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Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal emails staff to announce that Elon Musk will hold an internal AMA addressing concerns that Musk will sabotage the company culture — Twitter plans to host Elon Musk for a question-and-answer session with employees after a week of internal outcries over his appointment …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft says it obtained a court order on April 6 to take control of seven domains and disrupt Russia-linked hacking group Strontium's attacks against Ukraine — Microsoft has successfully disrupted attacks against Ukrainian targets coordinated by the Russian APT28 hacking group after taking …
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Twitter tests Unmentioning with some users on the web, letting users select “leave this conversation” on a tweet to avoid notifications — Twitter might not have an edit button just yet, but it's still delivering at least one useful feature this week.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Activision Blizzard will convert all its 1,100 temporary and contingent QA workers to full-time employees on July 1 and raise the minimum hourly rate to $20 — Nearly 1,100 temp game testers are getting full-time jobs with benefits — Activision Blizzard has just announced that all temporary …
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| MK Manoylov / The Block: |
Singapore-based Luna Foundation Guard, a non-profit building reserves for the Terra (UST) stablecoin, plans to buy $100M worth of Avalanche tokens — The Luna Foundation Guard (LFG), a Singapore-based nonprofit building reserves for the stablecoin Terra (UST), announced Thursday …
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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Gartner: total global tech spending will rise 4% YoY to $4.4T in 2022, device spending will reach $824.6B, and software spending will rise 9.8% YoY to $674.9B — The respected analyst firm Gartner Inc. said today in its latest forecast that worldwide information technology is expected … | Tonya Riley / CyberScoop: |
US judge sentences Denys Iarmak, a Ukrainian and member of the FIN7 hacking group, to five years in prison; FIN7 has stolen 20M+ credit card numbers since 2015 — Denys Iarmak, a high-level member of the criminal hacking group FIN7, was sentenced to five years in prison today by a U.S. judge.
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Tweets: @campuscodi, @itsreallynick, @dojcrimdiv, and @tonyajoriley
| Betty Hou / Bloomberg: |
TSMC reports a record ~$17B in Q1 revenue, up 36% YoY and above estimates, boosted by increased demand for chips as the prolonged shortage helped raise prices — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. revenue rose to a record in the first quarter on demand for chips used in smartphones …
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| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
Crypto payments startup Strike announces Shopify integration for bitcoin's Lightning Network, letting Shopify merchants in the US opt-in to the payment option — The bitcoiner instrumental to El Salvador's announcement at last year's conference waxed philosophical on Bitcoin's role as a payments network.
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Business Wire, Boletim BRDA, The Weekly Update, Forbes, Bitcoin Magazine, CryptoPotato, The Block, Crypto Briefing, and Blockworks. Tweets: @astroboysoup
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple releases a report it commissioned from Analysis Group, showing that the company's iOS apps “are rarely the most popular app of a particular type” — Apple today shared a new App Store study that it commissioned from economists at Analysis Group, with the report highlighting … | Reuters: |
Taiwan has launched investigations into around 100 Chinese companies suspected of illegally poaching semiconductor engineers and other tech talent — Taiwan's spy catchers have launched probes into around 100 Chinese companies suspected of illegally poaching semiconductor engineers and other tech talent …
Tweets: @pettet50 and @jerrydunleavy
| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
China will begin on-site inspections of large internet platforms to assess potential abuse of their algorithms, likely including Tencent and ByteDance — China kicked off a formal campaign to rein in the potential abuse of algorithms by internet giants from ByteDance Ltd. to Tencent Holdings Ltd. … | Anushree Dave / The Block: |
Robinhood expands its crypto wallet to 2M+ users on a waitlist and says it will support transacting on bitcoin's Lightning Network in the coming months — Quick Take — Eligible Robinhood customers can now send and receive crypto, the company announced Thursday at the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami.
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Under the Hood, The Verge, Insider, Bloomberg, Coinspeaker, Slashdot, PYMNTS.com, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, Blockworks, and Bitcoin Magazine
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India's payments body refuses to acknowledge Coinbase's India launch, saying it is not aware of any cryptocurrency exchange using the UPI payments instrument — The National Payments Corporation of India, the governing body that oversees UPI in the country, said in a statement on Thursday evening … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
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