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| Ethan Gach / Kotaku: |
A dozen current and former employees at Undead Labs, the Xbox studio behind State of Decay 3, describe sexism, mismanagement, and a toxic workplace culture — Staff say Undead Labs' transition to Xbox studio was hampered by toxic workplace conditions and lack of direction
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| Joe Tidy / BBC: |
UK police charge a 16-year-old with five counts and a 17-year-old with six counts related to the Lapsus$ gang; the teenagers remain in custody — Two teenagers from the UK have been charged by police over hacking for a notorious cyber-crime gang. — A 16 and 17-year-old will appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on Friday.
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Samsung partners with NFT auction service Nifty Gateway to let users “browse, display, and interact with NFTs” on select premium 2022 TVs — It's partnering with Nifty Gateway for its NFT platform — Samsung is making good on its promise from CES 2022 to bring NFTs to its TVs …
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| Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg: |
DWAC, Trump's Truth Social SPAC, has lost 31% of its value since the app launched; Apptopia says downloads are down 95% from its peak and the app has ~513K DAUs — Shares of the blank-check firm bringing Donald Trump's media venture public are sinking with daily downloads …
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| Rebekah Valentine / IGN: |
After announcing in January that the in-person E3 2022 was canceled, ESA informs its partners that there will be no digital event equivalent this year either — Though a possible digital event was floated behind the scenes, that too is now off the table. — After previously canceling …
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| Emily Birnbaum / Politico: |
Apple opposes bills targeting gay and transgender people in Iowa, Texas, Florida, and other states through lobbying, filing court briefs, and recruiting allies — Apple is quietly mobilizing its vast resources to lobby against anti-LGBTQ legislation proliferating across the country …
Tweets: @marceelias, @robininny, and @knowwhatisreal
| Stefanno Sulaiman / Reuters: |
An Indonesian tax official says the country will charge VAT on crypto asset transactions and tax capital gains on crypto investments at 0.1% starting on May 1 — Indonesia plans to charge value-added tax (VAT) on crypto asset transactions and an income tax on capital gains from such investments …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers: an allegedly Russia-tied wiper malware, AcidRain, which shares similarities with the malware VPNFilter, was behind the attack on Viasat in February — AcidRain is the seventh wiper associated with the Russian invasion of Ukraine — Viasat—the high-speed-satellite-broadband …
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Tweets: @780thc, @sentinelone, and @dangoodin001
| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Meta confirms a now-fixed Facebook bug led to a “massive ranking failure” that increased views of harmful content up to 30% over the past six months — A group of Facebook engineers identified a “massive ranking failure” that exposed as much as half of all News Feed views to potential …
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| Anna P. Kambhampaty / New York Times: |
A look at @depthsofwikipedia, a viral social media account created by 22-year-old Annie Rauwerda that shares bizarre, amusing, and surprising Wikipedia snippets — On @depthsofwikipedia, Annie Rauwerda is compiling some of the crowdsourced site's most bizarre pages.
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| Eleni Courea / Politico: |
Sources: the UK quietly approved the controversial sale of Welsh microchip factory Newport Wafer Fab to Nexperia, the Dutch subsidiary of China's Wingtech — LONDON — The U.K. government has quietly approved the controversial sale of a Welsh microchip factory to a Chinese-owned firm.
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| Liudas Dapkus / Associated Press: |
Since Russia invaded Ukraine, an estimated 70,000 IT workers have left Russia, despite no income taxes until 2024, relocating to Poland, Latvia, and Lithuania — VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Russia's tech workers are looking for safer and more secure professional pastures.| Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter: |
Filing: Andy Jassy received $212.7M in his first year as Amazon's CEO, mostly via stock; AWS CEO Adam Selipsky made $81.4M and consumer CEO Dave Clark made $56M — Jeff Bezos, who remains executive chairman of Amazon, earned $1.6 million, almost all in security costs paid by the company.| Karen Weise / New York Times: |
The House Oversight Committee opens an investigation into Amazon's labor practices during severe weather events, after a tornado killed six workers in Illinois — A tornado that hit a delivery station in Illinois last year will be a focus of the inquiry. — The House Committee on Oversight …
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