Watch, and the most downloaded apps of the year — Apple today released its anticipated annual list of the best apps and games of the year across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV and Apple Watch.
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Tweets: @draggles, @petterkarlsson, @cyanworlds, @_fredrik, and @marcsettle
| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
AI researcher Timnit Gebru, who left Google last year, launches Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research, an institute focused on the responsible use of AI — The researcher, who says Google fired her a year ago, wants to ask questions about responsible use of artificial intelligence.
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Meta expands the number of eligible regulatory licenses for running crypto ads on Facebook and Instagram from three to 27 — - Facebook on Wednesday announced its decision to reverse long-standing policy that prevented most cryptocurrency companies from running ads on its services.
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Tweets: @paul__armstrong, @aidanjlarkin, @raypaxful, @leconcurrential, and @mattnavarra
| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
In its end-of-year threat report, Meta says it took down several global disinformation networks, including anti-vaccine groups and groups linked to state actors — The takedowns described in the company's latest threat report demonstrate how the cat-and-mouse game between Facebook and bad actors is escalating
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| Haje Jan Kamps / TechCrunch: |
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon G3x Gen 1 Gaming Platform for Android gaming devices, partners with Razer on a handheld dev kit with a 6.65" 120Hz OLED display — Snapdragon's G3x is Qualcomm's fantastically exciting bid to embrace the gaming market — a brand new reach for the manufacturer …
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Qualcomm, THE ELEC, Korea …, PCMag, UploadVR, Windows Central, SamMobile, Qualcomm, GamingBolt, The Verge, TechRadar, Android Central, and CNET. Tweets: @snapdragon_uk
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
DOJ charges an ex-employee of IoT manufacturer Ubiquiti with data theft and for attempting to extort his employer while posing as a whistleblower and a hacker — Nickolas Sharp, a former employee of networking device maker Ubiquiti, was arrested and charged today with data theft and attempting …
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U.S. Department of Justice, Protocol, CyberScoop, The Verge, IT PRO, The Record, TNW, SecurityWeek, and iTnews
Tweets: @bleepincomputer, @randomoracle, @kevinmitnick, @magoo, @j_opdenakker, @campuscodi, @cr3, and @troyhunt
| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Facebook makes 2FA mandatory for high-risk accounts, an expansion of Facebook Protect, which covers 1.5M accounts and will be in 50 countries by the end of 2021 — Facebook, a recently added subsidiary of Meta, said it will make two-factor authentication (2FA) mandatory for high-risk accounts likely …
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Meta, Wired, XDA Developers, MobileSyrup, Protocol, Engadget, The Hill, 9to5Mac, Neowin, The Record, iPhone Hacks, and The Hacker News
Tweets: @politicoryan and @alexvoica
| Zoe Schiffer / The Verge: |
Interviews with 16 current and former Apple retail, support, and sales employees detail harsh working conditions, poor pay, and little interest from HR — The company's hourly workers say conditions are untenable. Does Apple care? — Illustrations by Jesse Zhang| Reuters: |
Grab begins trading on the Nasdaq after a record SPAC merger valuing it at $40B and raising $4.5B, the largest US listing by a Southeast Asian company — Grab, Southeast Asia's biggest ride-hailing and delivery firm, makes its market debut on Thursday after a record $40 billion merger … | Berber Jin / The Information: |
Sources: Instacart is planning to launch a 15-minute-or-less grocery delivery pilot for US customers, from existing partner stores — For Instacart, the leading U.S. grocery delivery company, being fast may not be fast enough. — The $39 billion-valuation startup is planning to launch …
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PYMNTS.com, The Economic Times, 9to5Mac, Tech in Asia, and Entrackr
Tweets: @eliotwb, @elizabeth_joh, and @sarthakgh
| Michelle Singletary / Washington Post: |
The CFPB's rule that lets debt collectors send texts, emails, and private social media messages to debtors, and requires opt-out instructions, goes into effect — Federal regulators have given debt collectors the okay to pursue debtors via email, text messages and social media sites
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Consumer Financial …, Insider, and Input
Tweets: @jamesfrye, @esqfowlkes, @cfpb, @athertonkd, @gaymermage, @gossithedog, and @adam_k_levin
| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Five major education publishers sue Shopify for $500M+ over failing to remove pirated textbooks and other content that violate their trademarks and copyrights — Textbook pirates are selling stolen learning materials on the platform, according to a lawsuit| Olivia Solon / NBC News: |
Meta partners with UK-based Revenge Porn Helpline to help people prevent intimate images from appearing online by uploading them to StopNCII.org — Facebook's parent company, Meta, has worked with the U.K.-based nonprofit Revenge Porn Helpline to build a tool that lets people prevent …
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Meta, Protocol, The US Sun, Mashable, and Neowin
Tweets: @andymstone, @oliviasolon, @oliviasolon, and @oliviasolon
| Tim Casey / Forbes: |
100 Thieves, which manages professional esports teams and 15 video game streamers, raises a $60M Series C at a $460M valuation, up from $160M in July 2019 — During the 2017 NBA Finals, Matt Haag flew to Oakland, Calif., to meet with Dan Gilbert, the owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers.
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Bloomberg, Tubefilter, dexerto.com, VentureBeat, and Yahoo Entertainment
| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Jokr, a rapid grocery delivery service in the US and Latin America, raises a $260M Series B at a $1.2B valuation, five months after raising a $170M Series A — Online grocery sales are in single digits right now, but new data suggests it will top 20% by 2026 due to more consumers getting comfortable buying …
Tweets: @brianmcc and @kevinroose
| Bloomberg: |
Uber adds ride booking via WhatsApp in Lucknow, India, a first for Uber and an expansion of WhatsApp's capabilities in the country — - Integration is a global-first for Uber, company says — Users can book a ride with a message on the chat program — Uber Technologies Inc …
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Uber Newsroom, CNN, Reuters, KrASIA, Neowin, TechCircle, International Business Times, MediaNama, fossbytes.com, and equalocean.com
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn adds Hindi support in India after initially supporting only English, which is spoken by less than 20% of India's 1.3B people — Less than 20% of India's 1.3 billion people speak English. But LinkedIn, the largest professional social network globally, has so far catered … | Washington Post: |
Planned Parenthood Los Angeles says a hacker gained access to its network in October, compromising the information of ~400,000 patients including clinical data — A hacker gained access to the personal information of hundreds of thousands of Planned Parenthood patients in October …
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ZDNet, Fortune, ABC News, Insider, Axios, BleepingComputer, Los Angeles Times, CNN, cybernews.com, and New York Times
Tweets: @marissaaevans, @w7voa, @joseph_marks_, and @brettcallow
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