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Filing: Elon Musk secures $7.14B for his Twitter bid from Larry Ellison, Binance, Sequoia, a16z, Saudi Prince Alwaleed, Fidelity, and others; Ellison gives $1B — Tesla chief raises $7bn from new investors for takeover of social media platform — Elon Musk has revealed that he has raised $7.14bn …
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Sources: Elon Musk is expected to serve as the temporary CEO of Twitter after acquiring the company — - Elon Musk is expected to serve as a temporary CEO of Twitter for a few months after he completes his $44 billion takeover of the social media company, according to CNBC's David Faber.
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The Verge, Decrypt, Bloomberg, New York Post, BGR India, and Cryptonews
Tweets: @teroterotero, @sivavaid, @sam_l_shead, @mattrosoff, @alexhern, and @jyarow
| Edwin Chan / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Elon Musk's new $7.14B in equity financing for Twitter, which includes investment from Qatar, reduces the margin loan from $12.5B to $6.25B — Elon Musk has secured about $7.1 billion of new financing commitments for his proposed $44 billion takeover of Twitter Inc., the company said in a filing Thursday.
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Reuters, Protocol, Variety, New York Post, Fortune, CNBC, and Axios
Tweets: @petermccormack, @parkermolloy, @sociogeeks_, @jonrussell, @samcarvalho, @danprimack, @compound248, and @garyblack00
| Ian Sherr / CNET: |
Apple, Google, and Microsoft announce plans to adopt features from the FIDO Alliance, which is working on passwordless tech for websites and apps — Ian Sherr — Ian Sherr (he/him/his) grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, so he's always had a connection to the tech world.
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Tweets: @cisajen, @k8em0, @blowdart, and @robleathern
| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Google acquires Raxium, which makes MicroLED displays well-suited for AR and VR; Raxium says its tech is 5x more energy efficient than the previous world record — Raxium claims its display tech is five times more efficient than the current world record holder
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The Keyword, UploadVR, Road to VR, Silicon Republic, Computerworld, The Economic Times, Engadget, The Information, Android Central, PhoneArena, TechCircle, 9to5Google, SiliconANGLE, timetotimes.com, Webficar, and All
Tweets: @gkraenergy, @scobleizer, and @mugofpaul
| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
At Wednesday's Senate hearing, CrowdTangle's Brandon Silverman and other researchers explained why the US needs laws requiring Big Tech companies to share data — Everyone wants answers about social networks. These experts know where to look — On Wednesday, Congress was treated …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Meta plans to slow hiring amid record low revenue growth; source: Meta paused entry-level hiring and plans to stop or slow hiring for mid-level and senior roles — - Facebook's parent company sees challenges ahead because of Apple's privacy changes, the war in Ukraine and broad macroeconomic shifts.
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| Nicole Sganga / CBS News: |
Cybereason: China-linked Winnti APT exfiltrated hundreds of GBs of IP in a cyber campaign targeting ~30 companies in North America, Europe, and Asia since 2019 — A yearslong malicious cyber operation spearheaded by the notorious Chinese state actor, APT 41, has siphoned off an estimated trillions …
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| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
AMD launches several C-series Ryzen 5000 CPUs for Chromebooks, starting with the Acer Chromebook Spin 514, HP Elite c645 G2 Chromebook, and others — AMD has at last made chips with its Zen 3 architecture for higher-end Chromebooks. It created several C-series Ryzen 5000 processors that are designed for Chrome OS.
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| Luke Taylor / Rest of World: |
Survey of 1,800 households in El Salvador shows 61% have abandoned the Chivo bitcoin wallet after withdrawing a free $30 sign-up bonus — Those who stayed are not on the Chivo app for what was intended, using it to keep their dollars safe rather than for crypto. — • BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA
Tweets: @antoniocasilli, @cengizyar, @mikebutcher, and @steve_hanke
| Joe Warminsky / The Record: |
The White House instructs federal agencies to increase preparations in the next six months for quantum computers capable of breaking public-key cryptography — A memorandum issued Wednesday by President Joe Biden orders federal agencies to ramp up preparations for a day when quantum computers …
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ZDNet, The Register, National Security …, and SC Media
Tweets: @jgamblin, @philliplarson, @alondranelson46, @alexhern, @matthew_d_green, and @alexhern
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Sources: Sonos plans to launch a voice assistant for playing music in the US on June 1 that supports Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, Deezer, and Sonos Radio — Sonos will roll out its most important service yet on June 1st — Sonos is preparing to introduce its own voice assistant service within …
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XDA Developers, Techhive.com, Tom's Guide, Newslit Daily, KnowTechie, NextPit, iMore, Voicebot.ai, Pocketnow, The Overspill, Pocket-lint, t3.com, and Phandroid
Tweets: @maxwinebach, @pierce, and @richontech
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: in a meeting, Twitter's VP of product appealed to a sense of community to persuade skeptical staff to stay under Musk; one slide asked: “Why Bother?” — At a Twitter Inc. staff meeting Wednesday morning, the first slide of a presentation asked a question on the minds of many employees: “Why Bother?”| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
Cameo lays off 87 staff; source says CTO Rob Post, marketing exec Emily Boschwitz, CPO Nundu Janakiram, and Chief People Officer Melanie Steinbach have gone — Cameo, the celebrity video greetings startup, laid off 87 of staffers Wednesday, a move that CEO Steven Galanis described as “right-sizing.”
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The Verge, Chicago Business Journal, TechSpot, TechCrunch, Variety, The Economic Times, The Information, and Engadget
Tweets: @mr312, @lucasmtny, @jank0, @shreya_sud, @caseynewton, @thebenbergman, @iamtherog, @tcarmody, @lizperle, @rmac18, @protocol, @carnage4life, @conorsen, and @lucasmtny
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
IC3 says there were 241K+ reports of business email compromise scams globally from June 2016 to July 2019, totaling $43B+ in actual and attempted losses — The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today that the amount of money lost to business email compromise (BEC) … | Stefanie Marotta / Bloomberg: |
Shopify reports Q1 revenue rose 22% YoY to $1.2B, below expectations, as GMV grew 16% YoY to $43.2B; Shopify will acquire Deliverr for $2.1B; stock drops 10%+ — Shopify Inc. shares plunged to the lowest since April 2020 after it missed analysts' profit estimates and announced the largest acquisition …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Iceland-based Sidekick Health, which offers a gamified, digital-first care service, raises a $55M Series B led by Novator Ventures — Digital therapeutics plus pills? Iceland's Sidekick Health has developed a gamified digital care platform that's designed to support healthcare outcomes …
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Tech.eu, ArcticStartup, Fierce Biotech, MobiHealthNews, and Asabys
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Twitter's open source Bluesky unit releases early code for a decentralized social network protocol, dubbed Authenticated Data Experiment, for developers to test — It's called the Authenticated Data Experiment — Bluesky, Twitter's open-source offshoot, has released early code for a decentralized social network protocol.
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Bluesky, Fossbytes, Telecoms.com, GitHub, and Slashdot
Tweets: @bluesky, @bluesky, @bluesky, @emresokullu, @jeanburgess, and @jeanburgess
| Anna Gross / Financial Times: |
Ukrainian officials say Russia has taken over internet infrastructure in the Donbas region, rerouting traffic to Russia-controlled operators — Rerouting traffic to Russia-controlled regions makes Ukrainians' data vulnerable to interception and censorship by the Kremlin
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| Katie Hafner / New York Times: |
David Walden, who helped build the Interface Message Processor that switched data among computers using the Arpanet, the precursor to the internet, died at 79 — In 1969, he was part of a team of young engineers who built the first machine to switch data among computers using the Arpanet, the precursor to the internet.
Tweets: @philiped and @nytimestech
| Stephen Totilo / Axios: |
NYC employees' pension funds sue Activision Blizzard, alleging CEO Bobby Kotick rushed the Microsoft deal to escape liability for misconduct at his company — Activision CEO Bobby Kotick rushed to secure a takeover bid from Microsoft in order to escape liability for misconduct at the company …
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PCMag, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, ExchangeWire.com, PC Games Insider, Pocket Gamer.biz, SiliconANGLE, Insider, New York Times, TheGamer, CNN, Wccftech, and Polygon
Tweets: @stephentotilo, @gibiz, @nickstatt, @drwallkick, and @hoeglaw
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google will shut down YouTube Go, the lightweight Android app first launched in 2016, beginning in August 2022, citing improvements to the main YouTube app — YouTube Go is shutting down beginning this August, Google has announced this week. The lightweight Android app first launched …
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| Greg Iacurci / CNBC: |
Intuit agrees to pay $141M in restitution to nearly 4.4M US customers charged for using the TurboTax Free Edition, in a settlement with all 50 states and DC — - Intuit, which owns TurboTax, has agreed to pay $141 million in restitution to 4.4 million low-income customers who were charged …
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