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| William Turton / Bloomberg: |
Sources say Apple and Meta gave user data to hackers in response to forged Emergency Data Requests; Discord said it had also fulfilled a forged legal request — Apple Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, provided customer data to hackers who masqueraded as law enforcement officials …
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Meta paid Republican consulting firm Targeted Victory for a campaign to paint TikTok as a danger to the US, including placing op-eds in regional news outlets — Facebook parent company Meta is paying one of the biggest Republican consulting firms in the country to orchestrate …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is planning to expand its financial services by adding payment processing, lending risk assessment, credit checks, fraud analysis, and more — Apple Inc. is developing its own payment processing technology and infrastructure for future financial products …
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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Apple updates its App Store rules in the Netherlands to let Dutch dating apps take payments through third-party processors, but a 27% commission still applies — But they can't avoid giving up a 27 percent commission — To help bring an end to wrangling with Dutch regulators that stretched …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple now lets “reader” apps link to websites for creating or managing user accounts, after the company gives access to an External Link Account Entitlement — Apple today informed developers of “reader” apps that they are able to sign up for access to an “External Link Account Entitlement” …
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| Brandy Betz / CoinDesk: |
LayerZero, a startup that offers a protocol for blockchain interoperability, raises $135M co-led by a16z, FTX, and Sequoia at a $1B valuation — The blockchain interoperability protocol first emerged from stealth last September. — CORRECTION (March 30, 19:28 UTC): A previous version … | Bloomberg: |
Blockchain.com says it has raised new funding at a $14B valuation led by Lightspeed, more than doubling its last valuation in March 2021 — Startup Blockchain.com said it raised new funding that values the company at about $14 billion, more than doubling its worth in a sign …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Waymo plans to offer fully autonomous rides in San Francisco, without a human safety driver, as part of a growing test, and expands its service area in Arizona — The company is also expanding its service area in Phoenix — Waymo plans to start offering rides in its fully autonomous vehicles …
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| Samreen Ahmad / Tech in Asia: |
Sea laid off 350+ staff and shut down its e-commerce arm Shopee in India on Monday, after India banned Free Fire and other apps it says have ties to China — Shopee India will lay off over 300 staff after it decided to shut down operations in the South Asian country.| James Cridland / Podnews: |
A leaked YouTube presentation for podcast publishers shows the company is working on a podcasts homepage with RSS feed ingestion, audio ads, analytics, and more — - Exclusive: YouTube is planning tighter integration, monetisation and analytics for podcasts
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp says its users send 7B voice messages daily on average and adds a waveform visualization, pause/resume, draft preview, out of chat playback, and more — Like most smartphone users in India, I use WhatsApp a lot. But I have never sent anyone a voice message — ever. Turns out, others do.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sky Mavis COO Aleksander Larsen says the company is “fully committed to reimbursing” Axie Infinity players who lost funds and is “still working on a solution” — The company behind the popular Axie Infinity crypto game said it will reimburse online participants …
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Blockworks, CNET, SlashGear, The Hill, CryptoPotato, Livemint, Amy Castor, CoinJournal, and CoinDesk
| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
IT and software developer Globant says its code repo was partially breached, after Lapsus$ shared 70GB of allegedly stolen data; Globant's stock closed down 10% — Just days after police in the U.K. arrested seven people over suspected connections to the now-infamous hacking and extortion group, Lapsus$ is claiming its latest victim.
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BleepingComputer, The Record, PR Newswire, CRN, The Hacker News, iTnews, Ars Technica, MobileSyrup, VentureBeat, The Verge, and Tech Monitor. Tweets: @alvierid
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google plans to use its ML model MUM to improve search results for users in a crisis, directing them to help for suicide, sexual assault, and domestic abuse — Directing more searches to help and support — In a personal crisis, many people turn to an impersonal source of support: Google.
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| Steve Zurier / SC Media: |
IoT manufacturer Ubiquiti sues cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs, claiming he falsely accused the company of covering up a cyberattack — Ubiquiti on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against industry blogger Brian Krebs for $425 million in damages for allegedly falsely accusing the company of “covering up” a cyberattack.| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
The FBI and its global law enforcement partners announce the arrests of 65 alleged cybercrime gang members specializing in business email compromise schemes — A coordinated operation conducted by the FBI and its international law enforcement partners has resulted in disrupting business email compromise … | Brett Knight / Forbes: |
Collectors, which is building AI tools to authenticate and grade sports cards, raised $100M at a $4.3B valuation, after being acquired for ~$850M in Feb. 2021 — The 1952 Mickey Mantle card moldering in Mom's attic may soon be authenticated, graded, stored safely and sold at auction by a disruptive force called Collectors.| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Nova Labs, formerly Helium, a network of 500K+ cryptocurrency-mining hotspots offering p2p networking, confirms it raised a $200M Series D at a $1.2B valuation — Decentralized wireless communication startup Helium Inc. today announced a change of name to Nova Labs Inc. and confirmed …
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Decrypt, The Information, San Francisco Business Journal, FinSMEs, CryptoSlate, Stacey on IoT, Crypto Briefing, CoinDesk, and Light Reading
Tweets: @wublockchain and @masasoncap
| Meagan Simpson / BetaKit: |
Athennian, whose cloud-based legal tech software helps law firms and legal departments automate subsidiary and entity management, raises a CAD$41.5M Series B — The legaltech startup's backers include Clio's CEO. — Calgary legaltech startup Athennian is announcing that is has secured …
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| Kul Bhushan / Tech in Asia: |
India-based social commerce startup CityMall, which targets consumers in small towns, raises a $75M Series C led by Norwest Venture Partners — Citymall, an India-based social commerce startup, has raised US$75 million in a series C round led by Norwest Venture Partners.
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VCCircle, Times of India, Business Insider, The Economic Times, and DealStreetAsia
| Ricky Ben-David / The Times of Israel: |
Israel-based Beewise, which develops AI-powered robotic beehives that can monitor and care for bees and harvest the honey, raises an $80M Series C — Funding round led by Insight Partners; investors include subsidiary of UAE sovereign wealth fund Mubadala Investment Company
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| Nate Raymond / Reuters: |
A judge invalidates Massachusetts' fiduciary duty rule that underlies a 2020 suit accusing Robinhood of encouraging inexperienced users to place risky trades — A Massachusetts judge on Wednesday dealt state securities regulators a major setback in their enforcement action … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Dagger, a new DevOps service co-founded by Docker's Solomon Hykes, launches in public beta and announces a $20M Series A led by Redpoint Ventures — It's been almost exactly four years since Docker founder Solomon Hykes left the company that kickstarted the container revolution.
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Chainalysis: $1B+ in crypto was stolen from bridge-related exploits in a little over a year across seven incidents; Dune: $21B+ is locked on Ethereum bridges — The hack of a so-called bridge supporting Axie Infinity's play-to-earn game revealed this week highlights the increasingly problematic nature … Sponsor Posts
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