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| Brian Armstrong / The Coinbase Blog: |
Coinbase plans to reduce its headcount by ~18%, or ~1,100 people, “to ensure we stay healthy during this economic downturn” after the company “grew too quickly” — Earlier today, I shared the following note with all Coinbase employees. — Team,
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| Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian: |
Sources: US defense contractor L3Harris is in talks with NSO Group to acquire its core tech; White House says such a deal would raise serious security concerns — Deal - which would require approval from US and Israel - would give L3Harris control over controversial Pegasus tool
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Intelligence Online, Washington Post, Access Now, The Hill, Globes Online, Financial Times, SiliconANGLE, Tech Monitor, Haaretz, and AppleInsider
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Sources: Apple plans to refresh its entry-level iPad with a USB-C port instead of Lightning, an A14 chip, 5G, and an improved display, likely coming in 2022 — Earlier this year, 9to5Mac exclusively reported that Apple was working on a new generation iPad Air to have the M1 chip and 5G support …
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| José Adorno / 9to5Mac: |
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Tweets: @vadimyuryev, @parkerortolani, @stephenwarwick9, and @tme_michael
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Adobe begins testing a freemium version of Photoshop for the web in Canada to introduce more users to the app; some features will eventually be subscriber-only — For now, it's testing a freemium version in Canada — Adobe has started testing a free-to-use version of Photoshop on the web …
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Tweets: @thefutureparty, @shiburizu, @samcwoodhall, @joshbloch, and @theicir
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Cloudflare says it mitigated a 26M-requests-per-second DDoS attack, the largest HTTPS DDoS attack detected to date, targeting a customer using its Free plan — Internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare said today that it mitigated a 26 million request per second distributed denial-of-service … | Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Redfin plans to lay off ~470 staff, or 8% of its workforce, and Compass is laying off ~450 staff, or ~10%, as housing demand softens amid rising interest rates — Says Redfin CEO: 'I said we wouldn't lay people off unless we had to. We have to.' — The housing market has taken a huge hit …
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Tweets: @bayareawriter, @carnage4life, and @sarthakgh
| Wall Street Journal: |
Source: crypto lender Celsius Networks is looking for financing options from investors and exploring other strategic alternatives, like financial restructuring — Celsius Network, among the largest crypto lenders, has paused user accounts, citing extreme market conditions| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Sonos Voice Control assistant review: fast, private, and good at tasks like grouping rooms, but lacks Spotify support and doesn't understand some artists' names — Sonos' assistant only takes music requests, and that actually works out in its favor — When Sonos Voice Control was announced last month … | Wall Street Journal: |
Apple and Major League Soccer announce a 2023-2032 broadcasting deal, with games available via MLS Apple TV app or Apple TV+; source: deal is worth $250M+/year — Deal underscores iPhone maker's streaming ambitions and battle for sports programming — Apple Inc. AAPL 0.71%▲ …
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| WABetaInfo: |
Mark Zuckerberg announces WhatsApp users can securely transfer their chat history from Android to iOS while keeping e2ee, expanding on iOS to Android support — Like Love Haha Wow Sad Angry — After announcing important changes for the Cloud API at the Conversations 2022 keynote …
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Tweets: @martinsfp and @sp990
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers find a vulnerability in Intel and AMD CPUs that could let hackers steal encryption keys via a side channel attack on power management feature DVFS — Hertzbleed attack targets power-conservation feature found on virtually all modern CPUs. — Microprocessors from Intel, AMD …
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Intel, Protocol, Tom's Hardware, Digital Trends, and BleepingComputer
Tweets: @arekfurt, @kennwhite, @campuscodi, and @dangillmor
| Sarah Nassauer / Wall Street Journal: |
Wonder, a food delivery app led by Marc Lore, raised $350M in May 2022 sources say at a ~$3.5B valuation, bringing its total funding in equity and debt to $900M — The New York-based company cooks hot meals from a network of neighborhood trucks and wants to expand its service area
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Tweets: @stevekovach, @sarahnassauer, @herbgreenberg, @marclore, @joepompliano, @jacefrederick, and @gvteam
| Kellen Browning / New York Times: |
A Massachusetts court rules that a proposed ballot measure, backed by Uber and Lyft, to classify gig drivers as independent contractors, violates state law — The ruling ends a $17.8 million campaign by companies like Uber and Lyft that would have led to the classification of their drivers as independent contractors.
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Tweets: @terrigerstein, @massnotforsale, @californialabor, @kellen_browning, and @lorenasgonzalez
| Jennifer Maas / Variety: |
Netflix, which has released 23 mobile games since November 2021, plans to double its games by the end of 2022 to have one “for every single one of our members” — Since launching its mobile games offering to members seven months ago, Netflix has released a total of 23 titles.| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Germany's Bundeskartellamt regulator launches an antitrust investigation into whether Apple's ATT tracking rules and anti-tracking tech are self-preferencing — Germany's Federal Cartel Office, the Bundeskartellamt, has initiated proceedings against Apple to investigate whether its tracking rules …
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Tweets: @ampressman, @kartellamt, @carnage4life, @ohmdee, @lewis_crofts, @jcremer, @pt, and @kostasrossoglou
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Arkestro, which uses machine learning, game theory, and behavioral science to help companies procure supplies and services, raised a $26M Series A — Procurement involves buying supplies and services you need to run your business. For the most part, companies still use email and spreadsheets …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
The Washington Post has licensed its Arc XP CMS to 2,000+ companies, up from ~1,500 a year ago; sources: Arc XP generates ~$40M-$50M in ARR but isn't profitable — The Washington Post is looking to double down on its investment in its tech publishing arm, Arc XP, despite outside sales interest valuing … | Peter Wayner / VentureBeat: |
Paris-based EcoVadis, which provides software for business sustainability ratings, raised a $500M Series C led by BeyondNetZero and Astorg at a $1B+ valuation — Can the supply chain become greener and more sustainable? Today, EcoVadis announced it's raised $500 million in a new funding round …
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| Kate Beioley / Financial Times: |
The UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal backs the CMA's right to find that Meta's purchase of Giphy may harm innovation, ruling against all but one appeal by Meta — CMA may have to look again at decision as result of Facebook parent's one successful challenge at tribunal
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| Ash Parrish / The Verge: |
Twitch expands its ad incentive program to more partners and offers bigger payouts by shifting from a flat rate for every 1,000 ads to sharing 55% of ad revenue — The ad incentive program will also open up to more partnered streamers — Twitch is expanding its ad incentive program to include more creators and pay them more money.| Dawn Chmielewski / Reuters: |
Spotify announces a Safety Advisory Council to provide non-binding third-party input on issues such as hate speech, disinformation, extremism, and online abuse — Spotify Technology SA (SPOT.N) on Monday announced it has formed a Safety Advisory Council to provide third-party input on issues … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Playful Studios, the maker of Words With Friends, raised $46M to build Wildcard, a Web3 game combining collectible cards with battle arena real-time strategy — Playful Studios, the maker of Words With Friends and Lucky's Tale, unveiled a Web3 game and raised $46 million for its The Wildcard Alliance division.Sponsor Posts
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