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Visa and Mastercard suspended operations in Russia, a few hours after Ukraine's president asked them to do so in a video call with US lawmakers — Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc. are suspending their operations in Russia, a coordinated attempt that threatens to further isolate the economy …
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| Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
PayPal suspends its services in Russia, including its money transfer service Xoom; Wise and Remitly also suspended some services in Russia earlier this week — Payments company PayPal Holdings Inc (PYPL.O) shut down its services early on Saturday in Russia, citing “the current circumstances …
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
TikTok plans to start labeling videos from some state-controlled media outlets “over the coming days”, expediting its policy due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine — It's part of a broader state media policy — TikTok has announced that it'll start putting labels on videos from …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
What to expect from Apple's March 8 event: 5G iPhone SE, iPad Air, a new Mac, a possible “wild card” preview of a new display, smaller Mac Pro or iMac Pro — Apple will hold its first event of the year on Tuesday, and you can expect updates of the iPhone, iPad and Mac lines.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Lapsus$ says if Nvidia doesn't remove crypto mining limits on its graphic cards and open source its GPU drivers, the group will release the source code it stole — Chipmaker has until Friday to comply or see its crown-jewel source code released. — Data extortionists who stole up to 1 terabyte …
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| Zeyi Yang / Protocol: |
How Alibaba, which has a joint venture in Russia and significant sales in Ukraine, navigates challenges caused by Russia's invasion and international sanctions — The day before bombs started raining down on Kyiv, Dmytro Romashko streamed for three hours on AliExpress, Alibaba's global ecommerce platform.
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| Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal: |
Tech leaders believe post-pandemic work means flexibility, more geographically dispersed hiring, and workers designating collaboration and individual work hours — Highly sought-after tech workers don't want to go back to the way things used to be. Their employers are making their work …
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| New York Times: |
A look at volunteer hackers in the Russia-Ukraine war with unverifiable identities and locations, blurring the line between amateurs and groups linked to states — The hackers have claimed a number of disruptions over the past week, blurring the lines between amateurs and groups linked to governments.
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| Silicon Canals: |
Swiss investment management firm Partners Group buys Forterro, a provider of resource planning software and services for SMBs, from Battery Ventures for €1B — Partners Group, a Swiss investment management firm, announced that it has acquired Forterro from Battery Ventures at an enterprise value of €1B.
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| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
Washington state passes the Silenced No More Act, becoming the second state to ban NDAs preventing workers from discussing harassment, wage violations, and more — Washington state became the second in the nation to pass the Silenced No More Act on Thursday.
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| Jacob Silverman / New Republic: |
For some right-wing libertarian-minded coiners, the right to freely trade crypto takes precedence over opposing a Russian invasion of a sovereign nation — Last month, a non-fungible token, or NFT, collector who goes by the pseudonymous Twitter handle @punk6529 posted a 56-part Twitter thread …
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Snapchat temporarily turns off its “heatmap” feature in Ukraine as “a safety precaution”, no longer showing how many snaps are being taken in specific locations — Other companies have cut off sources of info on the public's movementsSponsor Posts
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