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| Will Gottsegen / CoinDesk: |
OpenSea says 32 users had NFTs stolen as part of a targeted phishing campaign that scammed them into signing malicious smart contracts — Emails purporting to be from the NFT marketplace about a planned smart contract migration may have been a phishing attack.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Expected Mac 2022 lineup: Mac mini with M1 Pro and M2; 13" MacBook Pro, 24" iMac, and MacBook Air with M2; iMac Pro with M1 Pro and M1 Max; a half-sized Mac Pro — As Apple gears up for its first product launch event of the year, the spotlight turns to its 2022 Mac plans.
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Tweets: @markgurman, @vadimyuryev, @frederic_orange, @vadimyuryev, @demozabel, @vadimyuryev, @vadimyuryev, and @frederic_orange
| New York Times: |
A look at the challenges facing Trump's Truth Social app, including competition from Gettr and Parler and finding users willing to leave mainstream apps — Truth Social, the former president's hard-right alternative to Twitter, could open its doors next month. But as businesses go, outrage may not be the best moneymaker.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on the company's strategy after its failed Arm bid, Omniverse's progress, and its bet on self-driving cars — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang didn't get to fulfill his dream of acquiring Arm for $80 billion. Regulators held the deal up and Huang called off the deal after “giving it our best shot.”
Tweets: @timsweeneyepic and @hpc_guru
| Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: |
Check, which provides payroll digitization software, raises a $75M Series C led by Stripe, bringing its total funding to $119M and valuing the startup at $725M — As startups increasingly embed payroll into their software products, Check, a three-year-old startup that provides software tools …
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checkhq.com, Finextra, Crowdfund Insider, PYMNTS.com, and PR Newswire
Tweets: @forbes, @ericstromberg, and @forbes
| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Tropic, which helps enterprises buy and manage software as well as to identify cost savings on purchases, raises a $40M Series B led by Insight Partners — Global spend on enterprise software was expected to reach $599 billion by the end of 2021, and new forecasts say it is now projected … | Nikkei Asia: |
HR experts, industry execs, and government officials in Taiwan say the current chip talent shortage on the island is the most serious they have ever seen — Semiconductor giants hike salaries to lure island's dwindling number of graduates — TAIPEI/HSINCHU, Taiwan …
Tweets: @nikkeiasia, @trengriffin, @trevorcroker, and @martijnrasser
| Steven Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: |
Project Zero: Linux developers patch security holes faster than anyone else, in an average of 25 days vs. Google in 44 days, Apple in 69, and Microsoft in 83 — Linux programmers do a better job of patching security holes than programmers at Apple, Google, and Microsoft.
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Project Zero, BetaNews, Fudzilla, The Register, and Neowin
Tweets: @k8em0, @photomatt, @rexarul, @jorgeorchilles, and @drbobljmu
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Spotify's Podsights and Chartable acquisitions set it up to better compete with YouTube, offering dependable programmatic ads and robust analytics to creators — Why the company went on a shopping spree — This story originally ran in Hot Pod, The Verge's preeminent audio industry newsletter.| Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss / Reuters: |
Cryptocurrency infrastructure provider Fireblocks acquires First Digital, a stablecoin and digital asset payments technology service, sources say for $100M — Fireblocks, an infrastructure provider for cryptocurrencies, has acquired First Digital, a stablecoin and digital asset payments technology platform.
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Fireblocks. More:
Bitcoin News, FinanceFeeds, CoinDesk, Finance Magnates, NoCamels, SiliconANGLE, and CryptoPotato. Tweets: @fireblockshq
| Dr. Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
Q&A with Intel EVP Dr. Ann Kelleher on lessons learned from the company's misadventures with 10nm process nodes, its vision for Foundry Services, and more — It's somewhat of an understatement to say that Intel's future roadmap on its process node development is one of the most aggressive in the history of semiconductor design.
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TechSpot and Tom's Hardware
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
PrimaryBid, which helps companies include ordinary retail investors in IPOs and follow-on fundraises, raises a $190M Series C led by SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 — Thanks to the growth of fintech, financial services like investing are getting ever more accessible to the wider population of consumers.Sponsor Posts
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