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A maintainer of the popular open-source networking tool node-ipc allegedly sabotaged its code to wipe data on computers that use the tool in Russia and Belarus — The shortsighted protest has caused a massive uproar in the open source community. — Joseph Cox
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| Andrew R. Chow / TIME: |
A profile of Vitalik Buterin, who says he decided “to try to be more risk-taking and less neutral” to shape Ethereum with “lots of good crazy and bad crazy” — In a few minutes, electronic music will start pulsing, stuffed animals will be flung through the air …
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| Barbara Krasnoff / The Verge: |
Meta locks out high-risk users whether they have Facebook Protect or not, after asking them to activate the security feature in a spam-like email in early March — And some can't get in even if they turned it on — Early in March, a bunch of Facebook users got a mysterious …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft Edge now automatically fills in missing image alt text for screen readers on Windows, macOS, and Linux, to be read aloud for blind or low vision users — Ideal for blind or low vision web users — More than half of the images on the web are missing alt text, according to Microsoft.
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| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
Experts say banning Telegram, a popular destination for unfiltered news to an estimated 40M+ users in Russia, is technically difficult and may prompt a backlash — The social media and chat app has become an increasingly popular destination for unfiltered news, pro-Kremlin propaganda and everything in between
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
UK-based ClearBank, which provides infrastructure for banks to offer real-time clearance on payments and other financial services, raises £175M from Apax — ClearBank — a UK fintech that has built a new set of cloud-based financial rails that allows banks and other customers real … | Sameer Manekar / Reuters: |
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission sues Meta claiming Facebook “aided and abetted” scam cryptocurrency ads with photos of famous Australians — Australian competition watchdog has begun proceedings against Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc (FB.O) …
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| Eli Tan / CoinDesk: |
C2X, which is building a gaming platform on the Terra blockchain, raises $25M through a private token sale led by FTX Ventures and others at a $500M valuation — FTX Ventures, Jump Crypto and Animoca Brands were among the purchasers in the sale that values CRX, a Hashed-advised gaming platform, at $500 million.
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Sources: FanCraze, a marketplace for cricket NFTs previously known as Faze Technologies, is raising a $100M Series A led by B Capital and Insight Partners — An online platform for trading officially-licensed digital cricket collectibles, is raising about $100 million in a new funding round … | Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
A look at the FIDO Alliance's vision of a passwordless future, based on a passkey-like “FIDO credential” manager that lets users easily switch between devices — After a decade of work, the FIDO Alliance says it's found the missing piece in the bridge to a password-free future.
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| Kenrick Cai / Forbes: |
Cresta, a provider of real time customer service agent support software, raises an $80M Series C from Tiger Global, Zoom, Five9, and others at a $1.6B valuation — Customer service has long been the “stinky armpit” of businesses, says Zayd Enam, the CEO and cofounder of Cresta, a startup that makes software for just that purpose.| Financial Times: |
UK's FCA so far authorized just 27 of 100+ applications to join its list of registered crypto companies that can run digital assets businesses starting in April — Financial watchdog approves only a quarter of applications for digital asset companies to operate in BritainSponsor Posts
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