Signal is phasing out SMS and MMS. Microsoft is sunsetting Microsoft Office branding. The SEC is poised to officially ban some Chinese hardware. Is AR not living up to its promise as a tool for soldiers on the battlefield? And would you ghostwrite tweets for prominent venture capitalists? There’s good money in it.

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• Signal will remove support for SMS text messages on Android (BleepingComputer)
• Microsoft Office will become Microsoft 365 in major brand overhaul (The Verge)
• FCC poised to ban all U.S. sales of new Huawei and ZTE equipment (Axios)
• Microsoft’s Army Goggles Left US Soldiers With Nausea, Headaches in Test (Bloomberg)
• TikTok Parent ByteDance Sets Sights on Spotify With Music-Streaming Expansion (WSJ)
• I made $200,000 last year ghostwriting tweets for superstar VCs. It takes me 5 hours a week. Here's how I found my clients and built a booming side hustle from scratch. (Insider)

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