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| Austin Carr / Bloomberg: |
Documents and interviews detail how a junior Microsoft engineer exploited a bug to generate Xbox gift card codes worth $10.1M+ before his arrest in Nov. 2020 — The Xbox gift card came with a string of 25 letters and numbers. The digits, known as a 5x5 code, were sent in an email …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Robinhood files for long-awaited IPO, says it will set aside up to 35% of shares for retail investors — Popular trading app Robinhood on Thursday filed for its initial public offering, and disclosed that it will set aside up to 35% of shares for retail investors who rarely get to buy at a company's IPO price.
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Adam Mosseri says Instagram plans to test video more broadly, calls TikTok and YouTube competitors, and says Instagram is “no longer a photo-sharing app” — - Facebook's head of Instagram said the service plans to start showing users full-screen, recommended videos in their feeds.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Articulate, which offers SaaS products that Amazon and other companies use to create training courses for employees, raises $1.5B Series A at a $3.75B valuation — Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out.
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Protocol, Crunchbase News, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, and FinSMEs
| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
NSA, FBI, and others say Russian hacking group Fancy Bear has been using Kubernetes to run brute force attacks on US and foreign organizations since mid-2019 — US and UK cybersecurity agencies said today that a Russian military cyber unit has been behind a series of brute-force attacks …
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NSA.gov, BleepingComputer, The Independent, The Hill, NBC News, CyberScoop, CNN, Forbes, Wired, and SC Media
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
TikTok is rolling out longer videos of up to three minutes, up from one minute, to all users over the coming weeks, after testing them since December — Now up to three minutes — TikToks are about to get longer. The app is now rolling out the ability for everyone to publish videos …
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| Reuters: |
Putin signs a law forcing foreign tech companies with a daily audience in Russia of over 500,000 people to open offices in the country by 2022 — President Vladimir Putin has signed a law that obliges foreign social media giants to open offices in Russia, a document published by the government … | Politico: |
Around 130 countries, including all G20 nations, agree to a global tax deal, aimed at world's 100 biggest companies and setting minimum corporate rates at 15% — The world's largest economies agreed Thursday to sweeping changes to the global tax system, despite staunch opposition …
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OECD.org, Bloomberg, Axios, Protocol, OECD, Nikkei Asia, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, U.S. Department …, and Politico
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| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Days before Bezos steps aside, Amazon adds two points to its 14 corporate values, requiring staff to consider welfare of coworkers and society at large — - Workers now required to consider employee welfare, society — Employees are hired, evaluated on how they conform to list
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GeekWire, About Amazon, Insider, CNBC, and fossbytes.com
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| Eugene Kim / Insider: |
Sources: Amazon is discussing forming a “Rebel Alliance” with Slack and other companies to challenge Microsoft's dominance of the work-productivity app market — - Amazon has discussed creating a software bundle with other companies to compete with Microsoft.
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| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Google updates its Passes API to let users store COVID vaccine cards on Android devices, starting in the US, and says it won't keep a copy of user's information — Google has announced today that Google Pay is now capable of saving and displaying COVID-19 vaccination cards on Android …
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| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Sources: IBM's company-wide email migration, 18 months in the making, has left many employees unable to use email or schedule calendar events for several days — IBM's planned company-wide email migration has gone off the rails, leaving many employees unable to use email or schedule calendar events.
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| Nina Bambysheva / Forbes: |
Brazil's largest crypto exchange Mercado Bitcoin raises $200M Series B from SoftBank Latin America Fund, valuing its parent company 2TM Group at $2.1B — I cover cryptocurrencies and other applications of blockchain — Brazil's leading cryptocurrency exchange, Mercado Bitcoin raised $200 million …
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Business Wire, TechCrunch, The Block, Bitcoin Magazine, Crowdfund Insider, cryptodaily.co.uk, Crypto Briefing, and CoinDesk. Tweets: @bayareawriter
| Michelle F Davis / Bloomberg: |
Olive, which is developing AI bots to automate healthcare administration tasks, raises $400M at a $4B valuation, seven months after being valued at $1.5B — Olive, a digital-health startup looking to use technology to help health-care firms automate tasks, has closed a funding round that values … | Saqib Shah / Engadget: |
Facebook is making its free cloud gaming service for desktop and Android available to 98% of mainland US and partners with Ubisoft — Oculus VR and livestreams, Facebook's gaming ambitions also include the cloud. Today, the company is making free game streaming available to 98 percent …
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9to5Mac and About Facebook
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
CISA releases a new self-assessment tool to help organizations understand how well they are equipped to defend against and recover from ransomware attacks — The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released the Ransomware Readiness Assessment (RRA), a new module for its Cyber Security Evaluation Tool (CSET).| Jonathan Zittrain / The Atlantic: |
A look at link rot, and projects like Perma, which are trying to give authors of enduring documents like scholarly papers a way to preserve links permanently — Sixty years ago the futurist Arthur C. Clarke observed that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.| Trilby Beresford / Hollywood Reporter: |
Singularity 6, which is developing an MMO community sim game called Palia, raises $30M Series B led by FunPlus Ventures, with a16z and others participating — ‘Palia’ is a massively-multiplayer simulation game designed for players to build friendships and community.
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TechCrunch, VentureBeat, GamesIndustry.biz, Bleeding Cool, and GameSpot
| ACLU: |
Maine enacts the strongest statewide facial recognition law in the US, prohibiting the use of facial recognition tech in public schools and most police work — AUGUSTA, Maine - Maine has enacted the country's strongest statewide facial recognition law. Maine's law prohibits the use …
| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
Facebook, Google, Twitter, and TikTok sign up to pledge led by WWWF, to overhaul their moderation systems to tackle the abuse of women on their platforms — Facebook, Google, Twitter and TikTok commit to overhaul their platform's moderation systems — Four of the world's largest social networks …
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| Jason Snell / Six Colors: |
As Apple releases macOS Monterey public beta, an in-depth look at Focus, iCloud Private Relay, Safari's revamped UI, FaceTime, SharePlay, and other new features — If there's a theme of Apple's operating-system releases in 2021, it's platform unification. This development is most significant … | Sam Shead / CNBC: |
Amazon says it is setting up a new development center in Helsinki to support Amazon Scout, an autonomous delivery robot that the company is testing in the US — - The Seattle-headquartered tech giant said in a blog post that it is setting up a new “Development Center” to support Amazon Scout … | David Ingram / NBC News: |
A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction blocking Florida's Stop Social Media Censorship Act from going into effect, which was scheduled for Thursday — A federal judge Wednesday put on hold a first-of-its-kind law in Florida that authorized the state to penalize social media companies …
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| BBC: |
Amazon launches Echo Dot Kids Edition in the UK, several years after it was made available in the US — Amazon is launching a child-friendly version of its Echo Dot smart speaker in the UK, several years after it was made available in the US. — The speaker - which comes with either … | Patrick Clark / Bloomberg: |
Goldman Sachs leads $32M Series A in Entera, a SaaS provider helping real estate investors find, buy, and manage single-family homes in 24 markets across the US — - Entera helps investors find, buy and renovate rental houses — Investors used software to acquire nearly $1 billion in homes
| Ercan Ersoy / Bloomberg: |
Hepsiburada, one of Turkey's largest online shopping services, raises $470M in its US IPO at a $3.9B valuation, in the first ever Nasdaq IPO from the country — - E-commerce platform gets $738 million from IPO of 20% stake — Franklin Resources still backs the firm even as it cuts stake
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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Micron announces that it has agreed to sell its 3D XPoint fab in Utah to Texas Instruments for $900M in cash — Micron announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Lehi, Utah fab to Texas Instruments for $900 million in cash.
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AnandTech, The Register, and TechSpot
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