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Joe Rogan apologizes for his past use of the N-word after a compilation video of him using the slur went viral; ~70 JRE episodes have been removed from Spotify — His apology came as listeners said that as many as 70 episodes of “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast had been quietly taken off Spotify …
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Source: Spotify took down episodes of the Joe Rogan Experience at Rogan's request; all the removed episodes were recorded before he signed a deal with Spotify — Joe Rogan apologized Saturday for using a racial slur in past episodes of his popular podcast, many episodes of which have been removed from Spotify without explanation.| Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day: |
Meta, which ignored creators for years, has only “shameless” publishers and their content to fall back on in its pivots to video and eventual irrelevance — Read to the end for a tremendous meditation on February — Facebook Made Its Own World And Now It's Stuck In It
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An investigation reveals the identities of two founders of the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection: Gargamel is Greg Solano and Gordon Goner is Wylie Aronow — The buzzy NFT collection has raked in millions and the eager support of dozens of celebrities. But its founders' anonymity raises questions …
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| Riana Pfefferkorn / The Center for Internet and Society: |
A close look at how the EARN IT Act, which is modeled after FOSTA and was recently reintroduced in Congress, would harm online speech, privacy, and security — This is the latest entry in my lengthy archive of writing, talks, and interviews about the EARN IT Act:
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Sources: Peloton is drawing interest from potential buyers, including Amazon; Peloton's market value is now ~$8B, down from its ~$50B high around a year ago — The maker of stationary bikes faces pressure from activist investor as its share price sags — Peloton Interactive Inc …
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| Ian Bogost / The Atlantic: |
Digital assets like NFTs give us a glimpse into a future where every aspect of human life that can be digitally recorded is collateralized and securitized — Twitter has begun allowing its users to showcase NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, as profile pictures on their accounts.
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The Washington State Department of Licensing says over 250,000 licensed professionals may have had personal data exposed, including SSNs, in a database breach — The personal information of more than a quarter-million licensed professionals may have been exposed in a breach …
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| Nico Grant / Bloomberg: |
A breakdown of Google Cloud's rivalry with AWS and Azure as analysts expect $26B in 2022 GCP revenue and IDC predicts ~30% YoY cloud market growth until 2025 — When Amazon's cloud computing network went down on Dec. 7, it hampered a broad swath of companies that rely on its servers, including Disney, Netflix, and Ticketmaster.
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| Aluisio Alves / Reuters: |
Brazil-based Gupy, which uses AI to help around 1,500 companies select, hire, and train employees, raises ~$93M led by SoftBank Latin America Fund and Riverwood — Brazilian digital human resources startup Gupy said on Monday it has raised 500 million reais ($93.15 million) … | Crystal Tse / Bloomberg: |
Dog walking startup Wag will go public via a SPAC at a $350M valuation; SoftBank, which invested $300M in 2018, sold its 50% stake back to Wag in 2019 at a loss — Wag Labs Inc., the developer of dog-walking app Wag!, has agreed to go public through a merger with a blank-check company.
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Torii, which lets businesses automate the management of SaaS tools, raises a $50M Series B led by Tiger Global, bringing its total funding to $65M — The explosion of software — many companies use at least 100 SaaS applications — has made the world of managing that software more decentralized and more complex than in the past.Sponsor Posts
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