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Meta paid Republican consulting firm Targeted Victory for a campaign to paint TikTok as a danger to the US, including placing op-eds in regional news outlets — Facebook parent company Meta is paying one of the biggest Republican consulting firms in the country to orchestrate …
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| William Turton / Bloomberg: |
Sources say Apple and Meta gave user data to hackers in response to forged Emergency Data Requests; Discord said it had also fulfilled a forged legal request — Apple Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, provided customer data to hackers who masqueraded as law enforcement officials …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is planning to expand its financial services by adding payment processing, lending risk assessment, credit checks, fraud analysis, and more — Apple Inc. is developing its own payment processing technology and infrastructure for future financial products …
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Ars Technica, Protocol, AppleInsider, Engadget, iMore, MacRumors, Crowdfund Insider, iThinkDifferent, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, MacDailyNews, and iPhone Hacks
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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Apple updates its App Store rules in the Netherlands to let Dutch dating apps take payments through third-party processors, but a 27% commission still applies — But they can't avoid giving up a 27 percent commission — To help bring an end to wrangling with Dutch regulators that stretched …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple now lets “reader” apps link to websites for creating or managing user accounts, after the company gives access to an External Link Account Entitlement — Apple today informed developers of “reader” apps that they are able to sign up for access to an “External Link Account Entitlement” …
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Apple Developer, The Verge, 9to5Mac, CNBC, CNET, and TechCrunch
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| Bloomberg: |
Sky Mavis COO Aleksander Larsen says the company is “fully committed to reimbursing” Axie Infinity players who lost funds and is “still working on a solution” — The company behind the popular Axie Infinity crypto game said it will reimburse online participants …
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Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At, Blockworks, CNET, Amy Castor, SlashGear, CryptoPotato, Foot Guns, The Hill, Livemint, CoinDesk, and CoinDesk
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Waymo plans to offer fully autonomous rides in San Francisco, without a human safety driver, as part of a growing test, and expands its service area in Arizona — The company is also expanding its service area in Phoenix — Waymo plans to start offering rides in its fully autonomous vehicles …
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Waypoint, Bloomberg, International Business Times, Axios, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, Associated Press, PCMag, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Forbes, 9to5Google, and Neowin
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| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
IT and software developer Globant says its code repo was partially breached, after Lapsus$ shared 70GB of allegedly stolen data; Globant's stock closed down 10% — Just days after police in the U.K. arrested seven people over suspected connections to the now-infamous hacking and extortion group, Lapsus$ is claiming its latest victim.
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Seek Reinvention, BleepingComputer, CRN, iTnews, Threatpost, Ars Technica, The Hacker News, MobileSyrup, The Verge, VentureBeat, and Tech Monitor. Tweets: @alvierid
| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Google adds more Markdown support to Docs on the web, letting users format documents using text shortcuts, 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 …
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Google Workspace Updates, Android Police, TechCrunch, Phandroid, XDA Developers, Chrome Unboxed, Thurrott, iPhone in Canada Blog, MSPoweruser, 512 Pixels, 9to5Google, and TechRadar
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp says its users send 7B voice messages daily on average and adds a waveform visualization, pause/resume, draft preview, out of chat playback, and more — Like most smartphone users in India, I use WhatsApp a lot. But I have never sent anyone a voice message — ever. Turns out, others do.
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WhatsApp.com, CNET, Android Police, Social Media Today, TechRadar, PhoneArena, Engadget, Thurrott, Tech Advisor, and The Economic Times
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| Samreen Ahmad / Tech in Asia: |
Sea laid off 350+ staff and shut down its e-commerce arm Shopee in India on Monday, after India banned Free Fire and other apps it says have ties to China — Shopee India will lay off over 300 staff after it decided to shut down operations in the South Asian country.| James Cridland / Podnews: |
A leaked YouTube presentation for podcast publishers shows the company is working on a podcasts homepage with RSS feed ingestion, audio ads, analytics, and more — - Exclusive: YouTube is planning tighter integration, monetisation and analytics for podcasts
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Social Media Today, Android Headlines, TechCrunch, Tubefilter, 9to5Google, and TechRadar
Tweets: @davidtvrdon, @chrisphin, @misener, @stephenrobles, @mattnavarra, @matt, and @evoterra
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google plans to use its ML model MUM to improve search results for users in a crisis, directing them to help for suicide, sexual assault, and domestic abuse — Directing more searches to help and support — In a personal crisis, many people turn to an impersonal source of support: Google.
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Protocol, ZDNet, The Keyword, TechCrunch, and Engadget
| Brandy Betz / CoinDesk: |
LayerZero, a startup that offers a protocol for blockchain interoperability, raises $135M co-led by a16z, FTX, and Sequoia at a $1B valuation — The blockchain interoperability protocol first emerged from stealth last September. — CORRECTION (March 30, 19:28 UTC): A previous version …
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Business Wire, PYMNTS.com, BetaKit, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, Crypto Briefing, CoinGape, and Vancouver Tech Journal
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Arm plans to transfer shares from its China joint venture, which it failed to control and audit for two years, to SoftBank, to speed up a New York IPO — Shifting stake in chip designer's joint venture to a SoftBank special purpose vehicle would ease New York flotation
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The Register, Bloomberg, TechSpot, Tom's Hardware, Benzinga, CNBC, and Reuters
Tweets: @paulmozur, @muradahmed, @dylan522p, and @jamesplloyd
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
The FBI and its global law enforcement partners announce the arrests of 65 alleged cybercrime gang members specializing in business email compromise schemes — A coordinated operation conducted by the FBI and its international law enforcement partners has resulted in disrupting business email compromise … | Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Chainalysis: $1B+ in crypto was stolen from bridge-related exploits in a little over a year across seven incidents; Dune: $21B+ is locked on Ethereum bridges — The hack of a so-called bridge supporting Axie Infinity's play-to-earn game revealed this week highlights the increasingly problematic nature … | Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Nova Labs, formerly Helium, a network of 500K+ cryptocurrency-mining hotspots offering p2p networking, confirms it raised a $200M Series D at a $1.2B valuation — Decentralized wireless communication startup Helium Inc. today announced a change of name to Nova Labs Inc. and confirmed …
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Decrypt, FinSMEs, Crypto Briefing, CryptoSlate, Stacey on IoT, CoinDesk, and Light Reading
Tweets: @wublockchain and @masasoncap
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Dagger, a new DevOps service co-founded by Docker's Solomon Hykes, launches in public beta and announces a $20M Series A led by Redpoint Ventures — It's been almost exactly four years since Docker founder Solomon Hykes left the company that kickstarted the container revolution.
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Protocol, InfoWorld, and SiliconANGLE
| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google adds an Appointment Schedule to Calendar, letting users present available periods for a meeting and send a “booking page” URL for others to pick from — Calendar can now generate a webpage of available time slots for a user to pick from.
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Google Workspace Updates, 9to5Google, Protocol, TechRadar, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @werty, @vaibhavsisinty, @carnage4life, and @chrismessina
| 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, CoinDesk, New York Times, The Verge, and TechRadar
Tweets: @jerrybrito, @repstephenlynch, @giladedelman, @repstephenlynch, @repstephenlynch, and @raulacarrillo
| Kul Bhushan / Tech in Asia: |
India-based social commerce startup Citymall, which targets consumers in Tier 2, 3, and 4 towns, raises a $75M Series C led by Norwest Venture Partners — Citymall, an India-based social commerce startup, has raised US$75 million in a series C round led by Norwest Venture Partners.
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The Economic Times and DealStreetAsia
| New York Times: |
Sources detail the internal confusion among Meta moderators and employees over how to enforce rapidly shifting 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.
Tweets: @rmac18, @rmac18, @satariano, @shiraovide, @rmac18, @jhdearen, and @rmac18
| Nate Raymond / Reuters: |
A judge invalidates Massachusetts' fiduciary duty rule against Robinhood that underlies a 2020 suit accusing the firm of encouraging users to place risky trades — A Massachusetts judge on Wednesday dealt state securities regulators a major setback in their enforcement action … | Reuters: |
Sources: the DOJ is investigating whether Google bundling Maps with its other software, for automakers and for developers, illegally stifles competition — The U.S. Justice Department has breathed new life into an investigation of Google Maps to determine if bundling the service together …
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