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Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal emails staff to announce that Elon Musk will hold an internal AMA addressing concerns that Musk will sabotage the company culture — Twitter plans to host Elon Musk for a question-and-answer session with employees after a week of internal outcries over his appointment …
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Google partners with iFixit to sell spare parts for devices going back to 2017's Pixel 2, in Australia, Canada, the US, and European countries “later this year” — Spare parts going back to the Pixel 2 will be available — Google has become the latest manufacturer to partner …
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Microsoft says it obtained a court order on April 6 to take control of seven domains and disrupt Russia-linked hacking group Strontium's attacks against Ukraine — Microsoft has successfully disrupted attacks against Ukrainian targets coordinated by the Russian APT28 hacking group after taking …
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| Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: |
Algospeak, like saying unalive instead of dead, is becoming common on the internet as people seek to bypass content moderation filters on platforms like TikTok — “Algospeak” is becoming increasingly common across the Internet as people seek to bypass content moderation filters …
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| Betty Hou / Bloomberg: |
TSMC beats with a record ~$17B in Q1 revenue, up 36% YoY, due to higher demand for smartphone, computer, and car chips as the prolonged shortage raised prices — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. revenue rose to a record in the first quarter on demand for chips used in smartphones …
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Gartner forecasts global tech spending rising 4% YoY to $4.4T in 2022, device spending rising 1.9% to $824.6B, and software spending rising 9.8% to $674.9B — The respected analyst firm Gartner Inc. said today in its latest forecast that worldwide information technology is expected … | Tonya Riley / CyberScoop: |
A US judge sentences Denys Iarmak, a Ukrainian member of the FIN7 hacking group, to five years in prison; FIN7 has stolen 20M+ credit card numbers since 2015 — Denys Iarmak, a high-level member of the criminal hacking group FIN7, was sentenced to five years in prison today by a U.S. judge.
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Twitter tests Unmentioning with some users on the web, letting users select “leave this conversation” on a tweet to avoid notifications — Twitter might not have an edit button just yet, but it's still delivering at least one useful feature this week.
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| Ash Parrish / The Verge: |
Activision Blizzard: Raven Software QA workers who joined the Game Workers Union in January won't be able to take advantage of the new $20 minimum hourly rate — Raven Software QA workers organized under the Game Workers Alliance will not be able to benefit from the new pay raises
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Axie Infinity's economics make little sense and it is reminiscent of a Ponzi scheme, but the strength and engagement of its community may sustain it long term — Last year, Axie Infinity was touted as one of the best candidates for a mainstream blockchain app.| Reuters: |
Taiwan has launched investigations into around 100 Chinese companies suspected of illegally poaching semiconductor engineers and other tech talent — Taiwan's spy catchers have launched probes into around 100 Chinese companies suspected of illegally poaching semiconductor engineers and other tech talent … | Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
A book excerpt examines how a law enforcement operation to take down the largest child sex abuse website, using Chainalysis tools, showed bitcoin was traceable — They thought their payments were untraceable. They couldn't have been more wrong. The untold story of the case that shredded the myth of Bitcoin's anonymity.
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China will begin on-site inspections of large internet platforms to assess potential abuse of their algorithms, likely including Tencent and ByteDance — China kicked off a formal campaign to rein in the potential abuse of algorithms by internet giants from ByteDance Ltd. to Tencent Holdings Ltd. … | Kenrick Cai / Forbes: |
Kumo, whose AI platform uses graph neural networks to help companies predict better, raises a $18.5M Series A led by Sequoia Capital at a $100M valuation — Modern businesses possess complicated networks of data, connecting information like customer behavior to marketing campaigns or fraud detection.Sponsor Posts
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