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Leaked Mandiant report: Okta's contractor Sitel first sent a Lapsus$ breach notification to Okta on January 25 and a detailed “Intrusion Timeline” on March 17 — Documents shed some light on how Okta and its subprocessor Sitel reacted to a breach, but they don't explain the apparent lack of urgency.
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| Corin Faife / The Verge: |
Security experts worry the EU's DMA, which mandates messaging service interoperability, could undermine the end-to-end encryption on WhatsApp and other services — Big names in internet security have been fiercely critical of the new DMA legislation — On March 24th, EU governing bodies announced …
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
WhatsApp chief Will Cathcart on how the Digital Markets Act could upend encryption, privacy, and product design — WhatsApp chief Will Cathcart on how the Digital Markets Act could upend encryption, privacy, and product design — Today, let's talk about Europe's aggressive move …
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| The Intercept: |
Internal email: complying with a new Russian censorship law, Google ordered its contracted Russian translators to not call Russia's war in Ukraine a “war” — In early March, contractors working for Google to translate company text for the Russian market received an update from their client …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Many customers on Verizon and its MVNO Visible have reported receiving spam text messages from their own phone number over the last few days — Did you recently get a spam text... from yourself? You're not alone — This morning, I received a very blatant spam text offering me “a little gift” for supposedly paying my phone bill.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India-based Classplus, which helps teachers and creators operate, manage, and sell courses to students, raises a $70M Series D at a $570M valuation — At a time when so many edtech firms in India are attempting to cut their reliance on teachers, a Noida-based startup that is helping teachers …
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Q&A with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on integrating hardware and software, the company's full-stack approach, ML opportunities, attempting to buy Arm, and more — It took a few moments to realize what was striking about the opening video for Nvidia's GTC conference: the complete absence of humans.
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| Virginia Hughes / New York Times: |
Analysis of two UK datasets find heavy use of social media by adolescents during two windows, around puberty and age 19, spurred lower life satisfaction ratings — A large study in Britain found two specific windows of adolescence when some teenagers are most sensitive to social media.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Sourceful, which helps brands reduce supply chain emissions via its online marketplace of vetted suppliers, raises a $20M Series A led by Index Ventures — Sourceful, an Index Ventures backed supply chain transparency startup, has fast-fuelled with a $20 million Series A around half a year after it announced a $12.2M seed round.
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| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Spotify rolls out an advisory for content that mentions COVID-19, two months after promising the feature amid controversy over Joe Rogan's podcast — - Spotify is rolling out a Covid content advisory tab on podcasts and other content that mentions the coronavirus.| Laura Lovett / MobiHealthNews: |
UAE-based telehealth startup Altibbi raises a $44M Series B led by Foundation Holdings, Hikma Ventures, Global Ventures, and DASH Ventures — This new round of funding will go towards building the company's online pharmacy and its geographical footprint. — United Arab Emirates health …
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| Ryan Tracy / Wall Street Journal: |
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