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| Mikael Thalen / The Daily Dot: |
Twitter confirms it inadvertently verified six new accounts after a user pointed them out, says the “inauthentic” accounts are now suspended and badges removed — Six users with fake profile pics were seemingly verified less than one month after being created.
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Q2 2021: global PC shipments totaled 71.6M, up 4.6% YoY, following Q1's record 35.7% YoY growth; Lenovo holds 24.1% marketshare, followed by HP, Dell, and Apple — Growth Rate Slowed, Tempered by Impact of Ongoing Semiconductor Shortages — Worldwide PC shipments totaled 71.6 million units …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Google rolls out support for the BIMI security standard for brands to all Gmail users as part of an effort to improve email-sender authenticity — Google has rolled out today support for the new Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI) standard to all Gmail users as part of an effort to improve email-sender authenticity.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Broadcom is in talks to buy SAS, which sells analytics, business-intelligence and data-management software, in a deal valuing SAS between $15B and $20B — A deal by the chip maker would value closely held SAS in the range of $15 billion to $20 billion
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| Gaspard Sebag / Bloomberg: |
France fines Google $593M for failing to comply with a 2020 order to negotiate in good faith with publishers for displaying article snippets in Google News — - Tech giant penalized for not agreeing fair deal with publisher — Complaint from news wires and magazines dates back to 2019
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Quantexa, which uses AI to detect money laundering and other illegal activities, raises $153M Series D led by Warburg Pincus, at a valuation of $800M-$900M — As financial crime has become significantly more sophisticated, so too have the tools that are used to combat it.| Mark Landler / New York Times: |
After England's defeat in Euro 2020, Boris Johnson and others condemn racist abuse of players on social media, with some calling for tougher action by platforms — The social media bigotry, directed at three players who missed penalty kicks in the Euro 2020 final, was condemned by Prime Minister Boris Johnson and most everyone else.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google unveils a feature for Android 12 that lets users play a game from the Play Store before it's fully downloaded, available with “minimal developer effort” — On the first day of this year's Games Developer Conference, Google introduced a handful of Android 12-specific features …
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| Martin Matishak / The Record: |
Senate confirms ex-NSA official Jen Easterly as CISA's director, a role that was vacant since Trump fired Chris Krebs in Nov. for refuting conspiracy theories — The Senate on Monday confirmed President Joe Biden's pick to lead the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
SolarWinds patches a remote code execution flaw in its Serv-U product, after Microsoft notified the company that the flaw was being exploited in the wild — SolarWinds is urging customers to patch a Serv-U remote code execution vulnerability exploited in the wild by “a single threat actor” …
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The Hacker News, ZDNet, SecurityWeek, Ars Technica, The Register, and Windows Central. Tweets: @marknca
| Brian Steinberg / Variety: |
Disney to raise the subscription fees for ESPN+ in the US to $7/mo. and $70/year, from $6/mo. and $60/year; price for a Disney bundle is unchanged at $14/mo. — Disney will raise the monthly and annual fees for ESPN Plus, one of three different subscription-based streaming services it operates in the U.S. …
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9to5Mac, CNBC, Engadget, Deadline, Pocket-lint, Gizmodo, Hollywood Reporter, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Tom's Guide, The Streamable, CNET, Cord Cutters News, The Verge, Ad Age, and Variety. Tweets: @ivanthek
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Warner Bros. to give away 91,000 limited-edition NFTs featuring characters from Space Jam: A New Legacy, the biggest drop of NFTs for a film to date — The loony-tunes world of digital collectibles known as NFTs is now getting actual Looney Tunes. — Warner Bros., in the biggest drop of NFTs …
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PR Newswire, Forkast, Cointelegraph, MUO, The Verge, Ad Age, Gizmodo, Bitcoin News, and Decrypt
Tweets: @xpangler, @iansherr, @xpangler, and @lanceulanoff
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google Meet starts enforcing a 60-minute time limit on group calls for free Gmail users — In light of COVID-19 driving all communication online, free Google Meet users with personal Gmail accounts could take advantage of group calls without a duration limit over the past year.
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TNW and phonearena.com
| Thad Rueter / Government Technology: |
Mark43, which offers cloud-based records management and dispatch systems to US police departments, raises $101M Series E, as it looks to expand internationally — Even amid calls to “defund the police,” agencies are buying new technology, boosting efficiency and enabling new types of reporting.| Will Goodbody / RTÉ: |
Dublin-based Xtremepush, which offers multi-channel marketing software for brands, raises $33M from Grafton Capital — Irish digital marketing software company, Xtremepush, is set to double its workforce in Ireland and overseas to 140 over the next year. — It comes as the firm secured $33m …
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The Irish Times and Silicon Republic
| Apoorva Mittal / The Economic Times: |
Bangalore-based Trell, a video e-commerce startup that lets creators sell beauty and other products, raises $45M Series B at a post-money valuation of $120M — Influencer-led social commerce platform Trell has raised $45 million (Rs 335 crore approx.) in a series B funding round from Mirae Asset … Sponsor Posts
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