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| CNBC: |
JBS, the world's top meatpacker, is hit by a ransomware attack, leading it to pause its Australian operations, livestock slaughter in many US states, and more — - The attack caused JBS's Australian operations to shut down on Monday. The company, the world's largest meatpacker, said it was working to resolve the incident.
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Tweets: @jeffjohnroberts, @thestalwart, @malwarejake, @steventdennis, @ggreeneva, @dangillmor, @omid, @kevincollier, @dalperovitch, @dalperovitch, @tomgara, @chuckgrassley, @alexjamesfitz, @sjcasey, @campuscodi, @zerohedge, @conorsen, @bbqsnob, @amandacarpenter, @juliadavisnews, @dalperovitch, @_mcginness, @gcluley, @jimlangevin, and @jeffstone500
| Selena Deckelmann / The Mozilla Blog: |
Mozilla updates Firefox desktop and mobile apps with a revamped design, details the data-driven process used to guide the creation of the new streamlined look — We set out in 2021 to reimagine Firefox's design to be fast, modern and inviting the first time you run it and every day after.
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The Mozilla Blog, 9to5Mac, Mozilla Security Blog, ZDNet, The Verge, Thurrott, CNET, The Register, iMore, MSPoweruser, Engadget, TechRadar, and XDA Developers
Tweets: @sdw, @grigs, @marcedwards, @johnwilander, @campuscodi, @nikitonsky, and @therealnooshu
| Washington Post: |
Analysis of data from 5,411 warehouses in 2020 finds Amazon workers suffer serious injuries at nearly double the rate of workers at comparable companies — A Washington Post analysis of Occupational Safety and Health Administration data shows Amazon's serious injury rates are nearly double those at warehouses run by other companies.
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Strategic Organizing Center, VICE, US About Amazon, GeekWire, The Register, SiliconANGLE, Insider, Engadget, Bloomberg, CNBC, New York Post, The Hill, and The Verge
Tweets: @greenhousenyt, @amaditalks, @danpriceseattle, @greene, @josephnsanberg, @mhuggins99, @greene, @jensmithwsj, and @nichcarlson
| Sara Randazzo / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon quietly changed its terms of service to let customers file lawsuits against it, after facing over 75K arbitration demands from Echo users — The retail giant is no longer steering customers away from the court system, as companies scramble to find ways to avoid lawyers who file mass-arbitration claims
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Bloomberg, Ars Technica, The Verge, CNET, The Hill, and Pixel Envy
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase says Coinbase Pro users will be able to trade dogecoin starting Thursday “if liquidity conditions are met” — The exchange typically adds cryptocurrencies to its retail platform a few weeks after first listing on the professional version.
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The Coinbase Blog, PYMNTS.com, Forbes, CNBC, Bitcoin News, Bitcoinist.com, The Block, Crypto Briefing, and Cointelegraph
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| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Twitter says it will start adding full-screen ads to Fleets, supporting images and videos that can be up to 30 seconds long, initially in US on iOS and Android — A handful of advertisers will begin testing the format Tuesday — Twitter said Tuesday it will start adding full-screen ads to Fleets …
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Twitter for Business, CNBC, Android Headlines, Digiday, Social Media Today, The Hill, CNET, TechCrunch, PYMNTS.com, and Engadget
Tweets: @mgsiegler, @peterpham, @carnage4life, @sub8u, @thekenyeung, @chrispirillo, @sanatgersappa, @habibcham, @chrisfralic, @caseynewton, @spencerchen, @backlon, and @tsuvik
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Twitter launches Tomorrow, a weather news service, which includes newsletters, ticketed audio sessions, Q&As, and is led by climate journalist Eric Holthaus — Twitter is partnering with veteran climate journalist and meteorologist Eric Holthaus to launch a local weather news service …
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The Phoenix, TechSpot, iPhone Hacks, Social Media Today, Input, iThinkDifferent, 9to5Mac, iMore, and Engadget
Tweets: @ericholthaus, @anthony, @sarafischer, @ericholthaus, @ericholthaus, @ericholthaus, @jayrosen_nyu, @deaconlf, @kantrowitz, @brokenbottleboy, @alex, @michaelzimmer, @mathewi, @ericholthaus, @revue, @islivingston, @tomgara, @modestproposal1, @ericholthaus, @mukund, @scottnover, @caseynewton, @growingwisdom, and @rasmus_kleis
| Reuters: |
TSMC has started construction on its 5nm semiconductor factory in Arizona and says 3nm production in Taiwan is on track to start volume production in H2 2022 — Construction has started at a site in Arizona where Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (2330.TW) (TSMC) …
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AppleInsider, Wccftech, and Wccftech
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
AMD says the infotainment system inside the new Tesla S and X models include an AMD Ryzen chip and discrete RDNA 2 GPU, capable of playing AAA games — 10 teraflops of RDNA 2 — Remember when Elon Musk claimed you'd be able to play The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 on a 10 teraflop gaming rig he's stuffing …
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HotHardware.com News, SamMobile, 9to5Google, Insider, KnowTechie, Dot Esports, TechRadar, and SlashGear
Tweets: @darthchillash, @bitinn, @jim_carson, and @anandtech
| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Researcher finds that Alibaba-owned UC Browser app on iOS and Android sends information on every website a user visits to UCWeb servers, even in incognito mode — If you went to download Alibaba-owned app UC Browser this month, whether from Google's Android Play store or Apple's iOS App Store …
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Medium, Pixel Envy, and Daring Fireball
Tweets: @campuscodi, @djsnm, @hookgab, @iblametom, @iblametom, and @iblametom
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Zoom reports Q1 rev. of $956.2M, up 191% YoY, vs $906M est., and sees 50% revenue growth for the full fiscal year as expansion falls from pandemic-fueled 2020 — - Zoom's results exceeded estimates across the board. — The company now sees 50% revenue growth for the full fiscal year …
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Zoom, Silicon Valley Business …, SiliconANGLE, Telegraph, Japan Today, Yahoo Finance, MarketWatch, The Times, Bloomberg, Investor's Business Daily, Insider, Reuters, and ZDNet. Tweets: @jordannovet
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Inside the Chicken Drumstick video game cheating empire, which made ~$77M from selling cheats for PUBG Mobile before Chinese police and Tencent busted the ring — The cheat-making group known as “Chicken Drumstick” made more than $70 million selling cheats for PUBG Mobile. This is the story of its rise and fall.| S. Shah / Engadget: |
Samsung and AMD are collaborating to build Exynos mobile chips featuring RDNA 2 graphics that will support ray tracing and variable rate shading — working together on a GPU since 2019 and today we're getting another major update on the partnership. As part of its Computex keynote …
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AMD, The Verge, PCMag, AnandTech, GPUOpen, mobilesyrup.com, AndroidGuys, TechSpot, Windows Central, HotHardware.com News, Laptop Mag, Liliputing, BGR India, bit-tech.net, Pocketnow, Notebookcheck.net, MUO, Wccftech, androidauthority.com, and MSPoweruser. Tweets: @battleaxevr
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia announces flagship gaming GPU GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, promises to deliver 1.5x more performance over RTX 2080 Ti, available worldwide on June 3 for $1,199 — This is Nvidia's new flagship gaming GPU — Nvidia is unveiling its latest flagship gaming GPU today, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti.
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NVIDIA, NVIDIA, The Official NVIDIA Blog, The Register, Polygon, Pocketnow, Tom's Hardware, Windows Central, YouTube, PCWorld, PCMag, Digital Trends, VG247, Tom's Guide, Trusted Reviews, SlashGear, TechSpot, AnandTech, BetaNews, Blue's News, HotHardware.com News, VentureBeat, Wccftech, IGN, Engadget, and CNET
Tweets: @nvidiaap, @nvidiageforce, @cryptoparadyme, @destinlegarie, @tomwarren, @modernvintageg, and @tomwarren
| Jonathan Levin / Bloomberg: |
LinkedIn data shows Austin is the top beneficiary of tech-related migration in the past 12 months, followed by Nashville; Miami was #11 by net migration rate — Austin is the top beneficiary of tech-related migration in the past 12 months, according to data from Microsoft Corp.'s LinkedIn profiles.
Tweets: @moniquevilla, @chaugh, @ron_miller, @eliotwb, @jeffjohnroberts, @business, and @producercities
| Scott Squires / Bloomberg: |
Bitcoin miners in Argentina are capitalizing on government-subsidized electricity, as foreign currency exchange rules that ban buying USD make crypto attractive — - Power subsidies, FX controls help miners turn outsize profits — Canada's Bitfarms takes notice, plans local mining operation
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BitcoinExchangeGuide, CryptoSlate, Micky, and South China Morning Post
Tweets: @natbullard and @crypto
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Spotify's chief legal officer Horacio Gutierrez on its problems with Apple, potential fixes, the Epic vs Apple lawsuit, EU vs US policy, and more — This week I'm talking to Horacio Gutierrez, head of global affairs and chief legal officer of Spotify, to help me understand …
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Pocketnow, MacRumors, Patently Apple, iMore, AppleInsider, Digital Trends, and 9to5Mac
| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
SoFi, which went public via a blank-check company run by Chamath Palihapitiya, closes its first day of trading up 12.41% — - Online finance company SoFi made its public debut. — The stock closed up more than 12% to $22.65. — SoFi, short for Social Finance …
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Yahoo Finance, Insider, InvestorPlace, TheStreet, MarketWatch, Insider, Bloomberg, Investor's Business Daily, PYMNTS.com, and Crowdfund Insider
Tweets: @anthonynoto, @sethmcguire, @sofi, @bgurley, and @chamath
| The Coinbase Blog: |
Coinbase says users can use their Coinbase Card with Apple Pay and Google Pay and spend crypto, with Coinbase automatically converting crypto to USD for a fee — You can now use your Coinbase Card with Apple Pay and Google Pay to make it even easier to spend crypto¹ at home and on the go.
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Bitcoin News, Redmond Pie, PYMNTS.com, Appleosophy, TechRadar, Bitcoin Magazine, MacDailyNews, Crypto Briefing, CryptoSlate, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors, Cryptonews, iMore, Cointelegraph, Crowdfund Insider, 9to5Mac, CoinDesk, AppleInsider, Decrypt, Patently Apple, The Block, The Economic Times, BitcoinExchangeGuide, Reuters, and The Mac Observer
| The Hill: |
A Pentagon audit from May cleared the use of two DJI drones built for government use, after the Interior Dept. grounded its fleet of China-made drones in Jan. — Two drone models made by China's largest manufacturer have been cleared for use by a Pentagon audit, according to a report summary obtained by The Hill.
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The Verge, Associated Press, and DroneDJ
Tweets: @zhang_heqing, @derekosgood, @senrickscott, and @bigredwavenow
| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
A CA court dismissed bribery charges against Apple's security chief Thomas Moyer, saying accusation of iPad donations for gun permits was “pure speculation” — A court in California on Tuesday dismissed bribery charges against Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) security chief … Sponsor Posts
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