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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, The Register, CNET, Thurrott, Ars Technica, PCWorld, BetaNews, BleepingComputer, Tech Advisor, TechRadar, 9to5Google, Tom's Guide, Engadget, Tom's Hardware, ZDNet, XDA Developers, Petri, MSPoweruser, OnMSFT.com, Pureinfotech, and Neowin. Tweets: @alex
| 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, HotHardware.com News, Tom's Hardware, Threatpost, Security Affairs, The Hacker News, Neowin, and iTnews
Tweets: @marcan42, @mandy_seley, @bsdphk, @ryanaraine, @alyssam_infosec, and @__phantomderp
| 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, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks, iMore, MacRumors, AppleInsider, PhoneArena, Patently Apple, Financial Times, MacDailyNews, iThinkDifferent, Apple Must, Bloomberg, and iClarified
Tweets: @arjunkharpal, @neiltwitz, @neiltwitz, and @firstsquawk
| 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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The Verge, 9to5Mac, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, ZDNet, Engadget, TechCrunch, Macworld, MacRumors, Forbes, AppleInsider, AppleInsider, AppleInsider, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, MacDailyNews, iMore, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, iMore, and iPhone Hacks. Tweets: @apollozac
| 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 and Insider
Tweets: @muradahmed, @martinsfp, @patrickmcgee_, @ashleygjovik, @carnage4life, @quinnypig, and @counternotions
| 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, The Hill, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, BleepingComputer, The Record, and FedScoop
Tweets: @adam_k_levin, @cisajen, @cisagov, @b_fung, and @jimlangevin
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Meta-backed Diem Association is talking to investment bankers about selling its IP to return capital to investors and giving its engineers a new home — The controversial cryptocurrency project that Mark Zuckerberg once defended in front of Congress is unraveling after regulatory pressure.
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The Verge, Ars Technica, XDA Developers, Financial Times, New York Post, Attack of the 50 Foot …, PYMNTS.com, Fortune, Blockworks, Bitcoinist.com, beToken my Friend ES, beToken my Friend EN, CryptoSlate, Protocol, Crypto Daily, Engadget, CNBC, Web3 News, KnowTechie, Coinspeaker, TechCircle, Finextra, Cointelegraph, Decrypt, South China Morning Post, and Crowdfund Insider
Tweets: @jack, @davidmarcus, @sarahfrier, @mshannahmurphy, @mathewi, @jamespmcleod, @ryan_browne_, @thinkingcrypto1, @kwerb, @bitfinexed, @malwarejake, @iamdcinvestor, @om, @alexeheath, @ggollerk, @fintechfrank, @terronk, @pt, @finplankaluaja1, @mdudas, @lopp, @ivanthek, @gladstein, @ansonzeall, @amerliberal, and @caseynewton
| 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, SiliconANGLE, Reuters, Bloomberg, Bitcoin News, CoinDesk, CryptoSlate, Bitcoinist.com, Cointelegraph, Coinspeaker, CoinGape, Crypto Daily, and CryptoPotato
Tweets: @fintechfrank, @hidenotslide, and @ryan_browne_
| 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, Android Central, New York Post, Waivly, and South China Morning Post
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| 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: @kr00ney, @sentletse, @gladstein, @excellion, @nouriel, and @pt
| 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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Crypto Daily, Decrypt, and Cointelegraph
Tweets: @kimzetter, @fleming77, @nick_kapur, @0xcharlie, @kimzetter, @kimzetter, @kimzetter, and @cmwdotme
| 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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The Record, Finbold, BBC, The Block, ZDNet, CryptoSlate, CoinDesk, Forkast, and Reuters
| 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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Apple. More:
The Verge, pahouse.com, Apple Support, Apple Must, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks, PhoneArena, and MacStories
Tweets: @mishimakitan, @evacide, @hondanhon, @andrewmohawk, and @mattahorton
| 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.| 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, CRN, HotHardware.com News, Politico, Reuters, Windows Central, Thurrott, TechPowerUp, Associated Press, Tech Xplore, CNBC, TheStreet, and Barron's Online
Tweets: @blaw, @sandramarco, @lewis_crofts, and @lewis_crofts
| 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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The Register and ZDNet
Tweets: @potus, @glytchtech, @carnage4life, @wavesblog, @vice, @linustech, @mkolken, @motherboard, @sensusaneggman, @patriciafahy109, @karlbode, @stevesi, @whitehouse, @kellymakena, and @digiphile
| 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 … | 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
| Bloomberg: |
Swiss bank UBS to acquire robo-adviser Wealthfront, which has 470K+ clients in the US, for $1.4B, as it looks 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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Axios, Reuters, The Block, Wealthfront Blog, and Wealth Management
Tweets: @howardlindzon, @econompic, @wealthfront, and @bgurley
| 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, CRN, MinIO Blog, Insider, FinSMEs, and GlobeNewswire News Room
| 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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VentureBeat, CTech, SiliconANGLE, Reuters, and Database Trends …
| 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 … | Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
CaptivateIQ, a no-code service for creating sales commission plans, raises a $100M Series C at a $1.25B valuation, after raising a $46M Series B in April 2021 — Less than 10 months after raising a $46 million Series B, CaptivateIQ announced today that it has raised $100 million in a Series C round at a $1.25 billion valuation.
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SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, and PR Newswire
| 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
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Satya Nadella says Microsoft Teams topped 270M MAUs in the December quarter, up from 250M MAUs in July 2021 — Microsoft's Teams communications and collaboration platform topped 270 million monthly active users in the December quarter, continuing to add users but at a much slower pace than in the initial months of the pandemic.
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CRN, The Verge, Slashdot, TechRadar, diginomica, and TrueAchievements
| Aaron Tilley / Wall Street Journal: |
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The Verge, Search Engine Land, Cloud Computing News, The Register, Silicon Republic, Bloomberg, and TechRadar
Tweets: @lanceulanoff, @zhugeex, @counternotions, and @tomwarren
| Shannon Liao / Washington Post: |
Activision Blizzard declines to voluntarily recognize a union formed by 34 QA testers at Raven Software, after failing to reach an agreement with the CWA — Activision Blizzard did not respond to workers' request for recognition of a union formed by quality assurance testers at Raven Software, the workers said Tuesday evening.
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TechCrunch, Polygon, Kotaku, Insider, Bloomberg, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, GamesIndustry.biz, GameSpot, Neowin, and PC Games Insider
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