Techmeme: Recent US federal court ruling on Telegram's ICO obliterates using private token sales to finance public blockchain projects, further stymying crypto innovation (Josh Lawler/CoinDesk)

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Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Microsoft debuts a Family Safety mobile app, AI-powered PowerPoint and Excel features as part of Microsoft 365 Family and Personal subscriptions coming April 21 — Microsoft today announced that on April 21, Office 365 will become Microsoft 365, or “the subscription for your life.”

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Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Microsoft says Chromium Edge is getting Vertical Tabs, Smart Copy to help you copy web content into docs, Password Monitor to alert users of stolen credentials — Microsoft today announced upcoming features for its Edge browser based on Google's Chromium open source project, the same browser Google's Chrome is based on.

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Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Microsoft announces Teams for consumers, to help plan trips, share grocery lists, and more, Skype DAUs up 70% month-over-month to 40M, calling minutes up 220% — As part of its Microsoft 365 for consumers news today, Microsoft announced Microsoft Teams for consumers and new Skype metrics.

More: ZDNet and Windows Central. Tweets: @epro

New York Times:

Sources: Facebook's security team had disinfo concerns about The Daily Wire's sites in 2019, clashing with the policy team, which prevented action being taken — After spending billions to avoid a repeat of 2016, the tech giants are careening from crisis to crisis as their foes change tactics.

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Facebook says it has struck a deal to buy all of the augmented reality displays made by British firm Plessey, which sources say Apple recently looked at buying — Facebook has struck a deal to buy all of the augmented reality displays made by British firm Plessey, as the social network looks …

More: AppleInsider, MacRumors, Plessey, Apple Must, iDownloadBlog.com, and Road to VR. Tweets: @blakebowyer

Josh Lawler / CoinDesk:

Recent US federal court ruling on Telegram's ICO obliterates using private token sales to finance public blockchain projects, further stymying crypto innovation — Josh Lawler is a partner at Zuber Lawler, which focuses on mergers & acquisitions, securities law and technology transactions.

More: CoinDesk, Messari Crypto, and Decrypt

Tweets: @coindesk and @coindesk

Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian:

Data from a whistleblower appears to show Saudi Arabia tracking the location of its citizens in the US by exploiting flaws in the SS7 phone network protocol — Exclusive: Whistleblower's data suggests millions of tracking requests sent over four-month period

More: TechCrunch and The Next Web

Tweets: @zackwhittaker, @deftechpat, @aaschapiro, @kyleworton, @reflectingman, @agnescallamard, @espionagenews, @rj_gallagher, and @julianborger

Zara Stone / OneZero :

A look at video chat service Houseparty, which has topped the Australian, Canadian, and UK iOS App Stores and is like Zoom but with built-in games — ast Saturday night, Jason Shaverin, a 36-year-old project manager in London, spent three hours talking to friends on Houseparty …

More: TechCrunch and NDTV Gadgets 360

Tweets: @ozm, @ozm, @mvzelenks, and @ozm

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet:

Personal information of nearly 5M citizens of the country of Georgia leaked, including home addresses, dates of birth, ID numbers, and mobile phone numbers — A file containing personal information for 4,934,863 Georgians has been published on a hacker forum over the weekend.

More: Security Affairs. Tweets: @nikolo_z

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet:

A hacker has hijacked several YouTube accounts of Microsoft to broadcast a crypto Ponzi scam; the streams have been running for over 13 hours and are still up — Several of Microsoft's YouTube accounts appear to have been hacked. — A hacker has hijacked all of Microsoft's official YouTube accounts …

Tweets: @zackwhittaker, @brianfagioli, @cauchon, and @campuscodi

Ina Fried / Axios:

After changing its rules, Twitter is cracking down on COVID-19 misinformation from prominent accounts, including Brazilian President Bolsonaro and Rudy Giuliani — It's notable that Twitter, like other social networks, has announced stricter rules on virus-related misinformation than other types of false posts.

More: Business Insider, Sydney Morning Herald, Mashable, The Jakarta Post, The Guardian, and BuzzFeed News. Tweets: @charlesarthur

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