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March 30, 2022, 6:01 AM

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Andrew Thurman / CoinDesk:
The Ronin Network, which supports Sky Mavis' Axie Infinity game, says it was hacked, and 173,600 ETH and 25.5M USDC was stolen, worth $600M+; RON is down ~20%  —  It may be the largest exploit in DeFi history.  —  The latest crypto hack may be the largest yet.
More: Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At, Ronin's Newsletter, The Verge, Web3 is going just great, Kotaku, Silicon Republic, Washington Post, Comparitech, Barron's Online, TechRadar, Infosecurity, CoinQuora, ZDNet, TechCircle, Tech in Asia, Protocol, SiliconANGLE, Input, Elaborate VC, Financial Times, The Overspill, PYMNTS.com, Coinmonks, VentureBeat, Crypto Daily, Security Affairs, CyberScoop, Kryptovaluta Oppsummering, Ronin Network en Español, PC Gamer, Forbes, The Record, Metaversal, Tom's Hardware, and Neowin
Mitchell Clark / The Verge:
Google adds expanded Markdown support to Docs on the web, 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 your document using text shortcuts rather than keyboard ones.
Christopher Dring / GamesIndustry.biz:
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Shannon Liao / Washington Post:
A judge approves an $18M settlement between Activision Blizzard and the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, ending the federal sexual harassment lawsuit  —  A judge approved an $18 million settlement between Activision Blizzard and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Tuesday …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: China is planning expanded restrictions on its huge live-streaming industry, including capping daily tipping and tighter content censorship  —  Regulators are planning rules limiting virtual tipping of live-streaming hosts and time spent by young people on the apps
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Verizon blames “bad actors” and engages US law enforcement after its customers and users of its MVNO Visible receive spam texts from their own phone numbers  —  The carrier says it's working with US law enforcement to find those responsible  —  Yesterday, I wrote about receiving …
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Hackers are compromising police and government email accounts to send Emergency Data Requests to ISPs, telecoms, social networks, and others, who quickly comply  —  There is a terrifying and highly effective “method” that criminal hackers are now using to harvest sensitive customer data …
Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:
DeepMind says it made changes to its policies after a female former staff member accused the Google-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
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Ofcom: around 16% of UK three and four-year-olds view TikTok content, rising to around 33% of children aged five to seven  —  Three-year-olds are on the video-sharing platform and it may be affecting their attention span  —  British toddlers are increasingly likely to be users of TikTok …
More: Sky News and BBC
New York Times:
Sources detail internal confusion from Meta moderators and employees over how to enforce 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.  —  Meta, which owns Facebook …
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Financial Times:
Sources: Arm plans to transfer shares from its China joint venture, which it has struggled to control and audit, to SoftBank to speed up a New York listing  —  Shifting stake in chip designer's joint venture to a SoftBank special purpose vehicle would ease New York flotation
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:
London-based Builder.ai, which offers low-code tools to build apps, raises a $100M Series C led by Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $195M  —  When we started covering Builder.ai a few years ago, the startup was tapping into a new wave of businesses wanting their own native apps.

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