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Notion acquires privacy-focused productivity platform Skiff | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

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Google tests removing the News tab from search results | The News filter disappearing from Google search results for some users this week won’t help publishers sleep any easier. (www.niemanlab.org)

‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhood (www.theguardian.com)

1Password Acquires Kolide to Strengthen Endpoint Security (techcrunch.com)

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Japan Bets $67 Billion to Become a Global Chip Powerhouse Once Again (finance.yahoo.com)

Japan Bets $67 Billion to Become a Global Chip Powerhouse Once Again::(Bloomberg) – Deep in the snowy northern island of Hokkaido, Japan is pouring billions of dollars into a long-shot bet to revive its chip-making prowess and insulate its economy from growing US-China tensions.Most Read from BloombergYour 401(k) Will Be Gone...

Reddit says it's made $203M so far licensing its data (techcrunch.com)

Reddit is a ‘smaller, more volatile’ Twitter, says Big Technology’s Alex Kantrowitz (www.cnbc.com)

Reddit is a ‘smaller, more volatile’ Twitter, says Big Technology’s Alex Kantrowitz::Alex Kantrowitz, Big Technology founder, joins ‘Squawk Box’ to discuss Reddit’s decision to go public, the company’s journey to IPO, Sam Altman’s stake in the company, and more.

Google Search Takedown Requests Rush to 8 Billion at Record Pace. (torrentfreak.com)

Google cut a deal with Reddit for AI training data (www.theverge.com)

User content, created for free by users, moderated for free by moderators, and now sold for 60 million dollars to Google.

Google explains Gemini’s “embarrassing” AI pictures of diverse Nazis (www.theverge.com)

Amazon hides cheaper items with faster delivery, lawsuit alleges (arstechnica.com)

Disturbing AI Images of Children Found for Sale on Shutterstock (petapixel.com)

Someone used Shutterstock's AI image generator to create them.

Valve Goes Hard: Steam Deck OLED Review & Benchmarks vs. ASUS ROG Ally Z1 Extreme, Deck LCD (www.youtube.com)

Tyler Perry Puts $800M Studio Expansion On Hold After Seeing OpenAI’s Sora: “Jobs Are Going to Be Lost” (www.hollywoodreporter.com)

Tyler Perry Puts $800M Studio Expansion On Hold After Seeing OpenAI’s Sora: “Jobs Are Going to Be Lost”::Tyler Perry is raising the alarm about the impact of OpenAI’s Sora on Hollywood.

Bring us the head of LockBit! $15 million bounty offered for information on leaders of notorious ransomware gang (www.tripwire.com)

70,000 ATT customers are without service across the US (arstechnica.com)

We made "ding" sounds in Microsoft Teams when people join a call (frameable.com)

Meet the Super DVD: Scientists Develop Massive 1 Petabit Optical Disk (gizmodo.com)

Note: Unfortunately the research paper linked in the article is a dead/broken/wrong link. Perhaps the author will update it later....

Court blocks $1 billion copyright ruling that punished ISP for its users’ piracy (arstechnica.com)

Court blocks $1 billion copyright ruling that punished ISP for its users’ piracy::“Cox did not profit from its subscribers’ acts of infringement,” judges rule.

FTC bans antivirus giant Avast from selling its users' browsing data to advertisers (techcrunch.com)

Twitch warns US sub price increases “extremely likely” after international updates (www.dexerto.com)

Twitch warns US sub price increases “extremely likely” after international updates::undefined

We made "ding" sounds in Microsoft Teams when people join a call (programming.dev)

Breaking: Google announces cancellation of Gmail (sopuli.xyz)

Google tests a feature that calls businesses on your behalf and holds until an agent is available | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

Google tests a feature that calls businesses on your behalf and holds until an agent is available | TechCrunch::Google is testing a feature that places a call to a business , waits on hold and then give you a call once a representative is available.