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| Andrew Thurman / CoinDesk: |
The Ronin Network, which supports Sky Mavis' Axie Infinity game, says it was hacked, and 173,600 ETH and 25.5M USDC was stolen, worth $600M+; RON is down ~20% — It may be the largest exploit in DeFi history. — The latest crypto hack may be the largest yet.
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Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At, Ronin's Newsletter, The Verge, Web3 is going just great, Gizmodo, Washington Post, Kotaku, Security Affairs, Barron's Online, Silicon Republic, Cryptonews, TechRadar, Bloomberg, Infosecurity, Coinspeaker, GamesTX, Kyrian Alex's Newsletter, Waivly, Numlock News, CoinQuora, TechCircle, Tech in Asia, SiliconANGLE, Input, Elaborate VC, Financial Times, The Overspill, PYMNTS.com, Coinmonks, ZDNet, Protocol, VentureBeat, Crypto Daily, PC Gamer, Forbes, Metaversal, Neowin, and Tom's Hardware
Tweets: @ronin_network, @ronin_network, @ronin_network, @axieinfinity, @coindesk, @sbf_ftx, @josephfcox, @cz_binance, @benedictevans, @zrachess, @the_postman_, @cobie, @lawmaster, @jihoz_axie, @adamscochran, @frankresearcher, @kelvinfichter, @johnreedstark, @carnage4life, @fredbenenson, @j0hnnyxm4s, @carnage4life, @iboudreau, @malwarejake, @rleshner, @mikeisaac, @ryanlcooper, @mkapor, @munecatmusic, @ben_mckenzie, @villi, @dclblogger, @ibogost, @mitsuhiko, @thedextriarchy, @kyle_chasse, @nischalshetty, @simonyusea, @matthew_d_green, @danlesac, @bigblackjacobin, @adamsinger, @musalbas, @iansherr, @bcrypt, @krugermacro, @discoverxnft, @dogetoshi, @zackwhittaker, @mattbinder, @silvermanjacob, @broderick, @epro, @adrianweckler, @kelvinfichter, @adamscochran, @adamscochran, @adamscochran, @adamscochran, @adamscochran, @nft_guru, @nft_guru, @nft_guru, @nft_guru, @kelvinfichter, @degenapeacademy, @kelvinfichter, @staffordphilip, @joepostingg, @phabcd, @joepostingg, @alexhern, @mintroyale, @blockanalia, @blockanalia, @livercoin, @livercoin, @0xpepo, @caseynewton, @tomaxwell, @zackseward, @edzitron, @caseynewton, @cobie, @hosseeb, @loopifyyy, @cryptodefilord, @_prestwich, @hosseeb, @hosseeb, @frankresearcher, @jonrussell, and @chainlinkgod
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta updates Messenger with Slack-like shortcuts, /silent to reply without a notification and @everyone to notify all, and plans to add more, like /pay and /gif — There's also one that pings everyone, so please use it responsibly — Meta, the parent company of Facebook …
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Messenger News, Silicon Republic, Android Police, 9to5Mac, BGR India, PhoneArena, Pocket-lint, iMore, and TechCrunch
| Washington Post: |
Meta paid Republican consulting firm Targeted Victory to orchestrate a campaign against TikTok in the US, including placing op-eps in regional news outlets — Facebook parent company Meta is paying one of the biggest Republican consulting firms in the country to orchestrate a nationwide campaign seeking …
Tweets: @craigsilverman, @drewharwell, @johnmtaylor, @blmohr, and @washingtonpost. Thanks:@aaronjschaffer
| Gilad Edelman / Wired: |
A look at the ECASH Act, which would direct the US Treasury to pilot digital dollars that would be stored on hardware and not on a distributed blockchain ledger — If you want the privacy of paper money, you need something that leaves no paper trail. — When you hear the phrase “digital cash,” what comes to mind?
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Congressman Stephen Lynch, The Verge, and TechRadar
Tweets: @jerrybrito, @repstephenlynch, @repstephenlynch, @repstephenlynch, @giladedelman, and @raulacarrillo
| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Google adds expanded Markdown support to Docs on the web, off by default, as part of its autocorrect feature — ## An alternative to keyboard shortcuts — Google is adding Markdown support to Google Docs on the web, letting you format your document using text shortcuts rather than keyboard ones.
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Google Workspace Updates, 9to5Google, Onsitego Blog, and 512 Pixels
Tweets: @pierce, @tomeraberbach, @anildash, @ow, and @triketora
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: China is planning expanded restrictions on its huge live-streaming industry, including capping daily tipping and tighter content censorship — Regulators are planning rules limiting virtual tipping of live-streaming hosts and time spent by young people on the apps
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Benzinga. Tweets: @jchengwsj, @lizalinwsj, @lizalinwsj, @lizalinwsj, @lizalinwsj, @lizalinwsj, @paulmozur, and @lizalinwsj
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Arm plans to transfer shares from its China joint venture, which it has struggled to control and audit, to SoftBank to speed up a New York listing — Shifting stake in chip designer's joint venture to a SoftBank special purpose vehicle would ease New York flotation| TechCrunch: |
A brief overview of Y Combinator's Demo Day for the Winter 2022 batch, with 414 companies in total and the first batch to receive YC's new standard deal — The TechCrunch team spent today covering the first day of Y Combinator's Winter 2022 Demo Day, which featured half of the 394 companies that plan to virtually present.
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Y Combinator Blog. More:
TechCrunch, TechCrunch, Y Combinator, Tech in Asia, TechCrunch, Vancouver Tech Journal, San Francisco Business Journal, and TechCrunch. Tweets: @marshallk
| New York Times: |
Sources detail internal confusion from Meta moderators and employees over how to enforce content rules during Russia's invasion of Ukraine — The rules over what war content is permitted on Facebook and Instagram keep changing, causing internal confusion. — Meta, which owns Facebook …
Tweets: @satariano, @rmac18, @rmac18, @rmac18, and @rmac18
| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
DeepMind says it made changes to its policies after a female former staff member accused the Google-owned company of mishandling sexual misconduct allegations — Former employee at artificial intelligence group raises concerns about grievance procedure following assault and harassment by senior researcher
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ConcernedDeepMinder. Tweets: @madhumita29, @madhumita29, @mikarv, @madhumita29, @alphabetworkers, and @sam_l_shead
| The Economic Times: |
Qure.ai, which uses AI to read and interpret X-rays, CT scans, and ultrasounds for medical image diagnosis, raises $40M led by Novo Holdings and HealthQuad — Mumbai: Healthtech startup Qure.ai (Qure) has raised $40 million in a funding round led by Novo Holdings and HealthQuad.
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FinSMEs, Business Insider, Business Standard, Qure AI, Moneycontrol, Times of India, and MassDevice
| Shannon Liao / Washington Post: |
A judge approves an $18M settlement between Activision Blizzard and the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, ending the federal sexual harassment lawsuit — A judge approved an $18 million settlement between Activision Blizzard and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Tuesday …
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PCMag, Activision Blizzard, NPR, Dexerto, Engadget, Hollywood Reporter, Axios, The Guardian, The Wrap, ScreenRant, Dow Jones Newswires, Twinfinite, CBR, Dot Esports, The Daily Beast, We Got This Covered, Gamepur, dot.LA, The Verge, Deadline, IGN, TechSpot, Video Games Chronicle, The Hill, Game Developer, Protocol, GamesIndustry.biz, and Wccftech
Tweets: @charlieintel, @jonnypeltz, @freethewolfvo, @hippowombat, @lisabloom, @shannon_liao, @eurogamer, and @gibiz
| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
ConcertAI, an AI and data startup for healthcare and life sciences, raises a $150M Series C at a $1.9B valuation led by Sixth Street — ConcertAI LLC, a provider of real-world data and artificial intelligence services for the healthcare and life sciences industries, reached unicorn status today.| Malique Morris / The Information: |
Sources: Stripe-backed one-click checkout service Fast generated just ~$600K in 2021 revenue; source says Fast tried raising a $100M Series C in late 2021 — Several startups have been racing to sell software known as one-click checkout to retailers such as The Honest Company and Forever 21 …
Tweets: @bobbyallyn, @lauramandaro, @buccocapital, @carnage4life, @amir, and @carnage4life
| Michail / GSMArena.com: |
Counterpoint: Motorola was the third largest smartphone OEM in the US in 2021, with a 10% market share, up 131% YoY, filling the void left by LG's exit — LG officially shut down its mobile division last April which left a sizeable hole in the US smartphone market and based … | Kate Kaye / Protocol: |
Q&A with 2021 Turing Award winner Jack Dongarra, an expert in linear algebra algorithms at the University of Tennessee, on hyperscale cloud computing and more — Even Jack Dongarra has a hard time wrapping his head around the number used to represent “exascale” computing: 1018.
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CNET, ZDNet, New York Times, Forbes, Fortune, and GlobeNewswire News Room
| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
Intel unveils i9-12900KS, an unlocked i9-12900K meant to be overclocked, with a 30MB L3 cache, 150W base power, a 5.5 GHz max frequency, coming April 5 for $739 — Intel takes the covers off its new 5.5GHz 12th generation i9-12900KS processor. — Intel has announced it will be releasing … | Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
London-based Builder.ai, which offers low-code tools to build apps, raises a $100M Series C led by Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $195M — When we started covering Builder.ai a few years ago, the startup was tapping into a new wave of businesses wanting their own native apps.
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Tech in Asia
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Verizon blames “bad actors” and engages US law enforcement after its customers and users of its MVNO Visible receive spam texts from their own phone numbers — The carrier says it's working with US law enforcement to find those responsible — Yesterday, I wrote about receiving …
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Newser, Android Police, SlashGear, Android Central, and govtech.com
Tweets: @alex_lanstein, @pattymo, @tomwarren, @rjcc, @codejake, @reckless, @samitsarkar, @davepell, @chriswelch, and @senatorshoshana
| Jim Waterson / The Guardian: |
Ofcom: around 16% of UK three and four-year-olds view TikTok content, rising to around 33% of children aged five to seven — Three-year-olds are on the video-sharing platform and it may be affecting their attention span — British toddlers are increasingly likely to be users of TikTok … | Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
Chinese AR glasses maker Nreal raises a $60M Series C extension led by Alibaba, bringing its total funding to $200M in the past 12 months — China's augmented reality startup Nreal is on a roll. The company, which hopes to bring AR to the masses by making bright-color, lightweight smart glasses …
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PingWest, CNBC, South China Morning Post, DealStreetAsia, Bloomberg, Benzinga, VentureBeat, and Nikkei Asia
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Hackers are compromising police and government email accounts to send Emergency Data Requests to ISPs, telecoms, social networks, and others, who quickly comply — There is a terrifying and highly effective “method” that criminal hackers are now using to harvest sensitive customer data …
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SiliconANGLE and Gizmodo
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