Elon Musk says Tesla no longer accepts bitcoin for vehicle purchases, due to its environmental cost, will look at more environmentally friendly cryptocurrencies
Tesla has stopped accepting bitcoin as payment for its cars out of concern that it will contribute to greater consumption of fossil fuels …
Colonial Pipeline says it has restarted operations, after being shut down for five days due to DarkSide's ransomware attack
Colonial Pipeline, operator of the largest U.S. fuel pipeline, said Wednesday it is restarting operations after being shut down for five days due to a cyberattack.
Biden signs EO to strengthen US cyber defenses, including the development of cybersecurity standards for software companies that sell to the government
President Biden signed an executive order Wednesday aimed at shoring up the federal government's digital defenses as his administration grapples …
Apple says it parted ways with recent hire Antonio García Martínez, an ex-Facebook staffer and author, after employee petition citing “misogynistic statements”
Apple has severed ties with recent hire Antonio Garcia-Martinez, a former Facebook employee and author …
Cryptocurrency markets lost around $365B in value after Musk tweeted Tesla will suspend car purchases with bitcoin; bitcoin, ether, and XRP all fell sharply
- Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted that the electric vehicle maker would suspend car purchases using bitcoin, citing environmental concerns.
Microsoft is shutting down its Azure Blockchain Service on September 10, six years after initial launch, and is not supporting any new deployments as of May 10
Six years after its initial launch, Microsoft's Azure Blockhain as a Service is going to be shut down this September.
Sources: Colonial paid ~$5M ransom in cryptocurrency within hours of the attack, but the hackers' decrypting tool was so slow that it had to use its own backups
- Payment came shortly after attack got underway last week — FBI discourages organizations from paying ransom to hackers
Roku announces launch of its original programming, including the Quibi content it acquired, on the Roku Channel, starting May 20
Roku today announced the launch of its own original programming, which will initially become available to viewers in the U.S., U.K., and Canada through …
Google has been fined €100M+ by Italy's antitrust watchdog for abusing its dominant market position by restricting third party access to the Android Auto app
Google has been fined just over €100 million (~$123M) by Italy's antitrust watchdog for abuse of a dominant market position.
Amazon Echo Buds (2nd gen) review: affordable, better sound, smaller, True ANC, optional wireless charging, but middling battery life and mediocre call quality
Compared to its closest rivals, Amazon was late to the true wireless earbud game. By the time the company introduced its
Facebook's Diem says it has withdrawn its application for a Swiss payment license and will shift its operations to the US via a California state-chartered bank
- Diem, the digital currency project backed by Facebook, has abandoned plans to secure a payment license from Switzerland's FINMA watchdog.
Behind the online battle between notable tech figures including a16z partners and Balaji Srinivasan, and the journalists who report, and tweet, on the industry
Late last fall, the New York Times was preparing a bombshell article about Coinbase, a financial exchange that had become … Tweets: @gaberivera , @damiencave , @jayhinman , @joab_jackson , @yudhanjaya...
SpaceX signs a satellite connectivity deal with Google Cloud, as part of which SpaceX will install Starlink terminals at Google's data centers around the world
Under a new agreement, SpaceX will plant Starlink terminals at Google Cloud's data centers — Google said on Thursday …
Ford says it will start rolling out OTA updates to its vehicles at scale, including adding Alexa later this year to 700K eligible vehicles
The automaker aims to have 33 million OTA-capable vehicles by 2028 — Ford is finally ready to start rolling out over-the-air (OTA) software updates to its vehicles at scale.
Alibaba reports Q4 net loss of $836M, as the massive antitrust fine it received last month weighed on earnings, and revenue of $28.6B, up 64% YoY
- Alibaba swung to a net loss in the March quarter of 5.47 billion yuan. The market had expected a net profit of 6.95 billion yuan, according to Refinitiv estimates.
South Korea plans to spend around $450B to build the world's biggest chipmaking base over the next decade; Samsung to boost spending by 30% to $151B by 2030
- Samsung and SK Hynix leading investment to rev up capacity — Severe chip shortages prompt global race to shore up supply
Amazon says it is hiring 75,000 workers, representing 8% of its US workforce, and offering an average of $17/hour, above its typical $15/hour starting wage
Tetail and tech giant says its open roles pay an average of $17 an hour, an increase over the company's typical starting wage of $15 an hour
Michigan GOP lawmaker introduces a bill that requires fact checkers to register with the state using a $1M fidelity bond, and levies $1K/day fine for violations
Lansing — A Michigan lawmaker who's been at the center of efforts to question the 2020 election introduced a bill Tuesday that would require … Tweets: @ddale8 , @jtemple , @campuscodi , @mcmuckraker ,...
Global notebook PC shipments grew 81% YoY in Q1; both Apple, with 5.7M shipments, and Acer, with 4.9M shipments, grew 94% as HP grew 91% with 15.4M shipments
Gaming, Chromebooks, commercial and consumer demand stay hot as the return to work and school is slow and pointing to a hybrid approach long-term
YouTube has banned almost 40 QAnon channels that are deleting their own videos after a few days in order to evade YouTube's policies and escape violations
YouTube banned almost 40 channels that used the tactic. Disinformation experts say they haven't seen the ploy used before. Tweets: @rogerwcheng and @stshank . Thanks: @rogerwcheng Tweets: Roger Cheng...
Researcher details an exploit for Apple's Find My network that allows packets of arbitrary data to be transmitted by simulating a Find My broadcast
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Animoca Brands, which lets players own in-game items through NFTs, enabling them to sell or take items if they leave the game, raises $88M at a $1B valuation
Did you miss GamesBeat Summit 2021? Watch on-demand here! — Animoca Brands has raised $88 million at a $1 billion valuation …
Researcher discovers a series of vulnerabilities, known as Frag Attacks, impacting Wi-Fi devices from the past 24 years, even when WEP and WPA are activated
Catalin Cimpanu / The Record : Source: FragAttacks .
Epic v. Apple is shining a light on Apple's anti-steering rules, which prevent developers from pointing users to better deals on their website or elsewhere
but Apple could (rightfully) respond that because AltStore *does* now exist, anyone can use it to distribute apps “easily,” including Epic @migueldeicaza : The upsetting part is: most well meaning dev...
Profile of Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who is presiding over the Epic v. Apple trial and has previously handled several cases involving both companies
Instagram will let users list up to four pronouns on their profiles, viewable to friends or the public, available in a “few countries”
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Discord announces Stage Discovery, a tool to help people find communities through live audio events, and says it will soon test paid, ticketed audio events
Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch :
Instagram and Twitter apologize for deleting pro-Palestinian posts, blaming technical errors, but critics say their “discriminatory” algorithms are to blame
Maya Gebeily / Reuters :
IAB: podcast ad revenue in the US grew 19% in 2020 to hit $842M, up from $708M in 2019 and $479M in 2018, and is set to reach $2B by 2023
Peter White / Deadline :
US agrees to remove Xiaomi from blacklist that could have restricted American investment in the company, following Xiaomi's lawsuit earlier this year
Review of Asus' new ZenFone 8 flagship, available for $599-$799: thoughtful and compact design, robust build, and great performance, but battery life is average
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As part of its Q2 earnings, Sonos says a German court granted a preliminary injunction against a Google subsidiary over a patent dispute
Janko Roettgers / Protocol :
Q&A with Unicode Consortium's Jennifer Daniel, the first woman leading the Emoji Subcommittee, on inclusivity, how emoji are perceived globally, and more
Axtria, which makes data analytics software for life sciences companies, raises $150M, sources say at a valuation close to $1B
Axtria, which makes software for life-sciences companies, raised $150 million in a funding round from Bain Capital Tech Opportunities.
Amazon updates the Echo Show 8 and 5 with better cameras, the ability to turn on Alexa's security mode, and adds a $95 Kids Edition of the Echo Show 5
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An in-depth look at how a team of fact-checkers at Alt News in India is struggling against misinformation spread by the ruling BJP party on Facebook services
Sonia Faleiro / Rest of World : Tweets: @dlberes , @restofworld , @mirakamdar , @restofworld , and @prempanicker See also Mediagazer Tweets: @dlberes : “In the U.S., misinformation involves a huge am...
Cyral, which offers enterprise data governance across platforms including Amazon S3, Snowflake, and MongoDB, raises $26M, bringing its total raised to $41.1M
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Munich-based parcelLab, which helps retailers send automated personalized shipping messages to their customers, raises $112M Series C led by Insight Partners
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch :
Chinese autonomous driving company WeRide says it raised an undisclosed sum to complete its Series C at a $3B+ valuation, four months after its $310M Series B
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch :
Amazon wins appeal over $300M EU tax bill, as EU court annuls a 2017 decision, saying regulators had failed to prove that the company got an illegal advantage
FBI warns that cybercriminals are abusing search ads to promote phishing sites, often targeting banks, a growing trend since at least mid-2020
SimilarWeb closes down 0.6% in its NYSE debut after raising $165M in its IPO at a valuation of ~$1.6B; its revenue in 2020 was $93.5M with a net loss of $22M
Shiri Habib-Valdhorn / Globes Online :
VMware names COO of products and cloud services Raghu Raghuram as its new CEO, after Pat Gelsinger left to become Intel's CEO in January
Stampli, which helps companies manage invoices and see how costs are allocated, raises $50M Series C led by Insight Partners and says it has ~1,000 customers
NetSPI, which provides penetration testing and vulnerability management services to enterprises, raises $90M; NetSPI expects sales of about $50M in 2021
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Sources: blockchain-based gaming infrastructure startup Forte raises $185M Series B at a $1B post-money valuation led by Griffin Gaming Partners
Cloudflare, which is already doing all of its computing on the edge, is uniquely suited to a world where politics matter more than economics
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