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Samsung, Lenovo, and Microsoft commit to shipping Android 12L, featuring optimizations for tablets and foldables, for some of their devices later this year — The update is coming later this year — Samsung, Lenovo, and Microsoft are the first device manufacturers to commit to shipping Android 12L … | Corbin Davenport / XDA Developers: |
Google releases Android 12L and a feature update for Pixel phones, including Live Caption reading typed responses aloud to callers, Duo screen sharing, and more — Google released the long-awaited Android 12L update on Monday, with many improvements to foldable phones, tablets, and other large-screen devices.
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| The Information: |
Source: Google is in talks to acquire cybersecurity company Mandiant, after a February report indicated Microsoft acquisition talks; Mandiant's stock is up 15%+ — Google is in talks to buy cybersecurity consultancy Mandiant, which two years ago discovered the infamous SolarWinds hack …
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Google: Russia's Fancy Bear launched phishing campaigns against Ukrainians before the invasion and Belarus' Ghostwriter targeted Ukrainian and Polish militaries — Belarus conducted widespread phishing attacks against members of the Polish military as well as Ukrainian officials …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Tech Transparency Project: Amazon employs five Chinese suppliers with ties to Uyghur labor camps; Amazon: “we take allegations of human rights abuses seriously” — Five suppliers ‘directly or indirectly’ involve forced labor — Amazon is allegedly employing suppliers in China … | Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, and Ping Identity form Critical Infrastructure Defense Project to offer their services free to vulnerable US industries like hospitals — Cloudflare Inc., CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. and Ping Identity Corp. today are teaming up to form the Critical Infrastructure Defense Project … | Scott Chipolina / Decrypt: |
Coinbase blocks 25K+ addresses related to Russian individuals or entities believed to be engaged in illicit activity and shares them with the US government — Crypto exchange Coinbase has said it has blocked over 25,000 Russia-linked addresses it believes were associated with illicit activity.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple suspends Search Ads in Russia, putting current and future App Store advertising campaigns on hold in the country “until further notice” — Apple Inc. has suspended advertising on its App Store in Russia, a move that bars developers from placing ads in search results …
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| Berber Jin / The Information: |
Source: Tiger Global partners have committed $1B of their own cash, at $300M+ every year, to invest in early-stage tech funds — Tiger Global Management, the world's most active startup investor last year, is trying a new way to get the inside track. — Partners at the firm …
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| Bloomberg: |
Samsung confirms a breach that exposed internal company data, including source code related to its Galaxy phones, but says users' personal data was not affected — Samsung Electronics Co. suffered a cybersecurity breach that exposed internal company data, including source code for the operation …
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| Josef Adalian / Vulture: |
Amazon Prime Video will exclusively stream Country Music Awards on Monday, an awards-show first; Amazon Live will carry a “shoppable” version of the red carpet — Ratings for the Oscars, Emmys, and other big awards shows have plunged over the past five years …
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Sanctions by US tech companies on Russia may have unintended consequences in India; the West could use chips as leverage to compel China to not sell to Russia — While it has been only 11 days since Russia invaded Ukraine, it is already clear that the long-term impact on the tech industry is going to be substantial.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Apple begins rolling out Apple TV+ to Comcast's US video platforms and offers three months free to customers who sign up via their Xfinity device by April 25 — The Apple TV Plus app will begin rolling out on Xfinity X1, Xfinity Flex and XClass TVs on March 7 and will be available across …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google says Chrome 99 on macOS outperforms Safari on WebKit's Speedometer 2.0 benchmark by 15%, scoring 300 points, the fastest performance of any browser yet — Version 100 of Google Chrome will launch within the next few weeks, but even after all of this time, there's still some room for speeding up the browser.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram removes Boomerang and Hyperlapse from the App Store and Google Play, a week after Meta announced the company would shut down its IGTV app — A week after Instagram confirmed its plan to shut down its standalone IGTV app in order to better focus on initiatives, like Reels …
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| Rory Jones / Wall Street Journal: |
Research: investments in Middle East and North Africa tech startups, excluding Israel, rose to $2.87B in 2021, up from $654M in 2020, with half going to the UAE — Technology industry in the emirate has grown during the pandemic, as it kept its borders open and vaccinated aggressively| New York Times: |
Scams and fraud are widespread on P2P payments app Zelle but the US banks backing the app say returning money to defrauded customers is not their responsibility — Zelle, the payments platform used by millions of customers, is a popular target of scammers.
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| Bloomberg: |
Cybersecurity firm Resecurity says hackers accessed 100+ computers of current and former staff at 21 major natural gas suppliers and exporters in mid-February — In mid-February, hackers gained access to computers belonging to current and former employees at nearly two dozen major natural gas suppliers … | Aditya Hadi Pratama / Tech in Asia: |
AI Rudder, which offers AI-powered B2C voice assistants in 15+ languages, raises a $50M Series B from Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital India, and Huashan Capital — AI Rudder, a Singapore-based AI startup, has raised US$50 million in series B funding from Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital India, and Huashan Capital.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
London-based Thirdfort, which helps businesses reduce risk with automated ID verification, AML compliance, and source of funds checks, raises a $20M Series A — Money laundering has been a hot topic of late in the UK, which is facing pressure to not just make tighter rules to track … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Akamai says attackers are exploiting a fleet of 100K+ misconfigured servers to amplify DDoS attacks on banking, travel, gaming, media, and web-hosting sites — 100,000 misconfigured servers are creating a new way to knock sites offline. — Last August, academic researchers discovered … | Ilena Peng / Bloomberg: |
VC firm Index Ventures halts its investments in Russia indefinitely and says it will support portfolio companies that move their teams out of the country — Index Ventures will stop investing in Russian companies indefinitely, signaling that the corporate boycott over the war in Ukraine is extending to venture capital.
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