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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

More: Jeff Strain, TheGamer, purexbox.com, Game Developer, Polygon, GamesIndustry.biz, Game Rant, Windows Central, Wccftech, and The Verge

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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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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 …

More: The Wrap, The Independent, SPACInsider, KnowTechie, Daily Mail, Forbes, and Mashable

Tweets: @mikesington, @juddlegum, @fpwellman, and @btlipschultz

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 …

More: PR Newswire, AppleInsider, PetaPixel, TechCircle, Micky, YouTube, Cryptopolitan, and Cryptonews

Tweets: @karlbode, @barnacules, and @dialacina

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 …

More: CoinDesk

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 …

More: SentinelOne, The Record, Cybersecurity Dive, Telecoms Tech News, TechCrunch, CyberScoop, The Hacker News, Reversemode, cybernews.com, The Register, SiliconANGLE, PCMag, BleepingComputer, and SC Media

Tweets: @780thc, @sentinelone, and @dangoodin001

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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CBS News:

A US federal judge allows the Pentagon to fire three Stars and Stripes journalists, ruling the government likely did not violate their First Amendment rights

Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:

SCOTUS rules via an emergency order that political parties are entitled to the same low-cost TV ad rates as candidates, giving an advantage to Republicans

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Washington Post:

A look at the growing skepticism from Silicon Valley investors and companies of Russian money, once welcomed, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine

Tweets: @josephmenn, @josephmenn, @ericgarland, @lukeobrien, @xeni, and @silvermanjacob

Bloomberg:

An interview with DOJ antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter, his first since taking office in November, on his mission, slamming the brakes on mergers, and more

Tweets: @stuloren, @paulaedwyer, @tina_davis, and @benbrodydc

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

More: Engadget, CNN, Protocol, NBC News, CNBC, New York Post, and Reuters

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Kiran Stacey / Financial Times:

A look at the eclectic group of pro-crypto lawmakers in Washington, from libertarians to tech utopians, who were galvanized by the recent US infrastructure bill

Tweets: @jimmie_lenz

Tiare Tuuhia / Rest of World:

How homegrown courier services in French Polynesia are building their own online shopping service to fill the gaps left by e-commerce giants in remote islands

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Suzanne Smalley / CyberScoop:

Sources: Biden administration considers changing a Trump-era policy which let DoD and Cyber Command authorize cyber operations without White House approval

Alastair Marsh / Bloomberg:

Q&A with Michael Chobanian, founder of Ukraine's biggest crypto exchange KUNA, on Kyiv's crypto scene before the war, crypto donations and their utility, more

More: Bitcoinist.com. Tweets: @repagonzalez, @itskac, and @alastairjmarsh

Michael H. Keller / New York Times:

To avoid erroneously flagging CSAM, Meta's training docs tell content moderators to “err on the side of an adult” when judging people's age in photos or videos

More: PetaPixel, The Verge, and Engadget

Tweets: @postsecret, @jason_kint, @yashar, @davidgclohessy, and @orinkerr

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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:

New York-based Black Crow AI, which delivers predictive analytics to e-commerce retailers, raises a $25M Series A led by Imaginary Ventures

More: FinSMEs and PR Newswire. Tweets: @primaryvc

Wall Street Journal:

Sources: The White House is split over Kaspersky sanctions, which could spur Russian cyberattacks and make enforcement hard due to the company's large clientele

More: Metacurity, Reuters, and CRN

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