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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
The CISA orders US federal civilian agencies to patch or remove VMware products affected by a critical RCE vulnerability that hackers are actively exploiting — Security flaws in VMware and F5's BIG-IP are being exploited by malicious hackers. — Malicious hackers, some believed to be state-backed …
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Tweets: @kimzetter, @vickerysec, @ericgeller, @bad_packets, and @vmwaresrc
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Framework updates the 13.5" modular Framework Laptop with 12th-Gen Intel CPUs, starting at $1,049; owners can upgrade existing laptops with a $538 kit — A new laptop that fits inside your old laptop — A little more than a year after announcing the first version of its ultra-repairable …
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Tweets: @kwiens, @dsilverman, @film_girl, @mobile_dom, @frameworkputer, @dcseifert, @dcseifert, and @freedmanae
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
An interview with a16z's Jonathan Lai on Games Fund One, the VC firm's new $600M fund for games that will invest in studios, infrastructure, and technologies — Andreessen Horowitz has raised a $600 million fund to invest in games. The storied venture capital firm is already a big investor in games …
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Tweets: @azragames, @top7ico, @andrewchen, @justinkruger, and @a16z
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Report: Netflix had 3.6M cancellations in Q1 2022, up from ~2.5M for each past five quarters; 13% came from subscribers who had the service for over three years — Users subscribed to Netflix for more than three years represented 13 percent of total cancellations
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| Kim Velsey / Curbed: |
AirDNA, Inside Airbnb, and Douglas Elliman data: NYC has ~3K to ~13K more Airbnb listings than rental apartments despite Airbnb listings falling in the pandemic — The fever isn't breaking. There are now bidding wars for one in every five Manhattan rental apartments (and one in three luxury units) …
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| Henry Grabar / Slate: |
As Uber begins to rein in costs, having lost ~$30B in five-odd years, a look at the impact of cheap rides on city transit and the opportunities that were lost — Recently I was talking with an executive who used to work in car-sharing—the wave of companies, led by Zipcar and car2go …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Fastly acquires Glitch, the web coding service formerly called Fog Creek Software; Glitch CEO Anil Dash will join Fastly as its VP of developer experience — The coding platform will continue under the new owner — Fastly, a major provider of cloud services, announced today that it's acquiring Glitch …
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| Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal: |
New bipartisan Senate bill prohibits companies with $20B+ in annual digital ad transactions from participating in more than one part of the digital ad ecosystem — Legislation, which has some Democratic support, takes aim at conflicts of interest in the advertising technology industry| Financial Times: |
Chinese citizens angered by Shanghai's ongoing lockdowns are evading censorship of a viral post and video criticizing the government by minting them into NFTs — Growing popularity of decentralised ledger technology presents fresh challenge for country's censors
Tweets: @caseynewton, @tim, @katebevan, @jerrybrito, @alisonkilling, and @youtuberlaw
| Jan Hoffman / New York Times: |
As drug overdoses soar in the US, Snap, Instagram, Discord, and other major platforms have become a quick and easy conduit for drug deals — The soaring drug fatalities in the U.S. are being fueled partly by fentanyl-tainted pills bought by teenagers and young adults on Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok and other social media apps.
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| Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
FTX.US launches FTX Stocks, a zero-commission stock trading feature available through the FTX app, rolling out in the US over the coming months — - The news comes shortly after Sam Bankman-Fried's acquisition of a 7.6% stake in retail trading giant Robinhood.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
New York AG plans to investigate social media platforms “used to stream, promote, or plan” the Buffalo attack, including Twitch, Discord, 4chan, and 8chan — - New York Attorney General Letitia James will investigate social media companies in connection to the apparently racially motivated attack …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Stripe launches Data Pipeline, letting its US customers link Stripe transactions data and their data stores in Amazon Redshift or Snowflake's Data Cloud — Stripe — the payments giant valued at $95 billion — is on a product sprint to expand its services and functionality beyond …
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Meta freezes hiring of engineers for product teams including Facebook Gaming, Dating, and Commerce; Zuckerberg said internally Meta is not planning layoffs — Mark Zuckerberg has internally downplayed the possibility of layoffs — Meta is pulling back its investments in a number of products …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Indian used car marketplace Cars24 lays off 600 people, which a source says is 6% of its workforce, after raising $400M in December 2021 — Cars24, a marketplace for used cars, has laid off about 600 people just five months after closing a $400 million financing round …
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| Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
A look at the competition between China and the US to build exascale supercomputers, useful for defense and climate modeling, as China pulls ahead — World's biggest economies battle to dominate advanced processing power that will affect defence and climate modelling
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South China Morning Post, Financial Times, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @rch371, @1br0wn, @niubi, @martijnrasser, @aadilbrar, @hpc_guru, and @magicsilicon
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
TikTok launches Branded Mission, a product that lets advertisers crowdsource content from creators with 1K+ followers and turn top-performing videos into ads — TikTok announced today that it's launching a new ad product called “Branded Mission” that will allow creators to connect with brands and possibly receive rewards for videos.
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TikTok, The Drum, iTech Post, Ad Age, Social Media Today, dot.LA, Adweek, and Search Engine Journal. Tweets: @joshuaogundu
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
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TikTok, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, PhoneArena, PCMag, The Verge, Android Headlines, How smart Technology …, BELatina, The Root, NBC News, Engadget, Billboard, Dexerto, iMore, Adweek, Teen Vogue, Mashable, and Protocol. Tweets: @tiktokcomms
| Bloomberg: |
Singapore-based Grab reports Q1 revenue rose 6% YoY to $228M, beating analyst estimates, as its net loss narrowed to $435M; Grab stock is down 70%+ from its IPO — Grab Holdings Ltd. said revenue rose 6% in the first quarter after the ride-hailing and delivery company won back consumers as the pandemic receded in Southeast Asia.
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PYMNTS.com, Grab Holdings, and DealStreetAsia
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube rolls out player features to all users, including a graph to easily locate the “Most replayed” video parts, support for video chapters, and video loops — YouTube today is launching a new feature designed to help users identify the most popular parts of a video they're watching …
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HotHardware.com News, MacRumors, Android Authority, Android Headlines, The Verge, Android Central, iMore, 9to5Google, CNET, Android Police, MobileSyrup, Tubefilter, and Engadget
Tweets: @huguito, @anthonyquintano, @mattnavarra, and @reneritchie
| Gené Teare / Crunchbase News: |
Jakarta-based payments infrastructure startup Xendit raises a $300M Series D led by Coatue and Insight, after raising a $150M Series C in September 2021 — Jakarta-based Xendit, a payments infrastructure company operating in Indonesia and the Philippines, has raised a $300 million Series D led …
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