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Google Play pilots a third-party billing option to select partners globally, starting with Spotify; Google said user choice billing still involves a service fee — Amid increasing global regulations over app stores and their commission structures, Google today announced the launch …
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Researchers say a 16-year-old from England is the mastermind behind the Lapsus$ group; seven unique accounts associated with Lapsus$ were identified — Cybersecurity researchers investigating a string of hacks against technology companies, including Microsoft Corp. and Nvidia Corp. …
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
A look at Lapsus$, a data extortion group that first surfaced in December 2021 specializing in stealing data from big companies by bribing or tricking employees — Microsoft and identity management platform Okta both this week disclosed breaches involving LAPSUS$, a relatively new cybercrime group …
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
DSCC report: Apple is planning a MacBook Air with a ~15-inch display and an entry-level iPad with a display bigger than the current 10.2-inch for 2023 — Apple has new form factors in store for the MacBook Air and entry-level iPad for 2033, according to a new report from Display Supply Chain Consultants.
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Stephen Wilhite, one of the lead creators of the GIF, has died at 74; Wilhite worked on the GIF while employed by CompuServe in the 1980s — It's pronounced ‘jif’ — Stephen Wilhite, one of the lead inventors of the GIF, died last week from COVID at the age of 74, according to his wife, Kathaleen, who spoke to The Verge.
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Twitter finally rolls out an update to DMs that lets users search messages for contents, not just names, on web, iOS, and Android — The search bar now scours the content of your messages — Twitter announced on Wednesday that its DM search feature has gotten a big upgrade …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
YouTube makes nearly 4,000 TV episodes available for free with ads in the US and plans to add up to 100 shows and movies each week — The platform already offers free movies with ads — YouTube is the latest company to offer free shows TV with ads. The video giant says you'll now be able …
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| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
An attack on Viasat's satellite internet service as Russia's war began impacted 27K users in Europe beyond Ukraine; thousands of users remain offline a month on — The biggest hack since Russia's war began knocked thousands of people offline. The spillover extends deep into Europe.
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| David Ljunggren / Reuters: |
Roskomnadzor has blocked Google News, saying it provided access to “inauthentic” information about Russia's war in Ukraine — Russia's communications regulator has blocked Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google News, accusing it of allowed access to what it calls fake material … | Dave Lee / Financial Times: |
Instacart will build micro-fulfillment warehouses for grocery retailers to support 15-minute deliveries, launching in the “coming months” starting with Publix — Company embarks on ‘new trajectory’ with grocery retailers as it seeks to fend off fierce competition| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google plans to remove the Movies & TV section from the Play Store in May 2022, and directs users to buy, rent, or watch movies and shows from the Google TV app — The Play Store used to sell tons of content, but now it offers only apps and books. — Google Play Movies & TV—and the Google Play brand in general—seems doomed.
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| Sam Roberts / New York Times: |
Personal computing pioneer John Roach, who introduced the fully assembled Tandy TRS-80 and shipped 5K units in 1977, dies at 83 — He helped make the home computer ubiquitous by introducing the fully assembled Tandy TRS-80, which was so novel at the time that it became a museum piece.
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| Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
Ukraine's Mykhailo Fedorov says the country is using Clearview AI's tools to identify the bodies of dead Russian soldiers and inform families — Ukraine is using facial recognition software to identify the bodies of Russian soldiers killed in combat and to trace their families to inform … | 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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