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Apple confirms it removed several Wordle clones from the App Store, after some app developers capitalized on the online guessing game's popularity — Apple Inc. removed several Wordle games from its App Store after users confused them with another word-play title popularized by Jimmy Fallon and other celebrities.
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Microsoft hires veteran semiconductor designer Mike Filippo from Apple; sources say Filippo will work on developing homegrown chips for Azure servers — Microsoft Corp. lured away a veteran semiconductor designer from Apple Inc. as it looks to expand its own server-chips efforts, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
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| Justin Hendrix / Tech Policy Press: |
Over 260 health professionals call on Spotify to create a misinformation policy, after a discredited scientist spread COVID-19 misinfo on Joe Rogan's podcast — More than 260 doctors, nurses, scientists, health professionals and others have signed an open letter calling …
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| Michael McSweeney / The Block: |
Coinbase says it is acquiring FairX, a CFTC-regulated derivatives exchange, and plans to bring crypto derivatives to its US customers — Coinbase is acquiring FairX, a CFTC-regulated derivatives exchange. — The exchange company announced the move on Wednesday, saying … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Austria's data protection watchdog upholds a decision that a local website using Google Analytics violates GDPR, a potential issue for US cloud services — A decision by Austria's data protection watchdog upholding a complaint against a website related to its use of Google Analytics does …
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Canalys: worldwide PC shipments grew 15% YoY in 2021 to 341M, the highest annual number since 2012; Apple shipped 28.3% more units, Acer 21.8%, and Dell 18% — It would be easy to think PC sales dropped worldwide last year amid chip shortages, but that conventional thinking would be wrong.
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| Martin Matishak / The Record: |
US Cyber Command says malware group MuddyWater is tied to Iranian intelligence, the first time the US government has publicly linked the threat actor to Tehran — U.S. Cyber Command on Wednesday revealed that a hacking group reputed for its cyberespionage campaigns is actually part of Iran's intelligence apparatus.
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| Reuters: |
TSMC reports Q4 revenue rose 24.1% YoY to $15.74B as net profit reached $6.01B; capex will reach $40B to $44B in 2022, up from $30B in 2021 — Taiwanese chip firm TSMC expects strong growth to accelerate in coming years due to booming semiconductor demand, as the tech giant on Thursday reported … | Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: |
China's state-backed Blockchain Services Network (BSN) will roll out infrastructure to support NFTs; the NFTs will not be linked to cryptocurrencies — The BSN-Distributed Digital Certificate does not support crypto-transacted NFTs, and will allow businesses and individuals to build apps …
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| Felix Onuah / Reuters: |
Nigeria will lift its ban on Twitter after suspending it on June 4, 2021; Twitter decided to open an office in Nigeria, among other agreements — Nigeria will lift a ban on Twitter (TWTR.N) from midnight after the social media platform agreed to open a local office, among other agreements …
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| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
Krafton, which makes PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, sues Apple and Google, arguing that neither company removed a game that allegedly copies PUBG — (Reuters) - The maker of the popular game “PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds” says in a new U.S. lawsuit that a Singapore-based company …
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| Rachel Pannett / Washington Post: |
Privacy advocates criticize German police in Mainz for commandeering data from the Luca contact-tracing app for an investigation — Authorities in Germany are under fire for tracking down witnesses to a potential crime by using data from a mobile phone app that was intended … | Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says no changes were made in iOS 15.2 that would've toggled iCloud Private Relay off and that no carriers have blocked its users from using the feature — Some iPhone users this week noticed that iCloud Private Relay suddenly stopped working with their cellular connections.
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
FCC proposes stricter data breach reporting rules, including a mandate to notify customers of “inadvertent” breaches, scrapping a one-week wait period, and more — The Federal Communications Commission is the next US regulator hoping to hold companies more accountable for data breaches.
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The Record, Fierce Wireless, DataBreaches.net, and IT Management
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| Michael D McDonald / Bloomberg: |
Analysis: El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele has likely lost $10M on his bitcoin purchases, after spending $71M on 1,391 BTC at ~$51K — - Government's process for buying Bitcoin is shrouded in secrecy — Nation's Bitcoins worth 14% less than average acquisition cost| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Buy now, pay later service Accrue Savings, which aims to help customers save money, raises a $25M Series A led by Tiger Global — Buy now, pay later has grown to be an alternative to credit cards, with the trend generating $100 billion in sales last year, more than four times 2020.
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| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
Second Life founder Philip Rosedale says he is returning to its parent company to help it expand into the metaverse — Philip Rosedale is coming back to the digital world he created to help inject growth — The founder of Second Life, one of the earliest digital-reality worlds, is returning for a second stint to take on big tech.
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CNET, VentureBeat, and Second Life Community
| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Seattle-based Highspot, which makes software for training and managing sales staff, raises a $248M Series F at a $3.5B valuation, bringing its funding to $600M+ — The news: Highspot raised another big round, this time reeling in $248 million as part of a Series F round.| Bloomberg: |
Twitter's “work from anywhere” policy helped increase Black employees in the US to 9.4% in 2021, up from 6.9% in 2020; women are 44.7% of its global workforce — Twitter Inc.'s early shift to a “work from anywhere” model during the pandemic as well as implementation of a requirement …
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| Becky Bracken / Threatpost: |
Researchers report that a record 2,240 third-party WordPress plugin vulnerabilities were disclosed in 2021, up 142% YoY, of which 77% have known public exploits — Last year brought forth much more than a Ben Affleck-Jennifer Lopez reunion - analysts found the number of exploitable WordPress plugin vulnerabilities exploded.
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Candid.Technology, Risk Based Security, iTWire, IT World Canada, and TechRadar. Tweets: @adam_k_levin
| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
A look at the Buy Nothing Project, which grew via Facebook Groups of neighbors gifting unwanted items and which now has 7K communities across 44 countries — In the same week, Katylin has seen a banana and a boat given away between neighbors, no strings attached.
Tweets: @russellholly
| Shashank Pathak / Entrackr: |
Chicago- and Bengaluru-based TheMathCompany, which offers data analytics tools, raises $50M led by Brighton Park Capital — TheMathCompany, a data analytics and data engineering firm, has raised $50 million in a new round of funding led by Brighton Park Capital. Arihant Patni has also participated in this round.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sensor Tower: Instagram became the world's most downloaded app in Q4 2021, its best quarter since 2014 with installs up 10% QoQ, followed by TikTok and Facebook — Instagram is benefiting from TikTok's ban in India, and has now reclaimed the top spot in terms of total global downloads as of the fourth quarter of 2021.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India-based LEAD School, which is helping digitize affordable private schools, raises a $100M Series E at a $1.1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $170M — Despite the recent boom of consumer-focused education learning platforms in India, the vast majority of students in the South Asian nation remain unserved.
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