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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Amazon refreshes its Fire 7 tablet with USB-C charging, better battery life, and a 30% faster processor, and raises the price from $50 to $60, coming June 29 — And faster internals — Amazon is updating its small and inexpensive Fire 7 tablet for the first time in three years …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Following years of complaints, TikTok announces its first crediting tools, letting creators link back to the videos of other creators and trend originators — TikTok is finally going to let users of the short-form app properly give credit where credit is due.
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
New York accuses Amazon of discriminating against pregnant workers and those with disabilities; the state seeks civil fines and an end to discriminatory conduct — - New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Wednesday announced a state agency has filed a complaint against Amazon, alleging it discriminates …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Cisco misses with Q3 revenue flat YoY at $12.8B, vs. $13.34B expected, and forecasts a YoY revenue decline in Q4 between 1% and 5.5%; stock drops 10%+ — - Cisco missed on the top line in the fiscal third quarter and issued a worse-than-expected revenue forecast for the current quarter.
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| Bloomberg: |
Four Democratic senators ask the FTC to investigate whether ID.me illegally misled consumers and government agencies about its use of facial recognition tech — A group of Democratic senators has asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether identity verification company ID …
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| Brian Stelter / CNN: |
Twitter's board says “Mr. Musk agreed to a transaction at $54.20 per share” and that it intends to “close the transaction and enforce the merger agreement” — Who wants to own Twitter? Maybe Elon Musk doesn't. Sure, maybe he is causing chaos to extract a lower price … | Bloomberg: |
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| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Acer refreshes the Swift 3 laptop, starting at $900 with a 14" OLED display, 12th Gen Intel Core H-series CPUs, and claimed 10-hour battery life, coming in July — A new 14-inch OLED for $899.99 — It wasn't too long ago that the phrase “OLED laptop” implied a luxury product.| Phillip Tracy / Gizmodo: |
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China's top economic official meets with dozens of tech execs and experts and pledges “support” for Chinese tech companies amid a deepening economic slump — Beijing's top economic official holds meetings with executives and industry experts — China's top economic official met dozens … Sponsor Posts
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