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An internal Amazon memo from mid-2021 warns the company could run out of potential US warehouse workers by 2024 and suggests six remedies, such as raising wages — Unions might not be the tech giant's biggest labor threat. — Amazon is facing a looming crisis: It could run out of people …
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
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| Sascha Segan / PCMag: |
Nothing confirms phone (1) will not be fully supported by carriers in North America, as the company focuses on “home markets”, including the UK and Europe — It looks like Americans and Canadians are getting ... nothing. — Carl Pei's buzzy phone firm, which he says will be a top alternative …
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| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
MacBook Pro 13-inch (M2) review: dominant single-core performance with good battery life, but just two USB-C ports, design from 2016, and webcam is still bad — Apple has put a 2022 CPU in a 2016 computer — I don't really care what the M2 MacBook Pro gets on benchmarks.
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| Zach Schonfeld / The Hill: |
Microsoft report details Russian cyberattacks across 42 countries outside Ukraine since the war began, with a 29% success rate and NATO governments prioritized — Russia has levied dozens of cyber espionage campaigns in 42 countries since it invaded Ukraine in February, according to a new Microsoft report.
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Brave says its search engine grew ~5,000% since its June 2021 launch to 411.7M queries in May, and launches Goggles, which lets users customize searches — Brave Search, the browser developer's privacy-centric Internet search engine, is celebrating its first anniversary after surpassing 2.5 billion queries …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter partners with Shopify to launch a sales channel app, letting Shopify's US merchants sell products and engage customers via Twitter's Shopping Manager — As part of its ongoing efforts to expand into e-commerce, Twitter today announced a new partnership with Shopify.
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| Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette: |
Google revamps News, elevating local news and fact checks; News returns to Spain after 7.5 years citing the country adopting EU copyright rules in November 2021 — Google News is relaunching in Spain almost eight years after it shut down to avoid paying publishers when the country introduced …
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| Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: |
eBay acquires NFT marketplace KnownOrigin for an undisclosed sum; DappRadar: KnownOrigin enabled $7.8M in digital collectible trade volume since its 2018 launch — The move comes one month after eBay released its debut collection of NFTs. — E-commerce giant eBay (EBAY) … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Deno, a runtime for JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly built using the Rust programming language and the V8 JavaScript engine, raised a $21M Series A — Deno, the development company behind the eponymous Deno runtime, today announced that it closed a $21 million Series A round led …
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Facebook Pay officially rebrands to Meta Pay; Zuckerberg says Meta is working on an interoperable “wallet for the metaverse” that will have “proof of ownership” — Also, the Meta Pay rebrand is here — Mark Zuckerberg announced on Wednesday that Facebook Pay …
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Sources: Comcast and Google have emerged as the top contenders to help Netflix develop an ad-supported tier, and Netflix has discussed ad partnerships with Roku — Deals with the streaming company could include exclusive agreements and revenue-sharing — Comcast Corp.'s NBCUniversal … | Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Tether plans to launch its fifth fiat-pegged stablecoin in July, called GBPT, pegged to the British pound and initially available on Ethereum — - Tether has launched a new stablecoin pegged 1:1 to the British pound. — It will be initially available on Ethereum.
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| CoinDesk: |
Crypto broker Voyager Digital says its exposure to Three Arrows Capital consists of 15,250 bitcoin and $350M USDC, and “may issue a notice of default” to 3AC — The crypto broker said it's on the hook for about $370 million of bitcoin and $350 million of USDC and has asked for a repayment installment by Friday.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers discover fundamental cryptography flaws in MEGA's end-to-end encryption, letting anyone controlling the cloud storage service decipher stored files — Fundamental flaws uncovered in Mega's encryption scheme show service can read your data. — In the decade since larger …
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| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
MasterClass, which offers celebrity-taught online classes, laid off around 120 employees, or 20% of its team; sources: MasterClass was valued at $2.75B in 2021 — MasterClass, an education platform that sells subscriptions to celebrity-taught classes, has cut 20% of its team to …
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| Alexis Hancock / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Analysis: Brightwheel, HiMama, and other popular daycare apps lack 2FA and have privacy-compromising features like trackers not disclosed in privacy policies — Last year, several parents at EFF enrolled kids into daycare and were instantly told to download an application for managing their children's care.| Jared Newman / Fast Company: |
Valve's Steam Deck, which runs Arch Linux and lets users install software from anywhere unlike other game consoles, makes a great case against walled gardens — The Steam Deck is a portable gaming system that breaks the biggest rule of gaming systems. — Unlike practically every major … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Courier, which provides tools to send and build notifications across multiple channels including email, web, text, and mobile, raised a $35M Series B led by GV — App notifications, well intentioned or no, have become a part of daily life. A 2018 study out of Duke University estimated that …
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| Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg: |
A US judge requested data from British and Chinese government agencies about TikTok, WeChat, and Telegram, bolstering Meta's defense in its FTC antitrust suit — Meta Platforms Inc. won a judge's backing to obtain information from ByteDance Ltd's TikTok, Tencent Holdings Ltd's WeChat … | Lauren Goode / Wired: |
Slack plans to add video calling to Huddles in the fall; Slack has offered one-on-one and group video calling since 2016, but the feature isn't easy to find — Adding video to Slack's popular Huddles feature could herald a new digital hang space—or just reinvent the video meetings wheel.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify tests Community, a feature that lets mobile users see their friends' streaming activity in real time and which playlists their friends recently updated — Spotify is developing a new feature called Community that would allow mobile users to see what sort of music their friends … | Augusta Saraiva / Bloomberg: |
Hired: despite D&I initiatives, African American women in tech earned $0.92 for every $1 a white male counterpart earned in 2021, down from $0.94 in 2020 — As American corporations announce a record number of diversity and inclusion initiatives, Silicon Valley has seen the wage gap narrow … | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Appsmith, which offers low-code tools to build enterprise apps, raised a $41M Series B led by Insight Partners and says 7K+ companies use its tools every month — For the last several years, Appsmith has been quietly building an open source platform for internal development teams to build the custom apps they need.Sponsor Posts
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