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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, XDA Developers, Softpedia News, BGR, Android Central, BetaNews, HotHardware.com News, TechRadar, MSPoweruser, ExtremeTech, Ars Technica, Tom's Guide, Pocketnow, CNET, Petri IT Knowledgebase, Pureinfotech, BleepingComputer, Tech Advisor, Thurrott, 9to5Google, Engadget, Tom's Hardware, OnMSFT.com, Neowin, and ZDNet
Tweets: @bdsams, @alex, and @panos_panay
| 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, IGN, DCD, iMore, Dot Esports, XDA Developers, Engadget, 9to5Mac, Destructoid, Game Rant, Android Central, and PC Gamer
Tweets: @discord, @discord, @lordravenscraft, and @illuviumio
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is working on a service that will let businesses accept payments directly on their iPhones without any extra hardware, based on Mobeewave's tech — Apple Inc. is planning a new service that will let small businesses accept payments directly on their iPhones without any extra hardware …
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MacRumors, Reuters, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, and Ubergizmo
Tweets: @counternotions and @mattbirchler
| 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, Ubergizmo, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, KnowTechie, Tom's Guide, Engadget, PCMag, Pocket-lint, GameSpot, Android Headlines, Game Rant, Gameranx, MobileSyrup, Ars Technica, Neowin, IGN, TechRadar, Destructoid, thegamer.com, Tom's Hardware, XDA Developers, and Game Developer
Tweets: @steam, @sadlyitsbradley, @matttwood, @fourzerotwo, and @brianwfoster
| 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, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, NBC News, BleepingComputer, 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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The Verge, MacRumors, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, CNET, AppleInsider, AppleInsider, OS X Daily, Gizmodo, iMore, Engadget, iPhone Hacks, The Mac Observer, TechCrunch, MacRumors, Macworld, MacDailyNews, iDownloadBlog.com, Forbes, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, Ars Technica, TidBITS, iMore, AppleInsider, and Cult of Mac
| 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 Post Millennial, The Wrap, HuffPost, UPI, National Review, Forbes, Raw Story, Mediaite, Deadline, and Variety
| 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 …
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CNET, Ubergizmo, The Indian Express, Crypto Briefing, Engadget, and Social Media Today. Thanks:@nima_owji
| 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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Intel, ZDNet, Wall Street Journal, Tom's Hardware, Protocol, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, MarketWatch, Investor's Business Daily, VentureBeat, Barron's Online, The Verge, Bloomberg, Wccftech, and Channel Futures
Tweets: @dylan522p, @tiernanraytech, @kifleswing, @patrickmoorhead, and @ldignan
| Wall Street Journal: |
Source: Meta-backed Diem Association is selling its technology to California bank Silvergate Capital, which serves crypto companies, for ~$200M — Diem Association is selling its technology to crypto-focused bank Silvergate Capital for $200 million — Facebook's ambitious effort to bring cryptocurrency to the masses has failed.
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Blockworks, CoinDesk, and Benzinga
Tweets: @joshelman, @lucasmtny, @treyditto, @c_georgen, @paulvigna, and @lutherlowe
| 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, Slashdot, Associated Press, and Neowin
Tweets: @chriskeall, @kristakbrown, @bobfergusonag, and @leah_nylen
| 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, Fight for the Future, and Engadget
Tweets: @thevaliumsofa, @tonyajoriley, @hannahsassaman, @kurtopsahl, @evan_greer, and @hypervisible. Thanks:@timstarks
| 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, TechRadar, SiliconANGLE, Dark Reading, Gizchina, HotHardware.com News, The Register, Tom's Hardware, ComputerWeekly.com, WinBuzzer, Hackaday, Threatpost, iTnews, CSO, SecurityWeek, and The Hacker News
Tweets: @nsa_csdirector, @marcan42, @arstechnica, @zcobb, @bsdphk, @mandy_seley, @kylebrussell, @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, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks, BGR, iThinkDifferent, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, iMore, PhoneArena, and MacDailyNews
Tweets: @arjunkharpal, @divestech, @reuterstech, @neiltwitz, @neiltwitz, and @firstsquawk
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Substack plans to launch a native video player in beta next week that will let creators upload or record a video and embed it directly in a Substack post — Substack plans to launch a native video player next week in an effort to lure new creators to the platform, a spokesperson confirmed to Axios.| 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 … | 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 — Cybercriminals dealing in cryptocurrency share one common goal: Move their ill-gotten funds to a service where they can be kept safe …
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The Record, The Block, iTnews, Cointelegraph, Finbold, CryptoSlate, BBC, and ZDNet
| 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, CRN, Engadget, ZDNet, Reuters, The Hill, Politico, HotHardware.com News, TechSpot, Tech Xplore, New York Times, Windows Central, Thurrott, Associated Press, and TechPowerUp
Tweets: @lewis_crofts, @sandramarco, @lewis_crofts, @blaw, and @lewis_crofts
| 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.
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GSMArena.com, Engadget, Android Headlines, Pocketnow, Tech Advisor, The Streamable, and The Verge
Tweets: @mrinaldesai, @jasonnguyen648, and @iamrc32
| 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
| Kyle Alspach / VentureBeat: |
Slim.AI, which simplifies container security for developers, raises a $31M Series A co-led by Insight Partners and StepStone Group — The insecurity of the software supply chain has turned into an impossible-to-ignore issue. There are the high-profile compromises, including the SolarWinds and Kaseya supply chain attacks, of course.
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PR Newswire, slim.ai, SiliconANGLE, and SecurityWeek
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Dallas-based o9 Solutions, which offers AI analytics tools to let companies manage their supply chains, sales, and marketing, raises $295M at a $2.7B valuation — Investors are throwing capital behind supply chain products as the appetite for ecommerce explodes.| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Logixboard, which provides software to help freight forwarding companies manage their operations, raises a $32M Series B led by Insight Partners — The news: Logixboard, a Seattle startup that sells software to freight forwarding companies, raised $32 million. It follows a $13 million round raised in April.
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Logixboard, Logixboard, and Seattle Business Journal
| 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: @menloventures, @fifthwallvc, and @bayareawriter
| 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, The Verge, Apple Support, iPhone in Canada Blog, ZDNet, Apple Must, and iPhone Hacks
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