Google to Curtail Cross-App Tracking on Android Phones

Plus: Wholesale prices up 9.7% over the past year, NYSE Wants to Be the Marketplace for NFTs, and more ...

Jose Montes de Oca

Feb 16, 2022

Good Morning! Here is what’s on today’s edition:

Google Plans to Curtail Cross-App Tracking on Android Phones. (Tripp Mickle via Wall Street Journal)
Wholesale prices rise 1% in January, up 9.7% over the past year. (Jeff Cox via CNBC)
NYSE Wants to Be the Marketplace for NFTs Just Like With Stocks. (Crystal Kim via Bloomberg)
ConocoPhillips is selling extra gas to bitcoin miners in North Dakota. (MacKenzie Sigalos via CNBC)
Zuck Tells Employees They're Now Called Metamates-a. (Tom McKay via Gizmodo)
From Tumblr girl to engineer: How the platform inspired a generation of women to code. (Elizabeth de Luna via Mashable)
The New York Times has changed Wordle's solutions. (James Vincent via The Verge)

That’s it for today, see you tomorrow!

— Jose Montes de Oca

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Google Plans to Curtail Cross-App Tracking on Android Phones. Google plans to adopt new privacy restrictions to curtail tracking across apps on Android smartphones, following Apple Inc. in putting restraints on an advertising industry that has covertly collected data across billions of mobile devices. (Tripp Mickle / Wall Street Journal)

Patience 🧐 @patiencehaggin

Google promises a 2-year warning before the Android mobile ID gets deprecated

wsj.comGoogle Plans to Curtail Cross-App Tracking on Android PhonesThe Alphabet unit plans to continue support of the existing approach for at least two years as it follows Apple in challenging Facebook.

Wholesale prices rise 1% in January, up 9.7% over the past year. Prices at the wholesale level jumped twice the expected level in January as inflation pressures were unabated to start the year, the Labor Department said Tuesday. (Jeff Cox via CNBC)

Steve Guest @SteveGuest

Wholesale prices rise 1% in January, up near-record 9.7% over the past year "Over the past 12 months the gauge rose an unadjusted 9.7%, close to a record in data going back to 2010."

cnb.cxWholesale prices rise 1% in January, up near-record 9.7% over the past yearThe producer price index was expected to rise 0.5% in January, according to economists surveyed by Dow Jones.

NYSE Wants to Be the Marketplace for NFTs Just Like With Stocks. The NYSE said in a regulatory filing with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that it wants to be a financial exchange for cryptocurrencies and NFTs that would compete with the likes of OpenSea and Rarible Inc. (Crystal Kim / Bloomberg)

Yueqi Yang @Yueqi_Yang

The worlds of equities and crypto are moving closer (again): bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @crystalkimmm

bloomberg.comBloomberg - Are you a robot?

ConocoPhillips is selling extra gas to bitcoin miners in North Dakota. The company said in a statement to CNBC on Tuesday that it has one bitcoin pilot project currently operating in the Bakken, a region in North Dakota known as an important source of new oil production in the U.S. (MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC)

Lyn Alden @LynAldenContact

ConocoPhillips is now converting some of its stranded gas into bitcoin mining rather than flaring it. Small energy companies have been doing this for a while but it's interesting to see a major producer announce it now.

cnb.cxConocoPhillips is selling extra gas to bitcoin miners in North DakotaConocoPhillips sells extra gas from oil drilling to bitcoin miners instead of burning it off in a flare.

Zuck Tells Employees They're Now Called Metamates —a Really Fucking Stupid Name If You Ask Me. One of Meta's many new corporate values is "Meta, Metamates, me." (Tom McKay / Gizmodo)

Frances Haugen @FrancesHaugen

For those of us living in the present, @Meta Facebook isn’t “nicing us to death”. Facebook must recognize the damage they are causing today, not pivot to the @Meta-verse and never look back. Reminder: Facebook is the Internet for most people online today.

gizmodo.comZuck Tells Employees They’re Now Called Metamates—a Really Fucking Stupid Name If You Ask MeOne of Meta’s many new corporate values is “Meta, Metamates, me.”

From Tumblr girl to engineer: How the platform inspired a generation of women to code. Young women were lured to Tumblr by fandom and fashion. Now they've turned coding into a career. (Elizabeth de Luna / Mashable)

Elizabeth de Luna 🌙 @delunaelizabeth

I wrote about the Tumblr girl-to-engineer pipeline and how girlies who learned HTML to code their own themes are now leading a new generation of women in STEM. ✨

mashable.comFrom Tumblr girl to engineer: How the platform inspired a generation of women to codeYoung women were lured to Tumblr by fandom and fashion. Now they’ve turned coding into a career.

The New York Times has changed Wordle's solutions. Wordle's acquisition by The New York Times has already stirred up controversy, from broken streaks to accusations the game has become harder. But here's a big change the NYT isn't shouting about: it's altered Wordle's solutions. (James Vincent / The Verge)

Lisa Fung @lfung

So *this* is why our household had different answers to Wordle this morning. He had the easier word; I had the harder one (which actually wasn’t that hard if you do crossword puzzles)

bit.lyThe New York Times has changed Wordle’s solutionsIf you got a different Wordle solution today, here’s why

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