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JBS, the world's top meatpacker, is hit by a cyberattack, leading it to shutter its Australian operations, pause 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase Pro says its 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. — Coinbase's professional trading platform …
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| 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.
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| 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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| 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.| 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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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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| 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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| 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) … | 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 … | Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: |
Personal finance app Truebill raises $45M Series D led by Accel at a $500M valuation — Six months after personal finance app Truebill brought in a $17 million Series C round, it is supporting demand of its services with $45 million in Series D funding to give it a valuation of $500 million …
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| 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 … | Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo: |
Alienware unveils its thinnest 15-inch and 17-inch X-Series gaming laptops with 11th-gen Intel CPUs and Nvidia 30-series GPUs, starting at $2,000 and $2,100 — It's been a few years since the last time Alienware's laptops got a big revamp, but with its new X-Series laptops … | Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
AMD unveils Radeon RX 6000M series of graphics adapters for gaming laptops, which are based on the RDNA2 architecture that underpins AMD's desktop RX 6000 parts — Headlining a busy Computex for AMD - and a bit of return to form in that regard - this evening the company is making several graphics and CPU-related product announcements.
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