Mike Masnick / Techdirt: Parler is not down due to a single company but because the market chose not to…

Emily Birnbaum / Protocol: Biden’s COVID-19 relief bill earmarks $9B to beef up the CISA and $200M to hire technology…

South China Morning Post: A look at the rise and fall of Xiami, Alibaba’s Chinese music streaming service, which only…

Calum Marsh / New York Times: Profile of New Zealand-based Letterboxd, a social network for reviewing movies, which has grown…

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: A security researcher was able to purchase one of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s top-level domains,…

Wall Street Journal: FAA approves the first fully automated commercial drone flights, letting Massachusetts-based American Robotics operate its drones in…

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Israel-based social casino game developer Playtika closes up 17.1% on its first day of trading, valuing…

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft is planning to fix a Windows 10 vulnerability that could corrupt a NTFS-formatted hard…

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Oqton, which is developing a factory OS that combines several fabrication processes like CNC and polymer…

Megan Graham / CNBC: Ahead of Biden’s inauguration, Facebook blocks users from creating new events happening near the White House…