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| Malcolm Owen / AppleInsider: |
Report details Apple's eight-year struggle to build a self-driving car, as 20 people who worked on the project cite constantly shifting goals and more — The Apple Car project has suffered repeated setbacks throughout its development caused in part by a need to constantly prove its worthiness to management …
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| The Guardian: |
Mark MacGann, who led Uber's lobbying in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, comes forward as the leaker of 124K+ files, says Uber flouted laws and sold a lie — Exclusive: Mark MacGann says he has decided to speak out about firm to ‘right some fundamental wrongs’
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| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Apple debuts iOS 16's first public beta, with widgets on the lock screen, iMessage edit and undo, and more, alongside public betas for macOS, watchOS, iPadOS — We're a couple of months out from Apple officially rolling out the next major versions of its various operating systems.
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| Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan / Financial Times: |
Klarna confirms it raised $800M at a $6.7B valuation, down from $46B in June 2021 — Buy now, pay later specialist was worth $46bn last year — Sweden's Klarna, once Europe's most valuable private fintech company, has had its valuation slashed to $6.7bn in the clearest sign of the struggles facing the sector.
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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
A look at Twitter's options as Musk tries to back out, such as suing for “expectation damages”, which may be capped at $1B, or suing for “specific performance” — Oh Elon — One question that might be important is: How much is Twitter Inc. worth if Elon Musk does not buy it?
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| Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: |
China's antitrust watchdog punishes Tencent, Alibaba, Didi, and others with $74,600 fines for 28 unreported merger deals as far back as 2011 — Trams and cast-iron postboxes speak to the history of the city, while delicacies such as fishballs and egg waffles are street food essentials …
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Reports of hijacked accounts and analysis of Experian's authentication flow reveal subpar security at the credit bureau, a year after PIN reset flaws were found — Twice in the past month KrebsOnSecurity has heard from readers who had their accounts at big-three credit bureau Experian hacked …
Tweets: @jstrauss, @cathcam, @briankrebs, @ncweaver, @adam_k_levin, and @briankrebs
| Reuters: |
Investigation finds Binance continued to serve crypto traders in Iran as recently as September 2021 despite US sanctions and a company ban on business there — The world's largest crypto exchange, Binance, continued to process trades by clients in Iran despite U.S. sanctions and a company ban …
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PYMNTS.com, Gizmodo, Crypto Briefing, Protos, CoinGape, The Block, and Slashdot
Tweets: @david_ingram, @reuterslegal, @reuters, @neerajka, and @bertelschmitt
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Meta launches Sphere, an open-source AI knowledge tool based on 134M public web pages, used initially by Wikipedia to verify articles' citations — Facebook may be infamous for helping to usher in the era of “fake news“; but it's also tried to find a place for itself in the follow-up: the never-ending battle to combat it.
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SiliconANGLE, CNET, Tech at Meta, Meta AI, TNW, Tech Monitor, and OpenReview
| Callum Burroughs / Insider: |
Live events startup Hopin, valued at $7.75B in August 2021, is laying off 242 employees, 29% of its staff, after cutting 12% of its staff in February 2022 — - Live events startup Hopin is laying off 242 staff, the equivalent of 29% of its workforce. — The startup said it had made the … | Jon Porter / The Verge: |
WhatsApp rolls out the ability for users to react to messages with any emoji, not just its chosen six — The new feature is rolling out now — WhatsApp users will soon have the ability to react to messages with any emoji, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced in a Facebook post.| Sean Lyngaas / CNN: |
How North Korean spies infiltrate US crypto firms, posing as remote workers; UN says the country has stolen billions of dollars' worth of crypto from exchanges — Washington (CNN)Devin, the founder of a cryptocurrency startup based in San Francisco, woke up one day in February to the most bizarre phone call of his life.
Tweets: @snlyngaas, @silvermanjacob, @kyleworton, and @elisegaro
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