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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 is down 5%+ — Hundreds of customers of digital authentication firm Okta Inc have possibly been affected by a security breach caused …
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| 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 $150M — Quick Take — Credit Kudos becomes the latest European open banking startup to be snapped up by a US acquirer.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sony releases PS4 and PS5 updates; the PS5 will get Variable Refresh Rate “in the coming months”, syncing a display's refresh rate to the PS5's graphical output — Sony says VRR will be available in the coming months on the PS5 — Sony is planning to release a Variable Refresh Rate …
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| The Verge: |
Microsoft confirms Lapsus$ compromised “a single account” and stole portions of source code for some products, but says no customer code and data was involved — Lapsus$ says it has accessed data from Okta, Nvidia, Samsung, and Ubisoft — The hacking group Lapsus$ …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple launches its driver's license and state ID feature for Wallet in Arizona and says more states are coming soon, including Colorado, Ohio, and Mississippi — Get weekly top MacRumors stories in your inbox.
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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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Tweets: @nothing, @alexdobie, @tomwarren, @dcseifert, @tsuvik, @ishanagarwal24, and @dcseifert
| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
ApeCoin DAO lets Yuga Labs talk up the virtues of decentralization while also enjoying the benefits of centralization, namely collecting all the profits — Tokens like the new one from Bored Ape Yacht Club promise to decentralize the web. So why are insiders reaping most of the profits? — I.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
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| 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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| 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
Tweets: @dkthomp, @brianmcc, @iansherr, @loganbartlett, @orientaljanedoe, @sal19, @kylebrussell, @kylebrussell, @dannygroner, and @anthony
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
For the second day in a row, Apple's App Store, Music, Podcasts, and other services were disrupted; Apple's System Status page says the issues are resolved — Apple's services and apps appear to be experiencing yet another outage, with complaints on Twitter about problems with Apple Maps …
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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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| Bloomberg: |
Fifa adds Crypto.com as one of the sponsors for the 2022 soccer World Cup in Qatar, months after Crypto.com replaced Staples as sponsor at the iconic LA 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, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, Decrypt, Ad Age, The Block, CoinPost, Reuters, CryptoPotato, CoinGape, Blockchain News, crypto.news, Micky, CryptoSlate, Crypto Briefing, and Financial Times
| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Snap acquires Paris-based neurotech startup NextMind, which developed a $400 headband that aimed to let users control a computer; NextMind has raised ~$4.5M — NextMind made a headband for controlling virtual objects with your thoughts — Meta, Apple, and a slew of other tech companies … | Loren Grush / The Verge: |
SpaceX increases the prices of Starlink's starter kit to $599, up $100, and its monthly internet service to $110, up $11, according to an email to customers — It's going to be $11 more a month — SpaceX's internet-from-space program Starlink is increasing prices for both the purchase …
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| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Crypto VC Katie Haun, who left a16z in 2021, raises $1.5B, the largest debut fund by a female VC yet, allotting $500M for early- and $1B for late-stage startups — - Crypto investor Katie Haun has raised $1.5 billion for her new firm after a surprise departure from Andreessen Horowitz last year.
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Tweets: @katie_haun, @johnedeaton1, @aileenlee, @fehrsam, @brandee, @merci, @zooko, @serenawilliams, @laurashin, @bgurley, @jess, @danprimack, @janamal, @rachaelrad, @cdixon, @ahcastor, @rachaelrad, and @axios. Thanks:@mattrosoff
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram is rolling out a Following chronological feed and Favorites feed to all iOS and Android users globally, neither of which can be set as 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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TechRadar, Engadget, CNN, The Verge, BuzzFeed News, and Meta
Tweets: @martinsfp, @darylbaxter, @katienotopoulos, @alexvoica, and @alexvoica
| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
The EU could unveil the Digital Markets Act as early as Thursday; sources say the DMA targets companies with €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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| 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 …
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| The Information: |
Sources: Sam Altman's Worldcoin is raising $100M in a token sale from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, a previous backer, and Khosla, at a $3B valuation — Worldcoin, the cryptocurrency startup co-founded by former Y Combinator president Sam Altman, is raising $100 million …
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Protocol, CoinDesk, CryptoSlate, Micky, Decrypt, and Cryptonews
Tweets: @amir, @inversebrah, and @tomaxwell
| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Spotify will rename its live conversation product, from Greenroom to Spotify Live, and plans to integrate the content into its main app in Q2 — Spotify Technology SA is renaming its live conversation product and integrating the content into its main streaming app to make the service … | Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
A look at the confusion, culture clash, and shifting goals in SiriusXM's Stitcher deal, as many shows and over 25% of Stitcher's staff left post-acquisition — SiriusXM leapt into podcasts with a $325 million deal — insiders say it's off to a messy start — Illustrations by Vincent Kilbride for The Verge| Harsh Upadhyay / Entrackr: |
Indian startup Oxyzo, the lending arm of B2B financing startup OfBusiness, raises a $200M Series A at a $1B valuation led by Alpha Wave — Oxyzo Financial Services, the lending arm of industrial goods and services procurement platform OfBusiness, has scooped up $200 million in a Series …
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