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India is promoting RuPay, its homegrown card network, to challenge Visa and Mastercard, leveraging UPI, which now handles 13B+ real-time transactions monthly (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

India is promoting RuPay, its homegrown card network, to challenge Vis...

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TSMC reports December revenue up 57.8% YoY to $8.4B, pushing the 2024 revenue to ~$88.02B, up 34% YoY, driven by AI chips demand from Nvidia and Broadcom (Nikkei Asia)

TSMC reports December revenue up 57.8% YoY to $8.4B, pushing the 2024 ...

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X says it is rolling out labels for parody or satire accounts to differentiate them from others and boost transparency; accounts have to apply for the labels (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

X says it is rolling out labels for parody or satire accounts to diffe...

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Automattic plans to cut its WordPress contributions to 45 hours per week "due to the lawsuits from WP Engine", focusing mostly on security and critical updates (Automattic)

Automattic plans to cut its WordPress contributions to 45 hours per we...

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A hack of location data firm Gravy reveals Candy Crush, Tinder, and thousands of other apps are being used to steal user location data; apps may not even know (Joseph Cox/Wired)

A hack of location data firm Gravy reveals Candy Crush, Tinder, and th...

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‘All Hands on Deck’: How Watch Duty Keeps Up With the California Wildfires

‘All Hands on Deck’: How Watch Duty Keeps Up With the California Wildf...

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Meta's new policies for contractors and staff moderating Facebook and Instagram allow dehumanizing speech, like "a trans person isn't a he or she, it's an it" (Casey Newton/Platformer)

Meta's new policies for contractors and staff moderating Facebook and ...

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The Linux Foundation launches an initiative to fund the development of projects in the Chromium ecosystem, with support from Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Opera (Kevin Purdy/Ars Technica)

The Linux Foundation launches an initiative to fund the development of...

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The Tide Could Finally Be Turning Against the LA Fires

The Tide Could Finally Be Turning Against the LA Fires

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Court docs: Mark Zuckerberg gave the Meta team training Llama AI models approval to use data from LibGen, which offers access to pirated, copyrighted material (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Court docs: Mark Zuckerberg gave the Meta team training Llama AI model...

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The Nintendo Switch 2 Rumors and Leaks Won’t Change Anything

The Nintendo Switch 2 Rumors and Leaks Won’t Change Anything

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Internal data: Spotify had about 55M US subscribers as of Q3 2024, of which only around 607,000 were on the cheaper "basic" plan that doesn't include audiobooks (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)

Internal data: Spotify had about 55M US subscribers as of Q3 2024, of ...

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