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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Okta confirms an attacker accessed an engineer's laptop in January consistent with posted screenshots by Lapsus$, as customers struggle to grasp their exposure — Authentication firm Okta's statements on the Lapsus$ breach fails to answer key questions. — The digital extortion group Lapsus$ threw …
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| Raphael Satter / Reuters: |
Okta says the “maximum potential impact” of its security breach was to 366 customers, out of 15K+, whose data was accessed by contractor Sitel; Okta's down 10%+ — Hundreds of customers of digital authentication firm Okta Inc have possibly been affected by a security breach caused …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple adds driver's licenses and state IDs to Wallet in Arizona, the first state with the feature; Colorado, Hawaii, Mississippi, Ohio, and Puerto Rico are next — Apple today announced that Arizona has become the first U.S. state to support driver's licenses and state IDs in the Wallet app on the iPhone and Apple Watch.
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Tweets: @macrumors, @markgurman, @petrillic, @tylerg39, @rsgnl, and @joannastern
| The Block: |
Apple acquired UK banking startup Credit Kudos, which offers APIs for lenders, sources say earlier this week; a source says the deal is valued at around $150M — Quick Take — Credit Kudos becomes the latest European open banking startup to be snapped up by a US acquirer.
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Tweets: @bradmichelson, @jason, @alex, and @sytaylor
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
YouTube makes nearly 4,000 TV episodes available for free with ads in the US and plans to add up to 100 shows and movies each week — The platform already offers free movies with ads — YouTube is the latest company to offer free shows TV with ads. The video giant says you'll now be able … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Play debuts a pilot to let select partners, starting with Spotify, offer a third-party billing option globally; Google's commission cut was not disclosed — Amid increasing global regulations over app stores and their commission structures, Google today announced the launch …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram rolls out chronological Following and Favorites feeds to all iOS and Android users globally, neither of which can be set as the default — Instagram today is making a chronological feed available to all users, as earlier promised, alongside another new feed filtering option …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Carl Pei teases Nothing's Phone (1), a smartphone running Android with a Nothing OS skin, launching this summer — Nothing will launch its debut smartphone this summer, its CEO and former OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei announced today during a live stream. It'll be called the Phone 1 …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sony releases PS4 and PS5 updates; the PS5 will get Variable Refresh Rate “in the coming months”, syncing a display's refresh rate to the PS5's graphical output — Sony says VRR will be available in the coming months on the PS5 — Sony is planning to release a Variable Refresh Rate …
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Tweets: @playstation, @tomwarren, and @fubarduck
| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Snap acquires Paris-based neurotech startup NextMind and discontinues its $400 headband that let users control aspects of a computer; NextMind had raised ~$4.5M — NextMind made a headband for controlling virtual objects with your thoughts — Meta, Apple, and a slew of other tech companies …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Robinhood Chief Product Officer Aparna Chennapragada on the company's new Cash Card, managing her team, regulation, payment for order flow, and more — Aparna Chennapragada is the chief product officer at Robinhood, the popular stock and crypto trading app.
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| David Anders / CNET: |
The FBI says internet crime victims in the US reported losing over $6.9B in 2021, up from $4.2B in 2020, and it received 847,376 complaints in 2021, up 7% YoY — The FBI releases its annual Internet Crime Report, detailing the most prevalent cybercrimes in 2021.
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| Amber Burton / Protocol: |
Microsoft expands its cybersecurity skills initiative beyond the US to 23 more countries, including Australia and India, to help fill 3.5M jobs globally by 2025 — Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it will expand its cybersecurity skilling initiative to 23 additional countries.
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The Official Microsoft Blog, GeekWire, and Windows Central
Tweets: @katebehncken and @msftissues
| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google plans to remove the Movies & TV section from the Play Store in May 2022, and directs users to buy, rent, or watch movies and shows from the Google TV app — The Play Store used to sell tons of content, but now it offers only apps and books. — Google Play Movies & TV—and the Google Play brand in general—seems doomed.
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9to5Google, The Verge, Techdirt, MobileSyrup, Neowin, TechCrunch, Android Police, The Streamable, Digital Trends, Pocketnow, and Engadget. Tweets: @killedbygoogle
| Wall Street Journal: |
Meta's top executives are embracing remote work, as sources say Mark Zuckerberg spends extended periods in Hawaii; Sandberg is taking a sabbatical this spring — Executives are scattering to locations far from Silicon Valley headquarters, working from Hawaii, Cape Cod, Europe| Bloomberg: |
FIFA adds Crypto.com as a sponsor for the 2022 soccer World Cup in Qatar, months after Crypto.com replaced Staples as the title sponsor for Los Angeles' arena — Fifa has added Crypto.com as one of the sponsors for this year's soccer world cup in Qatar, the latest step in the cryptocurrency …
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fifa.com, Bitcoin Magazine, Cointelegraph, Crypto Daily, The Block, Blockchain News, crypto.news, Ad Age, and Bitcoin News
| Nelson Renteria / Reuters: |
El Salvador postpones its $1B bitcoin-backed bond, planned for March 15-20, citing unfavorable market conditions; BTC is down ~35% from its November 2021 peak — SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - El Salvador postponed an unprecedented issue of a bitcoin-backed bond planned for last week …
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The Block, Decrypt, Protocol, Cointelegraph, and Coinspeaker
| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: in Q2 2022, Spotify plans to rename its live social audio app from Greenroom to Spotify Live and integrate the content into its main app — Spotify Technology SA is renaming its live conversation product and integrating the content into its main streaming app to make the service …
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The Verge, Engadget, 9to5Mac, Android Headlines, and PCMag
Tweets: @ashleyrcarman, @patbits, @lucas_shaw, and @joeovies
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
API discovery and management service RapidAPI raises a $150M Series D led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 at a $1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $272M — API discovery and management platform RapidAPI has raised $150 million in a series D round of funding, as the burgeoning API economy continues apace.
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SiliconANGLE, FinSMEs, The New Stack, TechCrunch, CTech, Globes Online, and Benzinga
| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
The EU could unveil the Digital Markets Act as early as Thursday; sources say the DMA targets companies with a €75B+ market cap and at least 45,000 active users — Digital Markets Act now expected to target core online platforms with market cap of at least €75bn
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Silicon Republic, PYMNTS.com, and Newslit Daily
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| Thomas Seal / Bloomberg: |
Tarana Wireless, which develops fixed wireless tech to deliver high-speed broadband, raised $170M in February at a $1B+ valuation, and plans an IPO in 2023 — Tarana Wireless Inc.'s valuation has more than doubled to $1 billion on the promise of technology that can beam broadband into homes …
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Business Wire and San Francisco Business Journal
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
DSCC report: Apple is planning a MacBook Air with a ~15-inch display and an entry-level iPad with a display bigger than the current 10.2-inch for 2023 — Apple has new form factors in store for the MacBook Air and entry-level iPad for 2033, according to a new report from Display Supply Chain Consultants.
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MacRumors, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, Cult of Mac, and iPhone in Canada Blog
| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Dallas-based Island, which develops an enterprise browser, raises a $115M Series B at a $1.3B valuation, after emerging from stealth with $100M in February — Island, a Dallas-based startup that built a secure browser for the enterprise, has raised $115 million in a Series B round …
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The Register, FinSMEs, CRN, Insider, VentureBeat, and SiliconANGLE
| Anna Kramer / Protocol: |
Instacart launches Instacart Platform, which offers software management services for e-commerce, fulfillment, ads, insights, and other data for grocery stores — Instacart will now start offering software services to all grocery stores, moving beyond the company's primary focus on food delivery through gig work.
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| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Data orchestration service Astronomer, built on the Apache Airflow open-source tools, raises a $213M Series C led by Insight and acquires data tool Datakin — Astronomer has grown quite a lot since we briefly profiled the company back in 2017. — At that time, the scrappy data analytics company … Sponsor Posts
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