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Samsung, Lenovo, and Microsoft commit to shipping Android 12L, featuring optimizations for tablets and foldables, for some of their devices later this year — The update is coming later this year — Samsung, Lenovo, and Microsoft are the first device manufacturers to commit to shipping Android 12L … | Corbin Davenport / XDA Developers: |
Google releases Android 12L and a feature update for Pixel phones, including Live Caption reading typed responses aloud to callers, Duo screen sharing, and more — Google released the long-awaited Android 12L update on Monday, with many improvements to foldable phones, tablets, and other large-screen devices.
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| Scott Chipolina / Decrypt: |
Coinbase blocks 25K+ addresses related to Russian individuals or entities believed to be engaged in illicit activity and shares them with the US government — Crypto exchange Coinbase has said it has blocked over 25,000 Russia-linked addresses it believes were associated with illicit activity.
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The Coinbase Blog, BleepingComputer, CoinDesk, Bloomberg, VentureBeat, The Verge, Cointelegraph, CryptoPotato, Security Affairs, Coinspeaker, Crypto Briefing, Crypto Adventure, Bitcoin News, CoinQuora, and Cryptopolitan
Tweets: @clay_finck, @the_crypto_dood, @kimcrayton1, @hackylawyer, and @carnage4life
| The Information: |
Source: Google is in talks to acquire cybersecurity company Mandiant, after a February report indicated Microsoft acquisition talks; Mandiant's stock is up 15%+ — Google is in talks to buy cybersecurity consultancy Mandiant, which two years ago discovered the infamous SolarWinds hack …
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| Bloomberg: |
Samsung confirms a breach that exposed internal company data, including source code related to its Galaxy phones, but says users' personal data was not affected — Samsung Electronics Co. suffered a cybersecurity breach that exposed internal company data, including source code for the operation …
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The Verge, SamMobile, TechCrunch, CNBC, Protocol, ZDNet, Fortune, Engadget, XDA Developers, CRN, New York Post, BleepingComputer, Threatpost, Pocketables, Android Beat, International Business Times, Light Reading, HotHardware.com News, Neowin, androidcentral.com, The Register, CSO, Tom's Hardware, 9to5Google, PetaPixel, Input, Tom's Guide, Tech Advisor, cybernews.com, Gizchina, infosecurity-magazine.com, Gizmodo, Hit Points, Android Headlines, iPhone in Canada Blog, SlashGear, Security Boulevard, Video Games Chronicle, AppleInsider, MSPoweruser, OnMSFT.com, Silicon Republic, Dark Reading, Pocketnow, CNET, GSMArena.com, Fossbytes, IT Management, TheGamer, PCMag, Wccftech, BetaNews, and BleepingComputer. Tweets: @martinsfp
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Apple begins rolling out Apple TV+ to Comcast's US video platforms and offers three months free to customers who sign up via their Xfinity device by April 25 — The Apple TV Plus app will begin rolling out on Xfinity X1, Xfinity Flex and XClass TVs on March 7 and will be available across …
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| New York Times: |
Scams and fraud are widespread on P2P payments app Zelle but the US banks backing the app say returning money to defrauded customers is not their responsibility — Zelle, the payments platform used by millions of customers, is a popular target of scammers.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google says Chrome 99 on macOS outperforms Safari on WebKit's Speedometer 2.0 benchmark by 15%, scoring 300 points, the fastest performance of any browser yet — Version 100 of Google Chrome will launch within the next few weeks, but even after all of this time, there's still some room for speeding up the browser.
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| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Crypto exchange FTX will start offering services in Europe and the Middle East; FTX Europe will be headquartered in Switzerland and have a base in Cyprus — Cryptocurrency exchange operator FTX Trading Ltd. is poised to start offering services in Europe and the Middle East …
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PR Newswire, The Block, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, CoinQuora, Cryptopolitan, Blockworks, Coinspeaker, Ethereum World News, crypto.news, CoinJournal, Decrypt, TechCrunch, CryptoSlate, and CryptoPotato
Tweets: @claudia_gman and @emilyjnicolle
| Reuters: |
Sydney-based Immutable, which develops NFT games and a service to speed up Ethereum transactions, raises a $200M Series C at a $2.5B valuation led by Temasek — Australian NFT startup Immutable has raised fresh funding from investors led by Singapore's Temasek in a round that values it at $2.5 billion …
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram removes Boomerang and Hyperlapse from the App Store and Google Play, a week after Meta announced the company would shut down its IGTV app — A week after Instagram confirmed its plan to shut down its standalone IGTV app in order to better focus on initiatives, like Reels …
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| Ilena Peng / Bloomberg: |
VC firm Index Ventures halts its investments in Russia indefinitely and says it will support portfolio companies that move their teams out of the country — Index Ventures will stop investing in Russian companies indefinitely, signaling that the corporate boycott over the war in Ukraine is extending to venture capital.
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Tweets: @ivanlevingston and @martenmickos
| Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: |
The EU Parliament will vote on crypto rules on March 14, after the removal of wording that would have banned proof-of-work cryptocurrencies over energy concerns — Wording that would have banned proof-of-work cryptos like bitcoin has been removed. — After having previously been postponed thanks …
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The Block, Decrypt, PYMNTS.com, and Cointelegraph
| The Generalist: |
A deep dive on AngelList, including its ecosystem, origins, evolution, playbook, and separate entities AngelList Venture, AngelList Talent, and AngelList India — Naval Ravikant's company is both a unicorn and a creator of unicorns. It may just be getting started. — In collaboration with Masterworks...
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| Reuters: |
Intel's self-driving car unit Mobileye confidentially files for a US IPO; Intel acquired Mobileye for ~$15.3B in 2017 and will retain a majority stake post-IPO — Intel Corp said on Monday its self-driving car unit, Mobileye, has confidentially filed paperwork for an initial public offering in the United States.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Akamai says attackers are exploiting a fleet of 100K+ misconfigured servers to amplify DDoS attacks on banking, travel, gaming, media, and web-hosting sites — 100,000 misconfigured servers are creating a new way to knock sites offline. — Last August, academic researchers discovered … | Yang Jie / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Apple's power over suppliers, which don't include its name in public filings and presentations to avoid accidentally revealing competitive information — A tech giant is known to billions, but suppliers hardly ever mention its name; ‘the honored North American customer’
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iThinkDifferent, iPhone Hacks, and AppleInsider
Tweets: @mariancw, @ellenbyron, @djtgallagher, @kubota_yoko, @realrobcopeland, @airhen, and @landerswsj
| Bloomberg: |
Cybersecurity firm Resecurity says hackers accessed 100+ computers of current and former staff at 21 major natural gas suppliers and exporters in mid-February — In mid-February, hackers gained access to computers belonging to current and former employees at nearly two dozen major natural gas suppliers …
Tweets: @annmarie, @rory_johnston, and @sjcasey
| Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal: |
Former YouTube Kids employees describe how the service embraced human curation over virality to address criticism it wasn't doing enough to protect children — Former employees say platform embraced human curation over virality to address criticism it wasn't doing enough to protect younger consumers
Tweets: @yoreekoh, @martinhoffmann, and @kevinroose
| PYMNTS.com: |
AutoFi, an e-commerce startup for car sales and financing, raises $85M at a nearly $700M valuation from Santander, SVB Financial, Crosslink Capital, and others — AutoFi, a San Francisco-based eCommerce platform for online car sales and financing, has closed $85 million in funding …
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Business Wire, Coinspeaker, and Tech News
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple suspends Search Ads in Russia, putting current and future App Store advertising campaigns on hold in the country “until further notice” — Apple Inc. has suspended advertising on its App Store in Russia, a move that bars developers from placing ads in search results … Sponsor Posts
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