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Researchers and journalists in Ethiopia say Meta has done little to stop hate speech amid Ethiopia's civil war, claiming moderation often falls to volunteers (Nick Robins-Early/VICE)

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Qupital, a Hong Kong-based startup offering cross-border e-commerce financing, raises a $150M Series B, including a credit securitization facility from Citi (Eudora Wang/DealStreetAsia)

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Netflix for iOS is rolling out Kids Clips, a TikTok-like feature that shows new daily short videos from its children's library (Bloomberg)

Netflix for iOS is rolling out Kids Clips, a TikTok-like...

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Bloomberg:Netflix for iOS is rolling out Kids Clips, a TikTok-like feature that...

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How Christie's and Sotheby's are bringing in crypto-rich NFT buyers; NFTs now account for about 5.5% of contemporary art sales at the world's top auction houses (Elizabeth Howcroft/Reuters)

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Elizabeth Howcroft / Reuters:How Christie's and Sotheby's are bringing in crypto-rich...

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Profile of virtual events startup Hopin, which rode the pandemic-led videoconferencing wave to a $7.8B valuation in August and six acquisitions in the past year (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

Profile of virtual events startup Hopin, which rode the...

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Documents show LAPD's new predictive policing effort is similar to surveillance programs PredPol and Operation Laser that were shut down amid public outcry (Johana Bhuiyan/The Guardian)

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Intel to acquire part of Taiwan-based VIA Technologies' Centaur x86 CPU subsidiary for $125M, including some engineers from VIA's Austin, Texas campus (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)

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Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware:Intel to acquire part of Taiwan-based VIA Technologies'...

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Microsoft fixes Windows 11 features that stopped loading due to an expired certificate, including the Snipping Tool, touch keyboard, and emoji panel (Tom Warren/The Verge)

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Polish e-commerce company Allegro to buy Czech online retailer Mall Group for about $1.02B (Anna Pruchnicka/Reuters)

Polish e-commerce company Allegro to buy Czech online retailer...

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Anna Pruchnicka / Reuters:Polish e-commerce company Allegro to buy Czech online...

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Google quietly removes Assistant's Your News Update feature, which launched in 2019 to give personalized audio digests based on user data (Abner Li/9to5Google)

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Abner Li / 9to5Google:Google quietly removes Assistant's Your News Update feature,...

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Apple hires CJ Moore, Tesla's Autopilot Software director who in January told the DMV that Musk's "Full-Self Driving" claims didn't "match engineering reality" (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg:Apple hires CJ Moore, Tesla's Autopilot Software director who in January...

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Sources: McAfee is in advanced talks to go private in a deal worth over $14B, including $4B in debt, led by private equity firm Advent International (Antoine Gara/Financial Times)

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Senators Klobuchar and Cotton introduce a bill to regulate Big Tech acquisitions, which would force companies to prove proposed mergers aren't anticompetitive (Ashley Gold/Axios)

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Ashley Gold / Axios:Senators Klobuchar and Cotton introduce a bill to regulate Big...

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Berlin-based Moonfare, which offers a digital private equity investment service, raises a $125M Series C led by Insight Partners, bringing total raised to $185M (Vishal Singh/Silicon Canals)

Berlin-based Moonfare, which offers a digital private equity...

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Internal docs: in 2019, Facebook researchers found US users are four times more likely to see misinformation when they encounter a post via a share of a share (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)

Internal docs: in 2019, Facebook researchers found US users...

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Bitcoin Cash briefly spiked 4.6% on Friday after a fake PR Newswire press release, which also appeared on Kroger.com, claimed Kroger will begin accepting it (Jamie Crawley/CoinDesk)

Bitcoin Cash briefly spiked 4.6% on Friday after a fake...

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Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk:Bitcoin Cash briefly spiked 4.6% on Friday after a fake...