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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
DuckDuckGo confirms a researcher's findings that its browser allows some Microsoft trackers on third-party sites, citing a Microsoft search content agreement — The privacy-focused DuckDuckGo browser purposely allows Microsoft trackers on third-party sites due to an agreement …
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Tweets: @shivan_kaul, @thezedwards, @yegg, @yegg, @henkvaness, @samfbiddle, @rstephens, @thezedwards, @thezedwards, @henkvaness, @yegg, @yegg, @yegg, @stammy, @pixeldetracking, @richontech, @thezedwards, @thezedwards, @privacymatters, @samfbiddle, @thezedwards, @j_opdenakker, @henkvaness, @yoda, @evacide, @yegg, and @sethforprivacy
| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Andreessen Horowitz announces a $4.5B crypto fund, its fourth and largest so far, allocating about $1.5B for seed investments and $3B for venture investments — Venture capital group launches its largest fund to date focused on digital assets despite market downturn
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Tweets: @ariannasimpson, @taigxrp, @rahulsood, @fintechfrank, @iankar_, @cryptoethan, @janehk, @therealjpk, @phoenix_ash3s, @ariannasimpson, @nischalshetty, @telcoinpaul, @joonian, @jimpethokoukis, @andrewchen, @ftx_access, @tsuvik, @faresben_eth, @benedictevans, @smc90, @0xfoobar, @ahcastor, @sytaylor, @sarthakgh, @silvermanjacob, @yoda, @austin_federa, @scottmelker, @cryptomanran, @mdudas, @kr00ney, @packym, and @silvermanjacob
| Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: |
Leaked video: Apple SVP of Retail + People Deirdre O'Brien tells employees that joining a union would make it harder for Apple to improve working conditions — In an internal video circulated among Apple's 58,000 retail employees, Apple's vice-president of retail suggested that a union …
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| Sarah Emerson / BuzzFeed News: |
After actor and producer Seth Green lost four NFTs to a phishing scam, his show based on his stolen Bored Ape NFT is in doubt; OpenSea says it froze the NFTs — Actor and producer Seth Green was robbed of several NFTs this month after succumbing to a phishing scam that inadvertently threw …
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Tweets: @morebuttertv, @sethgreen, @sethgreen, @neerajka, @sarahnemerson, @prestonjbyrne, @foldablehuman, @thedextriarchy, @foldablehuman, @reckless, @sethgreen, @nydoorman, @chhopsky, @samfbiddle, @foldablehuman, @foldablehuman, @matt_levine, @anthony, @rjcc, @dyllyp, @matt_levine, @mmasnick, @pt, @alexhern, @dcwoodruff, @brndnstrssng, @evanmcmurry, @jaredlholt, @oomfmagazine, @dril, @paperghost, @taylorlorenz, @mmasnick, @cwarzel, @ahcastor, @flglmn, @nycsouthpaw, @matt_levine, and @matt_levine
| Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
Encrypted email service ProtonMail rebrands itself as Proton, and unifies its calendar, storage, and VPN products under Free, Mail Plus, and Unlimited plans — For the privacy-minded, ProtonMail has been one of the better options for secure email — you can get an (admittedly basic) …
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Tweets: @sethforprivacy and @protonmail
| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Jack Dorsey is leaving Twitter's board of directors, effective today — Jack Dorsey is leaving the board of Twitter, effective today. The move had been telegraphed last fall, when he stepped down as the social media company's CEO.
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Tweets: @jackmurphylive, @davetroy, and @rustybrick
| CNBC: |
Twitter shareholders have voted to remove Egon Durban, co-CEO of Silver Lake, from its board; Durban is a long-time business associate and backer of Elon Musk — - A Twitter spokesperson told CNBC that Egon Durban “has tendered his resignation” from the board, but that the board has to decide whether to accept it.
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| Gabrielle Coppola / Bloomberg: |
Luminar hires CJ Moore, a manager on Apple's car project who joined in August 2021 from Tesla where he was an Autopilot director, to lead software development — Luminar Technologies Inc. said it hired CJ Moore, a manager on Apple Inc.'s car project and a former director for Autopilot projects …
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Tweets: @markgurman, @markgurman, @tailosivetech, @jotrader4, and @sawyermerritt
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google starts rolling out ads in YouTube Shorts globally and says advertisers will be able to make their video ads on Shorts more shoppable later in 2022 — Google is starting to gradually roll out ads in YouTube Shorts around the world, the company announced at its Marketing Live event this week.| Vishal Chawla / The Block: |
Do Kwon's proposal to relaunch the Terra blockchain passes with 65.5% of the governance vote; Terra 2.0 is set to go live on Friday without the UST stablecoin — Quick Take — Do Kwon's proposal to relaunch the Terra blockchain has passed. — In total, 65.5% of votes supported the proposal.
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TechCrunch, Blockworks, Bloomberg, CoinDesk, Terra Research Forum, Bitcoinist.com, CNBC, The Guardian, ZyCrypto, Ethereum World News, Protocol, CoinQuora, Blockworks, and Forkast
Tweets: @binance, @wublockchain, @peterrojas, @silvermanjacob, @edzitron, @route2fi, @caseynewton, @danielsingers, @silvermanjacob, @ashwsbreal, and @adamsinger
| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
A look at Google's renewed push into e-commerce, led by SVP Prabhakar Raghavan, positioning itself as a kind of anti-Amazon, which has long dominated the sector — Google executive Prabhakar Raghavan recently had an issue with his rose bushes. His wife took a photo of the plants on her phone …
Tweets: @edbott, @mhbergen, @sarahfrier, @mhbergen, and @mhbergen
| Bloomberg: |
A look at Meta's attempt to shore up investor support for long-term VR bets by copying TikTok, including pushing Facebook and Instagram creators to use Reels — Last year an Instagram representative contacted Justina Sharp, a 24-year-old with 93,000 followers, and asked for a meeting to discuss ways she could expand her audience.
Tweets: @jason_kint, @munster_gene, @mattnavarra, @daveyalba, and @bradstone
| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Ripple's CEO says the company will explore an IPO once its lawsuit with the SEC ends and that its cross-border payments volume was up 700% YoY to $8B in Q1 2022 — - Ripple will explore the possibility of an initial public offering once its lawsuit with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has ended … | Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers: popular Python library “ctx” and PHP package “phpass” have been compromised to steal developer environment variables like AWS keys and credentials — PyPI module ‘ctx’ that gets downloaded over 20,000 times a week has been compromised in a software supply chain attack …
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sockpuppets, TechRadar, Sonatype Blog, python-security.readthedocs.io, IT PRO, and iTnews
Tweets: @s0md3v, @theprincessxena, @sanjaykatkar, @tomlawrencetech, and @gossithedog
| Brandy Betz / CoinDesk: |
StarkWare, which makes two scaling platforms for Ethereum, raises a $100M Series D led by Greenoaks and Coatue at an $8B valuation, up from $2B in November 2021 — The blockchain scaling solution last raised funds in November at a $2 billion valuation. — StarkWare Industries …
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TechCrunch, Blockworks, The Block, Crypto Briefing, The Defiant, Forbes, CTech, Bloomberg, and Cointelegraph
| TechCrunch: |
Sources: Bolt has laid off over 100 employees across marketing, sales and recruiting roles amid slowing growth; a major client also filed a lawsuit against Bolt — One-click checkout startup Bolt has laid off at least 100 employees, and counting, across go-to-market, sales and recruiting roles, sources say.
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Protocol, New York Times, and Bloomberg
| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
Hong Kong-based Babel Finance, which offers crypto asset management tools, raises an $80M Series B at a $2B valuation, bringing its total funding to $120M — Despite recent swings in cryptocurrency values, many institutional investors appear undeterred. The growth of Babel Finance …
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Tech in Asia, FinSMEs, PR Newswire, Blockworks, and Cryptopolitan
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