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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk, who wanted to “defeat the spam bots”, is lying when he says bots are why he's backing away from buying Twitter at $54.20/share, amid stocks' downturn — Oh Elon — Elon Musk is the richest person in the world, and an active Twitter user.
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New York Post, New York Times, Reclaim The Net, CNBC, CNN, and TechCrunch
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| Bloomberg: |
Twitter loses more execs amid Musk's takeover bid: Twitter Service VP Katrina Lane, head of data science Max Schmeiser, and VP of product management Ilya Brown — Twitter Inc. is losing three more senior employees, including two vice presidents, a reflection of the uncertainty inside …
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Insider and New York Post
Tweets: @kurtwagner8, @jerrycap, @annmlipton, @jesselehrich, @ilyabr0wn, and @mattnavarra
| Edwin Chan / Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk says his Twitter takeover “cannot move forward” until the CEO proves bots are <5% of users, since his offer was based on “SEC filings being accurate” — Elon Musk said he'll proceed with his $44 billion takeover of Twitter Inc. only if the social media giant …
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| PR Newswire: |
In a preliminary SEC proxy statement, Twitter says it is “committed to completing the transaction on the agreed price and terms as promptly as practicable” — Twitter, Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) today announced that it has filed its preliminary proxy statement with the U.S. Securities …
| Corin Faife / The Verge: |
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Memo: Apple delays its three-day-a-week return to the office indefinitely, citing rising COVID-19 cases; the company still expects attendance two days per week — Apple Inc. delayed a plan to require workers to come back to the office three days a week, citing a resurgence in Covid-19 cases …
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Tweets: @markgurman, @markgurman, @applelaborers, @brianroemmele, @chancehmiller, @lapcatsoftware, @applelaborers, @flaggedfordepot, @applelaborers, @seldo, @mittermaniac, @thegabecole, @business, @markgurman, @business, @i_am_fabs, @chris_herd, @technology, @epro, @c0up, @danahull, and @carnage4life
| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
A report details the challenges that delayed Apple's mixed reality headset launch by years and the initial pushback from Jony Ive's team on a VR headset concept — Since beginning its efforts in 2015, Apple's work on a mixed reality headset has been hit with a range of challenges that have pushed …
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Apple announces new accessibility features, including mirroring Watch apps to an iPhone, and a live captioning tool for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS coming in 2022 — Apple has released a bevy of new accessibility features for iPhone, Apple Watch, and Mac, including a universal live captioning tool …
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers detail a BLE relay attack to unlock and operate a Tesla outside its BLE range; when told in April, Tesla said relay attacks are a “known limitation” — Security researchers at the NCC Group have developed a tool to carry out a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) …
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Mynewsdesk, Bloomberg, Malwarebytes Labs, Insider, TechRepublic, KnowTechie, Electrek, The Register, and The Economic Times
Tweets: @enjenneer, @counternotions, @marcusjcarey, @jeffstone500, @darkuncle, and @m_paulmcnamara
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Cloud launches new software supply chain and zero trust tools, including one that gives governments and enterprises access to vetted open-source packages — Google Cloud is holding its annual Security Summit this week and unsurprisingly, the company used the event to launch a few new security features.
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Cloud Blog, Forbes, Protocol, Slashdot, Google Cloud Blog, VentureBeat, CSO, CRN, Dark Reading, The Register, ZDNet, govinfosecurity.com, and SiliconANGLE
Tweets: @juliaferraioli, @googlecloud, and @snyksec
| Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: |
As startups face potential drops in valuation and VCs demand lower spending and higher margins, some companies turn to cutting staff, marketing, and projects — Funding is suddenly scarce as venture capital firms grow stingy, forcing young companies to get frugal and focus on breaking even| Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan / Financial Times: |
Mastercard tests facial recognition software in Brazil, letting users who opt in pay with a smile or a wave, using tech from NEC, Payface, PopID, and others — Payments using gestures have struggled to gain widespread adoption among consumers — Mastercard is launching a biometric payments programme …
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| Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan / Financial Times: |
Thought Machine, a cloud-based infrastructure provider for 35+ banks globally, raises a $160M Series D at a $2.7B valuation, up from $1B+ in November 2021 — Unicorn brings Morgan Stanley on board as client and investor — London-based fintech Thought Machine has doubled its valuation … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Linz-based Storyblok, which offers a headless CMS, raises a $47M Series B led by Mubadala Capital and HV Capital, and says ~74K companies use its tools — The world of web development continues to become increasingly more democratized — and more creative — thanks to innovations in … | Ryan Weeks / The Block: |
Coinbase plans to “slow hiring and reassess our headcount needs” given “current market conditions”, after initially planning to triple its workforce in 2022 — Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has reined in a plan to triple its headcount this year in response to turbulent market conditions.
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The Coinbase Blog. More:
TechCrunch, The Economic Times, CNBC, CryptoPotato, TheStreet, TechCircle, and Protocol
Tweets: @wublockchain, @carnage4life, @alex, and @thestalwart
| Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News: |
Enjoy Technology, which runs mobile retail stores and went public via a SPAC merger in October 2021, says it lacks the cash to operate beyond early June 2022 — Enjoy Technology, a venture-backed mobile retail upstart that went public via SPAC last fall, announced it has …
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San Francisco Business Journal, WWD, Dow Jones Newswires, and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @crunchbasenews
| Mike Millard / The Block: |
Certora, a provider of security analysis tools for smart contract developers to detect mistakes before deploying code, raises a $36M Series B led by Jump Crypto — Quick Take — Certora has raised $36 million in a Series B round led by Jump Crypto, with participation from Tiger Global and Galaxy Digital.| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Pangea Cyber, which offers embedded security APIs for cloud-native app builders, emerges from stealth with a $25M Series A led by Ballistic Ventures — Embedded security services provider Pangea Cyber Corp. is opening the doors to its business, emerging from stealth mode today armed …
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VentureBeat, docs.pangea.cloud, Business Wire, FinSMEs, SecurityWeek, and Help Net Security
Tweets: @shah_sheikh, @thecyberhub2, @sarang_pokhare, and @pangeacyber
| Washington Post: |
A look at political advocacy group American Edge, founded by Meta, as the company tries to create the appearance of grassroots opposition to antitrust reform — Records show Facebook-funded American Edge backed minority interest groups, conservative think tanks and small business groups …
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Gizmodo, Tech Transparency Project, and Pixel Envy
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Robinhood is working on a second crypto wallet, which will give users sole custody of their private keys, coming in beta this summer and launching later in 2022 — Its upcoming wallet will let users hold their own private keys — A little over a month after Robinhood publicly released …
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Crypto Briefing, CoinDesk, TechCrunch, and Blockworks
Tweets: @gregbensinger and @readdanwrite
| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Meta's Q1 2022 enforcement report: Facebook's automated content moderation systems improved YoY; the number of wrongly removed, and restored posts, also grew — What the company's latest enforcement report tells us about the free-speech debate — Today, let's talk about Facebook's latest effort … | Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Google opens its first self-designed employee campus, Bay View, with a “dragonscale skin” roof featuring 90K solar panels that can generate almost 7MW of energy — Google has finally opened its Bay View campus to employees almost 10 years after revealing its initial plans for the new facility back in 2013.
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Tweets: @saradietschy, @coreydu, and @dansodergren
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