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Memo: TikTok is “disappointed” that the US House passed the TikTok divestment bill, and reiterates its plans to lobby the Senate not to pass the legislation — TikTok told employees the company isn't planning to change its approach to protecting user data even after US lawmakers passed …
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Threads: @drewharwell. X: @tiktokpolicy, @danprimack, @conorsen, @kantrowitz, @rpotter_9, and @vtchakarova. LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski
Forums: r/ROI and Ars OpenForum
| Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
After the House vote, Chinese officials say the US has shown “robber's logic” toward TikTok, and Washington must “stop unfairly suppressing foreign companies” — Beijing urges Washington to ‘stop unfairly suppressing foreign companies’
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Threads: @yasharali, @harrisonstarr_, @texaspaulschroder, @datadrivenmd, @sherrilynifill, @jeffjarvis, and @ngrossman81. X: @alex
LinkedIn: Siddharth Vishwanathan and Nomi Prins
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| Sheena Vasani / The Verge: |
Google adds real-time URL protection to Chrome's Safe Browsing Standard on desktop and iOS, claiming to guard users' privacy; Android will get the feature soon — Google has added real-time browsing protection to Chrome that it claims should protect your privacy.| Jeff Horwitz / Wall Street Journal: |
Meta plans to shut down CrowdTangle in August 2024 and replace it with Meta Content Library, available to academic and nonprofit researchers, not news outlets — CrowdTangle, a source for embarrassing articles about Facebook and Instagram, has been used to track conspiracy theories, viral content
More: Engadget and The Verge
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Bluesky: @stevierea.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social
| Hugo Barra / Hugo's Blog: |
A deep dive into Vision Pro by Meta's ex-VP of VR Hugo Barra: the audacity of Apple's hardware decisions, a dull software story, how Meta can respond, and more — Friends and colleagues have been asking me to share my perspective on the Apple Vision Pro as a product.
More: MIXED Reality News, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Cult of Mac, CryptoGlobe, and The Verge
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| Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
Proton releases its mail app for macOS and Windows out of beta, available as part of its $4/month Mail Plus or $10/month Unlimited tier, and a Linux app in beta — And a Linux app is launching in beta soon. — Proton, the privacy-focused company that offers a variety of internet tools like mail …
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| Trishla Ostwal / Adweek: |
Sources: Google's Search Generative Experience could cut organic search traffic to publishers by 20% to 60%; Google says “it's premature to estimate” the impact — Search Generative Experience could upend over 60% of publishers' total organic traffic
More: Search Engine Land and Digital Content Next
Mastodon: @lauren@mastodon …. X: @outonalumb, @edzitron, @alexeheath, @edzitron, @rustybrick, @ohtazer, @kthomasulland, and @trishlaostwal
| Craig Trudell / Bloomberg: |
X removes a graphic video shared by Elon Musk purporting to show cannibalism in Haiti, for violating its rules; there's no evidence the video was shot in Haiti — - Move is rare case of company taking action involving its owner — Musk's posts are increasingly focused on immigration issues
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
The EU opens a DSA investigation into Alibaba's AliExpress over illegal content concerns, ad and product recommendations, and more, the third DSA investigation — The European Commission on Thursday said it opened a formal investigation into AliExpress, an international e-commerce website run … | Emilia David / The Verge: |
Amazon rolls out a generative AI feature that creates a product page, including a description and images, using information from a seller's external website — Sellers on Amazon will soon be able to make product pages with just the copy-and-paste of a link.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Reddit launches free-form ads, an ad format that looks similar to posts made by users, but with a “Promoted” label, to help advertisers get maximum engagement — Reddit is introducing a new ad format that looks similar to posts made by users on the platform, the company announced on Thursday.| Assaf Gilead / Globes Online: |
US cybersecurity company Zscaler acquires Israel-based cybersecurity startup Avalor for $350M; Avalor was founded in 2022 and has raised just $30M to date — Avalor was founded only two years ago and has raised $30 million to date. — US cybersecurity company Zscaler has announced …
More: CRN, Bloomberg, CTech, Constellation Research, Cryptopolitan, and SecurityWeek. LinkedIn: Pramod Gosavi
| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Anthropic debuts Claude 3 Haiku, tailored for high-volume, latency-sensitive applications, saying Haiku is “the fastest and most affordable model” in its class — San Francisco-based startup Anthropic has just released Claude 3 Haiku, the newest addition to its Claude 3 family of AI models.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft plans to release a unified Teams app on Windows 11 later in 2024, letting users switch between multiple tenants and personal or work account types — Microsoft is finally creating a single version of Microsoft Teams that will allow you to switch between personal and work accounts easily.
More: Windows Blog, ZDNet, BleepingComputer, MSPoweruser, Petri IT Knowledgebase, BetaNews, The Register, PCWorld, WinBuzzer, TechRadar, Windows Central, Neowin, XDA Developers, and MSPoweruser
Forums: r/windowsinsiders and r/Windows11
| Reuters: |
Sources: in 2019, Donald Trump authorized the CIA to launch a clandestine social media campaign to turn China's public against the government and Xi Jinping — Two years into office, President Donald Trump authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to launch a clandestine campaign …
Mastodon: @kevincollier@mastodon.social. X: @shashj, @shashj, @ericgeller, and @nkulw
Forums: r/worldnews, r/Destiny, r/LessCredibleDefence, r/politics, and r/neoliberal
| Russ Crupnick / MusicWatch: |
US paid music subscribers hit a record 109M in 2023, or 136M if SiriusXM and Amazon Prime Music are included; seven of every 10 US millennials pay to subscribe — MusicWatch Annual Music Study points to continued health of the US music market, a record number of paid subscribers, and increased spend on recorded music.| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Massachusetts-based Pi Health, which uses AI to automate tasks in cancer treatment trials, raised a $30M+ Series A co-led by AlleyCorp and Obvious Ventures — - Pi Health develops technology for oncology clinical trials — Its platform connects drug makers with trials globally| Bloomberg: |
Damage to the West Africa Cable System, MainOne, and ACE sea cables disrupts internet services across Africa; the cause of the faults has not been determined — - At least three telecommunications cables are offline — Follows damage to three cables in Red Sea last month
More: Total Telecom, DatacenterDynamics, Nairametrics, and TechCabal
X: @netblocks, @aanuadeoye, @a__diack, @africatechie, @netblocks, @canalboxr, and @oliviasolon
| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel launches the $689 Core i9-14900KS Special Edition processor, with clock speeds up to 6.2GHz on two cores to become the company's fastest mainstream chip — 6.2 GHz and a whole lotta power draw. — Jump to: — Gaming Benchmarks - Productivity Benchmarks - Thermals and Power - Conclusion| Dashiell Wood / TechRadar: |
Lenovo plans to launch the €599+ Legion Tab, an 8.8" Android gaming tablet currently only available in China, in the EMEA and other Asian markets later in March — It's set to arrive in March — Technology manufacturer Lenovo has announced that the Lenovo Legion Tab Android gaming tablet … | Kosaku Narioka / Wall Street Journal: |
Foxconn reports Q4 revenue down 5.7% YoY to ~$59B, as cloud and networking demand falls, net profit up 33% YoY to $1.69B, and expects flat 2024 consumer demand — Revenue fell on lackluster demand for cloud and networking products and a slowing personal-computer market
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