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| Jane Zhang / Bloomberg: |
Alibaba announces Eddie Wu to succeed Daniel Zhang as CEO and names Executive Vice Chairman Joseph Tsai as Chairman; Zhang will continue as Alibaba Cloud CEO — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is replacing eight-year veteran chief Daniel Zhang at the helm of a Chinese e-commerce leader bleeding market share …
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| Gabriela Galindo / Wired: |
How Apple is trying to gain IP rights over depictions of apples globally, worrying the 111-year-old Fruit Union Suisse, which may need to change its logo — Apple, the company, wants rights to the image of apples, the fruit, in Switzerland—one of dozens of countries where it's flexing its legal muscles.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Germany and Intel agree on subsidies worth ~€10B for its chip plant in Magdeburg, up from an initial agreement on €6.8B, as part of a ~€30B project — Germany and Intel Corp. sealed an agreement for the US company to receive an enlarged subsidy package worth about €10 billion …
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| Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal: |
Celebrities, including aging star athletes, are signing deals to put AI duplicates of themselves into ad campaigns, helping brands de-age them, among other uses — Using AI-generated duplicates, brands also benefit, using stars in ways they never could before
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| Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
Filings: FTX paid $121.8M in legal, consulting, and financial services fees between February 1 and April 30, as some former clients push to reboot the exchange — - FTX's bankruptcy estate paid $121.8 million in legal, consulting and financial services fees and expenses between February 1 and April 30 …
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| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Sources: EU antitrust regulators plan to launch a detailed investigation into Adobe's acquisition of Figma later in 2023, which may derail the $20B deal — Transaction faces lengthy antitrust probe in Brussels as global watchdogs signal concern over market consolidation| Jon Pincus / The Nexus Of Privacy: |
Amid ongoing Reddit protests, decentralized link aggregation and discussion forum projects Lemmy and Kbin grow to a total of 70K+ MAUs and 1,000+ instances — Tens of thousands of people have signed up for KBin and Lemmy accounts since I first published Don't tell people “it's easy” …
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| New York Times: |
GOP lawmakers target Wikimedia, Graphika, and others in a legal campaign, accusing them of colluding with the government to suppress conservative speech online — A legal campaign against universities and think tanks seeks to undermine the fight against false claims about elections, vaccines and other hot political topics.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
After complaints about spam by Indian users, WhatsApp adds the ability to automatically silence calls from unknown numbers and a privacy checkup feature — WhatsApp has introduced a new feature to automatically silence calls from unknown numbers. This comes after multiple customers in India …
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| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
The BlackCat ransomware gang threatens to release 80GB of data allegedly stolen from Reddit; the company says BlackCat's claims relate to a February 5 attack — Hackers are threatening to release confidential data stolen from Reddit unless the company pays a ransom demand - and reverses its controversial API price hikes.
More: The Verge, MacRumors, BleepingComputer, DataBreachToday.com, TweakTown, Digital Trends, SlashGear, Forbes, HotHardware, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, WRAL TechWire, SiliconANGLE, MobileSyrup, Android Police, Security Boulevard, Tech Monitor, Silicon Republic, Developer Tech News, Engadget, Dexerto, TechRadar, International Business Times, Techlusive, and Security Affairs
Twitter: @brettcallow, @chengrob, @alvierid, @ido_cohen2, and @devaonbreaches
Forums: r/hacking, r/apolloapp, r/technology, r/theworldnews, r/ModCoord, r/anonymous, and Slashdot
| Tim Copeland / The Block: |
How kids are using hacked Discord servers or Twitter accounts and “NFT drainers” for phishing attacks to steal millions of dollars' worth of NFTs and tokens — - NFT drainers like Inferno and Venom are commonly used to carry out phishing attacks involving compromised Discord servers and Twitter accounts.
More: Cryptonews and crypto.news
Twitter: @bgurley, @lex_node, @dabitch, and @timccopeland
Forums: r/ethtrader and r/CryptoCurrency
| Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNet: |
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