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In its first transparency report, Twitch says it saw a 40% rise in the number of channels in 2020, a 70% drop in reports of harassment via Twitch DMs, and more (Cecilia D’Anastasio/Wired)

Cecilia D’Anastasio / Wired:
In its first transparency report, Twitch says it saw a 40% rise in the number of channels in 2020, a 70% drop in reports of harassment via Twitch DMs, and more — The decade-old streaming platform has for the first time detailed its efforts to safeguard its user base in one place.

Mobile ad tech company AppLovin files S-1, revealing a net loss of $126M on $1.45B in revenue in 2020 and reporting its software reached 410M+ DAUs in Q4 2020 (Kia Kokalitcheva/Axios)

Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios:
Mobile ad tech company AppLovin files S-1, revealing a net loss of $126M on $1.45B in revenue in 2020 and reporting its software reached 410M+ DAUs in Q4 2020 — Applovin, a mobile ad tech company that’s expanded into video game publishing, has filed with the SEC to go public on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol APP.

Report: TPG Capital to buy privileged access management vendor Thycotic for $1.4B; TPG will merge Thycotic with its recently acquired competitor Centrify (Michael Novinson/CRN)

Michael Novinson / CRN:
Report: TPG Capital to buy privileged access management vendor Thycotic for $1.4B; TPG will merge Thycotic with its recently acquired competitor Centrify — The deal between TPG and privileged access management vendor Thycotic was signed Monday but has yet to close.

Amazon quietly updated its app icon, changing the appearance of the ripped packaging tape after some drew comparisons of it to Adolf Hitler’s mustache (Chaim Gartenberg/The Verge)

Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge:
Amazon quietly updated its app icon, changing the appearance of the ripped packaging tape after some drew comparisons of it to Adolf Hitler’s mustache — The company’s icon gets a less problematic new look — Amazon has quietly rolled out a slight update to its new app icon that it debuted …

Facebook Oversight Board member told UK Parliament that the panel feels constrained when reviewing decisions on a case-by-case basis, may seek algorithm access (Dell Cameron/Gizmodo)

Dell Cameron / Gizmodo:
Facebook Oversight Board member told UK Parliament that the panel feels constrained when reviewing decisions on a case-by-case basis, may seek algorithm access — Facebook’s so-called “Supreme Court” is reportedly seeking the company’s permission to examine the underlying machine-learning models …

Crypto derivatives exchange FTX has acquired crypto price tracking app Blockfolio for $150M, in the form of equity, FTX’s native token, and cash (Frank Chaparro/The Block)

Frank Chaparro / The Block:
Crypto derivatives exchange FTX has acquired crypto price tracking app Blockfolio for $150M, in the form of equity, FTX’s native token, and cash — Crypto derivatives exchange FTX has acquired popular crypto price tracking app Blockfolio for $150 million in one of the largest acquisition deals in the digital asset space this year.

Cisco says it will acquire BabbleLabs, which uses AI to remove unwanted noise and detect human speech, to integrate into Webex and other collaboration offerings (Larry Dignan/ZDNet)

Larry Dignan / ZDNet:
Cisco says it will acquire BabbleLabs, which uses AI to remove unwanted noise and detect human speech, to integrate into Webex and other collaboration offerings — BabbleLabs takes out unwanted background noises in real-time. The technology will be integrated in Cisco’s collaboration portfolio.

Human rights advocates filed a court petition against Israeli phone hacking firm Cellebrite to stop exports to Hong Kong, says tools are used against dissidents (Patrick Howell O’Neill/MIT Technology …)

Patrick Howell O’Neill / MIT Technology Review:
Human rights advocates filed a court petition against Israeli phone hacking firm Cellebrite to stop exports to Hong Kong, says tools are used against dissidents — “The workers inside the company didn’t join to help the Chinese dictatorship,” says one human rights lawyer.

Microsoft makes Azure’s Immersive Reader generally available, letting developers embed a reading accessibility view with features like Read Aloud into apps (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:
Microsoft makes Azure’s Immersive Reader generally available, letting developers embed a reading accessibility view with features like Read Aloud into apps — Microsoft today announced the general availability of Immersive Reader, an Azure Cognitive Services offering that allows developers …

Palantir files S-1 for its public market listing, confirming a net loss of $580M in 2019 on $742.6M in revenue; intends to debut with a direct listing (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Palantir files S-1 for its public market listing, confirming a net loss of $580M in 2019 on $742.6M in revenue; intends to debut with a direct listing — – The data analytics company co-founded by Peter Thiel is going public after 16 years. — Data analytics company Palantir Technologies …