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June 9, 2023, 2:50 PM
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The Markup:
A database on Microsoft's Xandr containing 650K+ “audience segments” shows how data brokers classify consumers by surveilling their online and offline activity  —  A spreadsheet on ad platform Xandr's website revealed a massive collection of “audience segments” …
Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal:
Antenna: Netflix gained more US subscribers from May 25 to May 28, after its password-sharing crackdown began, than in any other four days since at least 2019  —  Shortly after change, company had highest rate of sign-ups since Antenna began tracking data in 2019
Rahat Sandhu / Reuters:
Binance.US suspends USD deposits and notifies customers that their banking partners are preparing to pause fiat withdrawal channels as early as June 13  —  Binance.US on Thursday said the company is suspending USD deposits while notifying customers that their banking partners are preparing to pause fiat …
MK Manoylov / The Block:
Robinhood plans to end support for Solana, Polygon, and Cardano on June 27, following a company review in light of the SEC lawsuits against Coinbase and Binance  —  - Robinhood will no longer support Solana, Polygon or Cardano after June 27, 2023 at 6:59 p.m. ET.
Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk:
US DOJ unseals a 2019 indictment charging two Russians with stealing ~647K BTC in a Mt. Gox hack; one of them is also charged with conspiring to operate BTC-e  —  One of the individuals also operated BTC-e, the DOJ alleged.  —  The U.S. Department of Justice charged Russian nationals Alexey Bilyuchenko …
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Barracuda asked its customers on June 6 to replace impacted Email Security Gateway appliances immediately, after patching a zero-day vulnerability on May 20  —  It's not often that a zero-day vulnerability causes a network security vendor to urge customers to physically remove and decommission …
Jon Porter / The Verge:
Spotify is testing Your Offline Mix, a new playlist feature that automatically saves a mix of users' recently played songs for offline listening  —  / The playlist is described in the app as ‘a mix of recently played songs for when the vibe is high but your connection is low.’
Naomi Nix / Washington Post:
Source: a recent Meta employee survey found 26% of respondents expressed confidence in leadership and 43% said they felt valued, vs. 31% and 58% in October 2022  —  The Facebook parent company is betting that more job security and innovations in artificial intelligence will boost the internal mood as well as the company's bottom line
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Hilary Allen / Financial Times:
After the SEC's recent actions and the FTX, Celsius, and Luna failures, Republican lawmakers proposing a crypto market bill is a jarring gift to the industry  —  Republican proposal for new legislation would legitimise the digital asset industry and undermine investor protection
Bloomberg:
A look at Japan's expanding chip sector, aided by $14B+ in subsidies, including for TSMC's plant in Kumamoto, which has been hampered by narrow, jammed roads  —  Every morning, some of the world's top chip engineers can be found stuck in traffic on Kumamoto Prefecture's Route 30 …
John Perrino / Tech Policy Press:
Six US senators reintroduce PATA, a bipartisan bill to improve social media transparency, requiring companies to share ad libraries, moderation stats, and more  —  John Perrino is a policy analyst at the Stanford Internet Observatory.  —  The Platform Accountability and Transparency Act …

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From Mediagazer

Scott Nover / Washington Post:
The New York Times wins four Pulitzers, the most of any news organization in 2025; The Washington Post wins two, and ProPublica wins the public service prize

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
The White House says “no final decisions on foreign film tariffs have been made” and it is exploring options for “Making Hollywood Great Again”

Lata Jha / Livemint:
Deloitte and MPA: the film, television, and online curated content industry in India generated a combined revenue of $13.1B in FY 2024, up 18% since FY 2019

More News

Bloomberg:
A group of ~120 Google contract workers employed via Accenture seek to unionize with the Alphabet Workers Union, saying that Alphabet is their “joint employer”
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
EvenUp, whose AI tool generates legal documents to assess personal injury cases, raised a $50.5M Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners at a $325M valuation
Emily Chang / Bloomberg:
Evan Williams says he was “sad” when Elon Musk bought Twitter after thinking the idea was “interesting and fun” and Musk hasn't “dialed it in quite right yet”

Earlier Picks

Alex Heath / The Verge:
Chris Cox showed Meta's staff its “response to Twitter”, an Instagram-based text app integrated with ActivityPub; documents say the app could be called Threads
Ina Fried / Axios:
Mark Zuckerberg shared with employees Meta's plan to add generative AI text, image, and video tools to its products, such as Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Apollo's developer plans to shut down the Reddit client on June 30, saying “Reddit's recent decisions and actions” make it impossible for Apollo to continue
Sam Sabin / Axios:
Google releases a conceptual framework for companies to quickly secure their AI systems against hackers trying to manipulate AI models or steal AI training data
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Google plans to launch News Showcase, first announced in October 2020, in the US later this summer, alongside partnerships with five local news associations
David Pierce / The Verge:
WhatsApp announces Channels, a one-to-many broadcast feature as “a private way to follow what matters”, and plans to add payment and other monetization services
Isaiah Poritz / Bloomberg Law:
A radio host sues OpenAI for defamation over a ChatGPT hallucination, alleging the tool generated a false legal complaint accusing him of fraud and embezzlement
Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal:
Internal email: Google plans to consider office attendance records in performance reviews and only take new requests to work remotely full time as exceptions
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