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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Deep dive on the DarkSide ransomware gang, which pressures victims into paying via phone calls by affiliates, DDoS attacks, and threats of tipping short sellers — The FBI confirmed this week that a relatively new ransomware group known as DarkSide is responsible for an attack …
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Federal Bureau …, CNBC, Netskope, Intel471.com, Softpedia News, and Graham Cluley
Tweets: @kimzetter and @thestalwart
| Eamon Javers / CNBC: |
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Bloomberg, VICE, New York Times, CyberNews, Protos, Tech News, Threatpost, Engadget, and ZDNet
| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
MSI unveils new laptops for creators and gamers, like the $2,599 Creator Z16, aimed at MacBook Pro users, with a 120Hz 16:10 QHD+ display and GeForce RTX 3060 — New models for creators and gamers at all price points — MSI has announced a number of gaming and creator laptops that include Intel's brand-new Tiger Lake H processors.
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MSI, ZDNet, 9to5Mac, TechSpot, The Verge, BGR, MUO, The Verge, KnowTechie, Laptop Mag, HotHardware.com News, iMore, YouTube, Digital Trends, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, and SlashGear. Tweets: @dcseifert
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The Verge, The Verge, VentureBeat, Neowin, PCWorld, Trusted Reviews, Forbes, CNET, Windows Central, techadvisor.com, and SlashGear. Tweets: @devindra
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
| Anna Cooban / Insider: |
WhatsApp details the experience for those who don't agree to its new privacy policy, including losing access to calls, messages, and notifications — - WhatsApp will eventually stop users sending and receiving messages if they refuse a new privacy policy. — If users do not agree to the policy …
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WhatsApp FAQ, The Register, Gizmodo, TNW, Social Media Today, WhatsApp FAQ, India Today, PCMag, Times of India, Moneycontrol, The Indian Express, The Guardian, BGR India, 9to5Mac, and PCMag
Tweets: @sub8u, @mikaelthalen, and @vijayshekhar
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube plans to pay $100M to top creators on YouTube Shorts, its TikTok competitor, through 2022, starting in the next few months in the US and India — YouTube is giving its TikTok competitor, YouTube Shorts, an injection of cash to help it better compete with rivals.
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YouTube Official Blog, XDA Developers, PYMNTS.com, Reuters, Social Media Today, Adweek, Neowin, Search Engine Journal, The Information, CNBC, Bloomberg, Variety, Engadget, Tubefilter, and 9to5Google
Tweets: @youtubecreators, @kirstinestewart, @fwiz, @martinsfp, @kantrowitz, and @drbarnard
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Sources: TikTok is launching a tool for brands to recruit employees that it's currently beta testing with a group of companies — TikTok is testing a tool for brands to recruit employees, sources tell Axios. — Details: The pilot program is designed to help people find jobs on TikTok …
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CNET, Insider, Engadget, dot.LA, and Mashable
Tweets: @jessedamiani, @taylorlorenz, @axios, @sarafischer, @rmac18, @blackamazon, @darrenrovell, @baldingsworld, and @liahaberman
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple says that ~1M new apps and ~1M app updates were rejected in 2020, 470,000+ developer accounts were terminated over fraud concerns, and more — - Apple said it rejected almost 1 million apps that were submitted to its App Store for the first time in 2020.
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Apple, MacRumors, CNET, iThinkDifferent, The Hill, MUO, Patently Apple, Protocol, 9to5Mac, Digital Trends, iPhone in Canada Blog, iMore, and AppleInsider
Tweets: @lanceulanoff and @kifleswing
| MK Manoylov / The Block: |
eBay says it will allow NFTs to be sold on its platform and will add new “capabilities” for blockchain-driven collectibles in the coming months — The online sales platform eBay is now permitting the sale of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for digital collectibles.
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CNET, PYMNTS.com, TechCrunch, The Verge, The Hill, Bitcoinist.com, CoinDesk, cryptodaily.co.uk, and Cointelegraph. Tweets: @ahcastor
| The Coinbase Blog: |
Coinbase to ban pay negotiations in hiring and will offer the same pay to new hires in the same position and location; top performers to still get “multipliers” — Coinbase is always evolving. In the last year, we've grown our headcount by 100%, hired in 6 new countries …
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Protocol, Insider, Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At, and Cryptonews
Tweets: @coinbasenews, @terronk, @lordravenscraft, @kressaty, @carnage4life, @silvestricodes, @gamoid, @alexlmiller, @far33d, @alex, @emgurevich, @sylviavarnham, and @felixsalmon
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google Pay users in the US can now send money to GPay users in India and Singapore; Google has partnered with Western Union and Wise to enable this feature — Google Pay users in the U.S. can now send money to GPay users in India and Singapore, Google said on Tuesday, making its first push into the remittances market.
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The Keyword, Android Beat, XDA Developers, ZDNet, Crowdfund Insider, Android Police, Inc42 Media, The Hill, Android Central, Neowin, BGR India, MUO, phonearena.com, Droid Life, 9to5Google, Wccftech, MSPoweruser, TNW, Android Authority, Reuters, PYMNTS.com, Tech in Asia, CNBC, and Finextra
Tweets: @federalbankltd, @wise, and @8ap
| Eric Benjamin Seufert / Mobile Dev Memo: |
Apple's ATT is a commercial land grab dressed up as a moral crusade, an astute attack on Facebook, and will subvert the open web and the freemium business model — Last week, Apple introduced a new ad unit to the App Store: a paid placement on its Search page. — Rumors of this new unit had circulated previously| James Vincent / The Verge: |
HTC unveils the Vive Pro 2 VR headset with a 5K resolution display, 2448×2448 pixels per eye, a 120Hz refresh rate, and 120-degree FoV, coming June 4 for $799 — Available to preorder today and on sale from June 4th for $799 — HTC has unveiled the new Vive Pro 2 …
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techadvisor.com, UploadVR, VRFocus, MCV/DEVELOP, Tom's Hardware, IGN, and Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Tweets: @qdot
| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Zigbee Alliance renames as Connectivity Standards Alliance and unveils Matter, an interoperable connectivity standard to ship in smart home devices this year — An industry alliance sponsored by Apple, Google, Amazon and other tech companies will begin certifying smart home devices later this year …
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MacRumors, Gizmodo, Business Wire, ZDNet, iThinkDifferent, Stacey on IoT, TechHive, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, The Verge, MacDailyNews, Business Wire, Pocket-lint, and iClarified
Tweets: @andrewgirdwood, @glynmoody, and @stshank
| Wall Street Journal: |
Uber and Lyft will offer free rides to and from US vaccination sites until July 4, partnering with the Biden administration, which is providing site data — New transportation partnership comes as Biden administration explores ways to encourage people to get vaccinated
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The White House, Uber Newsroom, Lyft, Mashable, Engadget, CNBC, Insider, TechCrunch, Axios, and SlashGear
Tweets: @kantrowitz, @sabrinasiddiqui, @uber, @vogon, @dkhos, @nathanstall, and @uber
| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
GitHub adds security key support for SSH Git operations, as it continues its plan to remove password support for Git operations later this year — Support has been added to bolster defense against account compromise. — GitHub has announced support for security keys to prevent account compromise in SSH Git operations.| Tripp Mickle / Wall Street Journal: |
Google says it plans to double the size of its team studying AI ethics in the coming years, as it looks to strengthen the group battered by recent controversies — CEO will boost operating budget of team tasked with evaluating code and product to avert discrimination and other problems
Tweets: @_jack_poulson, @alexhanna, @carissaveliz, @zeerakw, @taliaringer, @_alialkhatib, @mer__edith, @edroso, @zoeschiffer, @parismarx, and @lizthegrey
| MK Manoylov / The Block: |
Coinbase reaches #1 on the US iOS App Store for first time since 2017, after reaching the #2 spot on April 14, the day of its IPO — On May 10, the Coinbase app topped the U.S. Apple App Store, a position the crypto exchange hadn't been in since late 2017.| The Verge: |
A county-by-county map of the broadband gap in the US shows how lack of fiber stifles economic activity in poor counties which in turn results in disinvestment — A county-by-county look at the broadband gap — If broadband access was a problem before 2020, the pandemic turned it into a crisis.
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VICE, Maps Mania, and KnowTechie
Tweets: @backlon, @reckless, @moonalice, @karlbode, @glengilmore, @russellbrandom, @animatedgeoff, and @waltmossberg
| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Big chip buyers, including Apple and Google, are joining top chip-makers like Intel to create a lobbying group for chip manufacturing subsidies — (Reuters) - Some of the world's biggest chip buyers, including Apple Inc, Microsoft Corp and Alphabet Inc's Google, are joining top chip-makers …
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Semiconductors …, Engadget, New York Times, iPhone in Canada Blog, iMore, Patently Apple, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @datadrivenmd and @silvermanjacob
| Karin Matussek / Bloomberg: |
Facebook ordered to stop collecting German users' WhatsApp data by regulator, starting with a three-month emergency ban on the data collection — - Hamburg regulator issues a three-month emergency order — Watchdog calls new terms intransparent and overly broad
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Reuters, Livemint, Engadget, BleepingComputer, euronews, TechSpot, CNBC, Fortune, Financial Times, Tech.co, Pocketnow, The Irish Times, TechCrunch, and Tech Policy Press
Tweets: @jason_kint, @digiphile, and @vijayshekhar
| Tiernan Ray / ZDNet: |
Jamf will acquire Wandera, a provider of cloud-based software for zero trust security, to bridge consumer and enterprise needs, in a $400M cash and debt deal — Jamf said Wandera's software will bridge the divide between what consumers want out of their Mac and what enterprises needs to secure its operations.
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CRN, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, and Wandera
| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Palantir reports Q1 revenue of $341M, up 49% YoY, with $208M from government and $133M from commercial sources; Palantir has 149 customers, up from 125 in 2020 — - Palantir, the maker of software and analytics tools for the defense industry and large corporations, reported 49% revenue growth …
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Business Wire, SiliconANGLE, Bitcoin News, ZDNet, Crypto Briefing, Wccftech, The Block, and Cointelegraph
Tweets: @cmjomx, @palantir_news, and @lilmoonlambo
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Continuous software integration/delivery service CircleCI raises $100M at a $1.7B valuation and has acquired Vamp, a cloud-native release orchestration service — Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register fo r the AI event of the year. — CircleCI, a continuous integration and delivery …
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TechCrunch, CircleCI, SiliconANGLE, Silicon Canals, DevOps.com, DEVCLASS, and ZDNet
| Samantha Hurst / Crowdfund Insider: |
Brazil-based global payment network CloudWalk raises $190M Series B led by Coatue to accelerate its presence in Brazil — - Twitter- Facebook- LinkedIn- Pinterest- Reddit- HackerNews- Telegram- Weibo- Email- Print- Subscribe — CloudWalk, a Brazil-based payment technology network …
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REPAY, FinSMEs, and Business Wire
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
EA reports Q4 revenue of $1.35B, down from $1.39B YoY, and net income of $76M, down from $418M YoY, but says annual net bookings were up 15% YoY for FY 2021 — Did you miss GamesBeat Summit 2021? Watch on-demand here! — Electronic Arts reported lukewarm earnings today …
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EA, GamesIndustry.biz, and Wccftech
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