Elon Musk's “Tesla Bot” is a distraction and an empty promise, considering the progress of Boston Dynamics' Atlas, which has been in development for 10+ years
A distraction and an empty promise — After a dense presentation about the undeniably impressive work Tesla is doing with AI …
PayPal will launch its cryptocurrency service in the UK this week, the product's first international expansion since it debuted in the US in 2020
- PayPal will let British customers buy, hold and sell digital currencies, starting this week. — It marks the first international expansion … Source: PayPal Newsroom .
Apple confirms it has been scanning iCloud Mail for CSAM since 2019 but has not been scanning iCloud Photos or iCloud backups
Apple has confirmed to me that it already scans iCloud Mail for CSAM, and has been doing so since 2019. It has not, however, been scanning iCloud Photos or iCloud backups.
A bug in Razer's Synapse software, which Windows fetches and installs when a Razer accessory is plugged in, lets anyone with a Razer mouse gain admin privileges
A Razer Synapse zero-day vulnerability has been disclosed on Twitter, allowing you to gain Windows admin privileges simply by plugging in a Razer mouse or keyboard.
Mark Gurman: high-end M1X Mac mini with an updated design and more ports than the current M1 Mac mini should replace the Intel model in the next several months
Sami Fathi / MacRumors : Source: Bloomberg .
Visa says it acquired CryptoPunk 7610, one of the 3,840 female punk NFTs, for around $150K last week, adding it to its art collection
Quick Take — Visa has bought CryptoPunk 7610 as it enters into the world of NFT commerce. — “NFTs are an intersection of culture and commerce …
After criticism, Centre, the consortium founded by Circle and Coinbase, says its stablecoin USDC will now back reserves with only cash and US treasuries
- Digital currency company Circle says it's changing the makeup of its dollar-pegged stablecoin USD Coin to just cash and U.S. Treasury bonds. Source: Centre Blog .
Facebook releases a previously shelved Q1 content transparency report, acknowledging the widespread reach of content casting doubt on COVID vaccines
and making note of some of the components of the story. Benedict Evans / @benedictevans : NY Times: FB shelved Q1 ‘most viewed’ report because of things like this. Six inches further down the page, it...
Researchers find 1K+ web apps, from Ford, American Airlines, and others, mistakenly exposed 38M records stored on Microsoft's Power Apps service
Misconfigured Power Apps from Microsoft led to more than a thousand web apps accessible to anyone who found them. Source: UpGuard Data Breach Research .
Review of new $150 OnePlus Buds Pro: lightweight and water resistant with good controls, sound quality, and ANC, but no EQ adjustments in its app
The company's most refined earbuds yet — The new $150 OnePlus Buds Pro are the company's most elegant, polished set of true wireless earbuds so far.
Nigerian mobile payments service OPay raises $400M led by Vision Fund 2 at a $2B valuation, marking SoftBank's first investment in Africa
- Sequoia Capital China and Redpoint China also participated — Investment marks Vision Fund 2's first bet in Africa
[Thread] OnlyFans is banning sexually explicit content because new Mastercard rules, in force from October 1, make hosting such content prohibitively expensive
And How VC Would Handle An OnlyFans 2.0 Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg : HBO Is About to Lose 5 Million Customers. It's Not Concerned. Ivan Mehta / TNW : OnlyFans wants to find ‘solutions’ for sex workers aft...
Report says Roblox exploits young game developers, many of them children, including by making it difficult to withdraw money earned through microtransactions
which at 200 million users is the most popular game in the US—is essentially running a scheme to exploit child game developers, is completely eye-opening. They're using company scrip, taking a *75%* c...
A California superior court judge rules that Prop 22 is unconstitutional because it infringes on the Legislature's power to set workplace standards
London-based online payments company Paysafe will acquire LATAM-focused e-commerce payment service SafetyPay for $441M in cash
Paysafe's latest acquisition of SafetyPay enables it to further scale in the high-growth Latin American region Paysafe, a specialised payments platform …
A look at Afghanistan's burgeoning crypto scene, which Chainalysis ranked 20th globally in overall crypto adoption in 2021, after ranking among lowest last year
Interview with Unreal Engine's Mark Petit on his view of the Metaverse as an immersive version of the internet, the need to have open standards for it, and more
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YouTube says its Partner Program has 2M creators and the number of new channels joining the program in 2020 doubled YoY as channels making $100K+ grew 35% YoY
Kim Lyons / The Verge : Source: YouTube Official Blog .
Bangalore-based Zetwerk, a business-to-business marketplace for manufacturing items, raises $150M Series E led by D1 Capital Partners at a $1.33B valuation
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Sources: before its acquisition by Facebook, Giphy paid investors a dividend, reducing its value and ensuring antitrust officials did not need to be notified
- Mergers that raise competition concerns are going unreported — Findings complicate Biden plan to boost antitrust enforcement Tweets: @bdsams , @saraforden , and @kajrozga Tweets: Brad Sams / @bds...
Game developers across the industry describe the complexity of making what seem like simple things in games, from doors to object interaction and more
Rebekah Valentine / IGN : Tweets: @javierabegazo , @krides , @liambme , @jennyyokobori , @mparekh , @jeff_tanton , @adambankhurst , @ysbrydgames , @therealandymc , and @bc_trevor Tweets: Javiera Cord...
London-based payments company Zepz, formerly WorldRemit, raises $292M from Farallon Capital, Accel, and others at a $5B valuation
- Company has raised $292 million to invest in its platform — Round includes new investors such as Farallon Capital
Shelf.io, which helps companies organize info to quickly find answers and respond to customers, raises $52.5M Series B led by Tiger Global and Insight Partners
Covering public companies can be a bit of a drag. They grow some modest amount each year, and their constituent analysts pester …
Critics fear the new IT rules in India, where the internet is dominated by US digital platforms, give the government even more power to stomp out dissent
Chinese e-comics app Kuaikan, which has 50M MAUs, raises $240M Series F from CCB International, Tencent, and others, source says at a $1.25B valuation
Zheping Huang / Bloomberg :
Sources detail how Jack Ma's relationship with China's leadership soured, as he failed to keep up with Beijing's shifting views and tuned out warnings for years
Profile of The Solidarity Fund by Coworker, which donated $112,000 to 44 tech workers in $2,500 increments, with the goal of supporting labor organizing efforts
How Facebook has struggled to scale Diem, and Libra before it, due to data privacy issues and regulatory scrutiny, as Diem's Novi wallet readies for market
Daniel Kuhn / CoinDesk : Tweets: @zackseward and @coindesk Tweets: Zack Seward / @zackseward : The would-be libra stablecoin was revolutionary in scope. Can a toned-down diem still matter? https://ww...
Interview with Matt Mullenweg on Automattic's recent funding news, which outlined a $288M primary round, buybacks, and an internal liquidity market for staff
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.