ConstitutionDAO, which crowdfunded over $40M, loses Sotheby's US Constitution auction to a $43.2M bid from Citadel CEO Kenneth Griffin
The 53-year-old billionaire paid $43.2 million for the historic document, plans to lend it to Crystal Bridges museum in Arkansas
DuckDuckGo launches App Tracking Protection for Android, a beta feature that blocks third-party trackers from Google and Facebook
The privacy-focused tech company's latest update promises to block invasive data collection across your whole phone. — At the end of April …
The Apple Podcasts app's review score went from 1.8 to 4.6 stars as Apple began prompting users to rate the app, confusing some into rating individual podcasts
Apple Podcasts rises above bad reviews, but at what cost? — You pissed off people by somewhat breaking your app, and they're leaving angry reviews.
Square's TBD division releases a white paper detailing tbDEX, a new decentralized protocol for exchanging digital and other assets
Payments giant Square released a white paper on Friday detailing a new decentralized protocol for exchanging digital and other assets known as tbDEX.
DOJ says Iranian hackers breached a media company in fall 2020 and tested how to create false news content; sources say Lee Enterprises was targeted
Computer systems of Lee Enterprises, which owns dozens of daily papers, were targeted in disinformation campaign
Internal memo: Apple affirms that employees have the right to discuss working conditions and pay internally and externally
Following months of internal controversy about how much workers make at one of the highest valued companies in the world, Apple has announced that employees …
An artist and programmer in Australia creates The NFT Bay, a torrent website where anyone can download 15TB of NFT JPEGs
The NFT Bay is the galaxy's most resilient NFT BitTorrent site!
nCino, which develops a cloud-based operating system for financial institutions, to acquire mortgage tech vendor SimpleNexus for $1.2B, including $240M in cash
Fintech company plans to accelerate mortgage vendor's platform with banks and credit unions — North Carolina-based fintech firm nCino …
Berlin-based neobank N26, which was recently valued at $9B, to exit the US after about two years in the country, following its departure from UK last year
Dive Brief: — German neobank N26 is shutting down its U.S. operations to focus on expanding in Europe, the company said Thursday.
Benchling, which makes cloud-based software to manage biotech R&D, raises a $100M Series F at a $6.1B valuation; Benchling was last valued at $4B in April
SoundHound, which offers voice AI tech to companies like Mercedes-Benz, Snap, and Mastercard, is going public via a SPAC merger at a ~$2.1B valuation
- Company counts Mercedes-Benz, Snap, Pandora among customers — Shazam competitor's technology can identify a song via humming Source: Business Wire .
A bipartisan coalition of state AGs from CA, FL, KY, MA, NE, NJ, NY, TN, and VT is investigating how Instagram attracts and affects young people
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A writer created a politically bland Facebook profile to test the app's algorithm for extreme content, and ended up being shown low-quality, clickbait posts
In 2019, a researcher at Facebook conducted an experiment to see whether the platform really has a tendency to send users … Tweets: @golikehellmachi , @joshtpm , @jbouie , @mckaycoppins , @jaywillis ,...
Defense Department solicits bids from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle for cloud contracts; DoD canceled its $10B JEDI contract in July
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JD.com warns of weak consumption demand in China in the second half of its fiscal year, after reporting a 25.5% YoY rise in net Q3 revenue to ~$34B
Twitter quietly updates its developer guidelines to say AMP support will be phased out by Q4; some publishers have reported months of lower Twitter referrals
AMP — Accelerated Mobile Pages — is an open-source technology for creating fast-loading … Oliver Haslam / iMore : Twitter ditches AMP, gives people the real website on mobile Jonathan Lamont / MobileS...
Alphabet X's Everyday Robots says it now has a fleet of 100+ robot prototypes that are autonomously performing tasks like wiping tables around its offices
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Google questions whether DOJ's new top antitrust official Jonathan Kanter can be impartial, citing his work with Yelp and the News Media Alliance
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US regulators approve a rule requiring banks to report cyberattacks that disrupt operations or impact the US financial system within 36 hours, starting May 2022
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Profile of Berlin-based Ableton, whose music production software changed the way recordings are produced and how DJs perform by eliminating cumbersome equipment
Gerhard Behles and his partners wrote the code that makes modern pop sing — and makes investors drool. But they're not selling. Tweets: @henrikberggren , @mattetti , @brigidnz , @markkilborn , and @e...
NY city council passed a bill that bans employers from using AI hiring tools unless a yearly bias audit shows they won't discriminate based on race or gender
Job candidates rarely know when hidden artificial intelligence tools are rejecting their resumes or analyzing their video interviews. Tweets: @cendemtech and @fbajak Tweets: @cendemtech : .@AlexReeveG...
Thinkarete Lifestyle, cited by Facebook as Q3's most widely viewed Page in the US, seems to be a barely active drop-shipping scheme with stolen content
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Sources: Facebook is offering musicians and celebrities, via production companies, payments to host Live Audio Rooms; source says up to $50K per session
Memo: Tim Cook tells Apple employees they can work remotely for up to four weeks per year and sets a February 1 return to office goal
Internal documents describe how Amazon's lobbying helped it kill or undermine privacy protections in more than three dozen bills across 25 US states
has been the primary opponent to our efforts to pass good privacy laws. The fact that they privately gloat about killing the IL geolocation bill says everything about who Amazon really is. https://www...
Meta says it's looking at how users from marginalized communities experience its products and releases a paper on changes to how it uses US demographic data
Q&A with Integrity Institute's Jeff Allen on how Facebook's algorithm gives preference to engagement baiting, and how to address that from a design perspective
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ITC says it will review its preliminary finding that Google infringed on five patents owned by Sonos; a final decision is scheduled to be issued on January 6
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In its S-1, Samsara, which makes vehicle fleet management software, says revenue grew 74% to $302.6M for nine months ended Oct. 30, with net loss of $102.3M
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.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.