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Sheryl Sandberg is leaving Meta this fall after 14 years, and chief growth officer Javier Olivan will take over as COO; Sandberg will stay on Meta's board — Sheryl Sandberg is stepping down from her role as Chief Operating Officer at Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook.
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| Zack Seward / CoinDesk: |
The DOJ charges ex-OpenSea head of product Nate Chastain with wire fraud and money laundering tied to a September 2021 NFT insider trading scheme, a DOJ first — Department of Justice officials say it's the first time they've pursued an “insider trading” charge in digital assets.| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Google plans to combine its Duo and Meet video calling apps into a single platform later in 2022, using Duo's app as the foundation under the Google Meet brand — It's called Meet, but Duo's DNA lives on — Google announced today that it's combining two of its video-calling apps, Duo and Meet, into a single platform.
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| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Google launches Google TV for iOS, after moving the Movies and TV section from the Play Store to the Google TV app, letting users use their phone as a TV remote — Google TV has had a busy couple of months, with a variety of changes, launches, and updates.
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| Scott Chipolina / Financial Times: |
A group of 26 leading computer experts urge US lawmakers to resist crypto lobbying efforts, calling crypto financial instruments “risky, flawed, and unproven” — Computer scientists and academics target US lawmakers in effort to counter well-financed lobbying efforts
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| Brian Platt / Bloomberg: |
Canada's privacy regulator finds that coffee shop chain Tim Hortons illegally collected customer location data via its mobile app without adequate user consent — Tim Hortons, the ubiquitous Canadian coffee chain owned by Restaurant Brands International, violated Canadian privacy rules …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Twitter is restructuring to focus on user growth and personalization, not Spaces, newsletters, and communities; source: edit button may come in 2022 — Twitter Inc. employees are enduring the whiplash of public commentary from the social network's future owner, a changeover in leadership and a hiring freeze.
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Tweets: @kurtwagner8, @tomgara, @elipariser, @carlquintanilla, @caseynewton, and @carnage4life
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Twitter plans to shut down TweetDeck for Mac on July 1 to “focus on making TweetDeck even better”, pointing users to the web version and an upcoming Preview — Twitter today announced that it will be shutting down TweetDeck for Mac next month to focus on the web-based version of TweetDeck.
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
The Shadowserver Foundation analysts scanned MySQL server instances and found 2.3M exposed servers connected over IPv4 and 1.3M devices connected over IPv6 — Over 3.6 million MySQL servers are publicly exposed on the Internet and responding to queries, making them an attractive target to hackers and extortionists.| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: in a first, Apple plans to move some iPad production from China to Vietnam, after Shanghai's strict lockdowns led to months of supply chain disruptions — TAIPEI — For the first time ever Apple is moving some iPad production out of China and shifting it to Vietnam after strict COVID lockdowns …
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Tweets: @brianthart, @mikepeeljourno, and @longshorttrader
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Microsoft launches Surface Laptop Go 2 with 11th Gen Intel CPUs, an “improved” webcam and thermals, and Windows 11, starting at $600 and shipping on June 7 — Prices start at $600 — The most compact and affordable entry in Microsoft's lineup of Surface Laptops …
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Tweets: @marctech1996, @tomwarren, and @dcseifert
| Inti Pacheco / Wall Street Journal: |
Analysis of S&P 500 companies: Alphabet and Meta had the highest median pay for workers in 2021 at nearly $300K; Apple's median pay was ~$68K, Amazon's ~$32K — With a booming economy and a tight job market, median pay rose last year for most S&P 500 companies, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis.| Financial Times: |
Investigation: NSO has an imminent cash crunch, after human rights groups detailed 15+ countries abusing Pegasus, as executives weigh selling to risky clients — The inside story of the Pegasus spyware maker's perilous financial situation and its way ahead following US blacklisting| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
Messaging apps should consider reviving AIM's Away Message to set better social boundaries, as the live chats of the past are now in our pockets and inescapable — The live chats of the past are now in our pockets and inescapable. We need better boundaries. — In the beginning, there was AOL Instant Messenger.
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As interest rates rise and the economy slows down, BNPL services Affirm, Afterpay, and Zip are beginning to see late payments or related losses pile up — Affirm, Afterpay and Klarna grew rapidly during the consumer-spending boom. Investors have concerns as outlook looks cloudier. — 1x| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
After Google's Play Store policy changes, Amazon removes IAPs from its Kindle and Music apps for Android, and direct audiobook purchases from Audible on Android — If you use Amazon's Kindle app on Android, you may have noticed the software doesn't offer the option to buy and rent ebooks …
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| Jacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch: |
Dove Metrics: VC funding for crypto fell 38% from $6.8B in April to $4.2B in May; blockchain infrastructure got the most capital at 21% and DAOs the least at 2% — In 2022, capital is being deployed into crypto at a less noteworthy pace month over month, but in the grand scheme of things …
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Instagram plans to start pushing Amber Alerts in feeds to notify users about missing children in their area, rolling out to 25 countries in the coming weeks — Instagram will start pushing Amber Alerts to users' feeds to notify them about missing children in their area.
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| Alexander Martin / Sky News: |
US Cyber Command head Paul Nakasone confirms that US military hackers have carried out cyberattacks in support of Ukraine in response to Russia's invasion — In an exclusive interview with Sky News, General Paul Nakasone confirmed for the first time that the US had “conducted a series of operations” …
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Tweets: @markmackinnon and @maxabrahms
| Andrew Hayward / Decrypt: |
The Solana blockchain was down for about four hours on Wednesday after a bug blocked consensus; SOL is down 11% over the past 24 hours — SOL is down 11% for the day as Solana dealt with another period of downtime, forcing a rollback and restart by validators. — In brief
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| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
Enterprise video messaging service Loom has laid off 34 employees, or 14% of its staff; Loom raised $130M in May 2021 led by a16z at a $1.53B valuation — Loom, an enterprise collaboration video messaging service, has laid off 34 employees, or 14% of its total staff, sources say.Sponsor Posts
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