New York Times:
A look at the incentives, like guaranteed auction win percentages, that Facebook got from Google in the ad partnership that is now a focus of an antitrust suit ; — ; Facebook was going to compete with Google for some advertising sales but backed away from the plan after the companies cut a preferential deal, according to court documents.

Eileen Brown / ZDNet:
Trend Micro: 32% of 500 IT leaders believe AI will replace all cybersecurity roles by 2030; 19% say attackers using AI will be commonplace by 2025 ; — ; In 2021 Trend Micro predicts that cybercriminals will look to home networks as a critical launch pad to compromising corporate IT and IoT networks.

Alex Danco:
A critique of Canada's tech startup ecosystem, whose growth is being held back by the mindset of angel investors, the government's SR&ED tax credits, and more ; — ; Toronto is not the next great startup scene. ; Neither is Waterloo, or Vancouver, or anywhere in Canada. ; — ; I'm sorry that I have to write this.

Kevin C. Tofel / Stacey on IoT:
CES 2021 demonstrated that the smart home industry is at a pause after moving a little too rapidly for several years without understanding what consumers want ; — ; Although the Consumer Electronics Show 2021 event is technically only half over, most of the big news typically lands in the first half of the week.

Miriam Berger / Washington Post:
Iran blames legal and illegal crypto mining for massive blackouts in the country, shuts down a large, licensed Chinese-Iranian mining operation ; — ; Massive blackouts and smog have hit cities across Iran. ; It's a toxic mix as the country, already under economic duress and suffocating U.S. sanctions …

Lucas Matney / TechCrunch:
Researchers working on Twitter's bluesky effort discuss how its open decentralized standard for social media could hinder efforts to stop online radicalization ; — ; The platform's vision of a sweeping open standard could also be the far-right's internet endgame

Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal:
Discord says over the past six months it took steps to make the service safer for kids, including more proactive policing and limiting what minors can access ; — ; Chat platform popular with gamers tries to shed anything-goes image; safety expert says, ‘I would give them a B+’

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet:
DuckDuckGo surpassed 100M daily search queries for the first time on Jan. 11; since August 2020, the search engine began seeing over 2B search queries per month ; — ; DuckDuckGo reaches historic milestone in a week when both Signal and Telegram saw a huge influx of new users.

Washington Post:
Dating apps like Tinder and Bumble are banning users identified in photos from the Capitol riot, and some users are relaying incriminating evidence to the FBI ; — ; Bumble, Tinder and others are freezing out rioters with help from law enforcement — and, in some cases, their own photos.

Issie Lapowsky / Protocol:
The attack on the Capitol sparked a tense debate among online extremism researchers about crowdsourced efforts to identify the rioters and “ethical doxxing” ; — ; Joan Donovan has a panic button in her office, just in case one of the online extremists she spends her days fighting tries to fight back.

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
Deliveroo says it has raised $180M in new funding from existing investors led by Durable Capital Partners and Fidelity Management at a $7B+ valuation ; — ; Private financing boost for food delivery app ahead of long-awaited stock market debut ; — ; Deliveroo's valuation shot up to more than $7bn …

Chloe Lo / Bloomberg:
Yidu Tech, which offers AI software to the health care industry, saw its shares jump 148% in its Hong Kong debut on Friday after raising ~$531M in its IPO ; — ; - Health-care tech firm raised $531 million in Hong Kong IPO ; — Yidu Tech's IPO was very heavily oversubscribed by investors

Washington Post:
Analytics firm Zignal Labs: online misinformation about election fraud dropped 73% in the week after several social media sites suspended Trump and key allies ; — ; Zignal Labs charts 73 percent decline on Twitter and beyond following historic action against the president

Heather Knight / San Francisco Chronicle:
Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson calls out tech leaders for bailing on SF and being rude about it as they leave, says he is staying and working to make the city better ; — ; There are plenty of ways to leave a party. ; — ; You can quietly say your thanks and goodbyes and be on your way. ; You can stay a while to help clean up.

Bloomberg:
Miami PD says it is using facial recognition tech from Clearview AI to identify Capitol rioters, raising concerns among civil liberty and privacy advocates ; — ; - Citizens and police sift online trove to find Capitol mob ; — Facial recognition software used by one police department