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Filing: Elon Musk acquires a 9.2% passive stake in Twitter, worth ~$2.89B at Friday's market close, becoming its largest shareholder; Twitter shares rise 27.2% — Elon Musk has taken a 9.2% passive stake in Twitter, according to a 13G filing, Bloomberg News reports. Twitter rose about 26% in pre-market trading.
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Sources: Truth Social CTO Josh Adams and product chief Billy Boozer have quit, following the troubled launch of the Trump-backed social network on iOS — The two Southern tech entrepreneurs had the two qualities that Donald Trump's Truth Social startup needed: tech-industry expertise …
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UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak asks the Royal Mint to issue an NFT by the summer, as the Treasury plans a “forward-looking approach” towards crypto assets — The Treasury has announced plans to dive into the crypto space with the launch of an official NFT later this year.
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| Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: |
Sky Mavis: Axie Infinity DAUs had fallen 45% from a November peak to 1.48M for the week ending March 28, a day before Ronin's ~$600M crypto hack was announced — The popular play-to-earn Axie Infinity game had been losing users even before the record cryptocurrency hack disclosed …
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Mailchimp discloses a breach where hackers accessed 319 accounts and stole “audience data” from 102 clients; phishing scams of crypto users quickly followed — Email marketing firm MailChimp disclosed on Sunday that they had been hit by hackers who gained access to internal customer support …
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Sequoia names veteran investor and PayPal alum Roelof Botha as Senior Steward effective July 5, replacing Doug Leone, who will remain as a GP of existing funds — Sequoia Capital has a new global leader in veteran investor and PayPal alum Roelof Botha. — The heavyweight venture capital firm …
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The US State Department announces the Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy, starting with 60+ staff and plans to add 30 more in 2022 — Nearly 100 people will staff a new cyber bureau at the State Department — Today, the State Department is launching its long-awaited cyberspace and digital policy bureau.
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Fortnite raises $144M for Ukraine relief, two weeks after Epic Games said all of its and Microsoft's proceeds from the game would go to humanitarian efforts — The fundraising effort has ended after two weeks — In two weeks, Fortnite has raised a total of $144 million for Ukraine relief efforts.| Emily Baker-White / BuzzFeed News: |
Former ByteDance employees say the company scraped Instagram, Snap, and others to make fake accounts on TikTok predecessor Flipagram, later renamed Vigo Video — In 2017, TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, scraped short-form videos, user names, profile pictures, and profile descriptions from Instagram …
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Alphabet's Wing division plans to begin drone delivery services in the Dallas-Fort Worth area on April 7, starting with Walgreens' health and wellness products — Alphabet's Wing division has announced that it's launching a drone delivery service in the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) metroplex on April 7th.| Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal: |
AMD plans to acquire data center-focused networking chip maker Pensando Systems for $1.9B; the deal is expected to close in Q2 2022 — Acquisition would bolster AMD's offerings for the fast-growing data-center market — Advanced Micro Devices Inc. plans to buy chip and software startup …
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How Brad Smith helps Microsoft avoid government scrutiny by being amicable with regulators while directing negative attention at the company's Big Tech rivals — President Brad Smith has taken an amicable role with regulators. Rivals say he also directs negative attention toward them.
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