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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Okta confirms an attacker accessed an engineer's laptop in January consistent with posted screenshots by Lapsus$, as customers struggle to grasp their exposure — Authentication firm Okta's statements on the Lapsus$ breach fails to answer key questions. — The digital extortion group Lapsus$ threw …
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| Raphael Satter / Reuters: |
Okta says the “maximum potential impact” of its security breach was to 366 customers, out of 15K+, whose data was accessed by contractor Sitel; Okta is down 5%+ — Hundreds of customers of digital authentication firm Okta Inc have possibly been affected by a security breach caused …
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| The Block: |
Apple acquired UK banking startup Credit Kudos, which offers APIs for lenders, sources say earlier this week; a source says the deal is valued at around $150M — Quick Take — Credit Kudos becomes the latest European open banking startup to be snapped up by a US acquirer.| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple adds driver's licenses and state IDs to Wallet in Arizona, the first state with the feature; Colorado, Hawaii, Mississippi, Ohio, and Puerto Rico are next — Apple today announced that Arizona has become the first U.S. state to support driver's licenses and state IDs in the Wallet app on the iPhone and Apple Watch.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sony releases PS4 and PS5 updates; the PS5 will get Variable Refresh Rate “in the coming months”, syncing a display's refresh rate to the PS5's graphical output — Sony says VRR will be available in the coming months on the PS5 — Sony is planning to release a Variable Refresh Rate …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram rolls out chronological Following and Favorites feeds to all iOS and Android users globally, neither of which can be set as the default — Instagram today is making a chronological feed available to all users, as earlier promised, alongside another new feed filtering option …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Carl Pei teases Nothing's Phone (1), a smartphone running Android with a Nothing OS skin, launching this summer — Nothing will launch its debut smartphone this summer, its CEO and former OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei announced today during a live stream. It'll be called the Phone 1 …
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| The Verge: |
Microsoft confirms Lapsus$ compromised “a single account” and stole portions of source code for some products, but says no customer code and data was involved — Lapsus$ says it has accessed data from Okta, Nvidia, Samsung, and Ubisoft — The hacking group Lapsus$ …
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| David Anders / CNET: |
The FBI says internet crime victims in the US reported losing over $6.9B in 2021, up from $4.2B in 2020, and it received 847,376 complaints in 2021, up 7% YoY — The FBI releases its annual Internet Crime Report, detailing the most prevalent cybercrimes in 2021.
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Snap acquires Paris-based neurotech startup NextMind and discontinues its $400 headband that let users control aspects of a computer; NextMind had raised ~$4.5M — NextMind made a headband for controlling virtual objects with your thoughts — Meta, Apple, and a slew of other tech companies … | Wall Street Journal: |
Meta's top executives are embracing remote work, as sources say Mark Zuckerberg spends extended periods in Hawaii; Sandberg is taking a sabbatical this spring — Executives are scattering to locations far from Silicon Valley headquarters, working from Hawaii, Cape Cod, Europe| Bloomberg: |
FIFA adds Crypto.com as a sponsor for the 2022 soccer World Cup in Qatar, months after Crypto.com replaced Staples as the title sponsor for Los Angeles' arena — Fifa has added Crypto.com as one of the sponsors for this year's soccer world cup in Qatar, the latest step in the cryptocurrency …
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| Nelson Renteria / Reuters: |
El Salvador postpones its $1B bitcoin-backed bond, planned for March 15-20, citing unfavorable market conditions; BTC is down ~35% from its November 2021 peak — SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - El Salvador postponed an unprecedented issue of a bitcoin-backed bond planned for last week …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
For the second day in a row, Apple's App Store, Music, Podcasts, and other services were disrupted; Apple's System Status page says the issues are resolved — Apple's services and apps appear to be experiencing yet another outage, with complaints on Twitter about problems with Apple Maps …
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
ApeCoin DAO lets Yuga Labs talk up the virtues of decentralization while also enjoying the benefits of centralization, namely collecting all the profits — Tokens like the new one from Bored Ape Yacht Club promise to decentralize the web. So why are insiders reaping most of the profits? — I.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
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| Loren Grush / The Verge: |
SpaceX increases the prices of Starlink's starter kit to $599, up $100, and its monthly internet service to $110, up $11, according to an email to customers — It's going to be $11 more a month — SpaceX's internet-from-space program Starlink is increasing prices for both the purchase …
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| Thomas Seal / Bloomberg: |
Tarana Wireless, which develops fixed wireless tech to deliver high-speed broadband, raised $170M in February at a $1B+ valuation, and plans an IPO in 2023 — Tarana Wireless Inc.'s valuation has more than doubled to $1 billion on the promise of technology that can beam broadband into homes …
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| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: in Q2 2022, Spotify plans to rename its live social audio app from Greenroom to Spotify Live and integrate the content into its main app — Spotify Technology SA is renaming its live conversation product and integrating the content into its main streaming app to make the service … | Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Crypto VC Katie Haun, who left a16z in 2021, raises $1.5B, the largest debut fund by a female VC yet, allotting $500M for early- and $1B for late-stage startups — - Crypto investor Katie Haun has raised $1.5 billion for her new firm after a surprise departure from Andreessen Horowitz last year.
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| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
The EU could unveil the Digital Markets Act as early as Thursday; sources say the DMA targets companies with a €75B+ market cap and at least 45,000 active users — Digital Markets Act now expected to target core online platforms with market cap of at least €75bn
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| Amber Burton / Protocol: |
Microsoft expands its cybersecurity jobs initiative beyond the US to 23 new countries, including Australia and India, to help fill 3.5M jobs globally by 2025 — Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it will expand its cybersecurity skilling initiative to 23 additional countries.| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Data orchestration service Astronomer, built on the Apache Airflow open-source tools, raises a $213M Series C led by Insight and acquires data tool Datakin — Astronomer has grown quite a lot since we briefly profiled the company back in 2017. — At that time, the scrappy data analytics company …
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| Kyle Alspach / VentureBeat: |
MixMode, which develops a self-learning AI system to protect customers from cyberattacks, raises a $45M Series B led by PSG — MixMode, which today announced a $45 million series B funding round, has a massive opportunity ahead to deploy its self-learning, “third-wave” … Thanks:@kylealspach
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