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Andreessen Horowitz announces a $4.5B crypto fund, including $1.5B for seed investments, its fourth and largest such fund — Venture capital group launches its largest fund to date focused on digital assets despite market downturn — Andreessen Horowitz has launched a $4.5bn cryptocurrency fund …
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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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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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| 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.| 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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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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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: @bradstone and @mattnavarra
| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
A researcher says Australia's New South Wales digital driver's license is easy to forge due to deficient encryption, data validation flaws, and other issues — A litany of security flaws allows forgeries that are easy, quick, and cheap. — In late 2019, the government of New South Wales …
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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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Tweets: @opennode, @stripe, @joaodealmeida_, @delitzer, and @patio11
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Turkish grocery delivery startup Getir will lay off 14% of its staff globally, an estimated 4,480 people, and plans to scale back some operations and promotions — It continues to be a very rough week for e-commerce companies in Europe. In the latest development, TechCrunch has learned … | Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Amazon opens its first physical clothing store, Amazon Style, in Glendale, just outside Los Angeles; shoppers use an app to scan items before employees get them — Amazon.com Inc. is opening its first physical clothing store on Wednesday, the latest brick-and-mortar initiative from the world's largest online retailer.
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| Dan Burns / Reuters: |
Speaking at Davos, OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann says the global digital tax will not arrive in 2023 as planned due to slow negotiations — The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on Tuesday acknowledged for the first time that a global digital tax deal may take a year longer to implement.Sponsor Posts
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