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Apple confirms it removed several Wordle clones from the App Store, after some app developers capitalized on the online guessing game's popularity — Apple Inc. removed several Wordle games from its App Store after users confused them with another word-play title popularized by Jimmy Fallon and other celebrities.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Fortnite returns to iOS and iPadOS through a closed beta in Nvidia's GeForce Now game streaming service that is designed to run in Safari and other browsers — Nvidia's GeForce Now is finally bringing Fortnite back to the iPhone — Fortnite is back on iOS today... sort of.
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The Official NVIDIA Blog, 9to5Google, Tom's Hardware, AppleInsider, Macworld, Engadget, HotHardware.com News, PCMag, XDA Developers, Dexerto, Polygon, Liliputing, GameRevolution, Digital Trends, thegamer.com, GameSpot, and Cult of Mac. Tweets: @duckybtw
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Austria's data protection watchdog upholds a decision that a local website using Google Analytics violates GDPR, a potential issue for US cloud services — A decision by Austria's data protection watchdog upholding a complaint against a website related to its use of Google Analytics does …
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noyb.eu, The Register, PYMNTS.com, Euractiv, and Fortune
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| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
Second Life founder Philip Rosedale says he is returning to its parent company to help it expand into the metaverse — Philip Rosedale is coming back to the digital world he created to help inject growth — The founder of Second Life, one of the earliest digital-reality worlds, is returning for a second stint to take on big tech.
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VentureBeat, CNET, SiliconANGLE, Protocol, TechSpot, and Second Life Community
| Reuters: |
TSMC reports Q4 revenue rose 24.1% YoY to $15.74B as net profit reached $6.01B; capex will reach $40B to $44B in 2022, up from $30B in 2021 — Taiwanese chip firm TSMC expects strong growth to accelerate in coming years due to booming semiconductor demand, as the tech giant on Thursday reported …
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PCMag, 9to5Mac, The Verge, SemiAnalysis, The Register, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, Taiwan Semiconductor …, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, TechSpot, MacDailyNews, South China Morning Post, Nikkei Asia, and The Register
Tweets: @benbajarin, @iancutress, @tculpan, @iancutress, and @iancutress
| Michael McSweeney / The Block: |
Coinbase says it is acquiring FairX, a CFTC-regulated derivatives exchange, and plans to bring crypto derivatives to its US customers — Coinbase is acquiring FairX, a CFTC-regulated derivatives exchange. — The exchange company announced the move on Wednesday, saying … | Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: |
China's state-backed Blockchain Services Network (BSN) will roll out infrastructure to support NFTs; the NFTs will not be linked to cryptocurrencies — The BSN-Distributed Digital Certificate does not support crypto-transacted NFTs, and will allow businesses and individuals to build apps …
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Cointelegraph, Blockworks, CryptoPotato, Coinspeaker, Waivly, and CoinDesk
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| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
Krafton, which makes PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, sues Apple and Google, arguing that neither company removed a game that allegedly copies PUBG — (Reuters) - The maker of the popular game “PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds” says in a new U.S. lawsuit that a Singapore-based company …
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Canalys: worldwide PC shipments grew 15% YoY in 2021 to 341M, the highest annual number since 2012; Apple shipped 28.3% more units, Acer 21.8%, and Dell 18% — It would be easy to think PC sales dropped worldwide last year amid chip shortages, but that conventional thinking would be wrong.
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| Martin Matishak / The Record: |
US Cyber Command says malware group MuddyWater is tied to Iranian intelligence, the first time the US government has publicly linked the threat actor to Tehran — U.S. Cyber Command on Wednesday revealed that a hacking group reputed for its cyberespionage campaigns is actually part of Iran's intelligence apparatus.
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| Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News: |
Analysis of 2021 VC investments: Vision Fund 2, with $35.2B, and Tiger Global, with $29.6B, led or co-led the most rounds; YC was the busiest with 642 deals — In a wild year for startup funding, one variable stayed constant: The most active investors and biggest check writers are familiar names who've been at this a long time.| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says no changes were made in iOS 15.2 that would've toggled iCloud Private Relay off and that no carriers have blocked its users from using the feature — Some iPhone users this week noticed that iCloud Private Relay suddenly stopped working with their cellular connections.
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| Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: |
Finland-based no-code game creation platform Yahaha Studios raises $50M, bringing its total funding to $81M — Finland's Yahaha Studios has raised $50 million in a new funding round. The platform provides both developers and players the ability to build, publish, host, and operate 3D interactive multiplayer games.
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TechCrunch, GamesIndustry.biz, Pocket Gamer.biz, and VentureBeat
| Justin Hendrix / Tech Policy Press: |
Over 260 health professionals call on Spotify to create a misinformation policy, after a discredited scientist spread COVID-19 misinfo on Joe Rogan's podcast — More than 260 doctors, nurses, scientists, health professionals and others have signed an open letter calling …
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| Bloomberg: |
Microsoft hires veteran semiconductor designer Mike Filippo from Apple; sources say Filippo will work on developing homegrown chips for Azure servers — Microsoft Corp. lured away a veteran semiconductor designer from Apple Inc. as it looks to expand its own server-chips efforts, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
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| Felix Onuah / Reuters: |
Nigeria will lift its ban on Twitter after suspending it on June 4, 2021; Twitter decided to open an office in Nigeria, among other agreements — Nigeria will lift a ban on Twitter (TWTR.N) from midnight after the social media platform agreed to open a local office, among other agreements …
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TechCrunch, The Verge, Techpoint Africa, Gizmodo, CNET, TheStreet, TechCabal, CNN, Daily Post Nigeria, New York Times, Engadget, Access Now, Financial Times, Agence France-Presse, Daily Post Nigeria, Nairametrics, Punch Newspapers, TheCable, Nigeria lifts Twitter …, Peoples Gazette, The Nation Newspaper, Premium Times Nigeria, Forbes, Associated Press, Bloomberg, and Mashable
| Bloomberg: |
Twitter's “work from anywhere” policy helped increase Black employees in the US to 9.4% in 2021, up from 6.9% in 2020; women are 44.7% of its global workforce — Twitter Inc.'s early shift to a “work from anywhere” model during the pandemic as well as implementation of a requirement … | Michael D McDonald / Bloomberg: |
Analysis: El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele has likely lost $10M on his bitcoin purchases, after spending $71M on 1,391 BTC at ~$51K — - Government's process for buying Bitcoin is shrouded in secrecy — Nation's Bitcoins worth 14% less than average acquisition cost| Rachel Pannett / Washington Post: |
Privacy advocates criticize police in the German city of Mainz for commandeering data from the Luca contact-tracing app for an investigation — Authorities in Germany are under fire for tracking down witnesses to a potential crime by using data from a mobile phone app that was intended … | Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
FCC proposes stricter data breach reporting rules, including a mandate to notify customers of “inadvertent” breaches, scrapping a one-week wait period, and more — The Federal Communications Commission is the next US regulator hoping to hold companies more accountable for data breaches.
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| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Buy now, pay later service Accrue Savings, which aims to help customers save money, raises a $25M Series A led by Tiger Global — Buy now, pay later has grown to be an alternative to credit cards, with the trend generating $100 billion in sales last year, more than four times 2020.
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Finextra and FinTech Futures
| Becky Bracken / Threatpost: |
Researchers report that a record 2,240 third-party WordPress plugin vulnerabilities were disclosed in 2021, up 142% YoY, of which 77% have known public exploits — Last year brought forth much more than a Ben Affleck-Jennifer Lopez reunion - analysts found the number of exploitable WordPress plugin vulnerabilities exploded.
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Risk Based Security, Candid.Technology, iTWire, IT World Canada, and TechRadar. Tweets: @adam_k_levin
| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
DeFi Alliance, the incubator of Olympus DAO and other Web3 projects, rebrands as Alliance DAO and says it raised $50M from Jake Paul and others — What the new moniker means for the newly minted decentralized autonomous organization is somewhat TBD. — A top crypto accelerator is DAOifying itself to the tune of $50 million.
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