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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Internal report: a now-fixed Facebook bug led to a “massive ranking failure” that increased views of harmful content up to 30% over the past six months — A group of Facebook engineers identified a “massive ranking failure” that exposed as much as half of all News Feed views to …
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Search Engine Land, Gizmodo, Insider, Protocol, and Engadget
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| Rebekah Valentine / IGN: |
After announcing in January that the in-person E3 2022 was canceled, ESA informs its partners that there will be no digital event equivalent this year either — Though a possible digital event was floated behind the scenes, that too is now off the table. — After previously canceling …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft renames Your Phone, its Android phone linking app for Windows announced in May 2018, to Phone Link and updates the app to match Windows 11's design — Phone Link now has a matching Windows 11 design — Microsoft is rebranding its Your Phone app to Phone Link and updating it with a Windows 11 design overhaul.| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Apple releases iOS 15.4.1, iPadOS 15.4.1, and macOS 12.3.1 to fix two zero-days that “may have been actively exploited”; Apple has fixed five zero-days in 2022 — Apple has released security updates on Thursday to address two zero-day vulnerabilities exploited by attackers to hack iPhones, iPads, and Macs.
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Apple Support, MacRumors, Ars Technica, The Verge, 9to5Mac, CNET, CNET, The Register, BGR, AppleInsider, PCMag, 9to5Mac, SlashGear, Gizchina, iDownloadBlog.com, Wccftech, iClarified, iThinkDifferent, MacRumors, and XDA Developers. Tweets: @aaronjschaffer
| Bradley Chambers / 9to5Mac: |
Apple Business Essentials launches for all SMBs in the US, starting at $2.99/month; the management service is getting Google Workspace integration in the spring — After a beta period with tens of thousands of businesses, Apple is ready to extend simplified device management, iCloud Drive storage …
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Apple, The Verge, PYMNTS.com, Thurrott, iClarified, Computerworld, Neowin, CNBC, Six Colors, iMore, CNET, AppleInsider, MacRumors, TechCrunch, and ZDNet
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Wyze had been aware of several remote access vulnerabilities in its home security cameras for months and years without fixing them, despite Bitdefender warnings — A Wyze Cam internet camera vulnerability allows unauthenticated, remote access to videos and images stored on local memory cards … | Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
Samsung partners with iFixit to launch a self-repair program, offering parts, tools, and guides, coming this summer for the Galaxy S20, S21, and Tab S7 Plus — Coming this summer for the Galaxy S20, S21, and Tab S7 Plus — Today, Samsung announced a new self-repair program …
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Samsung Newsroom, USA Today, CNN, Protocol, Input, CNET, iFixit News, TechRadar, Gizmodo, MacRumors, Android Central, Android Headlines, TechCrunch, Android Authority, and HotHardware.com News
Tweets: @kwiens, @jason_koebler, @samsungnewsus, and @nproctor
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: The White House is split over Kaspersky sanctions, which could spur Russian cyberattacks and make enforcement hard due to the company's large clientele — Some officials are said to fear that sanctioning Kaspersky Lab could increase risk of Russian cyberattack
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Reuters and CRN
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| Jack Schickler / CoinDesk: |
The EU Parliament votes to outlaw anonymous crypto payments, extending KYC rules to even the smallest transactions with unhosted or self-hosted wallets — Lawmakers are set to end even the smallest anonymous crypto transactions, and plan measures that could see unregulated exchanges cut off.
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European Parliament, Axios, VICE, Decrypt, Kryptovaluta Oppsummering, Crypto Daily, Bitcoin Magazine, CryptoPotato, and Crypto Briefing
Tweets: @lunar_mining, @carnage4life, and @calvinayre
| David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: |
A profile of Ben McKenzie, a star of The O.C. who has become an outspoken crypto critic and is writing the book “Easy Money” with journalist Jacob Silverman — The actor, best known for his starring role in “The O.C.,” has become an outspoken critic of a volatile market driven by speculation.
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Fortune. Tweets: @randrewwhite, @daveyalba, @grace_segers, @yaffebellany, @hillibusterr, @audreycleo, @scottbix, @ezwrites, @billscher, @katienotopoulos, @debs, @ben_mckenzie, @film_girl, @mchenryjd, @issielapowsky, @fortydeucetwits, @zoenone0none, @rachsyme, @cadlymack, @readingtheend, @videodrew, @silvermanjacob, @amanbatheja, @sepinwall, @kashhill, @wordsandsense, @markberman, @davidgerard, @gabrielmalor, @vladagelman, @katierosman, and @smdiehl
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers: an allegedly Russia-tied wiper malware, AcidRain, which shares similarities with the malware VPNFilter, was behind the attack on Viasat in February — AcidRain is the seventh wiper associated with the Russian invasion of Ukraine — Viasat—the high-speed-satellite-broadband …
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| CNBC: |
A look at 3C, a “grassroots” SMB group against Big Tech regulation, funded by Google and Amazon, which claims support from 20+ SMBs that haven't heard of it — - The Connected Commerce Council, which pitches itself as a grassroots movement representing small business owners …
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Politico and Newslit Daily
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple seeks to diversify its memory chip suppliers, weighing Micron, Samsung, and Yangtze, after Japanese supplier Kioxia lost a batch to contamination — Apple Inc. is exploring new sources of the memory chips that go into iPhones, including its first Chinese producer of the critical component …
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Blocks and Files, Tom's Hardware, MacDailyNews, TechRadar, Wccftech, iThinkDifferent, Gizmodo, and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @matthewstoller
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Google plans to add “highly cited” Search labels for original reporting and press releases, coming “soon” in the US on mobile and “in the coming weeks” globally — And new notices will help searchers check the validity of information
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The Keyword, Android Police, Social Media Today, The Register, TechCrunch, CNET, Search Engine Roundtable, Axios, Search Engine Land, Protocol, 9to5Google, and Engadget
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Intel acquires AI-based workload optimization startup Granulate, sources say for $650M, in a deal set to close in Q2 2022; PitchBook: Granulate raised $45.6M — Last year, when we wrote about new investment for Israeli startup Granulate — which applies AI to high-priority computing workloads …
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Intel, FinSMEs, The Register, CRN, Channel Futures, Benzinga, CTech, Globes Online, SiliconANGLE, Haaretz, San Francisco Business Journal, and Silicon Republic
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| Michael H. Keller / New York Times: |
To avoid erroneously flagging CSAM, Meta's training docs tell content moderators to “err on the side of an adult” when judging people's age in photos or videos — The company reports millions of photos and videos of suspected child sexual abuse each year.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
New York-based Black Crow AI, which delivers predictive analytics to e-commerce retailers, raises a $25M Series A led by Imaginary Ventures — In the pandemic era, where digital storefronts have become a matter of course for retailers, data analytics is proving its worth.| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Review of the $899 OnePlus 10 Pro, available in the US on April 14: sleek build but subpar cameras, no IP rating for the unlocked version, and no 5G on AT&T — It's a likable device, but OnePlus still has some work to do — The 10 Pro is OnePlus all grown up.
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Tweets: @franciscof_1990, @ryanfenwick, @pierce, and @allisonjo1
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Open source containerization company Docker raises a $105M Series C led by Bain Capital Ventures at a $2.1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $163M — It wasn't that long ago that Docker looked like it was on the ropes. In 2019, it sold its enterprise business and decided …
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SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, Crunchbase News, Protocol, and InfoWorld
Tweets: @swyx and @baincapvc
| Naureen S Malik / Bloomberg: |
Texas starts requiring new large-scale cryptocurrency miners to seek permission to access its power grid, in anticipation of increasing demand for 2022 and 2023 — Texas has started requiring new large-scale cryptocurrency miners to seek permission to connect to the state's power grid … | Sean Lyngaas / CNN: |
Interview with pseudonymous Ukrainian IT specialist Danylo, who released chat logs from the Russia-linked Conti ransomware gang, on his motivations and more — As Russian artillery began raining down on his homeland last month, one Ukrainian computer researcher decided to fight back the best …
Tweets: @snlyngaas, @donie, @akiperitz, @marquardta, @snlyngaas, @ericgeller, @trellix, @daviduberti, @kimzetter, and @allthingsnatsec
| Nikkei Asia: |
TSMC chairman Mark Liu warns consumer demand for smartphones, PCs, and TVs is slowing down, especially in China, and components and materials costs are rising — Rising costs could be passed on to consumers, chairman of tech titan warns — Taiwan tech titan TSMC says demand … | Shirin Ghaffary / Vox: |
Analysis: majority of the most-viewed Reels on Meta's platforms are anonymous or reposted; Meta says Reels is Instagram's biggest engagement growth contributor — Facebook's pivot back to video shows how badly it needs young people. — Meta, the parent company of Facebook, needs to stay relevant.
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New York Times and Protocol
Tweets: @brookeerinduffy, @jeff4llen, @alexstemplewski, and @nellwyn
| Bloomberg: |
FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried and others are pushing for the crypto industry to be regulated by the smaller Commodity Futures Trading Commission, instead of the SEC — It was a classic Washington networking party. Sam Bankman-Fried, the co-founder and chief executive officer of FTX …
Tweets: @allyversprille, @grady_booch, @smdiehl, @blakereid, and @smdiehl
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Google begins trialing its updated Privacy Sandbox tools globally, including Topics and FLEDGE APIs, starting with developers now and Chrome Beta users next — Google has just announced the next stage of trials of its Privacy Sandbox proposal — focused on ads relevance and measurement.
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Android Police, Chromium Blog, TechRadar, Ars Technica, Search Engine Land, Engadget, Chrome Developers, and 9to5Google
Tweets: @lukolejnik and @lukolejnik
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