Facebook in Australia, Hackers from North Korea, and Epic’s fight in Europe
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 240

🇦🇺 Ahead of proposed media law in Australia, #Facebook bans Australians from sharing or viewing news and all users from sharing and viewing news on Australian news Pages 🔗


🇺🇸🇰🇵 #US DOJ charges three suspected #NorthKorea-n #hackers for allegedly conspiring to steal and extort over $1.3B in cash and #cryptocurrency from banks and businesses 🔗


🇪🇺 #EpicGames files a formal #antitrust complaint against #Apple with the European Commission, claiming that Apple imposes commercially unviable burdens on rivals 🔗


💰 Sources: #Coinbase facilitated #Tesla's $1.5B #bitcoin purchase during the first week of Feb.; source says Coinbase has over five #Fortune500 companies as clients 🔗


👉 #Reddit publishes its 2020 transparency report: 233M pieces of content were removed out of 3.4B total; 82,858 subreddits were removed, up 4x from 2019 🔗


👉 #ChromeOS market share passed #macOS for the first time in 2020, up 4.4 points YoY to 10.8%; #Windows fell 4.9 points to 80.5%, macOS rose 0.8 points to 7.5% 🔗


👉 #Facebook will add a new label to some #ClimateChange posts in the #UK 🔗


👉 #WhiteHouse now says 100 companies hit by #SolarWinds hack, but more may be impacted 🔗


👉 #Facebook's hosting live influencer 'meet and greets' on its #Cameo clone 🔗


👉 #GoogleMaps will now let you pay for public transportation and parking through its app 🔗


🎙 #Twitter’s voice DMs arrive in #India 🔗


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Facebook fighting media tax, Android 12’s preview, and Perseverance lands on Mars
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 241

💸 #Facebook's refusal to pay a misguided media tax, pushed by #RupertMurdoch, is a defence of the open web and criticising it for rejecting a link tax is bizarre 🔗


👉 #Google releases #Android12 developer preview, available for Pixel devices, with under-the-hood changes adding security 🔗


🇺🇸 #MarkZuckerberg, #SundarPichai, and #JackDorsey are scheduled to testify at the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on platform misinformation March 25 🔗


👉 #Perseverance lands safely on #Mars and sends back its first images of the surface 🔗


🇸🇦 #SaudiArabia has invested billions in #Activision, #EA and #TakeTwo 🔗


#️⃣ #EarningsCalls

💲 #Baidu Q4: revenue of $4.64B, up 4.8% YoY, driven by a 52% increase in its non-ad businesses, and forecasts sales of $4B-$4.4B for Q1, topping estimates 🔗


💲 #Roku Q4: revenue of $650M vs $615M expected, up 58% YoY, net profit of $65.2M vs an expected loss; 14.3M active accounts were added for FY2020 🔗


💲 #Dropbox Q4: revenue of $504.1M, up 14% YoY, vs estimates of $498M, says it has 15.48M paying users, up from 14.31M YoY 🔗


💲 #Twilio Q4: revenue of $548.1M, up 65% YoY, vs. $454.7M est.; says it now has 221,000 active customer accounts, up from 179,000 at the end of 2019 🔗


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Google fired another AI ethics leader,Bitcoin’s new market cap record, and Uber’s case in the UK
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 242

👉 #MargaretMitchell, co-lead of #Google's Ethical #AI team, says she has been fired; Google says an employee conduct review confirmed multiple policy violations 🔗


📈 #Bitcoin's market capitalisation passes $1T as its price surges above $56K 🔗


👉 #Apple is working on a magnetically attached battery pack for #iPhone 12 that would wirelessly charge the handset 🔗


🧑‍⚖️ #UK Supreme Court rules that #Uber drivers should be classified as workers, not independent contractors, concluding an almost five-year legal battle 🔗


🍎🚘 Sources: #Apple is in talks with suppliers for next-gen #lidar sensors for self-driving cars, that will be considered cutting edge four to five years from now 🔗


🍎🇮🇳 #Apple reportedly negotiating to build #iPad in #India 🔗


📺 The #YouTube #Android app can now play 4K HDR videos 🔗


🚀 #Linux has made it to #Mars 🔗


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Zuck’s intervention, New malware discovered, and Metallica’s least metal music — ever!
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 243

👉 #MarkZuckerberg's personal intervention to reduce the severity of #AlexJones' ban in 2019 slowed down #Facebook's efforts to deal with dangerous content 🔗


🪱 Researchers discover #macOS #malware dubbed #SilverSparrow on at least 30K Macs, which includes a native #AppleSilicon M1 version and leverages the Installer JavaScript API 🔗


😒 #WhatsApp says users who haven't accepted its new #privacy policy by May 15 can receive calls and notifications “for a short time”, but not read or send messages 🔗


🤦 #Twitch replaced the audio for #Metallica's “For Whom The Bell Tolls” with folk music during the band's BlizzCon livestream, presumably to avoid a #DMCA notice 🔗


🛬 #UnitedAirlines flight safely lands after dramatic engine failure caught on camera 🔗


🇰🇷👋 #SouthKorea’s prime minister has joined #Clubhouse 🔗


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Spotify’s lossless audio, Apple’s lead in smartphone market, and Google finally adds iOS’s privacy labels
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 244

💿 #Spotify to launch a subscription later this year called HiFi that will offer “CD-quality, lossless audio”; Spotify currently tops out at 320kbps audio 🔗


👉 #Spotify to launch an audio advertising marketplace, the #SpotifyAudienceNetwork, and plans to offer #podcasts on its self-serve ad platform #SpotifyAdStudio 🔗


📱 #Gartner: in Q4 2020, #Apple sold 80M new #iPhones globally, overtaking #Samsung to become the largest smartphone vendor, increasing its market share by ~15% 🔗


📧 #Google has finally added #iOS’s #privacy labels to #Gmail 🔗


🇺🇸 Filings: #Google, #Microsoft, #Amazon, #Apple, and #Facebook made up the biggest sources of #Biden campaign contributions among corporate employees, who gave $15.1M+ 🔗


👉 Researchers say a change in #iOS14.5 beta, which improves how #iOS handles pointers, makes sandbox escapes and “0-click” attacks much harder to pull off 🔗


👉 #Epic will give #Fortnite and #RocketLeague players who have bought loot boxes ~$8 worth of credits and set aside $26M+ for claims to settle a class action suit 🔗


👋 #Clubhouse says it has added security safeguards and banned a user after some Clubhouse audio and metadata was found on a third-party website 🔗


🍎🪱 #Apple says it has revoked certificates for dev accounts used by the creator of the #SilverSparrow #malware, effectively preventing new Macs from being infected 🔗


👉 #Instagram is adding easier access to support for eating disorders 🔗


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Australia and Facebook becoming friends again, Android’s new features, and someone bought $170M worth of Bitcoin
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 245

🇦🇺 #Australia says #Facebook agreed to reinstate news content in Australia in the coming days after the government promised amendments to its proposed media bill 🔗


👉 #Google announces new features for #Android, including a way to schedule texts and a Password Checkup tool to notify users of compromised credentials 🔗


🍪 New #Firefox update adds support for multiple picture-in-picture windows and “Total Cookie Protection”, to prevent the use of cookies to track users across sites 🔗


👉 #Square announces it spent $170M to acquire 3,318 #Bitcoin-s at an average price of $51,236, following its earlier $50M bet on the #cryptocurrency 🔗


👉 #Star’s launch means lots of new content for #DisneyPlus — but not in the #US 🔗


🇷🇺 #Twitter bans 100 accounts linked to Russian troll farms 🔗


👉 #Google struggles to fix its new #Stadia game after shutting down own studios 🔗


#️⃣ #EarningsCalls

💲 #Square Q4: revenue of $3.16B vs estimates of $3.10B, up from $1.31B a year earlier, with $1.76B revenue from bitcoin and #CashApp revenue of $416M 🔗


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​​Clubhouse’s latest celeb, Australia & Facebook, and Bitcoin
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 246

♣️🏠 #BillGates was on #Clubhouse last night 🔗


🇦🇺 #Australia passes law requiring #Facebook and Google to pay for news content. The law has the support of #Microsoft 🔗

👉 #Facebook defends its stance in #Australia, says it invested $600M since 2018 to support the news industry and plans at least $1B more over the next three years 🔗


👉 #HP says it is acquiring gaming peripheral company #HyperX for $425M, giving the company a major foothold in the gaming accessory market 🔗


💰 Business intelligence firm #MicroStrategy buys 19,452 #Bitcoin, worth $1.0261B, and now holds ~90K Bitcoin, worth ~$4.5B at current prices 🔗


🇺🇸 #TikTok removed more than 300,000 videos for #USElection misinformation 🔗 #disinfo


👉 #Zoom adding automatic closed captioning for all free accounts 🔗


📈 #GameStop stock just jumped 100%, and #WallStreetBets is ecstatic, 🔗 but then #Reddit goes down for many 🔗


🤦 #Twitter’s new hacking label has already been hacked 🔗


📌 You can now embed #Pinterest Pins in #MicrosoftWord and #MicrosoftOneNote 🔗


#️⃣ #EarningsCalls

💲 #Nvidia Q4: revenue of $5B vs. $4.8B expected, up 61% YoY, data centre revenue of $1.9B, up 97% YoY, and gaming revenue of $2.5B, up 67% YoY 🔗


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​​Twitter’s new features, ByteDance to settle, and Coinbase to go public
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 247

🐦 #Twitter announces Super Follow feature to let users charge for tweets, and a Communities feature to let users create and join groups based on specific interests 🔗


❤️ #Telegram update adds auto-delete option to all messages, expiring invites, and more 🔗


💰 #Coinbase files its S-1, reveals profit of $322M in 2020 on $1.2B in revenue, up from a loss of $30M in 2019 on $533M in revenue 🔗


👉 #ByteDance has agreed to a $92M class action settlement over data privacy claims from some #US #TikTok users, according to court documents 🔗


🏹 #Robinhood says it has added 6M new crypto customers so far in 2021; Robinhood averaged ~200K new crypto customers a month in 2020 🔗


🍎🇫🇷 #Apple forced to add #iPhone and MacBook repairability scores to comply with the laws in #France 🔗


🦠 #Facebook says it won’t loosen #COVID19 policies after #OversightBoard request 🔗


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​​Stadia’s failure, Facebook’s Bars, and the next Batman comic series
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 248

🎮 Inside #Google #Stadia's failure as sources say it missed targets for controller sales and MAUs by hundreds of thousands after spending tens of millions on games 🔗


🇪🇺📱 European #smartphone market shrank by 14% YoY in 2020, with #Xiaomi up 85% and #Huawei down 62%; #Apple hit record market share of 30% in Q4 helped by #iPhone 12 🔗


🎶 #Facebook’s new app #Bars will let you rap over pre-made beats 🔗


🦇 #Batman’s next comic series is a #Fortnite crossover 🔗


🔈 #Apple, #Google, and #Amazon are training their voice assistants to better understand people with speech disorders such as stutter 🔗


🏹 #US regulators probe #Robinhood over trading curbs 🔗


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SolarWinds CEO goes “it wasn’t me; it was the intern” and Facebook’s privacy settlement
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 249

💨 In a hearing with #US lawmakers, ex-SolarWinds CEO blamed an intern for the “solarwinds123” password leak discovered in 2019 that had exposed a #SolarWinds server 🔗


🧑‍⚖️ Judge approves $650 million #Facebook privacy settlement over facial recognition feature 🔗


🎤 #Facebook's #BARS is an experimental #TikTok-like app for rappers 🔗


👉 The #Wikileaks-style group #DDoSecrets claims that #Parler-like site #Gab has been breached and is now set to share 70GB of passwords, private posts, and more 🔗


👉 #Skydio raises $171M led by #a16z at a valuation of $1B+, the first significant fundraising by a #US-based drone maker after #China's #DJI was blacklisted by the US 🔗


📺 #Netflix dominates the #GoldenGlobes with help from 'The Crown' 🔗


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​​Foldable iPhone, Instagram’s Live Rooms, and Volvo’s EVs
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 250

🍎📱 #Kuo: #iPhone13 to have smaller notch, larger battery; Pro models to use 120Hz displays; #iPhone mini to return; he has “no visibility” of power button Touch ID 🔗


👉 #Instagram launches #LiveRooms for live broadcasts with up to four creators, up from two, and says it will roll out new audio features in coming months 🔗


🍎 Every #Apple Store in the #US is open for the first time since March 2020, with many starting to offer in-store shopping after operating as Express storefronts 🔗


🔋🚘 #Volvo says it will only sell electric cars by 2030 and only sell cars online 🔗, meanwhile its first #EV is stuck on cargo ships waiting for a software update 🔗,


🐦💉 #Twitter is tweaking its approach to vaccine misinformation 🔗


#️⃣ #EarningsCalls

💲 #Zoom Q4: revenue of $882M, up 369% YoY, vs. $812M est., 467K customers with 10+ employees, projected Q1 revenue of $900M-$905M, vs. $829M est. 🔗


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Microsoft’s new stuff, AI to rule the world, and Spotify to surpass Apple
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 251

👉 #Microsoft unveils #MicrosoftMesh, a mixed-reality platform on #Azure, and demos a meeting service to let users join virtual rooms using devices like #HoloLens 2 🔗


🔐 #MicrosoftTeams is getting end-to-end encryption support 🔗


🤖 #US is not fully prepared for AI competition with #China according to a report from the #NationalSecurityCommission on #AI chaired by #EricSchmidt 🔗


👉 #Sony says the #PlayStation Store will stop offering movie and TV show purchases and rentals on Aug. 31, citing users' preference for video streaming services 🔗


🎧 #Spotify is on track to reach #US monthly podcast listenership of 28.2M by the end of this year and surpass #Apple's #Podcasts for the first time 🔗


👉 #Facebook #OversightBoard member told #UK Parliament that the panel feels constrained when reviewing decisions on a case-by-case basis, may seek algorithm access 🔗


👉 #Twitter users on #Android can now join and talk in its #Clubhouse-like live audio #TwitterSpaces and will be able to create their own Spaces in an upcoming update 🔗


🕶 #DJI launches an all-in-one #FPV (First Person View) #drone system 🔗


🧑‍⚖️ #Intel ordered to pay $2.18 billion in patent lawsuit 🔗


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​​Brave goes after Google, Netflix goes after TikTok, and Twitter’s eCommerce bet
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 252

👉 #Google promises it will not build alternate identifiers to track users after phasing out third-party tracking cookies 🔗


👉 Publicly traded identity management company #Okta says it is acquiring #Auth0, one of its biggest challengers, in an all-stock deal valued at $6.5B 🔗


👉 #Brave acquires #Tailcat, an open source search engine made by the team behind the #Cliqz anti-tracking browser, and shares plans to launch Brave Search 🔗


👉 #Netflix launches #FastLaughs, a #TikTok-like feed in its mobile apps that presents a string of comedy clips from its stand-up specials, TV series, and movies 🔗


🐦🇶🇦 #Twitter says it is testing a new style of displaying tweets that link to e-commerce product pages, after it was spotted by a Twitter for #Android user in #Qatar 🔗


🇷🇺 #Facebook takes down hundreds of fake #Instagram accounts in #Russia 🔗


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Apple’s antitrust case in the UK, Square’s musical bet, and Kings of NFT
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 253

🇬🇧 #UK #antitrust authorities say they plan to investigate #Apple's #AppStore to probe whether it is abusing its market power to restrict competition 🔗


👉 #JackDorsey’s #Square acquires a majority stake in #JayZ's streaming service #Tidal for $297M; Jay-Z will join Square's board 🔗


👉 #Nintendo plans to unveil a new #Switch model in 2021 that will come with 7-inch 720p #Samsung OLED display, and support 4K graphics when docked with TVs 🔗


👉 #Facebook adds one-to-one voice and video calling to the #WhatsApp desktop app, but the browser version, WhatsApp Web, is not getting this feature at the moment 🔗


👨‍🎤 #KingsOfLeon to be one of the first bands to debut an album as part of an #NFT package, with tokens unlocking perks like limited-edition vinyl and concert seats 🔗


👉 As #Clubhouse grows in popularity, companies like the just-launched #AudioCollective seek to cater to creators, offering event planning and brand consulting 🔗


👉 #Microsoft gives #Windows10 Insiders a redesigned news feed 🔗


👉 Far-right news and misinformation received the most engagement on #Facebook during 2020 #USElection 🔗


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Apple’s VR/AR plans, another hack, and another Russian misinfo campaign
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 254

🍎👓 #Kuo: #Apple plans to release a mixed reality headset in mid-2022 for around $1K, followed by #AR glasses by 2025 and “contact lens type” devices by 2030-2040 🔗


👉 30,000 orgs’ email hacked via #Microsoft Exchange Server flaws 🔗


👉 #Facebook under probe for ‘systemic’ racial bias in hiring and promotions 🔗


🇷🇺 Russian intelligence reportedly used fake news sites to spread misinformation about coronavirus vaccines 🔗


📱 The #OnePlus 9 series will debut with #Hasselblad-tuned cameras on March 23rd 🔗


🚘🔋 #Porsche now owns almost a quarter of #EV car maker #Rimac 🔗


🍎🖥 #Apple’s #iMacPro is being discontinued 🔗


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​​Apple’s quick OS updates, Apple’s and Google’s strategy for kids, and OpenAI’s hole
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 255

🍎 #Apple releases #iOS 14.4.1 and #macOS 11.2.3 to address a #WebKit flaw that could allow #hackers to run arbitrary code on devices via malicious web content 🔗


👉 #Discord generated $130M in revenue in 2020, up from $45M in 2019, and isn't profitable; CEO #JasonCitron says its focus will be subscriptions, not ads 🔗


👉 #Hummer’s electric SUV will be revealed on April 3rd 🔗


📺 #GoogleTV is adding #kids profiles this month in the #US 🔗


🎧 #Apple adds curated podcast collections for #kids 🔗


👉 #Microsoft was warned months ago — now, the #Hafnium #hack has grown to gigantic proportions 🔗


⌚️ #TagHeuer's Connected watch now has its own wellness app 🔗


👀 #OpenAI’s state-of-the-art machine vision #AI is fooled by handwritten notes 🔗


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​​Dropbox’s new acquisition, NFTs, Google’s ChromeOS
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 256

📦 #Dropbox announces plans to acquire secure document sharing startup #DocSend for $165M; DocSend had raised $15.3M and has 17K customers 🔗


👉 In a #privacy policy update, #TMobile says it will automatically enrol all subscribers in an ad program informed by their online activity, starting on April 26 🔗, meanwhile…

💰 #JohnLegere, CEO of #TMobile US bought an $888,888.88 #NFT from #SteveAoki 🔗


💰 #JackDorsey will convert #NFT tweet auction proceeds to #bitcoin and donate them to charity 🔗


👓 In an interview, #MarkZuckerberg discusses #AR / #VR and says that by 2030, he expects people with smart glasses to “teleport” to locations for in-person meetings 🔗


👉 #Google adds features to #ChromeOS including Phone Hub, which lets #Android users control aspects of their phones, like replying to texts, from their #Chromebooks 🔗


👉 #Ripple says its partnership with #MoneyGram has ended; MoneyGram suspended its use of Ripple's platform in February amid #SEC's lawsuit against #RippleLabs 🔗 #XRP


👉 #TikTok has 3000+ staff in #Europe, up from 1600 since September, with plans for 3 London offices, despite calling off London as its global HQ last July 🔗


🍎🇮🇳 #Apple starts assembling #iPhone 12 in #India 🔗


📈 #DisneyPlus has more than 100 million subscribers 🔗


🐦🟣🔴 #Twitter says it’ll eventually let people natively record their #TwitterSpaces 🔗


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Apple’s mini overestimation, your data on fire — and remember Parler?
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 257

🍎📱 #Apple cuts #iPhone12 mini orders by 70%, targets producing 75M iPhones in H1 and 230M units for all of 2021, reschedules new MacBook production to H2 🔗


🧯🇫🇷 Data centre operator #OVH says a fire destroyed some of its sites in #France, affecting cyber threat intelligence company #BadPackets, game maker #Rust, and others 🔗


🍎📃 #Apple denied #Parler reentry into the #AppStore, citing a lack of changes; source says Parler let its three remaining #iOS developers go 🔗


🐦🤳 #Twitter says it is testing displaying large images, instead of cropped previews, on #iOS and #Android and will add support for 4K photo uploads 🔗


👉 #Facebook launches #InstagramLite, an #Android app that takes up just 2MB of storage space, in 170 countries, and says #FacebookLite has 200M+ MAUs 🔗 #Instagram


🤬 #TikTok gives users the ability to approve all new comments before they appear and adds in-app prompts to discourage nasty comments 🔗


💻 #Adobe delivers native #Photoshop for #AppleSilicon Macs and a way to enlarge images without losing detail 🔗


🚗 #Waymo is disclosing more autonomous vehicle data for research purposes 🔗


🍎🇩🇪 #Apple to invest $1.2 billion in silicon design centre in #Germany 🔗


🐦🟣 #Twitter plans to let anyone start hosting #TwitterSpaces in April 🔗


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Zuck: the ultimate influencer, and a “holy crap!” NFT moment
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 258

👉 #Facebook sidelined #AI experts and weakened initiatives to clean up #misinfo because leadership didn't want to hurt #MarkZuckerberg's desire for growth 🔗


🇺🇸 #CitizenBrowser project's Split Screen tool shows #Facebook's different News Feeds for #Trump and #Biden voters, based on data from 2,500+ users across the #US 🔗


💸 #MikeWinkelmann, the digital artist known as #Beeple, sold an #NFT of his work for $69M, through a first-of-its-kind auction at Christie's 🔗
🐦 His reaction


✋ #Netflix is running a test cracking down on password sharing, prompting some users to get their own account if they don't live with the owner of the account 🔗


🧑‍⚖️ #Apple sues its former materials lead #SimonLancaster for allegedly stealing trade secrets and leaking them to the media 🔗


👉 #Facebook is making in-stream ads available on one-minute videos and is testing ads that look like stickers in Stories 🔗


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Another clash of the titans, Marco Rubio on Amazon workers’ unionisation, and behind Beeple’s $69M NFT
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 259

👉 #Google says #Microsoft's support of a bill for greater bargaining power for news pubs is “self-serving” and intended to distract from the #SolarWinds hack 🔗


💪 #MarcoRubio says he is endorsing #Amazon workers' unionisation efforts in Alabama because Amazon leadership is waging “culture war against working-class values” 🔗


👉 #MetaKovan, an anonymous digital asset investor and founder of #NFT focused crypto-based investment fund #Metapurse, is the buyer of the $69M #Beeple NFT 🔗


🇬🇧 #UK Home Office confirms trial of web surveillance tool that can track users' browsing history in partnership with two unnamed ISPs and National Crime Agency 🔗


🧐 #Facebook announces a project to train its #AI to understand what is happening in videos, using data from videos publicly available on Facebook 🔗


🕸 #TimBernersLee says internet access should be a basic right 🔗


🧑‍⚖️ #ElonMusk, #Tesla board sued in lawsuit alleging “erratic” tweets violate fiduciary duty 🔗


🍎🏡 #Apple discontinues #HomePod, but HomePod Mini will live on 🔗


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​​Apple goes mini, Stripe’s latest round, and a class action suit against Google
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 260

👉 #Apple says it is discontinuing the original #HomePod to focus on HomePod mini, will provide HomePod owners software updates and support via Apple Care 🔗


👉 #Stripe raises $600M from #SequoiaCapital and others at a valuation of $95B, becoming the most valuable private company in Silicon Valley 🔗


🧑‍⚖️ Federal judge rules #Google must face a class action suit alleging that it collects browsing history and other data even when a user is in private browsing mode 🔗


📷 #Adobe adds a new feature to #AdobeCameraRaw called Super Resolution, which uses #AI to double linear resolution of a photo, increasing its pixel count by 4x 🔗


👋 #Clubhouse says it won't require access to users' phone contacts anymore, and announces a creator accelerator program that will initially accept 20 participants 🔗


🇴🇲 #Oman blocks #Clubhouse for not having a permit, but activists suggest it may be censorship 🔗


👉 #Facebook research reportedly finds small number of users responsible for spreading vaccine doubt 🔗


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