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Sources: on Tuesday, China’s internet regulator told Tencent, ByteDance, and others to grow censorship teams, focus on protest content, and censor info on VPNs (Liza Lin/Wall Street Journal)

Liza Lin / Wall Street Journal: Sources: on Tuesday, China’s internet regulator told Tencent, ByteDance, and others to grow censorship teams, focus on protest content, and censor info on VPNs  —  Online regulators tell big tech companies to expand censorship of information on protests and take steps to curb the virtual private networks used to

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Mozilla acquires Pulse, which made an automated status updater for Slack before shuttering, and plans to use its ML tech to improve personalization in Pocket (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Mozilla acquires Pulse, which made an automated status updater for Slack before shuttering, and plans to use its ML tech to improve personalization in Pocket  —  Firefox developer Mozilla is making a rare foray into the world of mergers and acquisitions, with news that it has snapped …

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Tether’s reports show increasing loans denominated and payable in its own stablecoin, reaching $6.1B as of September 30, a potential risk in a crisis (Jonathan Weil/Wall Street Journal)

Jonathan Weil / Wall Street Journal: Tether’s reports show increasing loans denominated and payable in its own stablecoin, reaching $6.1B as of September 30, a potential risk in a crisis  —  Tether reports hadn’t disclosed that loans it issues are denominated and payable in the token  —  FTX’s Bankruptcy: Three Things to Know

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A look at online and smartphone gambling in the UK, legalized in 2005, as bettors lost £14B+ in four of the past five years and concerns about addiction rise (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: A look at online and smartphone gambling in the UK, legalized in 2005, as bettors lost £14B+ in four of the past five years and concerns about addiction rise  —  On an August morning in 2016, Stewart Kenny, the co-founder of Paddy Power, was struggling to keep his emotions in check …

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Despite genuine concerns, generative AI seems unlikely to replace workers, instead complementing and empowering them by taking over mundane, repetitive tasks (Noahpinion)

Noahpinion: Despite genuine concerns, generative AI seems unlikely to replace workers, instead complementing and empowering them by taking over mundane, repetitive tasks  —  A joint blog post by Noah and roon on the future of work in the age of AI … If you talk to people about the potential …

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Now 1Password remembers sites that use third-party accounts like Google or Facebook to log in

Image: 1Password Password management provider 1Password just launched its new “sign-in with” feature that automatically saves and fills logins using third-party credentials. 1Password thus is now able to give customers an option to sign in to sites or apps that require, say, their Google, Apple, GitHub, or Facebook credentials with just one click. Now, users

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Sources: Netflix plans to expand its pre-release content screening program, the Netflix Preview Club, from 2,000+ users to tens of thousands in early 2023 (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Netflix plans to expand its pre-release content screening program, the Netflix Preview Club, from 2,000+ users to tens of thousands in early 2023  —  Streaming giant plans global expansion of program that helped make ‘Don’t Look Up’ less serious  —  Netflix’s Turbulent Year: How It Reversed Subscriber Losses

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