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Financial Times: Customs data: London-based Mykines shipped ~$1.2B of chips, servers, and other electronics into Russia, at least $982M of which are subject to export controls  —  Company registered to terraced house in London sent goods including semiconductors, according to customs data Lees verder op Tech Meme

Iris Deng / South China Morning Post: Tencent and ByteDance’s Douyin sign a deal authorizing Douyin to distribute Tencent’s video content, after years of copyright disputes between the two companies  —  Tech giant Tencent Holdings and Douyin, the short video app operated by ByteDance, have agreed a partnership deal … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Preetika Rana / Wall Street Journal: How Uber revamped its app, attracting more drivers and extending its lead on Lyft; YipitData: Uber’s US market share grew from 62% in early 2020 to 74% now  —  Dara Khosrowshahi and other executives realized drivers’ complaints were valid.  They revamped the app, helping Uber attract workers and extend its lead on Lyft. Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Verge: Twitter starts marking Substack links with a warning that the link “has been identified by Twitter or our partners as being potentially spammy or unsafe”  —  Twitter has started marking links to Substack as unsafe.  If you click on a link on Twitter with substack.com in the URL … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: Sources and docs: ChatGPT’s success made Microsoft and Google willing to take greater risks with their ethical guidelines for ensuring tech doesn’t hurt society  —  Technology companies were once leery of what some artificial intelligence could do.  Now the priority is winning control of the industry’s next big thing. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Naomi Nix / Washington Post: Sources: Meta is giving some VR developers compensation packages of $600K to $1M, significantly more than most gaming companies, despite a push to rein in costs  —  Programmers’ high pay is just a sliver of the company’s multibillion-dollar metaverse investment Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matt Taibbi / Racket News: Matt Taibbi plans to use Substack Notes instead of Twitter after learning Twitter is blocking Substack links because the company is upset about Substack Notes  —  On staying at Substack, and leaving Twitter, I guess  —  Earlier this afternoon, I learned Substack links were being blocked on Twitter. Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Verge: Substack’s founders criticize Twitter, saying the abrupt change is a reminder of why writers need a platform “that protects the free press and free speech”  —  / Substack’s founders say this serves as a reminder of why writers need a platform that ‘puts them in charge … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Michael Kan / PCMag: MSI confirms a data breach after a ransomware gang claimed to have stolen its source code, and warns users not to download updates from third-party sources  —  The ransomware group is reportedly demanding $4 million or it will leak the stolen data, which includes company source code. Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Hindu: Twitter seemingly removed a journalist’s tweet about India’s Home Minister globally, not just in the country, an apparent first, in response to a “legal demand”  —  The move is an apparent first, as Twitter generally takes down posts in response to government demands only in the country whose government demanded censorship Lees verder op Tech Meme