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DuckDuckGo confirms a researcher's findings that its browser allows Microsoft trackers on third-party websites, citing a search content agreement with Microsoft — The privacy-focused DuckDuckGo browser purposely allows Microsoft trackers on third-party sites due to an agreement …
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| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Andreessen Horowitz announces a $4.5B crypto fund, its fourth and largest so far, allocating about $1.5B for seed investments and $3B for venture investments — Venture capital group launches its largest fund to date focused on digital assets despite market downturn
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| Sarah Emerson / BuzzFeed News: |
After actor and producer Seth Green lost his BAYC NFTs to a phishing scam, his show based on those NFTs is in doubt; OpenSea says it has frozen the NFTs — Actor and producer Seth Green was robbed of several NFTs this month after succumbing to a phishing scam that inadvertently threw …
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| Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
Encrypted email service ProtonMail rebrands as Proton and updates its offerings, including simplifying its pricing tiers and expanding its VPN — For the privacy-minded, ProtonMail has been one of the better options for secure email — you can get an (admittedly basic) …
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| Gabrielle Coppola / Bloomberg: |
Luminar hires CJ Moore, a manager on Apple's car project who joined from Tesla in August 2021, to lead software development — Luminar Technologies Inc. said it hired CJ Moore, a manager on Apple Inc.'s car project and a former director for Autopilot projects at Tesla Inc., to lead global software development.
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| Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: |
Leaked video shows Apple SVP of Retail + People Deirdre O'Brien telling employees that joining a union could hinder Apple's ability to improve workers' jobs — In an internal video circulated among Apple's 58,000 retail employees, Apple's vice-president of retail suggested that a union …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google starts rolling out ads in Shorts globally and says advertisers will be able to make their Shorts video ads shoppable later in 2022 — Google is starting to gradually roll out ads in YouTube Shorts around the world, the company announced at its Marketing Live event this week.| Bloomberg: |
An in-depth look at Meta's ongoing battle to keep Facebook and Instagram relevant as TikTok's growth explodes, including encouraging creators to use Reels — Last year an Instagram representative contacted Justina Sharp, a 24-year-old with 93,000 followers, and asked for a meeting to discuss ways she could expand her audience.
Tweets: @daveyalba, @mattnavarra, and @bradstone
| Vishal Chawla / The Block: |
Do Kwon's proposal to relaunch the Terra blockchain passes with 65.5% of the governance vote; the network will go live on Friday without the UST stablecoin — Quick Take — Do Kwon's proposal to relaunch the Terra blockchain has passed. — In total, 65.5% of votes supported the proposal.
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| Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers discover that a popular Python library “ctx” and PHP package “phpass” have been compromised to steal developers' AWS keys and credentials — PyPI module ‘ctx’ that gets downloaded over 20,000 times a week has been compromised in a software supply chain attack …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Jack Dorsey is leaving Twitter's board of directors, effective today — Jack Dorsey is leaving the board of Twitter, effective today. The move had been telegraphed last fall, when he stepped down as the social media company's CEO.| Brandy Betz / CoinDesk: |
StarkWare, which makes the StarkEx scaling engine for Ethereum, raises a $100M Series D led by Greenoaks and Coatue at an $8B valuation, up from $2B in November — The blockchain scaling solution last raised funds in November at a $2 billion valuation. — StarkWare Industries …
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| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
Hong Kong-based Babel Finance, which offers crypto asset management tools, raises an $80M Series B at a $2B valuation, bringing its total funding to $120M — Despite recent swings in cryptocurrency values, many institutional investors appear undeterred. The growth of Babel Finance …
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Ripple CEO says the company will explore an IPO once its lawsuit with the SEC ends, and Q1 volume for its cross-border payments product was $8B, up 800% YoY — - Ripple will explore the possibility of an initial public offering once its lawsuit with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has ended …
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| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
A look at Google's renewed efforts to gain a foothold in e-commerce, led by Prabhakar Raghavan, and compete against Amazon, which has long dominated the sector — Google executive Prabhakar Raghavan recently had an issue with his rose bushes. His wife took a photo of the plants on her phone …
Tweets: @edbott, @sarahfrier, @mhbergen, @mhbergen, and @mhbergen
| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says that starting on June 30, 2022, all App Store apps that offer account creation must also offer an in-app option to let users delete their account — Apple last year announced a change in the App Store guidelines that would require all apps that support account creation to offer …
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| Shawn Amick / Bitcoin Magazine: |
Stripe partners with OpenNode to let businesses convert fiat payments into bitcoin via OpenNode's Stripe app; Stripe suspended bitcoin support in 2018 — Stripe, a global payment processor, is working with OpenNode to enable businesses to convert fiat payments into bitcoin.
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