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Biden signed an executive order directing federal agencies to study the risks posed by digital assets, such as evading sanctions, and consider a digital dollar — Cryptocurrency advocates celebrate order while skeptics see it as a step back for regulation — WASHINGTON—The price …
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| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
A deep dive into Apple's M1 Ultra: two M1 Max dies combined into a single chip, 800GB/second memory bandwidth, 64 GPU cores to outperform the RTX 3090, and more — As part of Apple's spring “Peek Performance” product event this morning, Apple unveiled the fourth and final member of the M1 family of Apple Silicon SoCs, the M1 Ultra.
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| Pushkar / Bits and Bytes: |
A look at the symbiotic relationship between TSMC and Apple: TSMC gets a predictable, demanding, high volume customer and Apple gets cutting-edge chips at scale — The TSMC-Apple partnership has been one of the defining relationships of the mobile computing era.| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
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Substack launches an iOS app for reading; Android users can join a waitlist — What you read matters — Today, we're launching an iOS app for reading. It's like your email inbox, but better. — For readers, the app brings all your Substack subscriptions together in one venue …
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| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Two Austrian entrepreneurs acquire the assets of LimeWire, the music sharing service shuttered in 2010, and plan to relaunch it as an NFT marketplace for music — A pair of serial entrepreneurs in Austria has bought the rights to defunct music platform LimeWire with plans to revamp its image …
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Twitter begins rolling out Twitter Shops in beta, letting users link to up to 50 items from their profiles, to select US merchants on iOS — Currently only rolling out for select businesses on iOS — Twitter is rolling out a new shopping beta today: Twitter Shops, which lets sellers add … | Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal: |
A bipartisan group of lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee ask the DOJ to investigate Amazon and its executives over obstructing Congress' antitrust probe — House Judiciary Committee accuses tech giant of withholding information during antitrust probe; Amazon has denied any attempts to mislead
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| Washington Post: |
As Western tech companies react to sanctions on Russia, Twitch streamers, Upwork gig workers, OnlyFans creators, and contract developers lose their livelihoods — When Arina, a 22-year-old illustrator in Russia, first started using the freelance work platform Upwork last year, it changed her life.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Amazon suspends access to Prime Video for customers based in Russia, and stops shipping retail products to customers in Russia and Belarus — Amazon has joined the growing number of businesses suspending commercial activities in Russia in the wake of the country's unprovoked attack on Ukraine.| Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: |
The EU clarifies that sanctions on Russia and Belarus extend to crypto assets, deeming them “transferrable securities” that can be used for loans and credit — Crypto assets fall into the category of “transferrable securities” and are therefore clearly included in the scope of sanctions, the EU said.
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Lumen becomes the second US backbone internet provider to exit Russia after Cogent; Russia's top international data sources are now in Sweden, Italy, and the UK — Lumen, a leading American Internet provider to Russia, announced Tuesday that it was severing business relations in the country …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Facebook rolls out new features for Group admins, including the ability to automatically decline incoming posts with information marked false by fact checkers — Facebook announced today that it's rolling out new features to help Facebook Group administrators keep their communities safe, manage interactions and reduce misinformation.| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Better.com lays off 3,000+ employees in the US and India, citing “current market conditions”; some staff learned of the layoffs via “too early” severance pay — The mass layoffs at digital mortgage lender Better.com have reportedly started, according to employees …
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Sources: Amazon is expected to win unconditional approval from the European Commission for its $8.5B acquisition of MGM, which was announced in May 2021 — Amazon is expected to win unconditional EU antitrust approval for its $8.5 billion buy of U.S. movie studio MGM, people familiar with the matter said … | Claire Fahy / New York Times: |
Weight Watchers agrees to pay a $1.5M penalty for using its Kurbo app to illegally collect personal information from kids without parental consent — Kurbo by WW, a weight loss app geared toward children, illegally collected data from users as young as 8 without their parents' consent, the Federal Trade Commission said in a complaint.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Kuo: the 2022 MacBook Air will have a new form factor, an M1 chip, no mini-LED display, more color options, and is slated for production in late Q2 or Q3 2022 — Following today's event that saw the introduction of the Mac Studio, respected Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has provided some detail …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Carl Pei's Nothing raises a $70M Series B to create smartphones with Qualcomm and expand in London; the company will host a product event on March 23 — For Nothing, Mobile World Congress was prelude. The young hardware startup spent the show in meeting rooms, behind the scenes, discussing what came next.
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Savings and investing app Acorns raises a $300M Series F at a nearly $2B valuation led by TPG, six weeks after shelving its SPAC plans — Savings and investing app Acorns has raised $300 million in a Series F funding round that values the company at nearly $2 billion.| Liza Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources detail TikTok's struggles to moderate its service as Russia invades Ukraine; in lieu of detailed instructions, junior employees had to refine the rules — Short-video app faces one of its biggest challenges since its launch, as it grapples with heightened role in geopolitics
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Twitter launches a Tor onion service using a modified version of the Enterprise Onion Toolkit, letting users access Twitter via any Tor-compatible browser — The site may become the most significant onion service created if it allows people to access Twitter from censored countries. — Joseph Cox
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| Entrackr: |
Data collaboration software maker Atlan raises a $50M Series B led by Salesforce Ventures at a ~$450M valuation, following a $16M Series A in May 2021 — Data collaboration software provider Atlan has raised around $50 million in its Series B round from new and existing investors including …
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| New York Times: |
A look at the rise of DAOs as they wrestle with infighting and other challenges; DeepDAO: the value of cryptocurrencies held in DAOs rose 3,200% in 2021 to $13B — The cryptocurrency boom has spawned enterprises democratically governed by a community of users. Or that's the theory.
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