DarkSide, the group behind the pipeline attack, claims it wants to make money, not cause “problems for society”, and it'll add “moderation” to picking targets
- A hacker group called DarkSide is behind the cyberattack on Colonial Pipeline that shut down a major oil pipeline over the weekend.
Colonial Pipeline, which carries 45% of fuel consumed on the US East Coast, says it halted operations due to a ransomware attack
and Created an Unholy Mess Eric Geller / Politico : What you need to know about the Colonial Pipeline hack Mitchell Clark / The Verge : Colonial Pipeline hackers apologize, promise to ransom less cont...
Intel unveils 11th-gen Core Tiger Lake-H 10nm mobile processors for high-performance desktop and gaming, with five consumer chips and five commercial ones
Ever since the launch of the first series of Intel Core 11th Generation Tiger Lake processors aimed at the ‘U-series’ 15 W market …
MSI unveils new laptops for creators and gamers, like the $2,599 Creator Z16, aimed at MacBook Pro users, with a 120Hz 16:10 QHD+ display and GeForce RTX 3060
New models for creators and gamers at all price points — MSI has announced a number of gaming and creator laptops that include Intel's brand-new Tiger Lake H processors.
Dell upgrades the XPS 15 and XPS 17 laptops with Intel's 11th-Gen H-series processors and Nvidia's RTX 30-series laptop GPUs, starting at $1,200 and $1,400
watch out, MacBook Pro Brandon Hill / HotHardware.com News : Alienware Teases Gorgeously Thin X-Series Gaming Laptops, m15 R6 Beams Up With Tiger Lake-H Upgrade Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware : A...
Sources: Sony's next-gen VR headset for PlayStation 5 will have improved resolution of 2000×2040 per eye, inside-out tracking, foveated rendering, and more
Sony's next-generation VR headset for PlayStation 5 has significantly higher resolution, inside-out tracking, a vibration motor …
Nvidia unveils the RTX 3050 and 3050 Ti laptop GPUs that bring ray tracing and AI features to affordable laptops for 1080p gaming, starting at ~$799
Devindra Hardawar / Engadget :
A county-by-county map of the broadband gap in the US shows how lack of fiber stifles economic activity in poor counties which in turn results in disinvestment
A county-by-county look at the broadband gap — If broadband access was a problem before 2020, the pandemic turned it into a crisis.
Google Pay users in the US can now send money to GPay users in India and Singapore; Google has partnered with Western Union and Wise to enable this feature
Google Pay users in the U.S. can now send money to GPay users in India and Singapore, Google said on Tuesday, making its first push into the remittances market.
Apple's ATT privacy policy is a commercial land grab dressed up as a moral crusade and it will ultimately subvert the open web and the freemium business model
Last week, Apple introduced a new ad unit to the App Store: a paid placement on its Search page. — Rumors of this new unit had circulated previously
AGs from 44 states urge Facebook to abandon plans to launch a version of Instagram for kids under 13, citing research about the harm social media can cause kids
In a letter sent to Mark Zuckerberg Monday, attorneys general from 44 states urged the Facebook CEO to abandon plans to launch a version of Instagram for kids under 13.
Facebook ordered to stop collecting German users' WhatsApp data by regulator, starting with a three-month emergency ban on the data collection
- Hamburg regulator issues a three-month emergency order — Watchdog calls new terms intransparent and overly broad
Colonial Pipeline says it is working on “substantially restoring operational service by the end of the week”; FBI confirms DarkSide was behind the attack
Sources: Foxconn's iPhone output in India has dropped by more than 50% because of COVID-19 infections among workers
Production of the Apple iPhone 12 (AAPL.O) at a Foxconn (2317.TW) factory in India has slumped by more than 50% because workers infected with COVID-19 have had to leave their posts, two sources told R...
Sources: TikTok is launching a tool for brands to recruit employees that it's currently beta testing with a group of companies
TikTok is testing a tool for brands to recruit employees, sources tell Axios. — Details: The pilot program is designed to help people find jobs on TikTok …
South Korea's Kakao Entertainment acquires US-based online comic app Tapas for $510M and serialized fiction app Radish for $440M
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's Kakao Entertainment Corp said on Tuesday it was acquiring U.S.-based online comic app Tapas and serialized fiction app Radish …
Palantir reports Q1 revenue of $341M, up 49% YoY, with $208M from government and $133M from commercial sources; Palantir has 149 customers, up from 125 in 2020
- Palantir, the maker of software and analytics tools for the defense industry and large corporations, reported 49% revenue growth …
Docs show that Bird is preparing to go public via a SPAC merger at $2.3B valuation; Bird expects to trim adjusted EBITDA loss to $96M in 2021 vs. $183M in 2020
Bird Rides, the Santa-Monica e-scooter company that was once a startup darling but saw ridership plunge during the pandemic …
Big chip buyers, including Apple and Google, are joining top chip-makers like Intel to create a lobbying group for chip manufacturing subsidies
(Reuters) - Some of the world's biggest chip buyers, including Apple Inc, Microsoft Corp and Alphabet Inc's Google, are joining top chip-makers …
Sources: TikTok has begun working with merchants in Europe, including the UK, to test ways they can sell products directly to users within the app
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Block.one is launching Bullish, a crypto exchange, in the second half of 2021, capitalized by about $10B in digital assets and cash
- Bullish Global to launch in the second half of this year — Funding round includes Alan Howard, Louis Bacon and Richard Li — Follow us @crypto for our full coverage.
Facebook says it's testing a prompt that encourages users to open unread articles before sharing them, about a year after Twitter debuted a similar prompt
I could swear that rings a bell, like someone else has done this but a long time ago. But for the life of me I can't remember who it was! https://twitter.com/... Siraj Hashmi / @sirajahashmi : the boo...
A German security researcher claims he was able to break into the microcontroller of Apple's AirTag, allowing him to modify its NFC URL
José Adorno / 9to5Mac :
Continuous software integration/delivery service CircleCI raises $100M at a $1.7B valuation and has acquired Vamp, a cloud-native release orchestration service
Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register fo r the AI event of the year. — CircleCI, a continuous integration and delivery …
Officials say the DHS has started building a warning system to gather and analyze intelligence about domestic terrorism threats from public social media posts
WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security has begun implementing a strategy to gather and analyze intelligence … Tweets: @purplerain713 , @hanxfingers , @kylegriffin1 , @jgreenblattadl , @dream...
Analysis of 57K large companies globally: the average tax burden ratio of Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon is just around 60% of their peers
Inequality and COVID spending spur rethink of how to grab bigger slice of corporate profit — TOMOSHIZU KAWASE, Nikkei corporate tax editor …
Apple awards $45M from its Advanced Manufacturing Fund to Corning, bringing its total investment in the precision glass maker to $495M
Roblox reports Q1 revenue grew 140% YoY to $387M, DAUs rose 79% YoY to 42.1M, and users spent 9.7B hours on the platform, up 98% YoY
MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC :
San Francisco-based Legion, which makes workforce management software, raises $50M Series C led by Stripes, bringing its total raised to $85.5M
San Francisco-based Legion closed a $50 million Series C to try to help companies find the right balance between workforce and market demand as the world emerges from a pandemic.
Engageli, which develops collaborative video-based teaching software, raises $33M Series A, bringing its total raised to $47M+
As schools move more widely into reopening their doors for in-person learning, many educational institutions have also learned a critical lesson in the last year.
Lili, a neobank aimed at freelancers to use a single account for both work and personal use, raises $55M Series B led by Group 11
A startup that has built a neobank specifically to address the needs of freelancers and sole traders has picked up a growth round to continue expanding …
Report: twice in 2021, 25%+ of Tor's entire exit node capacity was known to be malicious and involved in a scheme targeting users accessing crypto-related sites
Facebook is starting to test Live Audio Rooms with a handful of public figures and creators in Taiwan and is planning to bring Audio Rooms to Facebook Groups
- Social-media leader is also building podcasts into its app — Live Audio Rooms starts with select public figures, creators See also Mediagazer
AXA, one of Europe's largest cyber insurance providers, says it will stop reimbursing ransom payments made by French ransomware victims
Jonathan Greig / ZDNet :
Overview of the major uptick in spending on lobbying in the US by crypto organizations like Coinbase, Ripple, and trade groups like the Blockchain Association
Eric Lipton / New York Times :
Uber and Lyft, which have set a 2030 deadline to transition entirely to EVs in the US, are providing little to no capital to help drivers transition to EVs
Bloomberg : Tweets: @guay_jg , @aaronrutkoff , and @alex Tweets: Justin Guay / @guay_jg : This is a damning look at the failure of Uber and Lyft to do anything about their climate impacts despite vol...
Mythic, which makes energy-efficient analog chips for AI, raises $70M Series C, bringing its total raised to $165.2M
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE :
Copenhagen-based contract automation service Contractbook raises $30M Series B led by Tiger Global
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat :
Cloud stocks plunge to six-month low, with Snowflake among the worst performers, closing at $193.82, down from about $314 in mid February
Ari Levy / CNBC :
Zencargo, which helps companies organize and track movements of items via its freight forwarding platform, raises $42M Series B led by Digital+ Partners
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
A look at Samsung's struggles to compete with TSMC as it tries to acquire advanced chip manufacturing equipment from ASML
Nikkei Asia :
Apptopia, which provides competitive intelligence reports in the mobile ecosystem, raises $20M Series C led by ABS Capital Partners
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Kin, which uses thousands of data points to provide personalized home insurance in natural disaster-prone US states like FL, CA, and LA, raises $63.9M Series C
Sophia Kunthara / Crunchbase News : Tweets: @kinsured Tweets: Kin Insurance / @kinsured : We just raised $63.9 MILLION in Series C funding. We reached $100M of premiums with only $52M of equity befor...
FCC approves $7.17B fund for schools and libraries to buy laptops, tablets, Wi-Fi hotspots, and broadband connections to help facilitate online learning
Corinne Reichert / CNET :
Ethos, whose platform allows customers to shop for and secure life insurance policies online, raises $200M led by General Catalyst at a $2B+ valuation
Bloomberg : Tweets: @katie_roof Tweets: Katie Roof / @katie_roof : Life insurance startup Ethos is now valued above $2 billion. General Catalyst led with Sequoia, Accel, GV. Jay-Z, Will Smith and Rob...
Innovusion, which develops lidar tech for autonomous vehicles, raises $64M Series B led by Temasek, bringing its total raised to over $100M
Rita Liao / TechCrunch :
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
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