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Obama sushi – Boing Boing
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- After the acquisition, Twitter immediately shut down access to Smyte's API deserting its existing customers, who were using its anti-abuse and anti-fraud tools (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
- IGTV has not yet explained how creators will be paid, but likely options include mid-roll or pre-roll ads with revenue splits, or paying creators outright (Kurt Wagner/Recode)
- White House names NSC's Grant Schneider to lead Vulnerability Equities Process board, which decides software vulnerabilities to keep secret for intel gathering (Chris Bing/Cyberscoop)
- YouTube announces $4.99/mo Channel Memberships for eligible channels with 100K+ subscribers, Teespring merchandising, and Premieres to debut pre-recorded videos (Neal Mohan/YouTube Blog)
- Sources: YouTube plans to let select content creators sell monthly subscriptions with perks like custom emojis and merchandise, similar to some gaming channels (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
- Sources: stock trading app Robinhood in early talks to offer banking services like savings accounts for its more than 4M customers (Bloomberg)
- PayPal to buy Simility, a specialist in AI-based fraud and risk management, for $120M in cash; Simility had raised about $25M and was last valued at $52.75M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
- Google updates Measure, its app for measuring things that was previously a Project Tango exclusive, to work with any Android phone running ARCore (Abner Li/9to5Google)
- Microsoft launches the mobile version of its Bing Visual Search, a Google Lens-like image recognition tool, on iOS and Android (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
- How the economy of Blaine, WA, a town Canadians from Vancouver region visit to pick up their Amazon.com US packages, is being threatened by Amazon.ca's growth (Alexandra Samuel/The Verge)
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