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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft plans to launch a public preview of Android apps for Windows 11, taskbar improvements, redesigned Notepad and Media Player apps, and more in February — New Notepad and Media Player apps also on the way — Microsoft is planning to launch a public preview of its Android apps …
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Windows Blog, HotHardware.com News, The Register, CNET, Android Police, Thurrott, Ars Technica, PCWorld, XDA Developers, Windows Report, Pocketnow, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, ZDNet, Petri, MSPoweruser, Tech Advisor, BleepingComputer, Tom's Hardware, OnMSFT.com, Engadget, 9to5Google, Pureinfotech, and Neowin. Tweets: @alex
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Discord experienced a widespread API outage, preventing many users from joining calls or chatting; Discord says services are back online after over two hours — A major outage was affecting Discord — Discord experienced a widespread outage Wednesday afternoon, preventing many users from connecting to the communications app.
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9to5Mac, XDA Developers, Engadget, BleepingComputer, PC Gamer, Destructoid, Dot Esports, and iMore
Tweets: @discord, @discord, and @lordravenscraft
| Ivan Lam / Counterpoint Research: |
Smartphone sales in China fell 9% YoY in Q4 2021 as full-year sales dropped 2% YoY; Apple became China's top vendor in Q4 after six years with 23% market share — - Smartphone sales in China declined (9% YoY) for the third consecutive quarter in Q4 2021. — Full-year smartphone sales declined …
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Reuters, 9to5Mac, Reuters, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, iMore, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks, MacRumors, AppleInsider, PhoneArena, Patently Apple, Financial Times, MacDailyNews, iThinkDifferent, Apple Must, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @arjunkharpal, @neiltwitz, @neiltwitz, and @firstsquawk
| Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers find a 12-year-old vulnerability in Polkit that local attackers can use to gain root privileges on all major Linux distributions; an exploit is out — A vulnerability in Polkit's pkexec component that is present in the default configuration of all major Linux distributions …
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Qualys Security Blog. More:
Ars Technica, BleepingComputer, Security Affairs, HotHardware.com News, Tom's Hardware, and Threatpost
Tweets: @arstechnica, @marcan42, @bsdphk, @mandy_seley, @ryanaraine, @alyssam_infosec, and @__phantomderp
| Corin Faife / The Verge: |
The White House tells agencies to adopt a zero trust cybersecurity strategy, including using hardware-based authentication tools over push notifications or SMS — Federal departments will have two months to outline their response — The White House released a new cybersecurity strategy Wednesday aimed …
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The White House, CNN, ZDNet, The Hill, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, BleepingComputer, and The Record
Tweets: @adam_k_levin, @cisajen, @cisagov, @b_fung, and @jimlangevin
| Dave Lee / Financial Times: |
Sources: Amazon has abandoned its campaign of paying warehouse employees to post positive social media messages, started in 2018, after embarrassing backfires — Paying warehouse workers to tweet positive comments is dropped after poor reach and embarrassing backfires
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Ars Technica, Protocol, and Insider
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases iOS 15.3 and macOS Monterey 12.2 with a fix for the IndexedDB API bug in Safari, as well as iPadOS 15.3, watchOS 8.4, tvOS 15.3, and HomePod 15.3 — Apple's latest round of software updates is now rolling out to the public. iOS 15.3 is now available to iPhone users …
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Tweets: @slightlylate and @apollozac
| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Valve will release the Steam Deck on February 25 and says reservations will be filled in weekly batches, after supply chain issues delayed its launch last year — You'll need a reservation — Valve announced that the Steam Deck will go on sale starting February 25th.
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TechCrunch, Ars Technica, XDA Developers, Tom's Hardware, Android Police, Game Developer, VideoCardz.com, Polygon, PCMag, Tom's Guide, Engadget, Destructoid, KnowTechie, TechRadar, Game Rant, MobileSyrup, Twinfinite, Android Headlines, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Neowin, IGN, GameSpot, Gameranx, and thegamer.com
Tweets: @steam and @fourzerotwo
| Tonya Riley / CyberScoop: |
ID.me backtracks and admits to using “1:many facial recognition” across large databases, which last week it called more “problematic” than “1:1 face matching” — Identity verification company ID.me uses a type of powerful facial recognition that searches …
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Engadget, The Verge, Slashdot, and Fight for the Future
Tweets: @hannahsassaman, @evan_greer, @thevaliumsofa, @tonyajoriley, and @kurtopsahl. Thanks:@timstarks
| Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg: |
The EU General Court overturns a record €1.06B fine for Intel, levied in 2009 over allegedly squeezing out AMD, saying that EU regulators made key errors — Intel Corp. won a historic victory in its court fight over a record 1.06 billion-euro ($1.2 billion) competition fine …
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EU General Court, Reuters, The Hill, New York Times, TechSpot, HotHardware.com News, Associated Press, Tech Xplore, CNBC, TheStreet, Politico, Windows Central, Thurrott, and TechPowerUp
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
After reports of AirTags being used for stalking, Apple releases a Personal Safety User Guide, covering AirTags alerts, information for Android users, and more — Apple has launched a new “Personal Safety User Guide” that aggregates details and support documents that can help users “when your personal safety is at risk.”
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pahouse.com, ZDNet, Apple Support, The Verge, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks, Apple Must, and PhoneArena
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| Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
Crypto exchange FTX's American affiliate, FTX.US, raises $400M at an $8B valuation from Paradigm, SoftBank, Temasek, and others, its first outside funding — FTX's American affiliate, FTX.US, has joined the crypto unicorn club after closing its first-ever fundraising round.
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CNBC, PR Newswire, Reuters, Bloomberg, SiliconANGLE, CryptoSlate, Bitcoin News, Bitcoinist.com, CoinGape, Crypto Daily, Coinspeaker, Cointelegraph, and CoinDesk
Tweets: @fintechfrank, @hidenotslide, and @ryan_browne_
| Chainalysis: |
Criminals laundered $8.6B worth of cryptocurrency in 2021, up from $6.6B in 2020 but below $10.9B in 2019; 47% of the funds went to exchanges, 17% went to DeFi — This blog is a preview of our 2022 Crypto Crime Report. Sign up here to reserve your copy and we'll email you the full report when it comes out in February!
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| Kim Zetter / The Verge: |
How hacker Joe Grand used a fault-injection attack to crack a Trezor One hardware wallet to recover $2M in cryptocurrency for two friends who forgot the PIN — In early 2018, Dan Reich and a friend decided to spend $50,000 in Bitcoin on a batch of Theta tokens, a new cryptocurrency then worth just 21 cents apiece.
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CryptoPotato, Crypto Daily, and Decrypt
Tweets: @kimzetter, @fleming77, @nick_kapur, @0xcharlie, @kimzetter, @cmwdotme, @kimzetter, and @kimzetter
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Ryan Wyatt, YouTube's gaming head who oversaw big deals to poach Twitch's star streamers, leaves to grow Ethereum scaling startup Polygon's developer ecosystem — Ryan Wyatt will be at YouTube until the end of February — Ryan Wyatt, YouTube's head of gaming who oversaw some of its big deals …
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9to5Google, Crowdfund Insider, Android Central, and banklesstimes.com
Tweets: @fwiz, @tehmoonwalker, @0xrooter, @artjonak, @alexisohanian, @cagyjan1, @johnlilic, and @cdixon
| Bloomberg: |
Swiss bank UBS to acquire robo-adviser Wealthfront, which has 470K+ US clients, for $1.4B in cash, as it aims to use AI to pitch services to the world's wealthy — UBS Group AG agreed to buy U.S. robo-adviser Wealthfront for $1.4 billion in cash, as Chief Executive Officer Ralph Hamers tapped …
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Business Wire, Axios, PYMNTS.com, Reuters, Protocol, Wealthfront Blog, Wealth Management, and The Block
Tweets: @pitdesi, @adamnash, @kr00ney, @almostcmb, @howardlindzon, @mrwainaina_, @optionshawk, @michaelkitces, @billwinterberg, @mebfaber, @econompic, @wealthfront, and @bgurley
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Intel reports Q4 revenue of $19.5B, up 4% YoY vs. estimates of $18.31B, Data Center Group revenue of $7.3B, up 20% YoY, IoT Group revenue of $1.1B, up 36% YoY — - Intel reported fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday. — Intel's largest business, its Client Computing Group … | Eric Martin / Bloomberg: |
The IMF's board urges El Salvador to strip Bitcoin of its status as legal currency due to its large risks, a major obstacle to the country's $1.3B loan request — The International Monetary Fund's board urged El Salvador to strip Bitcoin of its status as legal currency due to its large risks …
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International Monetary Fund. More:
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Tweets: @sentletse, @kr00ney, @gladstein, @excellion, @nouriel, and @pt
| Abid Rahman / Hollywood Reporter: |
Disney says Disney+ will launch in 42 countries and 11 territories this summer, including South Africa, Turkey, Poland, Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE — The streaming service will debut in new countries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.| Jason Koebler / VICE: |
President Biden backs consumers' right to repair and acknowledges the anticompetitive practices of electronics manufacturers — “Too many areas, if you own a product, from a smartphone to a tractor, you don't have the freedom to choose how or where to repair that item you purchased.”
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ZDNet, ExtremeTech, and The Register
Tweets: @potus, @glytchtech, @carnage4life, @wavesblog, @vice, @linustech, @mkolken, and @motherboard
| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Estonia-based Veriff, which uses AI-powered video to verify identities, raises a $100M Series C led by Tiger Global and Alkeon — Identity verification (IDV) provider Veriff, has raised a $100M Series C round co-led by Tiger Global and Alkeon. They were joined by existing investors IVP and Accel …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Tel Aviv-based Firebolt, whose cloud data warehouse analyzes large datasets, raises a $100M Series C at a $1.4B valuation, bringing its total funding to ~$270M — Israeli startup Firebolt has been taking on Google's BigQuery, Snowflake and others with a cloud data warehouse solution …
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FinSMEs, Barron's Online, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, CTech, Reuters, and Database Trends …
| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
VR game studio Alta raises a $12.4M seed led by Makers Fund and Andreessen Horowitz at a $62M valuation after releasing popular Oculus game A Township Tale — Alta, a virtual reality metaverse studio, announced today it has raised a 12.4 million seed funding co-led by Makers Fund and Andreessen Horowitz.
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VentureBeat, Australian Financial Review, and Road to VR
| George Anadiotis / ZDNet: |
MinIO, which offers popular open-source tools for multi-cloud storage, raises a $103M Series B at a $1B valuation led by Intel Capital — MinIO, the de facto open source standard for multi-cloud storage, took an early bet in the cloud. The bet is paying off. — Back in 2014, the world was a different place.
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VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, MiketheBBop Newsletter, MinIO Blog, Insider, FinSMEs, CRN, and GlobeNewswire News Room
| Tiernan Ray / ZDNet: |
Qualtrics reports Q4 revenue of $316M, up 48% YoY vs. est. $298M, subscription revenue of $259M, up 61% YoY, and saw its first fiscal year with revenue over $1B — Qualtrics, the subsidiary of SAP that brands itself as “a business operating system for Experience Management,” … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Reddit is conducting a “small, internal test” of a feature that lets users set any NFT they own as their profile picture — Reddit is testing a feature that would allow its users to set any NFT they own as their profile picture — not only its own Ethereum-based NFTs, called … | Financial Times: |
A look at the dispute between Muslim marriage matchmaking app Muzmatch, which has 5M global users, and Match, which says Muzmatch benefits from a similar name — Since launching Muzmatch out of his bedroom in north London a decade ago, Shahzad Younas has worked 18-hour days to build the Muslim marriage app with 5m users worldwide.
Tweets: @muradahmed and @fqure
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