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| Sandali Handagama / CoinDesk: |
An NFT of Jack Dorsey's first-ever tweet, which sold for $2.9M last year, has been up for sale since last week and has so far garnered a maximum bid of ~$2.1K — Crypto entrepreneur Sina Estavi bought Twitter founder Jack Dorsey's first ever tweet as an NFT for $2.9 million last year.
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Web3 is going just great, Benzinga, Cryptopolitan, PYMNTS.com, Kevin Drum, Newshub, Futurism, afrotech.com, Kotaku, Protocol, and Slashdot
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| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
US government agencies warn of new custom tools, created by several APT actors, that are capable of compromising IT equipment used in critical infrastructure — Several advanced persistent threat (APT) actors have created custom-made tools designed to breach IT equipment used …
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Tweets: @robertmlee, @cisagov, @fbi, @nicoleperlroth, @halaayala, and @evacide
| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Sources: Meta to release Nazare AR glasses V1, not tied to a phone, and a cheaper pair codenamed Hypernova in 2024; Nazare V2 expected 2026, and V3 in 2028 — Mark Zuckerberg has a grandiose vision for the metaverse, and he hopes that you'll one day see the same thing, too — quite literally …
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| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Wikipedia editors vote 232 to 94 to request the Wikimedia Foundation stop accepting crypto donations; the foundation is not legally bound by the proposal — Critics argue the bitcoin and ethereum networks consume too much energy. — More than 200 long-time Wikipedia editors have requested …
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| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Google quietly launches its Switch to Android app for iOS as an unlisted app — Google is preparing to launch a brand new way to move from Apple's iPhones to an Android device. Here's your first look at Google's “Switch to Android” app running on an iPhone.
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App Store, TechCrunch, Macworld, Ubergizmo, Phandroid, Gizmodo, Android Central, Protocol, Digital Trends, The Verge, Wccftech, iThinkDifferent, iPhone in Canada Blog, BGR, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, Android Authority, and MacRumors. Tweets: @killedbygoogle
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple customers say delivery estimates for orders of some MacBook Pro models have been pushed back, in some cases as far as mid-June, amid China's lockdowns — Apple Inc. shoppers are facing longer wait times for the company's flagship MacBook Pro laptops, a sign that Covid-19 lockdowns in China may be contributing to delays.
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PhoneArena, BBC, Tom's Guide, Redmond Pie, CNET, Patently Apple, MacDailyNews, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, iMore, and Cult of Mac
Tweets: @mingchikuo, @mingchikuo, and @reneritchie
| Gergely Orosz / The Pragmatic Engineer: |
An Atlassian outage that began on April 4 left ~400 companies without access to Atlassian's cloud services; only 45% of companies have since regained access — Hundreds of companies have no access to JIRA, Confluence and OpsGenie. What can engineering teams learn from the poor handling of this outage?
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| Callan Quinn / The Block: |
Context, an app that lets users follow and track other people's crypto wallets and transactions, raises a $19.5M seed led by Variant Fund and Sam Altman — Quick Take — The round was led by Variant Fund and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. — The firm's app lets users track on-chain activity from followed wallets.
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| Jialiang David Pan / Bloomberg: |
Ethereum's long-awaited proof-of-stake Merge upgrade “won't be June, but likely in the few months after”, according to a lead developer on the project — One of the leading Ethereum software developers said the blockchain network's much-anticipated technical upgrade known …
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Tweets: @glennf, @emilyjnicolle, and @hondanhon
| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
Ukraine, its allies, and hactivists have made public hundreds of gigabytes of files and millions of emails on the Russian state, including doxing Russian troops — Ukraine claims to have doxed Russian troops and spies, while' hacktivists are regularly leaking private information from Russian organizations.
Tweets: @findingveracity, @780thc, @mattburgess1, and @fabiochiusi
| Nicolle Liu / Wall Street Journal: |
After the pandemic forced employees to work from home, some neurodivergent people are thriving at remote cybersecurity jobs — The Covid-19 pandemic forced many employees to work from home, leveling the playing field for people with conditions such as autism, who might not fare as well in office settings
Tweets: @amandalgorton, @neurovagrant, and @wsj
| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
TikTok is testing a way for users to dislike comments to help users “feel more in control” of what they see; dislike counts will be hidden — TikTok is testing a way for users to “dislike” comments in an effort to help people “feel more in control” over what they are seeing.
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TikTok, TechCrunch, The Verge, Digital Trends, MobileSyrup, Social Media Today, and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @tiktokcomms
| Daniel Van Boom / CNET: |
Meta's plan to take up to a 47.5% cut of each virtual transaction on Horizon Worlds draws criticism from NFT proponents; OpenSea takes a 2.5% cut — Meta, previously known as Facebook, is figuring out how to monetize the metaverse. … It's been nearly six months since the company formerly known …
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Tweets: @caseynewton, @punk6529, @degentraland, @neerajka, @nizzynft, @boredape93, @puffyatty, @stevekovach, @jameshercher, @winterskiis, @samifathi_, @kwebbelkop, @paultassi, @pranksy, @jemgold_, @skrrt__vonnegut, @aashima_arora_, @adamsinger, @machibigbrother, @slhamlet, @emilyjnicolle, @aridavidpaul, @evan_lorenz, @rationalwalk, @kwebbelkop, @caseynewton, @mattdesl, @johnbattelle, @stevekovach, @axieaur, @levynews, @3dpunker, @karlbode, @thurrott, @bergmayer, @dominic_w, @twobitidiot, @punk6529, @punk6529, @punk6529, and @bartsimsonreal
| Danielle Partis / GamesIndustry.biz: |
Sony and Nintendo commit to updating auto-renewal practices for their online service subscriptions, concluding a multi-year UK CMA investigation — Platform holders join Microsoft's efforts to update online services following CMA's investigation — Both Sony and Nintendo have agreed …
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GOV.UK, Engadget, NME, Game Rant, IGN, GameSpot, Stevivor, TechSpot, Destructoid, Tom's Guide, euronews, Gameranx, OnMSFT.com, The Verge, City A.M., Wccftech, and purexbox.com. Tweets: @toadsanime
| Bloomberg: |
Source: Ava Labs, the lead developer of the Avalanche blockchain, is raising $350M at a $5.25B valuation — Ava Labs Inc., the lead developer of the Avalanche blockchain, is in the process of raising a new round of funding, according to people familiar with the discussions.
Tweets: @wublockchain
| Tony Zerucha / Crowdfund Insider: |
IMMO, whose tech lets institutional investors sell, rent, and invest in single family homes, raises a $75M Series B led by Oak HC/FT to expand across Europe — IMMO, a tech-driven residential investment platform that helps people sell, rent and invest in single-family rental (SFR) housing …
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Insider, PR Newswire, FinSMEs, and Tech.eu
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the US Department of Commerce is investigating Synopsys, the biggest supplier of chip design software, for possibly passing key tech to Huawei and SMIC — Synopsys Inc., the biggest supplier of software used to design semiconductors, is under investigation by the U.S. Department …
Tweets: @dylan522p
| Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: |
Stockholm-based Material Exchange, a marketplace connecting footwear and apparel brands with material suppliers, raises a €25M Series A led by Molten Ventures — Helping an oft-cast ‘dirty’ industry clean up its act through digitising the materials sourcing process …
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Business Green, Vogue Business, ArcticStartup, Material Exchange, and FinSMEs
Tweets: @tech_eu, @moltenventures, and @partechpartners
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India's payments body approves WhatsApp's plan to extend its payments service to 60M additional users in India, allowing WhatsApp Pay to reach up to 100M total — The National Payments Corporation of India, the payments body that oversees the widely popular UPI instrument … Sponsor Posts
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