Internal Amazon documents show its planned internal messaging app would block union-related words, including “union”, “grievance”, and “pay raise” (Ken Klippenstein/The Intercept)

Ken Klippenstein / The Intercept: Internal Amazon documents show its planned internal messaging app would block union-related words, including “union”, “grievance”, and “pay raise”  —  Amazon will block and flag employee posts on a planned internal messaging app that contain keywords pertaining …

FTX makes a “significant” investment in stock exchange IEX, made famous by Michael Lewis’ “Flash Boys”; IEX represented 2.7% of US equities volume in March (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: FTX makes a “significant” investment in stock exchange IEX, made famous by Michael Lewis’ “Flash Boys”; IEX represented 2.7% of US equities volume in March  —  Crypto exchange FTX US agreed to take a stake in IEX Group Inc., owner of the stock exchange made famous by …

System helps severely motor-impaired individuals type more quickly and accurately

In 1995, French fashion magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby suffered a seizure while driving a car, which left him with a condition known as locked-in syndrome, a neurological disease in which the patient is completely paralyzed and can only move muscles that control the eyes. Bauby, who had signed a book contract shortly before his accident, […]

Roku and Amazon extend their distribution agreement, letting users continue accessing Prime Video and IMDb TV apps on their Roku devices; Roku stock is up 5%+ (Etan Vlessing/Hollywood Reporter)

Etan Vlessing / Hollywood Reporter: Roku and Amazon extend their distribution agreement, letting users continue accessing Prime Video and IMDb TV apps on their Roku devices; Roku stock is up 5%+  —  The new multi-year agreement means the Amazon Prime Video app will remain in Roku’s Channel Store.

Research: RT en Español is the third-most shared site on Twitter for Spanish-language info about Russia’s invasion and in March saw a boost in Facebook likes (Associated Press)

Associated Press: Research: RT en Español is the third-most shared site on Twitter for Spanish-language info about Russia’s invasion and in March saw a boost in Facebook likes  —  Disinformation about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is surging in Spanish, as stories crafted for a Latin American audience gets a boost from the Kremlin

Former ByteDance employees say the company scraped Instagram, Snap, and others to make fake accounts on TikTok predecessor Flipagram, later renamed Vigo Video (Emily Baker-White/BuzzFeed News)

Emily Baker-White / BuzzFeed News: Former ByteDance employees say the company scraped Instagram, Snap, and others to make fake accounts on TikTok predecessor Flipagram, later renamed Vigo Video  —  In 2017, TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, scraped short-form videos, user names, profile pictures, and profile descriptions from Instagram …

As Russia Plots Its Next Move, an AI Listens to the Chatter

With vast amounts of data becoming available to intelligence analysts, new tools will help them sift and interpret it all—but they will introduce new risks, too.

Huawei promotes CFO Meng Wanzhou, daughter of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, as one of three rotating chairs, six months after her detention in Canada (Eva Dou/Washington Post)

Eva Dou / Washington Post: Huawei promotes CFO Meng Wanzhou, daughter of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, as one of three rotating chairs, six months after her detention in Canada  —  SHANGHAI — Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies has promoted chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou to a key role just half a year …

How Apple’s rumored subscription programs for iPhone and other hardware may work, and why the company may expand its financial services (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: How Apple’s rumored subscription programs for iPhone and other hardware may work, and why the company may expand its financial services  —  Apple’s in-the-works iPhone hardware subscription service will squeeze more revenue from its giant user base.  Also: The company is building …

Unpacking Terra’s design for its algorithmic stablecoins and how partial collateralization using bitcoin reserves could impact its price stabilization mechanism (damsondao/P — Mirror)

damsondao / P — Mirror: Unpacking Terra’s design for its algorithmic stablecoins and how partial collateralization using bitcoin reserves could impact its price stabilization mechanism  —  As Terra climbed crypto market cap rankings at the start of 2022 while most of the market dumped or stalled …

Interview with Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation, who says the government’s crypto donation platform has raised $70M+ as of April 1 (Kollen Post/The Block)

Kollen Post / The Block: Interview with Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation, who says the government’s crypto donation platform has raised $70M+ as of April 1  —  Quick Take  — The Block spoke with Alexander Bornyakov, Deputy Minister of the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation.

Deepki, a Parisian provider of an ESG data intelligence platform for real estate, raises a €150M Series C round co-led by One Peak and Highland Europe (Megha Paul/Tech.eu)

Megha Paul / Tech.eu: Deepki, a Parisian provider of an ESG data intelligence platform for real estate, raises a €150M Series C round co-led by One Peak and Highland Europe  —  The Paris-headquartered startup offers a SaaS platform for real estate investors, owners and managers to improve the ESG performance …

Dan Huttenlocher ponders our human future in an age of artificial intelligence

What does it mean to be human in an age where artificial intelligence agents make decisions that shape human actions? That’s a deep question with no easy answers, and it’s been on the mind of Dan Huttenlocher SM ’84, PhD ’88, dean of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, for the past few years. “Advances […]

Apple’s hardware categories are now gaining record new users after a 2017/2018 strategy change that let product groups independently update major product lines (Neil Cybart/Above Avalon)

Neil Cybart / Above Avalon: Apple’s hardware categories are now gaining record new users after a 2017/2018 strategy change that let product groups independently update major product lines  —  During Apple’s “Peek Performance” event held last month, the company announced not only a brand new Mac category with the Mac Studio …

Zipline, Flytrex, and Alphabet’s Wing, which have started commercial drone deliveries in the US, say they are encouraged by the FAA’s evolving regulation (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: Zipline, Flytrex, and Alphabet’s Wing, which have started commercial drone deliveries in the US, say they are encouraged by the FAA’s evolving regulation  —  Drone companies have been cleared to expand their operations across the U.S., in cities as well as rural areas, at the same time their tech […]

How Binance, which trades on its own exchange and plays a number of roles that pose conflicts of interest, remains mostly unaccountable to its customers (Washington Post)

Washington Post: How Binance, which trades on its own exchange and plays a number of roles that pose conflicts of interest, remains mostly unaccountable to its customers  —  On May 19, 2021, Francis Kim thought he had hit it big.  The Australia-based entrepreneur had been dabbling in derivatives trading …

A deep look at the benefits of content moderation in open forums, and how it can support free speech by creating spaces where more people feel free to talk (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)

Mike Masnick / Techdirt: A deep look at the benefits of content moderation in open forums, and how it can support free speech by creating spaces where more people feel free to talk  —  Obviously over the past few years there’s been all of these debates about the content moderation practices of various websites.

In a memo, EVP and CPO Panos Panay says Microsoft is moving Surface Duo OS, SwiftKey, Phone Link, and Microsoft Launcher under a new dedicated Android division (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)

Zac Bowden / Windows Central: In a memo, EVP and CPO Panos Panay says Microsoft is moving Surface Duo OS, SwiftKey, Phone Link, and Microsoft Launcher under a new dedicated Android division  —  A new ‘Microsoft Android’ division houses Duo, SwiftKey, Launcher, and more.  —  What you need to know

Interview with GoPuff co-founder Rafael Ilishayev, on why the company acquired BevMo, breaking into the California market, responding to drivers’ demands, more (Sam Dean/Los Angeles Times)

Sam Dean / Los Angeles Times: Interview with GoPuff co-founder Rafael Ilishayev, on why the company acquired BevMo, breaking into the California market, responding to drivers’ demands, more  —  When an East Coast startup called Gopuff paid $350 million for BevMo in November 2020, it wasn’t immediately clear …

Bitcoin mining company PrimeBlock plans to go public via a SPAC merger at a $1.25B valuation; PrimeBlock generated $24.4M in Q4 2021 revenue (Aoyon Ashraf/CoinDesk)

Aoyon Ashraf / CoinDesk: Bitcoin mining company PrimeBlock plans to go public via a SPAC merger at a $1.25B valuation; PrimeBlock generated $24.4M in Q4 2021 revenue  —  The deal is expected to close in the second half of this year.  —  Bitcoin miner PrimeBlock confirmed its plan to go public through a merger …

The Discord servers of some NFT projects, including BAYC, were compromised on Friday as part of a phishing scam seeking to trick users into “minting” fake NFTs (Edward Ongweso Jr/VICE)

Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE: The Discord servers of some NFT projects, including BAYC, were compromised on Friday as part of a phishing scam seeking to trick users into “minting” fake NFTs  —  This isn’t the first hack of Discord-based crypto communities, and it’s not likely to be the last.