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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Discord CEO Jason Citron says the service has no plans to add crypto and NFT tools, following a backlash to an internal concept he shared on Twitter — Discord founder and CEO Jason Citron sought to reassure users Wednesday that the company doesn't have impending plans to shift its business toward NFTs.
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Tweets: @jasoncitron, @packym, @toadsanime, @haydenzadams, @doodlemancyart, @danisylvini, @panley01, @gempaw18, @cazlone, @coinerstakingls, @ithayla, @froggyfrogster, @joewintergreen, @asilbwrites, @ricburton, @lukellios, @antumbral, @flofluoro, @tayhatmaker, @mdudas, @fluffysmolcloud, @balajis, @tomwarren, @dclblogger, and @cdixon
| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Universal Music Group says it is creating a “band” called Kingship out of four Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs and plans to feature them in video games, VR, and more — Kingship, consisting of four virtual apes, reimagines the idea of a band — and a brand
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Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At, UMG, CoinDesk, Insider, Decrypt, We Got This Covered, HYPEBEAST, uDiscover Music, and CNET
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Amazon will let Prime users on iOS share video clips up to 30 seconds long for some of its content — You can now help Amazon with its marketing if you have iOS — Amazon has announced that it'll let you easily share video clips showing up to 30 seconds of some of its Prime Video content, right from the iOS app.
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About Amazon, TechCrunch, Mashable, SlashGear, Engadget, Apple Must, Android Central, and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @mattnavarra
| Owen Fernau / The Defiant: |
Ethereum Name Service's ENS token hits $1B market cap, just two days after its airdrop in which users received the token for free in their crypto wallets — ENS, the governance token of Ethereum Name Service, hit a market capitalization of $1.1B in early morning trading Eastern Standard Time.
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Google researchers found a watering hole attack in August exploiting a macOS zero-day and targeting Hong Kong pro-democracy sites; Apple patched on September 23 — “The nature of the activity and targeting is consistent with a government backed actor,” the Google researchers say.
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The Keyword, Wired, Objective-See's Blog, The Record, AppleInsider, and PCMag
| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Binance, which sources say could be worth $300B if it goes public, as its unfettered, unregulated growth comes to an end amid global scrutiny — The trading platform surged by operating from nowhere in particular—without offices, licenses or headquarters. Now governments are insisting on taking some control.
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Cointelegraph. Tweets: @ceostroff, @georgikantchev, @jasonzweigwsj, @kowsmann, @alexfrangos, @spencerchen, @tomfairless, and @kowsmann
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google creates a new Labs team under Clay Bavor, comprising its Area 120 incubator, AR and VR efforts, and Project Starline holographic video booth — Google Labs is back, but this time around, it's not a consumer-facing brand delivering a range of experimental products.| Rebecca Falconer / Axios: |
US joins a global cybersecurity partnership launched in 2018 with 80 countries and companies like Google and Microsoft, after declining to sign up under Trump — The U.S. is now part of an international agreement on cybersecurity that the Trump administration declined to sign up for …
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The White House, Washington Post, ZDNet, Engadget, The Keyword, The Register, and SecurityWeek
Tweets: @bradsmi, @vonderleyen, @vonderleyen, @vonderleyen, @kent_walker, @mytechmusings, @herbieziskend46, @wilsonstip, and @vp
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify acquires audiobook distributor Findaway and says it expects the deal to close in Q4 2021 — In an effort to expand beyond music, Spotify has been investing hundreds of millions to build out its podcasts business. Now the company has set its sights on another form of audio …
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Axios, Spotify, Billboard, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, Reuters, AppleInsider, Bloomberg, MSN, Engadget, Good e-Reader, and Variety
Tweets: @mignano, @stockthoughts81, @martinsfp, @sarthakgh, @adamlukas17, and @dcseifert
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Patreon CEO Jack Conte says the service is building native video hosting, which would reduce creators' reliance on YouTube — CEO Jack Conte: 'We're building a video product' — This story is part of a group of stories called — Patreon is building a video hosting solution and native player.
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Tweets: @ashleyrcarman, @glenngabe, @theryanford, and @backlon
| Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sony cuts PS5 production targets from 16M to 15M by March 2022 due to component and logistics constraints, as first-year PS5 sales fall behind PS4 — - Full-year PS5 sales goal at risk from production snags — Sony CFO warned Covid-19 still affecting output and supply
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Tweets: @6d6f636869, @tomwarren, and @vladsavov
| Sandra Upson / Wired: |
Profile of CryptoPunks, an NFT project founded by two Canadian developers in 2017, which has reached $1.5B in lifetime sales as NFTs explode in popularity — When two Canadian coders started an online project called CryptoPunks, they had no idea they'd spark a hyped-up, blockchain-fueled cultural juggernaut.
Tweets: @sandraupson, @carsonated, @artonblockchain, @wasthatawolf, @artnome, @glichfield, @vince_van_dough, @cozomomedici, and @kimzetter
| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
YouTube starts hiding public dislike counts on videos to keep smaller creators from being targeted by dislike attacks, following a test in March — Creators will still be able to see how many people disliked their videos — YouTube has announced that it'll be hiding public dislike counts on videos across its site, starting today.
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| Peter Kafka / Vox: |
Meta made over 21 acquisitions in the past three years, per PitchBook, including at least four VR startups in 2021; sources say it paid $500M+ for Within — Can Mark Zuckerberg M&A a new monopoly? — Of the many complaints about Facebook, one comes through consistently: It's just too big.| Emily Bary / MarketWatch: |
Weave Communications, which offers cloud tools for small business communications, drops 21.7% in its NYSE debut, after raising $120M in its IPO — ‘What QuickBooks is to small-business accounting, we will be to small-business customer communication,’ CEO says| Brian Ashcraft / Kotaku: |
Something Awful administrator says founder Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka has died at 45; founded in 1999, SA's influence over the contemporary web has been huge — Kyanka created the influential Something Awful website in 1999 — Longtime Something Awful forum administrator Fragmaster posted … | Reuters: |
Turkish delivery startup Getir, which promises 10-minute grocery deliveries, launches in Chicago, and plans to roll out in NYC and Boston by the end of 2021 — Turkey's ultrafast grocery-delivery company, Getir, said on Thursday it has launched operations in the United States …
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| Priya Anand / Bloomberg: |
Autonomous driving startup Embark Trucks closes at $8.80 per share in its Nasdaq debut, down 11.4%, after going public via a SPAC merger that valued it at $5.2B — Alex Rodrigues of Embark Trucks is one of the youngest to run a multibillion-dollar listed company.
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SiliconANGLE, FreightWaves, CNBC, and Silicon Valley Business …
Tweets: @sentimentrader and @startupandrew
| Helene Braun / CoinDesk: |
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez says the city will give residents a bitcoin yield from staking MiamiCoin — The city's mayor, Francis Suarez, announced the news on CoinDesk TV on Thursday. — The city of Miami will soon give out a “bitcoin yield” to its citizens from the staking of its cryptocurrency …
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Associated Press, Benzinga, The Hill, Cointelegraph, Forkast, refreshmiami.com, The Information, The Block, Crypto Briefing, Bitcoin Magazine, and Decrypt
Tweets: @francissuarez, @johnmoralesnbc6, @thecryptolark, and @silvermanjacob
| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Chile-based Houm, which uses AI to help users find the optimal rental or sale price of a property based on similar properties nearby, raises a $35M Series A — Less than six months after raising $8 million in seed funding, Chilean proptech startup Houm has raised $35 million in a Series …
Tweets: @ycombinator, @levynews, and @bayareawriter
| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Trend Micro report details the activities of hacker-for-hire group Void Balaur, which has targeted US telecom companies and others since the mid-2010s — Cyber-security firm Trend Micro has published today a 46-page report detailing the history and activity of a hacker-for-hire group …
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The Hacker News, Threatpost, Candid.Technology, infosecurity-magazine.com, and TechRadar. Tweets: @ericgarland
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