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The EU finalizes the Digital Services Act, which will force social networks to toughen content moderation, reduce Google and Meta's ad targeting of minors, more — Companies such as Google and Facebook must moderate content more actively in regulatory clampdown
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
As EU finalizes DMA and DSA, report reveals tech giants' last minute lobbying to shield their business models from crackdowns on surveillance advertising, more — A new report has peeled back the curtain on big tech's frenzied lobbying of European Union lawmakers as they finalize a major series …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detail newly patched RCE flaw in a widely used audio codec on Android devices with Qualcomm and MediaTek chips; Apple open sourced the codec in 2011 — Flaw could be exploited with malicious audio file. — Security researchers said they uncovered a vulnerability …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources detail how Elon Musk convinced Morgan Stanley and 11 other banks to back his Twitter bid, including ideas on how to run the business and boost revenue — Publicly, Elon Musk has said he doesn't care about the economics of owning Twitter Inc. — But during a hectic …
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SlashGear, The Conversation, and The Verge
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Stripe now lets companies pay users in cryptocurrencies via USDC, starting with Twitter paying some creators in crypto for Ticketed Spaces and Super Follows — - Online payments firm Stripe says it will start offering merchants the ability to pay their users in cryptocurrency through the stablecoin USDC.
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| Ash Parrish / The Verge: |
The NLRB rules that 21 QA employees at Activision Blizzard's Raven Software unit are allowed to have a union election; they have until May 20 to submit ballots — The employees have until May 20th to submit their ballots — Twenty-one Raven Software QA employees have until May 20th …
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Tweets: @moreperfectus, @gibiz, @polygon, @sweetpotatoes, and @josheidelson
| Naomi Nix / Washington Post: |
Twitter bans ads that promote climate change denial and contradict the “scientific consensus”, using the United Nations' IPCC reports to inform its decisions — Twitter says ads can't contradict “scientific consensus” on the environmental crisis
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Tweets: @scottpwaldman, @corbinhiar, @arinatter, @twitterforgood, @drjeffmasters, @barackobama, @foe_us, @ericschultz, and @ucsusa
| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Jane Manchun Wong: Twitter is working on a feature codenamed “Vibe” that would let users set a status on a per-tweet basis or on a profile level — Status updates could appear on tweets or on profiles — Twitter is reportedly working on a feature that allows users to set a status, codenamed “Vibe.”
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Pocket-lint, 9to5Mac, MobileSyrup, TechRadar, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, MSPoweruser, and Engadget
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Leaked chat logs: Lapsus$ hacked T-Mobile multiple times in March and stole some projects' source code; T-Mobile says no customer or government info was stolen — KrebsOnSecurity recently reviewed a copy of the private chat messages between members of the LAPSUS$ cybercrime group …
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BleepingComputer, TechCrunch, PhoneArena, Channel Futures, 9to5Mac, The Record, PCMag, and Android Police
Tweets: @brettcallow, @kimzetter, @briankrebs, @gibsongrantm, @williamturton, and @gi7w0rm
| Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: |
Ukrainians are replacing DJI drones with BRINC, Skydio, and other US-made drones after unexplained failures with the Chinese company's equipment during the war — U.S. drone makers spot opportunity as use of drones from China-based DJI sparks security concerns
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iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @faineg, @kate_okeeffe, @faineg, @martinsfp, @brendancarrfcc, and @shewidan
| Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: |
Filing: Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht will see his $183M debt forfeited by selling the 69K+ bitcoins seized in 2020 connected to an unnamed Silk Road hacker — A court filing has revealed that bitcoin seized in 2020 will repay the Silk Road founder's $183 million debt to the U.S. government.| Reuters: |
An investigation details how Binance built ties with the Russian government, including handing over data on opposition leader Alexei Navalny in April 2021 — In April 2021, Russia's financial intelligence unit met in Moscow with the regional head of Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange.Sponsor Posts
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