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| Jez Corden / Windows Central: |
Microsoft will announce Xbox Live SDK at GDC 2019 to enable cross-platform play on iOS, Android, Switch, Xbox, and Windows PCs — At GDC 2019, Microsoft is set to debut a new cross-platform development platform with the goal of bringing Xbox Live support to games on Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch, in addition to PC and Xbox consoles.
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GDC SF 2019, Engadget, CNET, Neowin, MSPoweruser, and Digital Trends
Tweets: @benbajarin and @scully1888
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Attorneys General of CT, IL, MA, NY, NJ, and NC are investigating how Facebook has handled user data, in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal — - Cambridge Analytica data breach triggered state probes — Facebook Inc. has become the target of at least three more state probes … | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
A college student who stole $5M+ in cryptocurrency via SIM hijacking gets 10 years in prison and is the first person in the US to be sentenced for such a crime — A 20-year-old college student who was accused of stealing more than $5 million in cryptocurrency in a slew of SIM hijacking attacks …
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The Block, Mashable, Crowdfund Insider, The Verge, and Cointelegraph.com News. Tweets: @lorenzofb
| Simone Stolzoff / Quartz: |
Ahead of his fifth anniversary as CEO, a look at how Satya Nadella changed Microsoft's culture by using a Stanford professor's concept called “growth mindset” — It was March 27, 2014, and Satya Nadella was about to make his first public appearance as CEO of Microsoft.
Tweets: @dskok and @philboyte
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researcher finds “admin@kremlin.ru” backdoor accounts on 2,000+ exposed MongoDB databases that handle financial transactions of businesses operating in Russia — “Admin@kremlin.ru” account spotted on thousands of Russian-linked, internet-exposed MongoDB databases.
Tweets: @akihheikkinen, @martinsfp, and @zdnet
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
NY-based Timescale raises $15M Series A1 for its database for time-series data that's popular for its ease of cloud deployment, after a $12.4M Series A in 2018 — Timescale, a New York startup founded by Ajay Kulkarni and Mike Freedman, is on a mission to build open source database software … | Josh Dzieza / The Verge: |
As machine learning algorithms get as good as humans at text, image, and speech recognition, Google's CAPTCHA are getting too hard for humans to solve — At some point last year, Google's constant requests to prove I'm human began to feel increasingly aggressive.
Tweets: @distributeddave, @charlesflehman, @ppatel, @bozhobg, @_am1t, @cmdrtaco, and @joshdzieza
| Reuters: |
Source: Vision Fund is in talks to invest up to $1.5B in Chinese used car trading platform guazi.com in a deal that would value the company at $8.5B pre-money — HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) - The SoftBank-led Vision Fund is in talks to invest up to $1.5 billion in Chinese used car trading platform Guazi.com …
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Three suspects arrested in Ukraine as FBI and several EU countries seize the domain and servers of xDedic, an online marketplace for access to hacked servers — xDedic provided access to more than 85,000 hacked servers in its heyday. — The FBI, together with authorities from several European countries … | Jonathan M. Gitlin / Ars Technica: |
From Alexa and Nuance to personal assistants that learn your moods, an overview of the AI-driven features that major auto companies plan to roll out soon — From Alexa and Nuance to personal AI helpers that learn your moods, it's happening. — LAS VEGAS—Like it or not … | Andy / TorrentFreak: |
Report: Russian pirates found a new business model, sharing ripped TV and movies via private CDNs with streaming sites that monetize the CDNs' streams via ads — With the popularity of torrent sites on the wane in Russia, an interesting business model for mass streaming is thriving in the region.
Tweets: @neilturkewitz
| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
UK-based startup Bud, which connects banks to fintechs and other financial service providers, raises $20M Series A with backing from HSBC, Goldman Sachs, others — Bud, the U.K. fintech that helps banks connect their apps and data to other fintech companies and financial service providers … Sponsor Posts
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