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April 14, 2022, 1:35 AM

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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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
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?
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.
More: CoinDesk
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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