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| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
In an interview, X CEO Linda Yaccarino says she has “autonomy” under Elon Musk, X plans to add video calls, is “close” to break-even as brands return, and more — Twitter CEO Elon Musk, left, speaks with Linda Yaccarino on April 18, 2023.
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Bluesky: @seesmith.bsky.social. X: @katebevan, @junlper, @stevekopack, @patrickcoffee, and @danprimack
| Nicola Agius / Search Engine Land: |
X unveils Sensitivity Settings and Enhanced Blocklist to boost brand safety and control for advertisers, rolling out over the next few weeks in the Ads Manager — The new tools give marketers more say over ad placement. — X, formerly known as Twitter, has launched two new features …
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| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
| Justine Calma / The Verge: |
Google, American Airlines, and Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy partner to create more sustainable flight routes by avoiding those that create contrails — Google has been working with American Airlines and Bill Gates' climate investment fund, Breakthrough Energy, to chart more sustainable flight routes.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
A closer look at the UK Electoral Commission hack, disclosed nine months after discovery, which likely relied on a now-patched Microsoft Exchange Server flaw — Evidence appears to show a critical 0-day tracked as ProxyNotShell was exploited. — It's looking more and more likely …
More: The Guardian, TechCrunch, and DoublePulsar
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out the ability to let users verify their Threads profile on other social media platforms, like Mastodon, using “rel=me” links — To be clear, this isn't a free way to get a blue checkmark next to your Threads name; you'll probably need to pay Meta to get one of those.
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Threads: @mosseri, @timothyjchambers, @0xjessel, @anildash, @tomwarrenuk, @annamartinmedia, and @beingrealfrank
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
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| Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Amazon cuts dozens of in-house brands in clothing, furniture, and more to placate regulators and grow profits; Amazon says Basics will remain a focus — Company's cuts include all but three of its 30 clothing labels, such as Goodthreads and Lark & Ro| Andrew Duehren / Wall Street Journal: |
Biden signs an executive order banning US investments in some Chinese companies developing advanced semiconductors and quantum computers, starting in 2024 — Biden's order will also require U.S. private-equity and venture-capital firms to disclose certain investments
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Check Point buys rival cybersecurity company Perimeter 81 for $490M in a “cash free, debt free” deal; Perimeter 81 raised $100M at a $1B valuation in June 2022 — There is yet more M&A coming out of the security industry. In the latest development, Check Point …
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| Tom Mitchelhill / Cointelegraph: |
Fireblocks discloses BitForge, a set of zero-day flaws affecting widely-used crypto wallet providers; Coinbase, Binance, and Zengo have patched BitForge flaws — Fireblocks said the vulnerabilities affecting Coinbase, Binance and Zengo have since been fixed and has reached out to more than 12 others still at risk.| Rosie Perper / CoinDesk: |
Y00ts, once among the top Solana-based NFT projects and that moved to Polygon in 2022, plans to migrate to Ethereum and will return its $3M grant from Polygon — The popular project, which started out on Solana and migrated to Polygon earlier this year, said it would return 100% of the grant money it received.
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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Filing: autonomous sidewalk delivery company Serve Robotics, which was spun out from Uber-owned Postmates and raised $56M, to go public via a SPAC merger — Serve Robotics, the autonomous sidewalk delivery robot startup that spun out of Uber's acquisition of Postmates, is going public via a reverse merger with a blank check company.| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Disney plans to raise US prices of Disney+ Premium, Hulu without ads, and ESPN+, and to expand Disney+ ad-supported plans to Canada and nine European countries — Ad-supported Disney+ tier to expand to Canada, U.K. and eight other European countries this fall
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More: PCMag, Tech Advisor, Tom's Guide, The Streamable, Cult of Mac, Fast Company, CNBC, BGR, The Hollywood Reporter, The Verge, GameSpot, Livemint, PYMNTS.com, IGN, iPhone in Canada Blog, Fortune, Variety, TechRadar, Neowin, Business Today, TechSpot, Mashable, ComingSoon.net, Phandroid, MobileSyrup, TechHive, Insider, and WHNT-TV
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Researchers: since 2014, Belarus-linked hackers, dubbed MoustachedBouncer, have targeted foreign diplomats in the country by intercepting ISP connections — Hackers with apparent links to the Belarusian government have been targeting foreign diplomats in the country for nearly 10 years, according to security researchers.
More: WeLiveSecurity, Dark Reading, and CyberScoop
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Filing: the US SEC plans to appeal a court ruling in July that Ripple's programmatic sales of XRP to retail investors on exchanges didn't violate securities law — A federal judge ruled that while Ripple's direct sales of XRP to institutional investors violated securities law …
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| Bloomberg: |
Alibaba reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to ~$32.2B, beating analyst estimates of ~$31.1B, and a ~$4.7B net income, as its core e-commerce arm returned to growth — - Core e-commerce returned to growth for first time in a year — Alibaba is trying to revive its business in a volatile economy| Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal: |
Lyft begins serving in-app ads to riders as they wait for rides, when they match with a driver, and during their trips, and plans to add video ads by year-end — The ride-sharing company and its larger rival, Uber, are racing to build significant ad operations| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
At Black Hat, researchers detail a hacking technique for Deckmate 2, the most widely used casino shuffling machine, that would give an attacker “full control” — Security researchers accessed an internal camera inside the Deckmate 2 shuffler to learn the exact deck order—and the hand of every player at a poker table.| Sarah Fielding / Engadget: |
YouTube plans to deactivate links in Shorts descriptions, comments, and the vertical feed from August 31 to fight spam — The move follows other anti-spam measures. — YouTube knows that it has a spam problem, particularly when it comes to its two-year-old Shorts feature.
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