Ahead of House hearing, Mark Zuckerberg calls for Section 230 reform that makes protections conditional on platforms' ability to identify and remove content
Want this newsletter delievered to your inbox? — Good evening, Aaron Mackey / Electronic Frontier Foundation : Facebook's Pitch to Congress: Section 230 for Me, But not for Thee Russell Brandom / Th...
Arizona Senate skips vote on bill HB2005, which would have forced Apple and Google to let apps in their app stores use alternative in-app payment systems
The bill went poof — The Arizona State Senate was scheduled to vote an unprecedented and controversial bill on Wednesday …
Facebook says it has disrupted a network of China-based hackers using its platform to target the Uyghur community abroad and draw them to malicious websites
Facebook on Wednesday announced new actions to disrupt a network of China-based hackers leveraging the platform to compromise targets in the Uyghur community.
Analysis of Intel's Foundry Services event: a transparent and clarifying keynote outlining a bold plan to overcome Intel's problems by using its strengths
but It Has to Catch Up First Tweets: Pat Gelsinger / @pgelsinger : Intel's advanced #manufacturing scale is critical for the U.S. and the world, and we are investing $20 billion in two new state-of-th...
Livestream of House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on platform misinformation with Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, and Jack Dorsey
The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology and the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce of the Committee on Energy and Commerce …
Samsung announces 512GB DDR5 memory, still in verification stage, that delivers over twice the performance of DDR4 at up to 7,200 Mbps, for advanced workloads
As we inch closer to Intel's Alder Lake and AMD's Zen 4 architectures (late this year and/or early next, barring any delays) …
During an event announcing Intel Foundry Services, CEO Pat Gelsinger said it would pursue Apple as a client; Apple currently relies on TSMC as its sole supplier
Apple in November started releasing Macs with Apple-designed M1 chips, and the Apple silicon technology will eventually replace …
Reddit says it has cut ties with a controversial UK activist who it had recently hired, after 200+ subreddits, like r/Music, went private to protest
UPDATE: Reddit has now confirmed that it has fired Aimee Knight from her position with the company. In a statement posted …
Interviews with 14 current and former Medium employees portray a dysfunctional company; sources say Medium has 700K paid subs, suggesting $35M+ in revenue
Last week, a partnerships manager at Medium working with the White House found that there was a strange problem with the platform: President Joe Biden was being served porn.
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says it will spend $20B on two fabs in Chandler, Arizona and will reconfigure its external Foundry Services to serve new chip customers
Dr. Ian Cutress / AnandTech :
Deliveroo is facing a revolt from investors and riders concerned about the way it treats the latter; hundreds of couriers plan a strike next week
- Fund managers Aberdeen and Aviva say they won't buy shares — IWGB says hundreds of riders expected to participate in strike
Freemium mobile game Genshin Impact becomes the fastest title to reach $1B in player spending on the App Store and Google Play worldwide, in just under 6 months
The mobile version of Genshin Impact from miHoYo has surpassed $1 billion in player spending in less than six months following …
Chrissy Teigen, who had 13.7M Twitter followers and was once called “unofficial mayor of Twitter” by the company, quits the platform after years of harassment
The former model and media personality was a prolific tweeter — Chrissy Teigen, a prolific tweeter the company once called …
Apple tells Australia's consumer watchdog that iOS developers have alternative channels to reach users as “distribution is far from limited” to App Store
Telling the ACCC that users of iOS can go to a website to purchase and consume digital content or services …
Slack debuts Connect, letting users DM any Slack user regardless of organization, and has updated its opt-in invite flow after feedback that it could be abused
and it's gonna be fascinating to see how people use it https://www.protocol.com/... Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / @lorenzofb : NEW: Slack admits it “made a mistake” launching a new feature that allo...
Facebook briefly advertised The Re-Entry App, aimed at people transitioning from prison back into society, at the top of some Instagram feeds
Facebook Inc. is building a service for people who are transitioning from prison back into society, part of an apparent effort within the company …
Digital banking service Greenwood, co-founded by Killer Mike to help Black and Latino individuals and business owners, raises $40M Series A
Mastercard, Visa and host of America's biggest banks have joined a $40 million Series A funding round for Greenwood, the digital banking startup targeting Black …
SEC starts implementing a law that would delist foreign companies like Alibaba and Baidu from US stock exchanges if they don't comply with US auditing standards
- Regulator takes initial step on requiring audit inspections — Alibaba, Baidu among firms under pressure from Washington
How Google handles user data requests from DHS, ICE, and other agencies, often giving users little time to obtain a court order quashing the request
You're scrolling through your Gmail inbox and see an email with a strange subject line: A string of numbers followed by “Notification from Google.”Tweets:@aaschapiro,@zackwhittaker,@conmijente,@jason_...
Elon Musk says people can now buy a Tesla with bitcoin in the US and later this year outside the US
and this is how it works Tweets: Elon Musk / @elonmusk : You can now buy a Tesla with Bitcoin Elon Musk / @elonmusk : Tesla is using only internal & open source software & operates Bitcoin nodes direc...
Disney+ will cost $1 more per month starting March 26, increasing to $7.99/month or $80/year, marking the first price hike for the service
Taylor Lyles / The Verge :
A coalition of 12 Democratic state AGs send a letter to Facebook and Twitter demanding more action on COVID-19 anti-vaccination misinformation
Analysis of vaccine appointment sites for every US state, Puerto Rico, and DC shows some have issues maintaining users' privacy, loading on mobile devices, more
that vaccination website really is crawling along Tweets: Rebecca Piazza / @rdpiazza : Fantastic analysis of each state's vaccine registration site. It's easy to assume variance between government ser...
UK's CMA finds that Facebook's acquisition of Giphy raises competition concerns about digital ads and “supply of GIFs”, gives them five days to address concerns
James Warrington / CityAM :
Comcast pledges $1B investment over the next decade to provide 50M low-income people with broadband, says its Internet Essentials program has helped 10M people
Linda Hardesty / FierceTelecom :
Holberton, which started out as a coding school, pivots to become an edtech SaaS company and raises $20M Series B, bringing its total raised to $33M
Holberton, the education startup that started out as a coding school in San Francisco and today works with partners to run schools in the U.S. …
Report: Apple updates factory guidelines to prevent leaks, including criminal background checks on workers, surveillance cameras, and component tracking
But Not Factory Workers
The SEC confirms it is investigating SoftBank, according to the SEC's response to a FOIA request; SoftBank was alleged to be a “Nasdaq whale” last year
Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE :
Cloud infrastructure service DigitalOcean closed 10% down at $42.50 in its market debut, after pricing shares at $47, valuing the company at $4.48B
Jordan Novet / CNBC :
Researchers find 204 “fleeceware” apps, which charge users extortionate subscription fees after enticing them with free trials, on Play Store and App Store
what to do Ian Murphy / Enterprise Times : Fleeceware scams raking in the money Joe Wituschek / iMore : Fleeceware apps have ripped off more than $400 million from users Help Net Security : Fleeceware...
A look at Remember the Internet, a series of pocket-sized books dedicated to immortalizing subcultures and combating the ephemerality of being online
often because the people in charge cast things off on a whim https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... Adrienne LaFrance / @adriennelaf : “We really thought we were doing something revolutionary... in a very a...
Morphisec, which helps mid-size companies thwart cyberattacks and says it helps reduce the costs of security tools, raises $31M led by JVP
Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat :
Analysis of content moderation at the entire stack of internet infrastructure companies, from platforms to CDNs to ISPs, and how they see their responsibilities
it is a lot of points of control: Gatekeepers: These tech firms control what's allowed online https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Evelyn Douek / @evelyndouek : “There's no way for major consumer brand...
A look at Sky Bet, the UK's most popular gambling app, which collects extensive player data, critics say to keep users hooked rather than identify addictions
Voter registration info of ~6.5M Israeli citizens and detailed personal info for ~3.2M was leaked online on Monday, two days before elections for its parliament
Seattle-based social gaming startup Rec Room raises $100M led by Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures at a $1.25B valuation, bringing its total raised to $149M
Dozens of Coinbase users share stories of basic customer service support failures, most related to account takeovers or suddenly being barred from accounts
Interviews with low-wage contract workers at Silicon Valley campuses show the existential threat to livelihoods from longterm COVID-19 closures
cooks, baristas, custodians, etc—in this WFH year https://www.wired.com/... @wired : Tens of thousands of people in Silicon Valley make a living by keeping tech campuses running. When the pandemic hit...
Ketch raises $23M Series A to help companies automate privacy and data compliance; its founders previously started Krux, which sold to Salesforce for ~$700M
Sydney-based Baraja, which makes a Spectrum-Scan LIDAR with no moving parts, raises $31M Series B led by Blackbird Ventures, after $32M Series A two years ago
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch :
Tencent founder Pony Ma confirms he met with Chinese antitrust regulators this month to discuss compliance, a sign China's antitrust crackdown is spreading
Wiz, which helps companies identify cybersecurity threats across their cloud networks, raises $130M at a $1.7B valuation, after raising $100M in December 2020
Uri Berkovitz / Globes Online :
Facebook's challenge to German antitrust scrutiny of its ad business, which mandated an overhaul in 2019, will head to EU's top court
Satya Nadella predicts the next decade will be defined by people sharing their own content in groups, as Microsoft reportedly considers acquiring Discord
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
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