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In an email to podcasters, Apple says it is delaying the launch of its Podcasts Subscriptions and channels until June and plans improvements to its Podcasts app — Apple has announced in an email to podcasters today that it is delaying the launch of Apple Podcasts Subscriptions.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
WhatsApp reverses course and says it won't limit functionality for users who don't accept its new privacy policy — The new policy went into effect on May 15th — Earlier this month, Facebook-owned WhatsApp said that users would lose functionality over time if they didn't accept its new privacy policy by May 15th.
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic, a new startup from former GPT-3 researchers that aims to build large-scale, general AI systems, raises $124M Series A led by Skype's Jaan Tallinn — As AI has grown from a menagerie of research projects to include a handful of titanic, industry-powering models like GPT-3 …
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Microsoft: hackers behind SolarWinds recently breached State Dept. aid agency to send emails with malicious code to 150 orgs, including NGOs critical of Putin — Microsoft reported that it had detected the intrusion and that the same hackers behind the earlier SolarWinds attack were responsible.
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Venmo will now let users control the visibility of their friends list, following a report in which Biden's Venmo account and connections were easily found — Venmo, the mobile payments app owned by PayPal, is changing its privacy settings after a BuzzFeed News story uncovered President Joe Biden's account earlier this month.
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| Aislinn Keely / The Block: |
SEC charges five people with promoting BitConnect, which it alleges was an unregistered digital securities offering that raised $2B+ from retail investors — The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed a civil lawsuit against five people accused of promoting BitConnect, a now-defunct crypto Ponzi scheme.
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| Stu Woo / Wall Street Journal: |
US's campaign against Huawei has opened the $35B/year cellular equipment market, giving rise to new players and helping US's bid to counter China's 5G dominance — The U.S. campaign against Huawei has opened the cellular-equipment market to a host of new players that previously didn't seem to have much of a chance
Tweets: @wsjtech, @wsj, @brendancarrfcc, and @ajitpai
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Google researchers detail “Half-Double”, a new Rowhammer attack technique they say will be difficult to mitigate as future generations of DRAM chips get smaller — A full fix for the “Half-Double” technique will require rethinking how memory semiconductors are designed.| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
How online criminals are turning to unlicensed crypto exchanges and over-the-counter crypto brokers to cash out profits and how crypto forensic firms track them — Criminals are locked in battle with Forensics firms tracking how Treasure Men, privacy wallets and gift cards are used to turn virtual hauls into hard cash| Kate Kaye / Digiday: |
Google says it won't build itself Privacy Sandbox backdoors, but whether it will allow itself to use individual-level data from Chrome users remains unclear — Google promised on Thursday it won't carve out separate rules for itself as it forces data privacy restrictions on others navigating … | Reuters: |
Indian conglomerate Tata Group buys a majority stake in e-grocer Bigbasket; previous reports suggest that the deal is worth $1.31B for a stake of up to 64.2% — Tata Sons (TATAS.UL) has acquired a majority stake in Alibaba-backed (9988.HK) online grocery seller BigBasket, a unit of the Indian conglomerate said on Friday.
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The Week, The Hindu, Livemint, Moneycontrol, The Economic Times, PYMNTS.com, and Tech in Asia. Tweets: @docolumide
| Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
Circle, the company behind the US dollar-backed stablecoin USDC, raises $440M, sources say ahead of a potential SPAC deal targeting a valuation of $4B — Quick Take — Circle has raised $440 million in a new funding round — The firm — which is behind the fast-growing USDC stablecoin …
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