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| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
Ukrainian officials say they stopped an attack on an energy facility with help from ESET and Microsoft, and identified a new variant of the Industroyer malware — Ukrainian officials said they stopped an attack on an energy facility with the help of researchers from ESET and Microsoft.
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Wired, New York Times, TechCrunch, Security Affairs, Daily Cyber Digest, CyberScoop, Reuters, CNBC, CSO, The Hill, Dark Reading, SiliconANGLE, and GovInfoSecurity
Tweets: @dsszzi, @cisajen, @wired, @davemaasland, @hatr, @nicoleperlroth, and @gadgetlab
| Alex Sherman / CNBC: |
Sources: two weeks after the launch of CNN+, the premium streaming service has garnered under 10K DAUs, amid reports that CNN has spent ~$300M on the effort — - Fewer than 10,000 people are using CNN+ on a daily basis two weeks into its existence, sources said.
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Axios, Daring Fireball, TVNewser, Digiday, Gizmodo, The Kitchen Pundit, and Protocol
| Cheyenne Ligon / CoinDesk: |
Former Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith is sentenced to 5+ years in prison and fined $100K for helping North Koreans use cryptocurrencies to evade sanctions — Griffith previously pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to violate international sanctions for giving a talk at a crypto conference in Pyongyang in 2019.
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The Daily Beast, Wall Street Journal, U.S. Department of Justice, Cointelegraph, Bitcoinist.com, CryptoPotato, Decrypt, Reuters, TheBitTimes.Com's Newsletter, ZyCrypto, Fortune, SiliconANGLE, U.Today, Crypto Briefing, Ethereum World News, BleepingComputer, Cointelegraph, and Coinspeaker. Tweets: @shanvav
| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Microsoft releases over 100 security fixes, including patches for two zero-day vulnerabilities, for Windows, Office, Edge, Dynamics, Hyper-V, and other software — Microsoft has dealt with zero-day bugs in the firm's customary monthly batch of security fixes.
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Microsoft Security Response Center. More:
Zero Day Initiative, The Register, The Hacker News, Security Affairs, Threatpost, BleepingComputer, Dark Reading, OnMSFT.com, SecurityWeek, gHacks Technology News, and Tenable Blog. Tweets: @thezdi
| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Court docs: T-Mobile paid hackers ~$200K via a third party to stop an ongoing leak of stolen data on 30M customers, but the hackers kept selling it regardless — After hackers targeted T-Mobile in August, T-Mobile hired a third-party firm that went undercover and bought exclusive access to the data.
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National Crime Agency, Engadget, TmoNews, and Ars Technica
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| New York Times: |
Many tech companies, eager to please employees returning to offices, are providing perks like concerts with pop stars, food trucks, and “appreciation events” — Tech companies really want their employees to be happy — or at least less annoyed — about returning.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple has delayed adding a blood pressure monitor to Apple Watch until 2024, possibly 2025, after difficulties with accuracy during testing — Apple Inc.'s plan to add a highly anticipated blood-pressure monitor to its smartwatch has hit some snags and the technology isn't expected …
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| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
DuckDuckGo launches its privacy-focused browser on macOS in beta through a private waiting list — DuckDuckGo started out as a private search engine. Now its web browser is debuting on Macs to rival Chrome, Safari, Edge, and Brave. — When Google launched Chrome back in 2008, it changed the web overnight.
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| Michael Bellusci / CoinDesk: |
Cryptocurrency lender Celsius, recently valued at ~$3B, says only accredited US investors will be able to add new assets and earn rewards starting April 15 — In the US, only accredited investors, and those with coins already in the Earn platform, will be able to earn rewards.
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Celsius, Cointelegraph, Decrypt, crypto.news, Crypto Briefing, and Heretic Speculator
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Chris Dixon on a16z's structure, the energy impact of blockchains, centralization in Web3, NFTs, investing in Yuga Labs at a $4B valuation, and more — Regular listeners to Decoder know I'm pretty skeptical of crypto. But I want to come by that skepticism honestly … | Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
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| Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: |
RaidForums, used by Lapsus$, Babuk, and other extortion gangs, is seized in a US-led international operation; Europol says the hacking forum had 500K+ users — The RaidForums hacker forum, used mainly for trading and selling stolen databases, has been shut down and its domain seized …
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U.S. Department of Justice. More:
Krebs on Security, ZDNet, Flashpoint, The Register, File411's Newsletter, Security Affairs, and DataBreaches.net
Tweets: @troyhunt, @joetidy, @campuscodi, and @fbi
| Bloomberg: |
KKR agrees to buy Barracuda, which helps companies manage and protect cloud data, from Thoma Bravo; sources: the deal values Barracuda at ~$3.8B including debt — KKR & Co. has agreed to to acquire cybersecurity company Barracuda Networks Inc. from Thoma Bravo.| Jack Gillum / Bloomberg: |
A group of cybersecurity companies specializing in securing US critical infrastructure form a coalition to work with the government and adopt uniform standards — A group of cybersecurity companies that specialize in securing critical infrastructure said Tuesday they've formed a lobbying group … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TikTok is rolling out Effect House, which lets creators make AR effects that others can use in videos, to all users after a closed beta test last fall — Last August, TechCrunch noted TikTok was working to build its own augmented reality (AR) development platform called Effect House …
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TikTok, Digital Trends, The Verge, Social Media Today, Android Headlines, Protocol, The Information, afrotech.com, iMore, Neowin, and Engadget. Tweets: @tomemrich
| Emily Olsen / MobiHealthNews: |
Diligent Robotics, which develops a robot called Moxi to help hospital staff with routine, not-patient-facing tasks, closes a $30M Series B led by Tiger Global — Moxi performs delivery tasks in hospitals, like bringing supplies, delivering lab samples and distributing personal protective equipment.
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PR Newswire and TechCrunch
| Michael Bellusci / CoinDesk: |
NFT and metaverse content creation company Infinite Reality announces an all-stock deal worth $470M to acquire esports company ReKTGlobal — ReKT is known for its ownership of the successful esports teams Team Rogue and the London Royal Ravens. — Metaverse company Infinite Reality …
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PR Newswire, Forbes, Bloomberg, Dexerto, Front Office Sports, Esports Insider, Reuters, Dot Esports, Insider, GamesIndustry.biz, and SPACInsider
| Chandra R Srikanth / Moneycontrol: |
Ola CEO Bhavish Aggarwal is stepping away from day-to-day operations to focus more on engineering and product, CFO GR Arun Kumar will drive operations — Ola was last valued at $7.3 billion when it raised $139 million in its Series J round. — Ola founder and CEO Bhavish Aggarwal will step … | Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Apple updates iMovie for iOS and iPadOS with Magic Movie, for automatic movie creation from clips and photos, and storyboards for a template-guided approach — Apple is releasing an iMovie update today for iOS and iPadOS. iMovie 3.0 introduces two new major features — storyboards and Magic Movie.
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MacRumors, Apple, App Store, XDA Developers, iPhone Hacks, iThinkDifferent, Cult of Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, Pocket-lint, Apple Must, Redmond Pie, PetaPixel, Thurrott, iPhone in Canada Blog, Digital Photography Review, iMore, Mashable, Macworld, 9to5Mac, appadvice.com, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, AppleInsider, Engadget, and MobileSyrup
Tweets: @macworld, @jgamet, @stroughtonsmith, @wholemarsblog, @chinanderm, @chrismessina, and @reneritchie
| Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk is facing a proposed shareholder class action that alleges Musk's delayed SEC filings disclosing his stake kept Twitter's share price artificially low — Elon Musk was sued by a Twitter Inc. shareholder who claims the Tesla Inc. CEO's delay in disclosing his ownership of more than 5% … | Tim Keary / VentureBeat: |
Israel-based Silverfort, which provides multi-factor authentication and identity threat protection tools, raises a $65M Series C led by Greenfield Partners — Today, unified identity threat protection platform provider Silverfort announced that it has closed a $65 million Series C funding round led by Greenfield partners.
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Geektime, CTech, Silverfort, Business Wire, SiliconANGLE, PYMNTS.com, nocamels.com, and TechCrunch
| Ben Lang / Road to VR: |
In February, Meta's Quest store surpassed $1B in content revenue since its launch; 124 Quest apps have earned $1M+ in revenue, eight of which exceeded $20M — The Entire VR Industry in One Little Email — The Daily Roundup is our comprehensive coverage of the VR industry wrapped up into one daily email …
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