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Sources: Cisco made a takeover offer worth $20B+ for big data analytics service Splunk; the companies aren't currently in active talks — Offer was made recently though it isn't clear where things currently stand, according to people familiar with the matter
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Review of 80K+ donations to the Canadian “Freedom Convoy” reveal a Bangladeshi digital marketing firm helmed two of the biggest Facebook groups promoting events — As American politicians call for stateside convoys, a Grid investigation finds signs that foreign actors, QAnon and hate pervade the movement's support.
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Google says it paid $8.7M in 2021, up from $6.7M in 2020, to 696 researchers from 62 countries as part of its bug bounty program — In the yearly review of its vulnerability rewards program (VRP), Google said on Thursday that it awarded more than $8.7 million to security researchers in the form …
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A real life test to secretly follow a person using AirTags, Tiles, and a LandAirSea GPS tracker — A vast location-tracking network is being built around us so we don't lose our keys: One couple's adventures in the consumer tech surveillance state. — In mid-January, my husband and I were having an argument.
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| Tim Marchman / VICE: |
A profile of the couple charged with laundering ~$5B in stolen bitcoin, compiled from sources, filings, databases, documents, and an extensive online record — Heather Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein wanted to be famous. Now, after being accused of laundering billions of dollars of crypto, they are.
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A deep dive into Android 13's new features and changes, including a photo picker, per-app language preferences, Quick Settings tiles, a Hub mode, and UI changes — Although Google only just unveiled the final beta release of Android 12L, the feature update for tablets and other large screen devices …
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A look at Ethereum Name Service DAO token holders' vote to remove Brantly Millegan over his bigoted views by re-delegating their tokens away from him — The public face of Ethereum Name Service did a bad tweet. Does web3 fix this? — An aspiration that people have for what we have taken to calling … | Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel forms a Custom Compute Group to build blockchain hardware and plans to ship cryptocurrency mining chips in 2022; Block, Argo, and Griid are customers — Intel has officially entered the cryptomining business. — Intel's Raja Koduri penned a blog post that officially announces …
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google will wind down Currents, the paid and private Google+ for enterprises, starting in 2023; Google shut down the consumer version of Google+ in April 2019 — Who remembered that “Google Currents” was still available for businesses? Anybody? — Google+ is dead—again!
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| Elizabeth Howcroft / Reuters: |
NFT marketplace Cent, which sold Jack Dorsey's first tweet for $2.9M in March 2021, halts transactions, citing “rampant” fakes and plagiarized works — The platform which sold an NFT of Jack Dorsey's first tweet for $2.9 million has halted transactions because people were selling tokens …
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| Bloomberg: |
A profile of Bolt Financial co-founder Ryan Breslow, who stepped down as CEO of the payments startup in January; sources: he retains a 25% stake worth ~$2.75B — Ryan Breslow has managed to alienate some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley. Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham tweeted …
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The UK's CMA accepts Google's plan to phase out and replace third-party cookies with the Privacy Sandbox and will closely monitor the product's development — The UK's competition regulator will keep a ‘close eye’ on development — Google's plan to phase out third-party cookies and replace …
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