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Maintainer of the popular open source networking tool node-ipc appears to have sabotaged the tool's code to wipe data on computers based in Russia and Belarus — The shortsighted protest has caused a massive uproar in the open source community. — Joseph Cox
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| Barbara Krasnoff / The Verge: |
Meta is locking out high-risk users who didn't activate Facebook Protect, 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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| 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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| Andrew R. Chow / TIME: |
Profile of Vitalik Buterin, who says he has decided to become “more risk-taking and less neutral” in order to more actively shape the future of Ethereum — In a few minutes, electronic music will start pulsing, stuffed animals will be flung through the air …
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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
Tweets: @jamespmcleod, @caseynewton, @yevp, and @toddjolmstead
| 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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| 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.
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| Rowland Manthorpe / Sky News: |
The UK's Online Safety Bill, introduced to Parliament in hopes of sensible reform, is an unworkable compromise whose basic elements are shrouded in confusion — Even after years of debate, there remain substantive differences of opinion about the nature and purpose of the bill …
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| James Ball / MIT Technology Review: |
Russia's disconnection from Western online services adds to fears of a “splinternet”, or networks with incompatible protocols diverging from the global internet — If Russia disconnects from—or is booted from— the internet's governing bodies, the internet may never be the same again for any of us.| FinSMEs: |
Shangai-based DataGrand, which makes office tools that combine robotic process automation with intelligent document process, raises a $90M Series C — DataGrand, a Shangai, China-based AI and RPA vendor, completed a $90m (RMB 580m) Series C financing. — Backers included CITIC Securities …
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| Leah Nylen / Politico: |
Sources: the FTC will not challenge Amazon's MGM Studios acquisition as Lina Khan decided not to call for a vote, anticipating opposition from GOP commissioners — The Federal Trade Commission will not challenge Amazon's acquisition of MGM Studios after the agency's commissioners split on bringing a suit …
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