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Ukraine says a cyberattack brought down websites of several government agencies for hours but no sensitive data was stolen — Ukraine said a cyberattack brought down the websites of several government agencies for hours. Authorities didn't immediately comment on the source of the outage …
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Crypto exchange FTX launches a $2B venture fund, aiming to invest across startups stages, investing from $100K to hundreds of millions of dollars — FTX Ventures will invest in crypto startups across sectors — Crypto exchange FTX Trading Ltd. has launched a $2 billion venture fund …
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In court docs, state AGs allege that Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai personally approved a secret 2018 deal that gave Facebook advantages in Google's ad auctions — The states originally filed the suit against Google in December 2020 and updated that with a heavily redacted version of their most recent complaint in November.| Wall Street Journal: |
State AGs' suit alleges Google misled publishers and advertisers for years about ad pricing by deflating sales for some and increasing prices for buyers — Details show Google employees fretting its ad tech auctions were ‘untruthful’ and based in ‘insider information’
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The January 6 House committee subpoenas Meta, Alphabet, Reddit, and Twitter after their “inadequate responses” to requests for information about the riot — The House committee investigating Jan. 6 on Thursday subpoenaed Reddit, Twitter and the parent companies of Google and Facebook after their …
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Block says it is building an open-source bitcoin mining system to make mining more “distributed and efficient”, after Jack Dorsey teased the idea in October — The payment services company formerly known as Square is open to building new mining computers and is hiring for a new engineering team.
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Russia's FSB says it detained and charged members of the REvil ransomware gang at the request of the US; source: Russian citizens won't be handed over to the US — Russia's FSB security service conducted a special operation against ransomware crime group REvil at the request of the United States …
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Sources: Apple is considering delaying the debut of its mixed-reality headset from WWDC due to development challenges related to overheating, cameras, software — Apple Inc. is considering pushing back the debut of its mixed-reality headset by at least a few months, potentially delaying …
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| Joanna Partridge / The Guardian: |
Google will buy London's Central Saint Giles development, which includes 408K sq. ft. of office space, for $1B — Site will have space for 10,000 UK employees who will work under hybrid workplace model — Google has announced a $1bn (£871m) deal to buy the London development Central Saint Giles …
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| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Meta faces a $3.1B UK class action suit alleging it abused Facebook's market dominance and set an “unfair price” for 44M UK users' data from 2015 to 2019 — A competition legal expert, backed by a powerful litigation fund, is to mount a multibillion-dollar class action suit …
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Q&A with Wordle creator Josh Wardle on the game's origin story, reasons for keeping it simple, app clones, and handling the traffic from its newfound popularity — “People have an appetite for things that transparently don't want anything from you.” — The internet loves …
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A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduces the TLDR Act, which would require sites and apps to offer easy-to-digest, nutrition label-like summaries of their TOS — Happy Thursday! Below: The FCC proposes new data breach rules for telecom and the White House meets with tech leaders on cyber.Sponsor Posts
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