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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Leaked Mandiant report: Okta's contractor Sitel first sent a Lapsus$ breach notification to Okta on January 25 and a detailed “Intrusion Timeline” on March 17 — Documents shed some light on how Okta and its subprocessor Sitel reacted to a breach, but they don't explain the apparent lack of urgency.
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| Corin Faife / The Verge: |
Security experts worry the EU's DMA, which mandates messaging service interoperability, could undermine the end-to-end encryption on WhatsApp and other services — Big names in internet security have been fiercely critical of the new DMA legislation — On March 24th, EU governing bodies announced …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Many customers on Verizon and its MVNO Visible have reported receiving spam text messages from their own phone number over the last few days — Did you recently get a spam text... from yourself? You're not alone — This morning, I received a very blatant spam text offering me “a little gift” for supposedly paying my phone bill.
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| Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple's CODA win at the Oscars and Ted Lasso's success shows TV+'s quality over quantity approach is paying off; Apple paid $25M for CODA distribution rights — Launched in 2019, Apple TV+ produces far less content than its biggest streaming rivals — Apple Inc.'s boutique-store approach to streaming is paying off with tastemakers.
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| Patrick McGee / Financial Times: |
Researchers find that Russia's Yandex sends metadata to servers located in the country; Yandex says the data is “non-personalised and very limited” — Information collected by company through apps on Apple and Google-powered mobile devices is sent to Russian servers
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| Ian Johnston / Financial Times: |
Advertising gig platform Talenthouse plans to list in Zurich via a reverse takeover, valuing the London-based company at ~$450M; the service has 14M+ workers — London-based company says demand for digital content is spurring growth — Advertising gig platform Talenthouse is listing …
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Swiss startup Yokoy, which helps companies manage expenses, invoices, and credit cards, raises $80M from Sequoia and others, source says at a $500M+ valuation — - Yokoy, a Swiss start-up helping companies manage their expenses, has raised $80 million in a financing round led by Sequoia Capital.| The Intercept: |
Internal email: complying with a new Russian censorship law, Google ordered its contracted Russian translators to not call Russia's war in Ukraine a “war” — In early March, contractors working for Google to translate company text for the Russian market received an update from their client …
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| Virginia Hughes / New York Times: |
Analysis of two UK datasets find heavy use of social media by adolescents during two windows, around puberty and age 19, spurred lower life satisfaction ratings — A large study in Britain found two specific windows of adolescence when some teenagers are most sensitive to social media.
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Q&A with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on integrating hardware and software, the company's full-stack approach, ML opportunities, attempting to buy Arm, and more — It took a few moments to realize what was striking about the opening video for Nvidia's GTC conference: the complete absence of humans.
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Sourceful, which helps brands reduce supply chain emissions via its online marketplace of vetted suppliers, raises a $20M Series A led by Index Ventures — Sourceful, an Index Ventures backed supply chain transparency startup, has fast-fuelled with a $20 million Series A around half a year after it announced a $12.2M seed round.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India-based Classplus, which helps teachers and creators operate, manage, and sell courses to students, raises a $70M Series D at a $570M valuation — At a time when so many edtech firms in India are attempting to cut their reliance on teachers, a Noida-based startup that is helping teachers …
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