Facebook's AI model SEER was designed to exclude Instagram images from the EU in its dataset, likely to avoid GDPR violations (Dave Gershgorn/OneZero ) admin March 6, 2021 Daily Updates
@jack has listed his original tweet, "just setting up my twttr", as an NFT on auction site Valuables (Jay Peters/The Verge) admin March 6, 2021 Daily Updates
Internal email: Google has told customers in France and Spain that it will raise ad rates 2% from May, to help offset costs of digital taxes in those countries (Agence France-Presse) admin March 6, 2021 Daily Updates
Online learning provider Coursera files its S-1, reports 2020 net losses widened to $66.8M, up 46% YoY, on revenue growth of $293.5M, up 59% YoY (Riley de León/CNBC) admin March 6, 2021 Daily Updates
Screenshots of a beta version of Fireside, Mark Cuban's podcasting app, suggest it will be a hybrid between Spotify's Anchor and Clubhouse (Ashley Carman/The Verge) admin March 5, 2021 Daily Updates
Sources: digital imaging company Shutterfly has held talks to go public via SPAC at a valuation between $4B-$5B, including debt (Wall Street Journal) admin March 5, 2021 Daily Updates
Sources: at least 30K US organizations have been hacked by an aggressive Chinese espionage group exploiting unpatched flaws in Microsoft's Exchange Server (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security) admin March 5, 2021 Daily Updates
A look at surveillance apps Shadowtrack and SmartLink, which are used by states and ICE as parole apps replacing GPS ankle bracelets (Todd Feathers/The Guardian) admin March 5, 2021 Daily Updates
Bitcoin mining startup Bitfury merges with a SPAC to create a US-based company called Cipher Mining, raising $595M at a valuation of $2B (Kevin Reynolds/CoinDesk) admin March 5, 2021 Daily Updates
Pitchbook: the median pre-investment valuation for a Series A round in the US has increased sixfold to $37M since 2010 (Kate Clark/The Information) admin March 5, 2021 Daily Updates