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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Fortnite returns to iOS, iPadOS, and Android through a closed beta in Nvidia's GeForce Now game streaming service designed to run in mobile browsers — Nvidia's GeForce Now is finally bringing Fortnite back to the iPhone — Fortnite is back on iOS today... sort of.
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The Official NVIDIA Blog, 9to5Google, Game Developer, CNET, AppleInsider, Tom's Hardware, Macworld, Engadget, HotHardware.com News, PCMag, XDA Developers, iMore, iPhone in Canada Blog, Kotaku, Liliputing, GameRevolution, thegamer.com, Cult of Mac, and GameSpot
Tweets: @tomwarren and @duckybtw
| Martine Paris / Bloomberg: |
Apple confirms it removed several Wordle clones from the App Store, after some app developers capitalized on the online guessing game's popularity — Apple Inc. removed several Wordle games from its App Store after users confused them with another word-play title popularized by Jimmy Fallon and other celebrities.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Austria's data protection watchdog upholds a decision that a website using Google Analytics violates GDPR, a potential issue for US cloud services in Europe — A decision by Austria's data protection watchdog upholding a complaint against a website related to its use of Google Analytics does …
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noyb.eu, The Register, PYMNTS.com, Euractiv, and Fortune
Tweets: @yo_bj, @swyx, @carnage4life, @carnage4life, @maxschrems, @maxschrems, and @andybeard
| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
Second Life founder Philip Rosedale says he is returning to parent company Linden Research, which he left in 2010, to help it expand into the metaverse — Philip Rosedale is coming back to the digital world he created to help inject growth — The founder of Second Life …
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Linden Lab, Protocol, ZDNet, The Information, CNET, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, New World Notes, and Second Life Community. Tweets: @loudmouthjulia
| Reuters: |
TSMC reports Q4 revenue rose 24.1% YoY to $15.74B as net profit reached $6.01B; capital spending will reach between $40B and $44B in 2022, up from $30B in 2021 — Taiwanese chip firm TSMC expects strong growth to accelerate in coming years due to booming semiconductor demand …
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Tweets: @iancutress, @tculpan, @iancutress, @iancutress, and @benbajarin
| Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: |
China's state-backed Blockchain Services Network plans to roll out infrastructure this month to support NFTs; the NFTs will not be linked to cryptocurrencies — The BSN-Distributed Digital Certificate does not support crypto-transacted NFTs, and will allow businesses and individuals …
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Cointelegraph, Blockonomi, CryptoPotato, Coinspeaker, Blockworks, CoinDesk, and Waivly
Tweets: @carnage4life and @carnage4life
| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
Krafton, which makes PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, sues Apple and Google, arguing that neither company removed games that allegedly copy PUBG — (Reuters) - The maker of the popular game “PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds” says in a new U.S. lawsuit that a Singapore-based company made rip-off versions …
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TechCrunch, Game Developer, Cult of Mac, AppleInsider, iPhone Hacks, Law360, 9to5Mac, and Wccftech
Tweets: @keleftheriou, @carnage4life, @nickstatt, @carnage4life, and @nickstatt
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Baby Shark becomes the first YouTube video to cross 10B views, after becoming the most-viewed YouTube video in November 2020 — I'm sorry if it's stuck in your head now — “Baby Shark” became the most-viewed YouTube video of all time in November 2020, and just over a year later … | Martin Matishak / The Record: |
US Cyber Command says malware group MuddyWater is tied to Iranian intelligence, the first time the US government has publicly linked the threat actor to Tehran — U.S. Cyber Command on Wednesday revealed that a hacking group reputed for its cyberespionage campaigns is actually part of Iran's intelligence apparatus.
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Tweets: @us_cybercom, @us_cybercom, @ajvicens, @uscert_gov, and @blakesobczak
| Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News: |
Analysis: Vision Fund, with $35.2B, and Tiger Global, with $29.6B, led or co-led the most venture and growth rounds in 2021; YC was the busiest with 642 deals — In a wild year for startup funding, one variable stayed constant: The most active investors and biggest check writers are familiar names who've been at this a long time.| Aislinn Keely / The Block: |
Near Foundation, which develops the proof-of-stake Near blockchain, raises $150M led by Three-Arrows Capital, with a16z and others participating — The NEAR Foundation has closed a $150 million funding round less as it looks to become the hub of an open web3.| Michael McSweeney / The Block: |
Coinbase says it is acquiring FairX, a CFTC-regulated derivatives exchange, and plans to bring crypto derivatives to its US customers — Coinbase is acquiring FairX, a CFTC-regulated derivatives exchange. — The exchange company announced the move on Wednesday, saying … | Bloomberg: |
Twitter's “work from anywhere” policy helped increase the share of US Black and Latinx employees to 9.4% and 8% in 2021, from 6.9% and 5.5% in 2020 — Twitter Inc.'s early shift to a “work from anywhere” model during the pandemic as well as implementation of a requirement to add … | Rachel Pannett / Washington Post: |
Privacy advocates criticize police in the German city of Mainz for using data from the Luca COVID-19 contact tracing app for an investigation into a man's death — Authorities in Germany are under fire for tracking down witnesses to a potential crime by using data from a mobile phone app … | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Canalys: worldwide PC shipments grew 15% YoY in 2021 to 341M, the highest annual number since 2012; Apple shipped 28.3% more units, Acer 21.8%, and Dell 18% — It would be easy to think PC sales dropped worldwide last year amid chip shortages, but that conventional thinking would be wrong.
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Gartner, IDC, The Verge, ZDNet, TheStreet, iPhone in Canada Blog, CNBC, Fossbytes, and Android Authority
Tweets: @bryanbma, @idc, @ldignan, @stshank, and @benbajarin
| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says no changes were made in iOS 15.2 that would've toggled iCloud Private Relay off and that no carriers have blocked its users from using the feature — Some iPhone users this week noticed that iCloud Private Relay suddenly stopped working with their cellular connections.
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MacRumors, iThinkDifferent, Gizmodo, KnowTechie, Wired, Engadget, PhoneArena, iPhone Hacks, The Verge, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, iMore, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacDailyNews, and AppleInsider
Tweets: @lukolejnik and @gael_duval
| Michael D McDonald / Bloomberg: |
Analysis: El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele likely lost ~$10M on his bitcoin purchases, after spending $71M on 1,391 BTC at an average price of $51,056 — - Government's process for buying Bitcoin is shrouded in secrecy — Nation's Bitcoins worth 14% less than average acquisition cost
Tweets: @silvermanjacob, @steve_hanke, and @acevedcg
| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
DeFi Alliance, the incubator of Sushi, Olympus DAO, and other Web3 projects, rebrands as Alliance DAO and raises $50M from 300 investors including Jake Paul — What the new moniker means for the newly minted decentralized autonomous organization is somewhat TBD.
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Blockworks, defialliance.co, and Crypto Briefing
| Becky Bracken / Threatpost: |
RiskBased Security: a record 2,240 third-party WordPress plugin vulnerabilities were disclosed in 2021, up 142% YoY, of which 77% have known public exploits — Last year brought forth much more than a Ben Affleck-Jennifer Lopez reunion - analysts found the number of exploitable WordPress plugin vulnerabilities exploded.
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TechSpot, Risk Based Security, Candid.Technology, iTWire, and IT World Canada. Tweets: @adam_k_levin
| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Buy now, pay later service Accrue Savings, which aims to help users save money, raises a $25M Series A led by Tiger Global, bringing its total funding to $29.7M — Buy now, pay later has grown to be an alternative to credit cards, with the trend generating $100 billion in sales last year, more than four times 2020.
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Finextra and FinTech Futures
| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Seattle-based Highspot, whose software helps make salespeople more efficient, raises a $248M Series F at a $3.5B valuation, bringing its total funding to $600M+ — The news: Highspot raised another big round, this time reeling in $248 million as part of a Series F round.| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Cologne-based SoSafe, a cybersecurity startup aiming to reduce human error, raises a $73M Series B led by Highland Europe and says it has over 1,500 customers — As we've learned in the last few years, ‘human error’-led cyber security breaches are the ones companies often find it hardest to guard against.
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| Felix Onuah / Reuters: |
Nigeria will lift its ban on Twitter after suspending it on June 4, 2021; Twitter decided to open an office in Nigeria, among other agreements — Nigeria will lift a ban on Twitter (TWTR.N) from midnight after the social media platform agreed to open a local office, among other agreements …
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TechCrunch, The Verge, Gizmodo, Techpoint Africa, CNET, CNN, TechCabal, TheStreet, Daily Post Nigeria, New York Times, Engadget, Access Now, Financial Times, Agence France-Presse, Daily Post Nigeria, Nairametrics, Punch Newspapers, TheCable, Nigeria lifts Twitter …, Peoples Gazette, The Nation Newspaper, Premium Times Nigeria, Forbes, Associated Press, and Bloomberg
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
FCC proposes stricter data breach reporting rules, including a mandate to notify customers of “inadvertent” breaches, scrapping a one-week wait period, and more — The Federal Communications Commission is the next US regulator hoping to hold companies more accountable for data breaches.
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