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Sources: Zuckerberg demanded a review of an algorithm change after his 2023 knee surgery Facebook post got anemic attention; Meta downplays the significance (Wall Street Journal)

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Indonesian e-commerce pioneer Bukalapak will stop sales of physical goods to focus on virtual goods like mobile credits, amid competition from Shopee and others (Yuan Gao/Bloomberg)

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AWS says it plans to invest "at least" $11B to expand data center infrastructure in Georgia, which is becoming a popular state for data centers in the US (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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Ex-Facebook director Katie Harbath says Mark Zuckerberg's team uses elections to take stock of "where society is, to readjust how they're approaching content" (Bloomberg)

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Global venture funding rose 3% YoY to ~$314B in 2024; venture funding to US companies totaled $178B, out of which $90B was invested in Bay Area startups (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News)

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says that MediaTek will be able to sell the CPU chip that the two companies unveiled for Project DIGITS, Nvidia's first desktop computer (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

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Atlanta-based HR and payroll software startup OnPay raised a $63M Series B led by Carrick Capital Partners, taking its total raised to $165M+ in equity and debt (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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Stephen 'tWitch' Boss Widow Allison Holker Shares the Shocking Discovery Hours Before Funeral

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The US NLRB says Google is a "joint employer" of ~50 Accenture Flex workers who joined the Alphabet Workers Union in 2023 and must bargain with their union (Daniel Wiessner/Reuters)

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Las Vegas police release ChatGPT logs from the suspect in the Cybertruck explosion

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Also From the Archive: ‘“Beta” Is Not an Excuse’

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Tencent repurchased 3.93M Hong Kong-listed shares, worth ~$193M, on January 7, its largest buyback since April 2006, following its addition to a US blacklist (Charlotte Yang/Bloomberg)

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Docs: The Heritage Foundation plans to "identify and target" volunteer Wikipedia editors who it says are "abusing their position" to publish antisemitic content (Arno Rosenfeld/The Forward)

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These Conspiracies Around Walmart's Birkin Bag Dupe Will Have You Messed Up

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Meta's fact-checking partners PolitiFact and FactCheck.org say they had no role in deciding what the company did with fact-checked content, denying Meta's claim (Stuart A. Thompson/New York Times)

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Microsoft is combining ‘the best of Xbox and Windows together’ for handhelds

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Ten current and former Meta employees share frustrations over Meta's surrender to the right on speech issues; one called the changes "a precursor for genocide" (Casey Newton/Platformer)

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Sam Altman’s sister files sexual abuse lawsuit against him — his family says it’s ‘utterly untrue’

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In a statement with his family, Sam Altman denies the sexual abuse allegations made by his sister Ann in a lawsuit and says she faces "mental health challenges" (Hayden Field/CNBC)

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From the DF Archive: ‘Life as a Facebook Moderator’

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