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Meta paid Republican consulting firm Targeted Victory for a campaign to paint TikTok as a danger to the US, including placing op-eds in regional news outlets — Facebook parent company Meta is paying one of the biggest Republican consulting firms in the country to orchestrate …
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| William Turton / Bloomberg: |
Sources say Apple and Meta divulged customer data to hackers in response to forged Emergency Data Requests, after Discord confirmed fulfilling a forged EDR — Apple Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, provided customer data to hackers who masqueraded as law enforcement officials …
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The Hill, Protocol, Engadget, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, KnowTechie, iPhone Hacks, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, BGR, iDownloadBlog.com, TechRadar, Pixel Envy, SiliconANGLE, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, and Slashdot
Tweets: @briankrebs, @alexstamos, @sarahfrier, @evacide, @pathedger18, @incilin, @tonyromm, @josheidelson, @rhinosoros, @rayredacted, @josephfcox, and @michaelguimarin
| Bloomberg: |
Sky Mavis COO Aleksander Larsen says the company is “fully committed to reimbursing” Axie Infinity players who lost funds and is “still working on a solution” — The company behind the popular Axie Infinity crypto game said it will reimburse online participants … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is planning to expand its financial services by adding payment processing, lending risk assessment, credit checks, fraud analysis, and more — Apple Inc. is developing its own payment processing technology and infrastructure for future financial products …
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Protocol, AppleInsider, Engadget, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, iThinkDifferent, iPhone Hacks, MacDailyNews, and iDownloadBlog.com
Tweets: @lisaabramowicz1, @ldrogen, @markgurman, @charleyma, @bcheungz, @somospostpc, and @bdsams
| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Google adds more Markdown support to Docs on the web, letting users format documents using text shortcuts, off by default, as part of its autocorrect feature — ## An alternative to keyboard shortcuts — Google is adding Markdown support to Google Docs on the web, letting you format …
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Google Workspace Updates, Android Police, TechCrunch, iPhone in Canada Blog, Phandroid, XDA Developers, Chrome Unboxed, Thurrott, 512 Pixels, MSPoweruser, 9to5Google, and TechRadar
Tweets: @tomeraberbach, @pierce, @maguay, @anildash, @ow, and @triketora
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google plans to use its ML model MUM to improve search results for users in a crisis, directing them to help for suicide, sexual assault, and domestic abuse — Directing more searches to help and support — In a personal crisis, many people turn to an impersonal source of support: Google.
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Protocol, Engadget, TechCrunch, The Keyword, and MIT Technology Review
| James Cridland / Podnews: |
A leaked YouTube presentation for podcast publishers shows the company is working on a podcasts homepage with RSS feed ingestion, audio ads, analytics, and more — - Exclusive: YouTube is planning tighter integration, monetisation and analytics for podcasts
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TechCrunch, Tubefilter, 9to5Google, and TechRadar
Tweets: @davidtvrdon, @chrisphin, @misener, @stephenrobles, @mattnavarra, @matt, and @evoterra
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Waymo plans to offer fully autonomous rides in San Francisco, without a human safety driver, as part of a growing test, and expands its service area in Arizona — The company is also expanding its service area in Phoenix — Waymo plans to start offering rides in its fully autonomous vehicles …
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Waypoint, Bloomberg, The Hill, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, PCMag, Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, Neowin, Reuters, Forbes, and 9to5Google
Tweets: @waymo, @dmitri_dolgov, and @andyjayhawk
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Arm plans to transfer shares from its China joint venture, which it failed to control and audit for two years, to SoftBank, to speed up a New York IPO — Shifting stake in chip designer's joint venture to a SoftBank special purpose vehicle would ease New York flotation
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The Register, Bloomberg, TechSpot, Benzinga, Tom's Hardware, CNBC, and Reuters
Tweets: @paulmozur, @muradahmed, @dylan522p, and @jamesplloyd
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple now lets “reader” apps link to websites that help create or set up user accounts, once the developer is granted access to the appropriate app entitlement — Apple today informed developers of “reader” apps that they are able to sign up for access to an “External Link Account Entitlement” …
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Apple Developer, 9to5Mac, The Verge, and AppleInsider
Tweets: @mekentosj, @reneritchie, @reneritchie, and @reneritchie
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp says its users send 7B voice messages daily on average and adds a waveform visualization, pause/resume, draft preview, out of chat playback, and more — Like most smartphone users in India, I use WhatsApp a lot. But I have never sent anyone a voice message — ever. Turns out, others do.
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WhatsApp.com, CNET, The Verge, Tech Advisor, The Economic Times, Thurrott, PhoneArena, TechRadar, and Engadget
Tweets: @wcathcart and @wcathcart
| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
IT and software consultancy firm Globant says its code repo was partially breached, after Lapsus$ shared 70GB of allegedly stolen data; Globant stock down 12%+ — Just days after police in the U.K. arrested seven people over suspected connections to the now-infamous hacking and extortion group, Lapsus$ is claiming its latest victim.
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Seek Reinvention, BleepingComputer, Ars Technica, SC Media, Threatpost, Security Affairs, The Hacker News, VentureBeat, The Verge, and Tech Monitor. Tweets: @alvierid
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
The FBI and global law enforcement partners announce the arrests of 65 alleged cybercrime gang members who specialized in business email compromise schemes — A coordinated operation conducted by the FBI and its international law enforcement partners has resulted in disrupting business email compromise … | Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google adds an Appointment Schedule to Calendar, letting users present available periods for a meeting and send a “booking page” URL for others to pick from — Calendar can now generate a webpage of available time slots for a user to pick from.
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Google Workspace Updates, 9to5Google, Protocol, TechRadar, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @werty, @chrismessina, @carnage4life, and @vaibhavsisinty
| Samreen Ahmad / Tech in Asia: |
Sea shut down the Indian operations of its e-commerce arm, Shopee, on Monday, following India's ban on Free Fire and other apps it says are of Chinese origin — Shopee India will lay off over 300 staff after it decided to shut down operations in the South Asian country.
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Reuters, Times of India, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Quartz, Analytics, and MediaNama. Tweets: @varunkrish
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: China is planning expanded restrictions on its $30B live-streaming industry, including capping daily tipping and tightening content censorship — Regulators are planning rules limiting virtual tipping of live-streaming hosts and time spent by young people on the apps
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TechSpot, Benzinga, and Reuters
Tweets: @jchengwsj, @lizalinwsj, @lizalinwsj, @lizalinwsj, @lizalinwsj, @lizalinwsj, @paulmozur, @mattnavarra, and @lizalinwsj
| Gilad Edelman / Wired: |
A look at the ECASH Act, which would direct the US Treasury to pilot digital dollars that would be stored on hardware and not on a distributed blockchain ledger — If you want the privacy of paper money, you need something that leaves no paper trail. — When you hear the phrase “digital cash,” what comes to mind?
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CoinDesk, Congressman Stephen Lynch, The Verge, TechRadar, and Payments Dive
Tweets: @jerrybrito, @repstephenlynch, @giladedelman, @repstephenlynch, @repstephenlynch, and @raulacarrillo
| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Nova Labs, formerly Helium, a network of 500K+ cryptocurrency-mining hotspots offering p2p networking, confirms it raised a $200M Series D at a $1.2B valuation — Decentralized wireless communication startup Helium Inc. today announced a change of name to Nova Labs Inc. and confirmed …
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Decrypt, CoinDesk, Crypto Briefing, Light Reading, CryptoSlate, and Stacey on IoT
Tweets: @masasoncap and @wublockchain
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Dagger, a new DevOps service co-founded by Docker's Solomon Hykes, launches in public beta and announces a $20M Series A led by Redpoint Ventures — It's been almost exactly four years since Docker founder Solomon Hykes left the company that kickstarted the container revolution.
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InfoWorld and SiliconANGLE
| New York Times: |
Sources detail the internal confusion among Meta moderators and employees over how to enforce rapidly shifting content rules during Russia's invasion of Ukraine — The rules over what war content is permitted on Facebook and Instagram keep changing, causing internal confusion.
Tweets: @rmac18, @rmac18, @satariano, @shiraovide, @rmac18, @jhdearen, and @rmac18
| Malique Morris / The Information: |
Sources: Stripe-backed one-click checkout service Fast generated just ~$600K in 2021 revenue; a source says Fast failed to raise a $100M Series C in late 2021 — Several startups have been racing to sell software known as one-click checkout to retailers such as The Honest Company and Forever 21 …
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The Information and TechCrunch
Tweets: @lauramandaro, @nikmilanovic, @bobbyallyn, @buccocapital, @amir, @carnage4life, and @carnage4life
| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority extends a key Thursday deadline for approving crypto companies; the FCA has so far approved 33 companies — The U.K.'s financial regulator is extending a Thursday deadline for its approval of crypto operations, giving a dozen firms more time to get their applications or affairs in order.
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Bloomberg, CNBC, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, CoinGape, CoinDesk, The Times, and Finextra
Tweets: @emilyjnicolle, @emilyjnicolle, @ryan_browne_, @emilyjnicolle, and @emilyjnicolle
| Dade Hayes / Deadline: |
As Netflix cracks down on password sharing, a survey of 4,400 US consumers shows 33% of subscribers share their password — About one-third of U.S. subscribers to Netflix share their login credentials with others, according to new data from Leichtman Research Group.
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Leichtman Research Group, TechSpot, TIME, Light Reading, BGR, PCMag, iMore, Pop Culture Brain Daily, and MobileSyrup
| Brandy Betz / CoinDesk: |
LayerZero, a startup that offers a protocol for blockchain interoperability, raises $135M co-led by a16z, FTX, and Sequoia at a $1B valuation — The blockchain interoperability protocol first emerged from stealth last September. — CORRECTION (March 30, 19:28 UTC): A previous version …
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Decrypt and Business Wire
| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
DeepMind says it made changes to its policies after a female former staff member accused the Alphabet-owned company of mishandling sexual misconduct allegations — Former employee at artificial intelligence group raises concerns about grievance procedure following assault and harassment by senior researcher
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Engadget, Newslit Daily, City A.M., and ConcernedDeepMinder
| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
FedEx partners with Elroy Air to trial the Chaparral C1 autonomous drone, which can carry up to 500 pounds of packages, in Texas next year — FedEx plans to test a different method of moving goods between depots starting next year, which could speed up the delivery process.
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TechSpot, PCMag, Barron's Online, Forbes, and Mashable
| Reuters: |
Sources: the DOJ is investigating whether Google bundling Maps with its other software illegally stifles competition — The U.S. Justice Department has breathed new life into an investigation of Google Maps to determine if bundling the service together with other Google software illegally …
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