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Q&A with ex-CEO of CrowdTangle Brandon Silverman about the founding principle of the research tool, Meta's decision to close it in an election year, and more (Chris Stokel-Walker/Fast Company)

Didi Q4: revenue up 55.4% YoY to ~$6.83B, a ~$113.15M net income, up from a ~$131.8M loss YoY, as the company continues its recovery after regulatory challenges (Reuters)

Redis, the popular in-memory data store, switches from the open source 3-clause BSD license to a controversial dual-license model (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

A look at the US DOJ's lawsuit against Apple, comparisons to Microsoft suit in the 90's, basic factual errors, why it is clearly a political case, and more (Steven Sinofsky/Hardcore Software)

Source: Spain's High Court orders the suspension of Telegram after media companies complained it was allowing users to upload their content without permission (Reuters)

BeReal's challenges show the difficulty for new consumer apps to break out absent a big platform shift, as users lack the time to try additional consumer apps (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)

The Philippines' new undersea internet cable network is expected to bring jobs to remote islands, boosting the country's BPO sector, which employed 1.7M in 2023 (Yuichi Shiga/Nikkei Asia)

Study finds that China produced almost 50% of the world's top AI researchers, compared to ~18% from the US, thanks to China's heavy investment in AI education (New York Times)

Microsoft's deal with Inflection is a further sign that the emerging AI economy will probably be dominated by the US tech giants, as the AI talent war heats up (John Thornhill/Financial Times)

A breach seller dumped a dataset of 73M AT&T customers online, three years after a hacker teased such a leak; AT&T won't say how its users' data was leaked (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Qualcomm ends its bid to buy Israeli car chip maker Autotalks, citing a lack of timely regulatory approvals; the UK CMA opened a probe into the deal in February (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

Sources: Stability AI founder Emad Mostaque plans to step down as CEO, following the departure of a group of researchers who helped develop Stable Diffusion (Forbes)

Sensor Tower: in February 2024, X had 27M US DAUs of its mobile app, down 18% YoY, and the US user base has been flat or down every month since November 2022 (David Ingram/NBC News)

GM says it has stopped sharing driving data with two data brokers, after a report showed GM and others collecting and sharing data without clear consent (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)

Mozilla ends a partnership with Onerep, which lets users remove data from people-search sites, after a report showed Onerep's CEO founded dozens of such sites (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)

Worldcoin announces Personal Custody, which saves biometric data captured by the Orb on users' personal devices, and plans to open source the Orb's software (RT Watson/The Block)

Some users on Instagram and Threads complain that a new setting to limit political content, which Meta announced in February, is enabled by default (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)

Digital marketing software company Ibotta files for a US IPO, reportedly seeking a $2B valuation, and says it had a profit of $38M on revenue of $320M in 2023 (Bloomberg)

Sources: CoreWeave, which offers Nvidia GPUs in the cloud, is in talks to raise funding at a $16B valuation, after being valued at a reported $7B in December (Gillian Tan/Bloomberg)

Some experts say the DOJ's Apple lawsuit makes a strong case for harm to consumers and developers, but proving Apple's market power could be challenging (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)

Sources: Anthropic has ruled out taking any Saudi money over national security concerns, as investors jostle to buy into FTX's 8% stake that is now worth ~$1B (Kate Rooney/CNBC)

As regulators constantly and unreasonably block acquisitions, Microsoft is pioneering the non-acquisition acquisition with its OpenAI and Inflection deals (Newcomer)

Google is testing AI overviews in the main Google Search results with some users, even if they do not opt in to the Search Generative Experience labs feature (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Land)

Mark Zuckerberg says Threads is adding live scores for NBA games, and plans to add support for additional leagues in the future (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Sources: Apple is winding down an in-house effort to create microLED displays and is eliminating several dozen display engineering roles in the US and Asia (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

A profile of DOJ's Jonathan Kanter, as he takes the biggest swing in his decades-long effort to fight the concentration of power in corporate America (David McCabe/New York Times)

Sources: OpenAI is meeting with Hollywood studios, media executives, and others to form partnerships to encourage filmmakers to integrate Sora into their work (Bloomberg)

Google plans to remove the ability to download third-party apps and watch faces for all Fitbit smartwatches in the EU in June, citing "regulatory requirements" (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

Some analysts say the DOJ lawsuit may favor Apple, as a judge already ruled that Apple doesn't violate antitrust laws when Epic made similar claims in court (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Trump's Truth Social is going public via SPAC after DWAC shareholders approve the merger; TMTG will be listed on Nasdaq as early as next week (Dan Primack/Axios)

China relaxes security review rules for some data exports, exempting some data collected in activities like international trade and cross-border transportation (Reuters)

In its lawsuit, the US DOJ says Apple deploys "privacy and security justifications as an elastic shield that can stretch or contract" to serve its interests (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Sources: Apple held preliminary talks with Baidu to use the latter's artificial intelligence technology in Apple devices in China (Raffaele Huang/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: YC plans to raise at least $2B across three new funds that include exposure to its next four startup batches and follow-on investments as they grow (Alex Konrad/Forbes)

Italy opens a probe into Booking.com, says the website's handling of hotels in its Preferred Partner Programme "seems likely to hinder effective competition" (Giulia Segreti/Reuters)

Meituan reports Q4 revenue up 23% YoY to ~$10.2B and a net income of ~$308.4M, both above estimates, as the food delivery giant plans international expansion (Jane Zhang/Bloomberg)

The UK CMA launches a formal Phase 2 of its review of the Vodafone and Three UK's $19B merger, after finding competition and pricing concerns in Phase 1 (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

Researchers reveal a hotel keycard hacking technique that lets a hacker almost instantly open RFID-based Saflok locks used in ~3M doors across 13K properties (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

On the first day of Pwn2Own Vancouver 2024, contestants earned $732,500 and a Tesla Model 3 for demoing 19 zero-day flaws across Windows 11, Tesla, and others (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

MediaTek introduced Dimensity Auto Cockpit, its automotive-focused SoCs, this week, becoming the first third-party company to use Nvidia's GPU IP in its chips (Anton Shilov/AnandTech)

Some senators who received a classified briefing about TikTok say China's government can use the app to spy on US users and push propaganda at alarming levels (Axios)

Medium says it will revoke Partner Program enrollment from writers who publish AI-generated stories, even with disclosure, and other low-quality content (Buster Benson/The Medium Blog)

Tennessee passes the Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image Security (ELVIS) Act, aiming to protect musicians and other artists from unauthorized use involving AI (Kanishka Singh/Reuters)

Changing policy, X bans the posting of real names of people behind anonymous accounts, after it suspended accounts that unmasked a suspected neo-Nazi cartoonist (David Ingram/NBC News)

Robinhood co-founder and Chief Creative Officer Baiju Bhatt plans to step down to pursue other entrepreneurial interests, but will remain on the company's board (Ben Glickman/Wall Street Journal)

In its lawsuit, the US DOJ alleges CarPlay lets Apple exert too much control over the auto industry; some analysts say the DOJ may be misunderstanding CarPlay (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

Researchers detail an unpatchable vulnerability in Apple's M-series of chips that lets attackers extract secret keys from Macs during cryptographic operations (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

The Mozilla Foundation and 90+ research and advocacy groups urge Meta to support CrowdTangle through January 2025 to track election misinformation globally (Karissa Bell/Engadget)

The UN unanimously adopts the first global resolution on AI to encourage protecting personal data, monitoring AI for risks, and safeguarding human rights (Alexandra Alper/Reuters)

DoorDash partners with Alphabet's Wing to test drone delivery in the US, starting in Christiansburg, VA, after launching a pilot program in Australia in 2022 (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Foundry, a cloud computing service provider focused on AI workloads, comes out of stealth after raising $80M across a seed and a Series A at a $350M valuation (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

WBD plans to launch Max in Europe starting on May 21 in the Nordics, Iberia, and Central and Eastern Europe, in time for the Olympics, included in all plans (Adam Chitwood/The Wrap)

Meta rolls out Threads fediverse integration beta in the US, Canada, and Japan, letting users cross-post and view likes from federated platforms like Mastodon (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Spotify's TikTok-like redesign reveals the follower numbers for top podcasters: The Joe Rogan Experience has 14.5M, followed by TED Talks Daily with 5M (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)

The DOJ's Apple suit has a lot of parallels to its Microsoft suit in the 1990s, but Apple's monopoly position is not nearly as clear-cut as Microsoft's was (Matt Rosoff/TechCrunch)

A look at DOJ's case against Apple, which has some strong points but also includes some silly arguments like Apple affecting "the flow of speech" via Apple TV+ (Jason Snell/Six Colors)

Reddit opens up 38%, at $47 per share, in its New York Stock Exchange debut, valuing the company at about $9B on a fully diluted basis (Bloomberg)

Source: Microsoft agreed to pay Inflection ~$650M when hiring its staff, mostly via a licensing deal that makes Inflection's models available for sale on Azure (The Information)

Reflecting on Reddit's history: Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian pitching a food app, wanting to use snoo.com, and seeing traffic explode after Reddit launched (Paul Graham/Y Combinator)

Succinct, which is building zero-knowledge proof tech for blockchain apps, raised $55M led by Paradigm across a seed and a Series A (Brady Dale/Axios)

Microsoft unveils the Surface Laptop 6 and Surface Pro 10 for enterprises, adding a Copilot key, a Neural Processing Unit for Windows 11's AI features, and more (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Sources: the EU plans to announce investigations into Apple's and Google's DMA compliance in the coming days; Meta's subscriptions could also face scrutiny (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)

Apple says the US DOJ's lawsuit sets a dangerous precedent and empowers the "government to take a heavy hand in designing people's technology" (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)

The US DOJ sues Apple, alleging the company blocked rivals from accessing iPhone features, made it difficult for users to switch to non-Apple devices, and more (Wall Street Journal)

The Browser Company, which makes the Arc browser, raised $50M led by Pace Capital at a $550M valuation, bringing its total funding to $128M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Borderless AI, whose AI agent automates HR tasks like onboarding and payments, emerges from stealth with a $27M seed led by Susquehanna and Agla Ventures (Jena McGregor/Forbes)

Sources: the BBC plans to build its own AI models, and is holding talks with tech companies, including Amazon, about selling its content for AI training (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)

Used car marketplace Carvana, whose stock fell from $360 to $4, has now rallied to $86, avoiding a financial abyss after restructuring its $9B debt in 2023 (Sujeet Indap/Financial Times)

Tokyo-based Sakana AI, founded by two Google researchers, releases three Japanese language models using "model merging", which combines existing models (Anna Tong/Reuters)

Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3, a 4nm chip aimed at high-end smartphones that adds on-device generative AI and Wi-Fi 7; OnePlus is the first partner (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Reddit, one of the last online places where real people gather to talk, is a content moderation success story, after evolving from a dark corner of the internet (Kevin Roose/New York Times)

In a letter to Judge Kaplan, FTX CEO John Ray says SBF's claims of "zero" harm to users are "demonstrably false" and FTX had only 105 bitcoin when Ray took over (Sidhartha Shukla/Bloomberg)

As "censorship free" social network Parler returns to the iOS App Store, CEO Ryan Rhodes talks new features, moderation, and building "a true open platform" (Wired)

Chinese state media: during his visit to Shanghai, Tim Cook says "there's no supply chain in the world that's more critical to us than China" (Financial Times)

YouTube TV rolls out Multiview support on iOS and iPadOS, letting users watch four TV channels at once; Android support will roll out "in the coming months" (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

X launches API top-up packs, letting developers fetch roughly 10,000 more posts for $100 after exceeding their tier's limits midway through a month (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Investor letter: Shein announces its "supply chain as a service" initiative to offer its supply chain infrastructure and tech to outside brands and designers (Shen Lu/Wall Street Journal)

US government emails show India rolled back its policy to impose restrictions on laptop imports in 2023 after behind-the-scenes lobbying by US officials (Reuters)

An analysis of cookie pop-ups on the top 10,000 most popular websites: dozens share date with 1,000+ companies, and thousands share data with 100+ companies (Matt Burgess/Wired)

The TikTok divestment bill fits into a long and important US tradition of forbidding a hostile foreign power from controlling a major communication platform (Zephyr Teachout/The Atlantic)



Politics Headlines Today
[Thu-28-Mar-2024]

Updated: 5 hours ago

11 GDI coordinators declare support for Fubara - The Nation

12 years after, no controversy over installation of Oba Oginni as Olodogbo of Odogbo-Ijesa 'Adeyeye - Tribune

137 rescued Kaduna schoolchildren get scholarships - Punch

149 private varsities undersubscribed, says NUC - The Nation

17 parties to contest Edo govship election - Daily Trust

17 parties to participate in Edo governorship election INEC - Daily Trust

1999 Constitution: Amendment Or Revolutionary Change' (1) - New Telegraph

20-yr-old Abducts, Murders Police Officer's Son In Bauchi - Leadership

2023 Election: PDP Candidates In Lagos Drag Bode George, Bucknor, Others To Court - Daily Independent

2023 polls: PDP reads riot act, demands list of 'anti-party members' Chairmen - Peoples Daily

2023FY: Access Holdings Profit Rises by 335% to N729bn, Records N26.7tn Total Assets - Thisday

2024 hajj fare: NAHCON clarifies payment terms - Blueprint

2024 Poll: Dubawa Trains Ondo Journalists on Fact-checking Techniques - Thisday

2026 Polls: Osun APC Forms Committees To Strengthen Party - Leadership

2027: APC Moves To Consolidate, Makes Uzodimma, Sanwo-Olu, Others Zonal Coordinators - Leadership

2027: LP endorses Obi for president, Otti for Abia governor - Blueprint

26 held over alleged car snatching in Rivers - The Nation

32,297 Tuberculosis Cases Detected In Kaduna ' Commissioner - Leadership

65% Of Our Members Down With Diabetes ' Akwa Ibom Pensioners - Leadership

Access Holdings launches N2.3tr new capital raising plan - The Nation

Actors campaign against gender-based violence - Punch

Actress Laide Bakare celebrates Segun ogungbe at 54 - The Nation

Actress Nancy Isime shares struggles with weight loss - The Nation

Adedeji Assures FIRS Will Not Add, Increase Taxes as Guinness Resolves to Stay Put in Nigeria - Thisday

Adegbite visits, monitors 2024 pilgrimage screening in Adamawa - Nigerian Pilot

Adegboruwa calls for amendment of NDDC Act - Tribune

Adekanmbi's Strategic Leadership Driving Renewable Energy Revolution - Daily Independent

Adeleke To Revive Osun Technical Colleges - Leadership

Advans Nigeria Partners Starfield College To Invests in Education - Leadership

AFARN confirms FG already paid off substantial part of trapped funds - Tribune

AFC raises $1.6b loan for infrastructure - The Nation

Affidavit Presented By Governor Ododo Not From Us,' FCT High Court Tells Kogi Election Tribunal Document Is Fake - Sahara Reporters

AFN: Okuama Incident Will Never Happen Again - New Telegraph

African island states take fresh step towards joint medicines procurement - APO Africa Newsroom

After African Games podium finish, Nimrod turns Volleyball attention to Paris 2024 Olympics - Blueprint

Again, 11 Wike Grassroot Coordinators Cross-carpet, Declare Support For Fubara - Daily Independent

AGOA/CBI: Okonjo-Iweala, Senator Natasha talk trade in Geneva - Peoples Daily

AIbom PensionersThreatenDemonstration, to Block Governors Lodge over Neglect - Thisday

Aiyedatiwa nominates 7 Akeredolus ex-appointees, 5 others as commissioners - Daily Trust

Aiyedatiwa sends commissioner-nominees list to Ondo Assembly - Punch

Akintelure: Asiwaju Mandate Group mourns death of guber aspirant - Tribune

Akpabio tasks IPU's on to Gaza-Israeli conflict - Peoples Daily

Alleged extortions: Lawyers petition ICPC, IG, seek JTBs probe - Blueprint

Alleged NYSC certificate forgery: Court admits Sen Benson Konbowei to N50m bail - The Nation

Alpha-Geek Boss Ranks among Top 50 Digital Economy Enablers 2024 - Thisday

Amo Farm Greets Muslim Customers As Ramadan Progresses - Daily Independent

Anambra court jails two for vandalising electricity cables - Punch

APC appoints zonal coordinators ahead of its pre-registration - Daily Times

APC Inaugurates Uzodimma, AbdulRazaq, Buni, Three Others As Zonal Coordinators - Daily Independent

APC Laments Poor Road Construction In Anambra, Cautions Against Use Of Inferior Materials - Daily Independent

APC names Sanwo-Olu, Uzodimma, others zonal coordinators - Punch

APC reschedules Ondo primary for April 20, commences sale of forms - Daily Trust

APC: N'Central Party Chieftains Seek Zoning Of National Chairmanship's Seat To Region - Daily Independent

Argentina angers Colombia over 'terrorist' jibe - BBC

Army Slain Prominent Terrorists Leader, Fighters In Zamfara - New Telegraph

Army, others join mining squad marshals - Blueprint

Arrest: Binance Executives Sue ONSA, EFCC - Leadership

Arsenal Confirm Signing Of 17-yr-old Nigerian Ethan Nwaneri - Leadership

As the Rains Fall on Herberts Tomb - Thisday

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