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| Will Gottsegen / CoinDesk: |
OpenSea is investigating rumors of a smart contract exploit via a phishing attack; CEO says 32 users “signed a malicious payload” and some had NFTs stolen — Emails purporting to be from the NFT marketplace about a planned smart contract migration may have been a phishing attack.
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@opensea, @dfinzer, and @xanderatallah. More:
Benzinga, VICE, PCMag, Ausheat Crypto, Dirty Bubble Media, The Verge, Crowdfund Insider, Crypto Briefing, The Block, CoinJournal, Decrypt, Forbes, InsideBitcoins.com, Bloomberg, Web3 is going just great, Cointelegraph, and Crypto Breakdown
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| New York Times: |
A look at the challenges facing Trump's Truth Social app, including competition from Gettr and Parler and finding users willing to leave mainstream apps — Truth Social, the former president's hard-right alternative to Twitter, could open its doors next month. But as businesses go, outrage may not be the best moneymaker.
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Reuters, Engadget, Axios, and The Verge
Tweets: @donie, @adammilstein, @katz_mum, @magacita67, @bendwalsh, @jasonmillerindc, @juddlegum, @amandamarcotte, and @rmac18
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Estimated Mac lineup for 2022: Mac mini with M1 Pro and M2; 13" MacBook Pro, 24" iMac, and MacBook Air with M2; iMac Pro with M1 Pro and M1 Max; a new Mac Pro — As Apple gears up for its first product launch event of the year, the spotlight turns to its 2022 Mac plans.
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9to5Mac, AppleInsider, The Workaround, iClarified, iPhone Hacks, iThinkDifferent, and MacRumors
Tweets: @vadimyuryev and @markgurman
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Spotify's Podsights and Chartable acquisitions set it up to better compete with YouTube, offering dependable programmatic ads and robust analytics to creators — Why the company went on a shopping spree — This story originally ran in Hot Pod, The Verge's preeminent audio industry newsletter.| Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss / Reuters: |
Cryptocurrency infrastructure provider Fireblocks acquires First Digital, a stablecoin and digital asset payments technology service, sources say for $100M — Fireblocks, an infrastructure provider for cryptocurrencies, has acquired First Digital, a stablecoin and digital asset payments technology platform.
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Fireblocks. More:
Bitcoin News, FinanceFeeds, CoinDesk, Finance Magnates, NoCamels, SiliconANGLE, and CryptoPotato. Tweets: @fireblockshq
| Nikkei Asia: |
HR experts, industry execs, and government officials in Taiwan say the current chip talent shortage on the island is the most serious they have ever seen — Semiconductor giants hike salaries to lure island's dwindling number of graduates — TAIPEI/HSINCHU, Taiwan … | Scott Galloway / No Mercy / No Malice: |
How Apple can hit $1T in revenue by 2030, from $366B in 2021, using its hardware expertise, high consumer trust, capital reserves, and more to enter new markets — Round numbers have no inherent meaning — they're a consequence of 10 fingers. But they provide a benchmark, a way to focus our observations.
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AppleInsider and Philip Elmer‑DeWitt
Tweets: @profgalloway, @mikehammer, @profgalloway, @profgalloway, @enriqueabeyta, @alvinfoo, and @gassee
| Steven Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: |
Project Zero: Linux developers patch security holes faster than anyone else, in an average of 25 days vs. Google in 44 days, Apple in 69, and Microsoft in 83 — Linux programmers do a better job of patching security holes than programmers at Apple, Google, and Microsoft.
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Project Zero, BetaNews, Fudzilla, The Register, and Neowin
Tweets: @k8em0, @rexarul, @photomatt, @jorgeorchilles, and @drbobljmu
| Dr. Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
Q&A with Intel EVP Dr. Ann Kelleher on lessons learned from the company's misadventures with 10nm process nodes, its vision for Foundry Services, and more — It's somewhat of an understatement to say that Intel's future roadmap on its process node development is one of the most aggressive in the history of semiconductor design.| Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: |
Paris-based InterCloud, which helps companies access applications and data from multiple cloud services, raises a €100M Series D led by Aleph Capital — Parisian software-defined cloud interconnect services provider InterCloud has raised €100 million in a Series D funding round, and is now targeting a series of acquisitions
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Silicon Canals, Insider, Help Net Security, and Reuters
| The Economic Times: |
India's Vedanta plans to invest $7.4B to set up a 28nm chip fab in partnership with Foxconn, after applying for an Indian government incentive scheme — Anil Agarwal's Vedanta group plans to invest $7.4 billion in a chip manufacturing unit in partnership with Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn), a top executive told ET.
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In case you missed!, The Economic Times, TheQuint, Business Standard, Business Standard, and The Business Standard. Tweets: @economictimes
| Wired: |
A look at Microsoft's AI system in Argentina's Salta province to predict teenage pregnancies, which faced pushback from activists for being invasive and opaque — A government leader in Argentina hailed the AI, which was fed invasive data about girls. The feminist pushback could inform the future of health tech.
Tweets: @baxterkb, @fabiochiusi, @wired, @wired, and @gquaggiotto
| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Convictional, which offers a one-stop shop for retailers to source, onboard, integrate, and trade with suppliers, raises a $40M Series B led by YC Continuity — Retailers have traditionally onboarded their drop-ship, marketplace and wholesale suppliers using electronic data interchange … Sponsor Posts
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