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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, Softpedia News, HotHardware.com News, XDA Developers, Android Police, The Register, CNET, Thurrott, Ars Technica, ZDNet, MUO, Petri, TechRadar, MSPoweruser, Tech Advisor, BleepingComputer, Tom's Hardware, Tom's Guide, OnMSFT.com, Engadget, Pocketnow, 9to5Google, Pureinfotech, and Neowin
Tweets: @bdsams, @alex, and @panos_panay
| 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, BleepingComputer, Engadget, and The Record
Tweets: @cisagov, @adam_k_levin, @cisajen, @b_fung, and @jimlangevin
| 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
| 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, BGR, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks, PhoneArena, iMore, MacDailyNews, iThinkDifferent, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, MacRumors, Apple Must, Bloomberg, Patently Apple, iMore, Financial Times, and AppleInsider
Tweets: @arjunkharpal, @neiltwitz, @neiltwitz, and @firstsquawk
| 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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Polygon, Ars Technica, XDA Developers, Pocket-lint, Android Police, Tom's Hardware, Slashdot, Tom's Guide, VideoCardz.com, PCMag, Game Developer, TechRadar, MobileSyrup, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, KnowTechie, Engadget, GameSpot, Android Headlines, Game Rant, Gameranx, Neowin, IGN, Destructoid, and thegamer.com
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| 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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Tweets: @marcan42, @arstechnica, @bsdphk, @mandy_seley, @ryanaraine, @alyssam_infosec, and @__phantomderp
| 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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BleepingComputer, DCD, 9to5Mac, XDA Developers, Engadget, Android Central, PC Gamer, iMore, Dot Esports, and Destructoid
Tweets: @discord, @illuviumio, and @lordravenscraft
| 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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Gizmodo, Engadget, The Verge, Fight for the Future, and Slashdot
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| Chris Mills Rodrigo / The Hill: |
YouTube permanently bans Fox News' Dan Bongino for trying to evade a previous suspension; the pro-Trump pundit previously said he planned to leave the platform — YouTube on Wednesday permanently banned conservative commentator Dan Bongino from the platform, saying he attempted to evade a previous suspension.
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Axios, The Daily Beast, The Wrap, HuffPost, UPI, National Review, Forbes, Raw Story, Mediaite, Deadline, The Post Millennial, Engadget, Reuters, New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Variety, Mashable, and Reclaim The Net
| 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, Reuters, FinSMEs, PR Newswire, The Daily Hodl, Bloomberg, CryptoSlate, Bitcoin News, Bitcoinist.com, SiliconANGLE, Crypto Daily, CoinGape, Coinspeaker, and Cointelegraph
Tweets: @fintechfrank, @hidenotslide, and @ryan_browne_
| 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, ZDNet, The Hill, New York Times, Reuters, Associated Press, Ars Technica, HotHardware.com News, TechSpot, Tech Xplore, TheStreet, Windows Central, Thurrott, CNBC, TechPowerUp, and Politico
Tweets: @sandramarco, @lewis_crofts, @blaw, and @lewis_crofts
| Lauren Rosenblatt / The Seattle Times: |
Amazon is ending its third-party “Sold by Amazon” program after Washington's AG found the company engaged in price fixing and the program was anticompetitive — Amazon is shutting down its “Sold by Amazon” program after an investigation from Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson found …
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Washington State, GeekWire, Washington Post, Engadget, ZDNet, Associated Press, Neowin, and Ars Technica
Tweets: @kristakbrown, @leah_nylen, @chriskeall, and @bobfergusonag
| 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 …
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ZDNet, Intel, Protocol, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, Channel Futures, and Wccftech
Tweets: @tiernanraytech, @kifleswing, @patrickmoorhead, and @ldignan
| 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, Fortune, and Insider
| 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, Reuters, PYMNTS.com, Protocol, Wealthfront Blog, Wealth Management, and The Block
| 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, iTnews, The Block, Finbold, ZDNet, CryptoSlate, BBC, Forkast, CoinDesk, and Reuters
| 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 … | 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, AppleInsider, The Verge, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks, and Apple Must
Tweets: @mishimakitan and @evacide
| 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.| 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, CryptoPotato, 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 the developer ecosystem for ETH-focused startup Polygon — 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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Android Central, Crowdfund Insider, 9to5Google, and banklesstimes.com
Tweets: @fwiz, @tehmoonwalker, @0xrooter, @artjonak, @alexisohanian, @cagyjan1, @johnlilic, and @cdixon
| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Polly, which offers tools to automate customer workflows for the mortgage industry, raises a $37M Series B led by Menlo Ventures — Polly, a SaaS technology startup aiming to “transform” the mortgage capital markets, announced today that it has raised $37 million in a Series B funding round led by Menlo Ventures.
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Inman, HousingWire, and National Mortgage News
Tweets: @fifthwallvc, @menloventures, and @bayareawriter
| 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,” … | Sohee Kim / Bloomberg: |
Samsung reports Q4 operating profit of ~$11.6B, up 53% YoY, on revenue of ~$63.8B, up 24% YoY, but misses on net income of ~$8.9B vs. ~$9.2B expected — Samsung Electronics Co.'s fourth-quarter profit missed analysts' estimates after the company distributed a special bonus and increased spending …
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Samsung Newsroom, Reuters, and SiliconANGLE
| 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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| 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 and The Register
Tweets: @potus, @carnage4life, @linustech, @mkolken, @wavesblog, @vice, @motherboard, and @glytchtech
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