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Filing: Elon Musk delivers a non-binding proposal to acquire all of Twitter's outstanding stock for $54.20/share in cash, in a deal worth $43B; TWTR jumps 10%+ — Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter for $54.20 per share in cash, according to an updated 13D filing, Bloomberg News reports.
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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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| Sandali Handagama / CoinDesk: |
The auction for an NFT of Jack Dorsey's first-ever tweet, which sold for $2.9M last year, ended with a maximum bid of 2 ETH, worth around $6.2K — 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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| 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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| New York Times: |
Since the Ukraine invasion, thousands of Russian tech workers have left the country, an exodus that will fundamentally change the Russian tech industry — Since their country invaded Ukraine, Russian tech workers have left by the thousands. They appear intent on rebuilding their lives and businesses in other countries.
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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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Tweets: @pmcg, @joelnagy, and @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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Tweets: @mingchikuo, @mingchikuo, and @reneritchie
| 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.| 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: @fabiochiusi, @findingveracity, @780thc, and @mattburgess1
| 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.| 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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| 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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Decrypt, Waivly, Fortune, Web3 is going just great, Crypto Adventure, CryptoSlate, Cointelegraph, U.Today, Benzinga, Micky, and ZyCrypto
Tweets: @hondanhon, @glennf, and @emilyjnicolle
| 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: @newley, @amandalgorton, @wsj, and @neurovagrant
| 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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| Kate Kaye / Protocol: |
A look at AI tools built by sales and customer service software companies like Uniphore and Sybill to detect human emotions, as Zoom unveils Zoom IQ for Sales — Virtual sales meetings have made it tougher than ever for salespeople to read the room. So, some well funded tech providers …
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| 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 … | 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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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
In two weeks, Amazon will add a ~5% fuel and inflation surcharge to US sellers using its fulfillment services, which is below surcharges at UPS and FedEx — - Amazon said Wednesday it's adding a 5% fuel and inflation surcharge to U.S. sellers who use its fulfillment services.
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