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Andreessen Horowitz announces a $4.5B crypto fund, including $1.5B for seed investments, its fourth and largest such fund — Silicon Valley venture capital firm launches its largest fund to date focused on digital assets despite market downturn — Andreessen Horowitz has launched …
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DuckDuckGo confirms a researcher's findings that its browser allows Microsoft trackers on third-party websites, citing a search content agreement with Microsoft — The privacy-focused DuckDuckGo browser purposely allows Microsoft trackers on third-party sites due to an agreement … | Sarah Emerson / BuzzFeed News: |
After actor and producer Seth Green lost his BAYC NFTs to a phishing scam, his show based on those NFTs is in doubt; OpenSea says it has frozen the NFTs — Actor and producer Seth Green was robbed of several NFTs this month after succumbing to a phishing scam that inadvertently threw …
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says that starting on June 30, 2022, all App Store apps that offer account creation must also offer an in-app option to let users delete their account — Apple last year announced a change in the App Store guidelines that would require all apps that support account creation to offer …
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Researchers discover that a popular Python library “ctx” and PHP package “phpass” have been compromised to steal developers' AWS keys and credentials — PyPI module ‘ctx’ that gets downloaded over 20,000 times a week has been compromised in a software supply chain attack …
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| Shawn Amick / Bitcoin Magazine: |
Stripe partners with OpenNode to let businesses convert fiat payments into bitcoin via OpenNode's Stripe app; Stripe suspended bitcoin support in 2018 — Stripe, a global payment processor, is working with OpenNode to enable businesses to convert fiat payments into bitcoin.
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| João Carrasqueira / XDA Developers: |
Microsoft debuts Power Pages, a low-code website builder, and Power Apps Express Design, which can turn images into an app with controls and data storage — It's that time of the year again when Microsoft holds its Build developer event, and with it comes a ton of news for all kinds of Microsoft products.
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Tweets: @windowsdev, @windowsdev, @manekinekko, @tomwarren, @benbajarin, and @daniel_rubino
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Internal memo: Lyft plans to slow US hiring, cut some department budgets, and grant new stock options to some employees to make up for its eroding share price — President John Zimmer announced the measures to staff Tuesday — Lyft Inc. LYFT -17.27%▼ will slow hiring …
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Tweets: @carnage4life, @meghanbobrowsky, @wallstcynic, @akikofujita, and @mrinaldesai
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An in-depth look at Meta's ongoing battle to keep Facebook and Instagram relevant as TikTok's growth explodes, including encouraging creators to use Reels — Last year an Instagram representative contacted Justina Sharp, a 24-year-old with 93,000 followers, and asked for a meeting to discuss ways she could expand her audience.| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
In a letter, 42 Democratic lawmakers urge Google to stop collecting and keeping unnecessary user data that could be used to identify people seeking abortions — - Democratic lawmakers urged Google CEO Sundar Pichai to stop collecting and keeping unnecessary or non-aggregated location data …
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Ron Wyden, Associated Press, The Verge, Cybernews.com, Nextgov, Engadget, Insider, CNET, BuzzFeed News, VICE, and CyberScoop
Tweets: @lauren_feiner, @asymmetricinfo, @jcolman, @accountabletech, @evan_greer, @daveixd, and @tonyajoriley
| Dan Burns / Reuters: |
Speaking at Davos, OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann says the global digital tax will not arrive in 2023 as planned due to slow negotiations — The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on Tuesday acknowledged for the first time that a global digital tax deal may take a year longer to implement.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
A researcher says Australia's New South Wales digital driver's license is easy to forge due to deficient encryption, data validation flaws, and other issues — A litany of security flaws allows forgeries that are easy, quick, and cheap. — In late 2019, the government of New South Wales …
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| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
Hong Kong-based Babel Finance, which offers crypto asset management tools, raises an $80M Series B at a $2B valuation, bringing its total funding to $120M — Despite recent swings in cryptocurrency values, many institutional investors appear undeterred. The growth of Babel Finance …
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| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
DeFi Llama: the total value locked across all DeFi protocols has dropped to ~$112B, down from ~$195B at the start of May before UST and LUNA collapse — The collapse of one of decentralized finance's most ambitious experiments has knocked more than $83 billion off the sector's total value, as investors fled for safer havens.
Tweets: @emilyjnicolle
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