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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
After teasing a new social media platform, Trump debuts a new section on his website that's effectively a blog, ahead of the Oversight Board's decision on Wed. — A true poster never logs off for long — After months of promising his own social media network for banned posters …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Twitter buys Scroll, the $5/month service that removes ads from partner news sites; Scroll's Nuzzel email service will shut down on May 6 — The Nuzzel email service is winding down and the future of Scroll is uncertain — Twitter's acquisition spree continues today with Scroll …
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Nuzzel Blog, Twitter, Scroll Blog, On my Om, SiliconANGLE, Platformer, TechCrunch, Candid.Technology, Android Police, Nieman Lab, Android Central, Gizmodo, Social Media Today, SlashGear, Android Headlines, Agence France-Presse, Tubefilter, and iPhone in Canada Blog
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| Nick Statt / Protocol: |
At trial, Tim Sweeney contends that the App Store taking “30% off of the top” is an existential threat to Fortnite becoming a metaverse or platform for creators — Epic CEO Tim Sweeney finished his time on the stand Tuesday afternoon, during day two of the Epic v. Apple trial.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
On Day Two of the Apple vs Epic trial, Sweeney said he would have taken an exclusive App Store deal, Apple recounted Epic's praise of Apple's Metal API, more — The Apple vs. Epic trial continued today, with Epic CEO Tim Sweeney testifying and facing cross-examination from Apple's layers.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
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| Shoshana Wodinsky / Gizmodo: |
Signal says Facebook shut down its ad account over an Instagram ad campaign that showed the user data Facebook collects to sell ads — A series of Instagram ads run by the privacy-positive platform Signal got the messaging app booted from the former's ad platform, according to a blog post Signal published on Tuesday.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Dell patches a recently discovered 12-year-old driver vulnerability impacting hundreds of millions of Dell systems, which gives local attackers full PC control — Hundreds of millions of Dell desktops, laptops, notebooks, and tablets will need to update their Dell DBUtil driver to fix …
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| Carmen Reinicke / CNBC: |
Dogecoin's price surged roughly 40% on Tuesday, reaching a market cap of $69B, up 11,000% YTD, and making Dogecoin the fourth-largest cryptocurrency — The latest cryptocurrency star is a coin named after a meme of a Shiba Inu dog that was started as a joke.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google reveals the Pixel Buds A-Series in a now-deleted tweet, which mentions a new Fast Pair feature — At the end of March, we exclusively reported about Google's next wireless earbuds, and the first image leaked a week later. Google today announced the “Pixel Buds A-Series” on Twitter, though the reveal was entirely an accident.
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| William Ralston / Wired: |
An in-depth look at the fallout from a ransomware attack on Finnish private mental health provider Vastaamo, which exposed therapists' notes about patients — A mental health startup built its business on easy-to-use technology. Patients joined in droves. Then came a catastrophic data breach.
Tweets: @hatr and @calebhowe
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft open sources Counterfit, an AI security risk assessment tool that comes preloaded with algorithms that can be used to evade and steal AI models — Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register fo r the AI event of the year. — Microsoft today open-sourced Counterfit …
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Tweets: @holisticinfosec and @markrussinovich
| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Facebook says that Workplace has 7M paid subscribers, up 40% YoY, as it announces new features, like Microsoft 365 and G-Suite calendar integrations — - Facebook's Workplace enterprise communications software has now reached 7 million paid subscribers. — The milestone is up 40% from 5 million last May.
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| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Basecamp CEO apologizes to staff without announcing any further policy changes and says Basecamp would be “rooting for” employees who recently left the company — The software company has been under fire for how it handled employees' concerns about culture| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram unveils a “captions sticker”, which automatically captions videos to make them more accessible without sound, coming first to Stories and then Reels — Instagram is making its video Stories and Reels more accessible with the launch of a new “captions sticker” …
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The Verge, CNET, t3.com, Social Media Today, iPhone Hacks, Pocket-lint, iThinkDifferent, and popsugar.com
Tweets: @nash, @mosseri, and @cubanalaf
| Reuters: |
Sources: TSMC is planning to build up to five more chipmaking facilities in Arizona, beyond the one currently planned — TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC) is planning to build several more chipmaking factories in the U.S. state of Arizona beyond the one currently planned …
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The Register, HotHardware.com News, TechSpot, Tom's Hardware, and iThinkDifferent
Tweets: @sunshinetrails1 and @stephennellis
| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
A look at Atlanta's emergence as a tech startup hub, bolstered by the diverse entrepreneurial talent coming from regional colleges like Georgia Tech — Over the past five years, the Southeastern region, led by Atlanta, has gone from being “one of the best kept secrets” in tech …
Tweets: @josephjcabral and @sjresnick
| Rebecca Szkutak / Forbes: |
LoanSnap, whose AI system analyzes users' finances and recommends a loan to improve their financial health, raises $30M Series B led by True Ventures — Serial entrepreneur Karl Jacob has tried to tackle a lot of industries in his career, from social networking to cybersecurity.| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Lyft reports Q1 revenue of $609M, up 7% QoQ and down 36% YoY, vs $558.7M est., active riders of 13.49M vs 12.8M est., and net loss of $427M, up from $398M YoY — - Ride-hailing company Lyft beat on the top and bottom lines and exceeded Wall Street's rider expectations for its first quarter.
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Lyft, Inc., Mashable, Yahoo Finance, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, Investor's Business Daily, PhocusWire, and PYMNTS.com
Tweets: @quinnypig and @jbursz
| Rupert Neate / The Guardian: |
Filing: Amazon had sales of €44B in Europe in 2020, but reported a €1.2B loss and therefore paid no corporate tax — Despite lockdown surge the firm's Luxembourg unit made a €1.2bn loss and therefore paid zero corporation tax — Fresh questions have been raised …
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New York Times, Irish Examiner, The Independent, Common Dreams, The London Economic, TechSpot, and euronews
Tweets: @carolinelucas, @margarethodge, @johnkoetsier, @bellribeiroaddy, and @dresserman
| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
An ongoing DDoS attack has crippled the Belgian government's IT network, affecting 200+ government orgs, a COVID-19 reservation app, tax filing services, more — Most of the Belgium government's IT network has been down today after a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) …
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Telecompaper and The Brussels Times
Tweets: @bpreneel1, @gcluley, @therecord_media, @campuscodi, and @campuscodi
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