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NFT marketplace Cent halts transactions over users minting NFTs of content they don't own and selling unauthorized NFT copies and NFTs that resemble a security — The platform which sold an NFT of Jack Dorsey's first tweet for $2.9 million has halted transactions because people were selling tokens …
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| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Twitch has updated its policy to ban usernames that include “references to sexual acts, arousal, fluids, or genitalia” and references to hard drugs from March 1 — Cannabis and alcohol are still allowed — Video streaming website Twitch has updated its policy to ban usernames …
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| Gian M. Volpicelli / Wired UK: |
A profile of OpenSea, whose Web3 credentials have been called into question by crypto hardliners, as it tries to deal with security incidents and copycat NFTs — Security issues and endless copycat listings are rife, but the platform's attempt to stop them is angering everyone. — What is a real ape?| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Google says its bug bounty program paid $8.7M to 696 researchers from 62 countries in 2021, up from $6.7M to 662 researchers from 62 countries in 2020 — In the yearly review of its vulnerability rewards program (VRP), Google said on Thursday that it awarded more than $8.7 million …
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A review of 80K+ Freedom Convoy 2022 donations reveals a Bangladeshi digital marketing firm was behind two of the biggest Facebook groups promoting the events — As American politicians call for stateside convoys, a Grid investigation finds signs that foreign actors, QAnon and hate pervade the movement's support.
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Sources: Cisco recently made a takeover offer worth $20B+ for big data analytics software maker Splunk; the companies aren't currently in active talks — Offer was made recently though it isn't clear where things currently stand, according to people familiar with the matter
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| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Bored Ape Yacht Club members, who have full IP rights for the ape character they own, are pursuing licensing deals to put ape characters on cannabis packaging — When Richard Lee first brought his business proposal to Backpack Boyz, he could sense skepticism from the California-based cannabis company.
Tweets: @alexcas_io, @harryalford3, and @jdotcolombo
| Tim Marchman / VICE: |
A profile of the couple charged with laundering ~$5B in stolen bitcoin, compiled from sources, filings, databases, documents, and an extensive online record — Heather Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein wanted to be famous. Now, after being accused of laundering billions of dollars of crypto, they are.
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| Nina Trentmann / Wall Street Journal: |
Q&A with Cory Hrncirik, Microsoft's Modern Finance project lead, on flattening the company's finance head count with AI and data lakes, using Excel, and more — The new tools help automate tasks. But ‘we love Excel,’ says Cory Hrncirik, who leads Microsoft's Modern Finance project.| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google will wind down Currents, the paid and private Google+ for enterprises, starting in 2023; Google shut down the consumer version of Google+ in April 2019 — Who remembered that “Google Currents” was still available for businesses? Anybody? — Google+ is dead—again!
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| Dennis Schaal / Skift: |
Booking.com will cut and outsource 2,700 call center jobs globally in the next few months, after Booking Holdings laid of ~25% of its workforce in 2020 and 2021 — Skift Take — We could hear more about Booking Holdings' rationale for eliminating a chunk of Booking.com's customer service workforce …
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| Mishaal Rahman / Esper Blog: |
A deep dive into Android 13's new features and changes, including a photo picker, per-app language preferences, Quick Settings tiles, a Hub mode, and UI changes — Although Google only just unveiled the final beta release of Android 12L, the feature update for tablets and other large screen devices …
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