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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Robinhood files for long-awaited IPO, says it will set aside up to 35% of shares for retail investors — Popular trading app Robinhood on Thursday filed for its initial public offering, and disclosed that it will set aside up to 35% of shares for retail investors who rarely get to buy at a company's IPO price.
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| Austin Carr / Bloomberg: |
Documents and interviews detail how a junior Microsoft engineer exploited a bug to generate Xbox gift card codes worth $10.1M+ before his arrest in Nov. 2020 — The Xbox gift card came with a string of 25 letters and numbers. The digits, known as a 5x5 code, were sent in an email …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
TikTok is rolling out longer videos of up to three minutes, up from one minute, to all users over the coming weeks, after testing them since December — Now up to three minutes — TikToks are about to get longer. The app is now rolling out the ability for everyone to publish videos …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
NSA, FBI, and others say Russian hacking group Fancy Bear has been using Kubernetes to run brute force attacks on US and foreign organizations since mid-2019 — US and UK cybersecurity agencies said today that a Russian military cyber unit has been behind a series of brute-force attacks …
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NSA.gov, BleepingComputer, Wired, ZDNet, The Independent, The Hill, NBC News, Forbes, CyberScoop, CNN, Dark Reading, SecurityWeek, and SC Media
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| Politico: |
Former Trump spokesman Jason Miller leads GETTR, a Twitter-like service that bills itself as a “non-bias social network”, in the newest pro-MAGA tech venture — GETTR will be the newest MAGA venture in this space. It's being led by Trump's former spokesman, Jason Miller.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Articulate, which offers SaaS products that Amazon and other companies use to create training courses for employees, raises $1.5B Series A at a $3.75B valuation — Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out.
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Adam Mosseri says Instagram plans to test video more broadly, calls TikTok and YouTube competitors, and says Instagram is “no longer a photo-sharing app” — - Facebook's head of Instagram said the service plans to start showing users full-screen, recommended videos in their feeds.
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| Jason Snell / Six Colors: |
As Apple releases macOS Monterey public beta, an in-depth look at Focus, iCloud Private Relay, Safari's revamped UI, FaceTime, SharePlay, and other new features — If there's a theme of Apple's operating-system releases in 2021, it's platform unification. This development is most significant …
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| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Sources: IBM's company-wide email migration, 18 months in the making, has left many employees unable to use email or schedule calendar events for several days — IBM's planned company-wide email migration has gone off the rails, leaving many employees unable to use email or schedule calendar events.| Eugene Kim / Insider: |
Sources: Amazon is discussing forming a “Rebel Alliance” with Slack and other companies to challenge Microsoft's dominance of the work-productivity app market — - Amazon has discussed creating a software bundle with other companies to compete with Microsoft.
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| Politico: |
Around 130 countries, including all G20 nations, agree to a global tax deal, aimed at world's 100 biggest companies and setting minimum corporate rates at 15% — The world's largest economies agreed Thursday to sweeping changes to the global tax system, despite staunch opposition …
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| Reuters: |
Putin signs a law forcing foreign tech companies with a daily audience in Russia of over 500,000 people to open offices in the country by 2022 — President Vladimir Putin has signed a law that obliges foreign social media giants to open offices in Russia, a document published by the government … | Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Days before Bezos steps aside, Amazon adds two points to its 14 corporate values, requiring staff to consider welfare of coworkers and society at large — - Workers now required to consider employee welfare, society — Employees are hired, evaluated on how they conform to list
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GeekWire, About Amazon, Insider, fossbytes.com, and CNBC
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| Nina Bambysheva / Forbes: |
Brazil's largest crypto exchange Mercado Bitcoin raises $200M Series B from SoftBank Latin America Fund, valuing its parent company 2TM Group at $2.1B — I cover cryptocurrencies and other applications of blockchain — Brazil's leading cryptocurrency exchange, Mercado Bitcoin raised $200 million …
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Business Wire, TechCrunch, The Block, Bitcoin Magazine, Crowdfund Insider, cryptodaily.co.uk, Reuters, Crypto Briefing, and CoinDesk
Tweets: @marceloclaure and @bayareawriter
| Saqib Shah / Engadget: |
Facebook is making its free cloud gaming service for desktop and Android available to 98% of mainland US and partners with Ubisoft — Oculus VR and livestreams, Facebook's gaming ambitions also include the cloud. Today, the company is making free game streaming available to 98 percent …
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Facebook, 9to5Mac, Reuters, and SlashGear
Tweets: @pucknorris, @alexvoica, and @facebookgaming
| Michelle F Davis / Bloomberg: |
Olive, which is developing AI bots to automate healthcare administration tasks, raises $400M at a $4B valuation, seven months after being valued at $1.5B — Olive, a digital-health startup looking to use technology to help health-care firms automate tasks, has closed a funding round that values …
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PR Newswire, afrotech.com, Columbus Business Journal, and MobiHealthNews. Tweets: @wallstreetpaper
| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Google updates its Passes API to let users store COVID vaccine cards on Android devices, starting in the US, and says it won't keep a copy of user's information — Google has announced today that Google Pay is now capable of saving and displaying COVID-19 vaccination cards on Android …
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Google Developers Blog, Gizmodo, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, KnowTechie, CNET, t3.com, phonearena.com, PCMag, Android Headlines, BGR India, and TechSpot
Tweets: @drericding and @caesars
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
CISA releases a new self-assessment tool to help organizations understand how well they are equipped to defend against and recover from ransomware attacks — The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released the Ransomware Readiness Assessment (RRA), a new module for its Cyber Security Evaluation Tool (CSET).
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us-cert.cisa.gov, Dark Reading, and ComputerWeekly.com
Tweets: @cisagov, @malwarebytes, and @adam_k_levin
| Jonathan Zittrain / The Atlantic: |
A look at link rot, and projects like Perma, which are trying to give authors of enduring documents like scholarly papers a way to preserve links permanently — Sixty years ago the futurist Arthur C. Clarke observed that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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Financial Times. Tweets: @samvilkins, @jonahedwards, @paulg, @zittrain, @heghoulian, @adriennelaf, @matthewkeyslive, @grimmelm, @film_girl, @drewsthatdude, @lanceulanoff, @prof_gabriele, @berkmanonlyfans, @anjacks0n, @lljohnston, and @ethanz
| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
Facebook, Google, Twitter, and TikTok sign up to pledge led by WWWF, to overhaul their moderation systems to tackle the abuse of women on their platforms — Facebook, Google, Twitter and TikTok commit to overhaul their platform's moderation systems — Four of the world's largest social networks …
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| Trilby Beresford / Hollywood Reporter: |
Singularity 6, which is developing an MMO community sim game called Palia, raises $30M Series B led by FunPlus Ventures, with a16z and others participating — ‘Palia’ is a massively-multiplayer simulation game designed for players to build friendships and community.
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VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Bleeding Cool, and GameSpot
| ACLU: |
Maine enacts the strongest statewide facial recognition law in the US, prohibiting the use of facial recognition tech in public schools and most police work — AUGUSTA, Maine - Maine has enacted the country's strongest statewide facial recognition law. Maine's law prohibits the use …
| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Karat Financial, which offers banking solutions to creators, gig workers, and other self-employed workers, raises $26M Series A led by Union Square Ventures — The creator economy is changing the way that people earn a living, whether you're an Instagram influencer or a freelance graphic designer.| BBC: |
Amazon launches Echo Dot Kids Edition in the UK, several years after it was made available in the US — Amazon is launching a child-friendly version of its Echo Dot smart speaker in the UK, several years after it was made available in the US. — The speaker - which comes with either … | David Cohen / Adweek: |
Pinterest updates its ad policies to prohibit ads containing weight loss language and imagery — It worked with the National Eating Disorders Association on its updated policy — Ads promoting healthy lifestyles and habits or fitness services and products will still be allowedSponsor Posts
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2025: World Password Day is now also World Passkey Day — Since 2013, the first Thursday of May has been recognized as World Password Day to spread awareness about good password practices and protecting our online accounts.
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
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