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Elon Musk refiles his Twitter stake's SEC disclosure to classify himself as an active investor; Musk bought his 9.1% stake in cash from January 31 to April 1 — Elon Musk refiled the disclosure of his stake in Twitter Inc. to classify himself as an active investor, making the change …
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| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Sources: Meta has drawn up plans to add “social tokens”, lending services, and a non-blockchain virtual currency that employees dubbed “Zuck Bucks” to its apps — Meta has drawn up plans to introduce virtual coins, tokens and lending services to its apps …
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Google Play removes dozens of Android apps, including Muslim prayer apps with 10M+ downloads, after researchers find malware tied to a US defense contractor — Code placed in consumer-facing apps is tied to U.S. national-security contractors, documents show
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
OpenAI releases DALL-E 2, a higher-resolution and lower-latency version of its text-to-image generation program with new capabilities, to researchers in preview — Researchers can sign up to preview it — Artificial intelligence research group OpenAI has created a new version of DALL-E, its text-to-image generation program.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
In a court-authorized March operation, the FBI cut off the servers of the Cyclops Blink botnet, tied to Russia's Sandworm, from Asus and WatchGuard routers — The Federal Bureau of Investigation has disclosed it carried out an operation in March to target a massive botnet controlled by Russian intelligence.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: online fast fashion retailer Shein raised between $1B and $2B in a round closed last week, valuing it at $100B; Shein was valued at ~$15B in 2020 — China-based fast-fashion seller now worth more than H&M and Zara combined — Fast-fashion retailer Shein was valued at $100 billion …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta won't hold its F8 developer conference in 2022, instead holding Conversations, a “business messaging event” on May 19, and an AR/VR event “later this year” — Meta is pausing the event in 2022 — Meta won't be holding its F8 developer conference in 2022, the company announced Wednesday.
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Senator Patrick Toomey introduces a bill to regulate stablecoins, including defining a “payment stablecoin”, creating a license for issuers, and more — The Stablecoin TRUST Act would give stablecoin issuers a variety of regulatory regimes to abide by, but enforce disclosure and redemption requirements.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Amazon will increase its Music Unlimited plan on Prime from $7.99/month to $8.99/month and its Single Device plan from $3.99/month to $4.99/month on May 5 — Amazon is increasing the price of its Unlimited Music subscription for Prime members, the company announced on its website.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Nord Security, the Lithuania-based startup behind NordVPN, raises $100M, its first ever funding, at a $1.6B valuation led by Novator Ventures — VPN usage has surged in the last several years, with growing concerns over data privacy and security — and sometimes completely different motivations …
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| Samantha Cole / VICE: |
Analysis: 50 out of 150 US police reports mentioning Apple's AirTags were of women describing stalking, 25 of which suspected ex-partners, husbands, or bosses — Motherboard obtained reports of stalking, harassment, and abuse using Airtags, targeting victims of intimate partner violence.
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Sources: banks including JPMorgan, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo are considering whether to use Zelle as a payment option to compete with Visa and Mastercard — The money-transfer service boomed amid pandemic. Some banks want to expand it to retail payments.| Kevin Marks: |
Twitter quietly changed how embeds of deleted tweets work, showing blank embeds on websites; Twitter: the change is “to better respect” when users delete tweets — Twitter Edits You 2022-04-06 With all the fuss about Twitter's promised edit button, and how they might design it …
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| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
The US DOJ charges Russian national Dmitry Olegovich Pavlov for helping operate and administer the Hydra Market darknet, after German police shut down the site — The US Justice Department on Tuesday filed charges against Dmitry Olegovich Pavlov, a 30-year-old Russian national accused …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the SEC is investigating how Amazon disclosed its use of third-party seller data for its business; source: the probe has been under way for over a year — Tech giant's use of third-party sellers' data is a focus of regulator's probe, a person familiar with the matter says
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google plans to hide and block Play Store apps that don't target an Android API within two years of the latest major Android release, starting on November 1 — Google is preparing to clear its Play Store of outdated apps. The company warned Android app developers that starting on November 1 … | Dara Kerr / The Markup: |
A report finds over 50 US gig workers were murdered while working since 2017; the families say Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart, and others offer little support — New report lists Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart, and Grubhub worker victims, and the tally is likely even higher
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| Abigail Gentrup / Front Office Sports: |
Oura, which makes a smart ring for personalized sleep and health tracking, says it has raised funding at a $2.55B valuation and has sold over 1M Oura Rings — - Oura is now valued at $2.55 billion. — The company recently surpassed 1,000,000 rings sold. — SHARE
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| Jessica Golden / CNBC: |
Sports e-commerce company Fanatics raises $1.5B at a $27B valuation led by the NFL, MLB, and others; the NFL invested $320M, the biggest portion of funding — - The NFL, other major sports leagues, players unions and team owners are leading the latest round of investment in Fanatics, the online sports platform company.
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Apple restores the “Smart Voting” app run by Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's supporters in Russia; Apple removed the app after the Kremlin threatened its execs — Apple has resumed allowing Russians to download an app run by supporters of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny … | Vishal Chawla / The Block: |
Sky Mavis, which runs Axie Infinity, raises $150M led by Binance, with participation from Animoca, a16z, and others, to reimburse users after the Ronin hack — Sky Mavis, the creator of play-to-earn game Axie Infinity, has raised $150 million to reimburse its users who lost funds during …
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| Jasmine Pennic / HIT Consultant: |
Eleos Health, which uses voice AI tech to analyze behavioral health sessions, raises a $20M Series A co-led by F-Prime Capital and Eight Roads Ventures — What You Should Know: — Eleos Health has announced a $20 million Series A round, co-led by F-Prime Capital and Eight Roads Ventures, bringing their total raise to $28 million.
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