Researchers: an AirDrop user's phone number and email address can be learned via nearby Wi-Fi-capable devices when they open an iOS or macOS sharing pane
TU-Researchers discover significant privacy leak in Apple's file-sharing service — Apple users can share files with each other using AirDrop.
Consumer Reports says it was “easily” able to trick Tesla's Autopilot system to operate without anyone in the driver's seat
Consumer Reports says, ‘Under no circumstance should anyone try this’ — Consumer Reports said Thursday it was “easily” able to trick Tesla's Autopilot system …
A digital coins sell-off, including bitcoin's plunge below $50K, wipes $200B+ in value from crypto markets, on reports Biden will seek a capital gains tax hike
- Bitcoin and other digital coins plunged on Friday wiping over $260 billion of the value of the cryptocurrency market.
Sources: Spotify to announce an Apple Podcasts Subscriptions competitor next week that will let podcasters set prices without charging them or taking a cut
Podcasts exploded in popularity during the lockdown and are on track to bring in more than $1 billion in U.S. ad revenue this year
Turkish crypto exchange Thodex halts operations amid local media reports that its CEO has fled the country and its losses may be as high as ~$2B
- Government blocks bank accounts of crypto exchange Thodex — Whereabouts of 27-year-old CEO Faruk Fatih Ozer unknown
Apple executives detail privacy and anti-stalking protections built into AirTags and insist they are designed just to track items, not people or pets
Federal judge rejects motion to dismiss a lawsuit against Apple that alleges the “Buy” option in iTunes is deceptive as Apple can still terminate access
Rejecting a motion to dismiss, a federal judge says it is plausible that consumers don't know that access to purchased content can be revoked.
Facebook launches a series of global News Feed ranking tests to solicit user feedback on posts they're seeing and what posts users find valuable
Facebook may be reconfiguring its News Feed algorithms. After being grilled by lawmakers about the role that Facebook played in the attack …
After decades of legal battles, 39 former UK postmasters who were convicted of fraud due to faulty accounting software from Fujitsu have their names cleared
Judges have quashed the convictions of 39 former postmasters after the UK's most widespread miscarriage of justice.
Apple AirTag hands-on: works very well with a thoughtfully designed system, beautiful with a plastic body that serves as a speaker, but get scuffed easily
Or maybe lilac Joe Rossignol / MacRumors : AirTag Shipping Estimates Already Slipping Into May Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch : First findings with Apple's new AirTag location devices William Gallaghe...
Canada-based Alphawave IP, which develops chip technology for faster data flow through networks, is aiming to raise $500M+ via a London IPO at a $4.5B valuation
Nic Fildes / Financial Times :
Panasonic says it will buy US-based supply chain software provider Blue Yonder for $7.1B, in one of the Japanese company's biggest acquisitions
- The buyout offer will value Blue Yonder at $8.5 billion — Panasonic to fund the deal through cash and bridge loan
Sony confirms it is testing PlayStation Plus Video Pass, which lets PS Plus subscribers access over 20 movie and TV shows from Sony Pictures, in Poland
Andy Robinson / VGC :
Snap Q1: revenue of $770M, up 66% YoY, DAUs up 22% YoY to 280M, and free cash flow hit $126M, its first quarter of free positive cash flow as a public company
Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC :
Clubhouse lacks opportunities for virality and monetization that Twitch, Snapchat, and Discord have, and its product is one feature that has been copied easily
Clubhouse, an app which allows you to join audio conversations with other people (a function unavailable in any other app or device), is now worth $4 billion. Tweets: @edzitron , @jeffnolan , @davidge...
SCOTUS slashes FTC's power to seek monetary awards in court, banning a tool that it used to fine tech and other companies engaged in unfair business practices
& I'm going to fight vigorously against it. Rebecca Kelly Slaughter / @rkslaughterftc : Thank you for your leadership and the time you have dedicated to this incredibly important issue, Chair @Senator...
Chris Poole, founder of 4chan, has left Google; he joined the company in 2016 and jumped between several different roles during his five years
- Chris “Moot” Poole has left Google five years after his hiring made waves. — Poole is best known as the “boy-genius” …
Amazon began piloting a tool last week that lets brands in its Brand Registry program in the US email marketing materials to customers who “follow” the brand
- Amazon recently began piloting a tool for some brands to communicate with customers who opt to follow them.
Intel reports Q1 revenue of $18.6B, flat YoY, vs. $17.90B est., Data Center Group revenue of $5.56B, down from $6.99B YoY, and PC unit volumes were up 38% YoY
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Report: Apple is working on upgrades to iMessage with the eventual goal of making it more like a social network, to better compete with WhatsApp
watch out, Facebook! Livemint : Sources: iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 to include upgrades to notifications, Lock Screen, and iMessage, a redesigned iPad Home Screen, and more privacy protections Tweets: @matt...
Two senators are circulating a draft amendment that exempts 15K self-driving vehicles per manufacturer annually from human driver safety standards, up from 2.5K
David Shepardson / Reuters :
Report: iPhone 12 models accounted for 61% of US iPhone sales in Q1 2021; iPhone 12 mini was the lowest selling iPhone of the quarter, behind iPhone SE and XR
José Adorno / 9to5Mac :
Accolade, a health care service for employees to manage benefits, is buying virtual primary care startup PlushCare for up to $450M, in a cash and stock deal
Taylor Soper / GeekWire :
Signal's CEO says he analyzed a Cellebrite device, used to extract data from phones, that fell off a truck, and it is full of easily exploitable security flaws
An internal Facebook report found it failed to take appropriate action against Stop the Steal groups before Capitol riot, saying it should “do better next time”
including the Proud Boys — and not kicking them off. This is despite PBs being banned since 2018. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... Inti De Ceukelaire / @intidc : Top voted question for Zuckerberg at ...
Confluent, an event streaming platform based on Apache Kafka, says it has filed confidentially for a US IPO; Confluent was last valued at $4.5B in April 2020
Crystal Tse / Bloomberg :
Facebook says there are 2B+ users each month watching videos eligible for in-stream ads and is starting a test of targeting by topic for in-stream video ads
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch :
Q&A: Vimeo CEO Anjali Sud on how the company is helping large and small companies use video, its growing OTT business of making TV apps for creators, and more
Nilay Patel / The Verge : Tweets: @reckless Tweets: Nilay Patel / @reckless : Loved this week's Decoder with Vimeo CEO @anjsud, who has very successfully pivoted the company away from competing with ...
Overtime, which distributes original sports content on social media platforms like Snapchat, raises $80M Series C from Bezos Expeditions, Drake, and others
Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Intel, and Alphabet had a combined $100B+ in overseas pretax income in FY 2020, making them targets of Biden's new tax plans
Bloomberg : Tweets: @ron_miller and @alistairmbarr Tweets: Ron Miller / @ron_miller : By jove I think they've got it. https://twitter.com/... Alistair Barr / @alistairmbarr : The biggest loser from B...
Atmosphere TV, a streaming service that provides audio-optional content supported by ads, raises $25M Series B from Valor Equity at a valuation of $275M
Sift, which uses AI to predict whether an attempted online transaction or interaction is authentic or fraudulent, raises $50M at a valuation of $1B+
Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch :
AfterShip, which lets online sellers track packages across different carriers, raises $66M Series B led by Tiger Global, following a $1M Series A in 2014
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
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