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The CISA orders US federal civilian agencies to patch or remove VMware products affected by a critical RCE vulnerability that hackers are actively exploiting — Security flaws in VMware and F5's BIG-IP are being exploited by malicious hackers. — Malicious hackers, some believed to be state-backed …
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Tweets: @kimzetter, @vickerysec, @ericgeller, @bad_packets, and @vmwaresrc
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Report: Netflix had 3.6M cancellations in Q1 2022, up from ~2.5M for each past five quarters; 13% came from subscribers who had the service for over three years — Users subscribed to Netflix for more than three years represented 13 percent of total cancellations
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
An interview with a16z's Jonathan Lai on Games Fund One, the VC firm's new $600M fund for games that will invest in studios, infrastructure, and technologies — Andreessen Horowitz has raised a $600 million fund to invest in games. The storied venture capital firm is already a big investor in games …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
TikTok launches Branded Mission, a product that lets advertisers crowdsource content from creators with 1K+ followers and turn top-performing videos into ads — TikTok announced today that it's launching a new ad product called “Branded Mission” that will allow creators to connect with brands and possibly receive rewards for videos.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
New York AG plans to investigate social media platforms “used to stream, promote, or plan” the Buffalo attack, including Twitch, Discord, 4chan, and 8chan — - New York Attorney General Letitia James will investigate social media companies in connection to the apparently racially motivated attack …
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| Financial Times: |
Chinese citizens angered by Shanghai's ongoing lockdowns are evading censorship of a viral post and video criticizing the government by minting them into NFTs — Growing popularity of decentralised ledger technology presents fresh challenge for country's censors
Tweets: @katebevan, @jerrybrito, @alisonkilling, and @youtuberlaw
| Kim Velsey / Curbed: |
AirDNA, Inside Airbnb, and Douglas Elliman data: NYC has ~3K to ~13K more Airbnb listings than rental apartments despite Airbnb listings falling in the pandemic — The fever isn't breaking. There are now bidding wars for one in every five Manhattan rental apartments (and one in three luxury units) …
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Meta freezes hiring of engineers for product teams including Facebook Gaming, Dating, and Commerce; Zuckerberg said internally Meta is not planning layoffs — Mark Zuckerberg has internally downplayed the possibility of layoffs — Meta is pulling back its investments in a number of products …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Stripe launches Data Pipeline, letting its US customers link Stripe transactions data and their data stores in Amazon Redshift or Snowflake's Data Cloud — Stripe — the payments giant valued at $95 billion — is on a product sprint to expand its services and functionality beyond …
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Silicon Republic, Stripe, PYMNTS.com, VentureBeat, Protocol, Network World, and eWeek. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Framework updates the 13.5" modular Framework Laptop with 12th-Gen Intel CPUs, starting at $1,049; owners can upgrade existing laptops with a $538 kit — A new laptop that fits inside your old laptop — A little more than a year after announcing the first version of its ultra-repairable …
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Tweets: @frameworkputer, @mobile_dom, @dcseifert, @freedmanae, and @dcseifert
| Bloomberg: |
Singapore-based Grab reports Q1 revenue rose 6% YoY to $228M, beating analyst estimates, as its net loss narrowed to $435M; Grab stock is down 70%+ from its IPO — Grab Holdings Ltd. said revenue rose 6% in the first quarter after the ride-hailing and delivery company won back consumers as the pandemic receded in Southeast Asia.
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
SpotOn, which provides payment and management services to SMBs in retail, food, and hospitality, raises a $300M Series F led by Dragoneer at a $3.6B valuation — Payments and software startup SpotOn has closed on $300 million in a Series F financing that values the company at $3.6 billion.
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FinSMEs, Business Wire, SiliconANGLE, PYMNTS.com, Grit Daily News, Restaurant Business, San Francisco Business Journal, and Reuters. Tweets: @caseynewton
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube rolls out player features to all users, including a graph to easily locate the “Most replayed” video parts, support for video chapters, and video loops — YouTube today is launching a new feature designed to help users identify the most popular parts of a video they're watching …
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Android Authority, MacRumors, iMore, The Verge, Android Central, CNET, Android Police, MobileSyrup, 9to5Google, Tubefilter, and Engadget
Tweets: @huguito, @anthonyquintano, @mattnavarra, and @reneritchie
| Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
A look at the competition between China and the US to build exascale supercomputers, useful for defense and climate modeling, as China pulls ahead — World's biggest economies battle to dominate advanced processing power that will affect defence and climate modelling
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Financial Times. Tweets: @rch371, @1br0wn, @niubi, @martijnrasser, @aadilbrar, @hpc_guru, and @magicsilicon
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India says cloud providers and VPN operators that don't comply with its cybersecurity rules, effective as of June 27, “will have to pull out” of the country — India is pushing ahead with its new cybersecurity rules that will require cloud service providers and VPN operators …
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Tweets: @chandrarsrikant, @vatsrishap, @chandrarsrikant, @chandrarsrikant, and @zafaraafaq
| Bloomberg: |
Xiaomi beats estimates with ~$10.9B in Q1 revenue, down 4.6% YoY for its first-ever decline, and a ~$87M net loss, as China's lockdown cripples smartphone sales — Xiaomi Corp. posted its first quarterly revenue decline on record after Beijing's strict Covid containment policies …
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Xiaomi Investor Relations, Pandaily, and Reuters
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Everstream Analytics, which uses AI to offer supply chain insights and risk analytics, raises a $24M Series A led by Morgan Stanley — Everstream Analytics, a supply chain insights and risk analytics startup, today announced that it raised $24 million in a Series A round led …
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| Ryan Felton / Wall Street Journal: |
NHTSA records show it is investigating over 30 incidents of a Tesla suspected of being on Autopilot mode going on to be involved in a serious crash — Wreck under investigation involves a Tesla Model S and left three people dead, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said
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| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
Texas asks SCOTUS to keep the state's social media law in effect; AG Ken Paxton argues that social media platforms should be regulated as common carriers — Texas attorney general Ken Paxton argues social media platforms are the 'twenty-first century descendants of telegraph and telephone companies … Sponsor Posts
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