Activision Blizzard and Epic Games suspend sales of their games in Russia; Activision Blizzard will also pause offering in-game microtransactions in the country
Activision Blizzard and Epic Games have joined a growing list of publishers suspending sales of their games in Russia due to the country's ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
Visa and Mastercard suspend operations in Russia, a few hours after Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked them to do so in a video call with US lawmakers
Apologies for last week - just trying to figure out what's doable given … Stan Choe / Associated Press : Mastercard, Visa suspend operations in Russia after invasion Edward Moyer / CNET : PayPal, Mast...
Netflix says it is suspending its service in Russia, which operates through a joint venture with the country's National Media Group and has 1M+ subscribers
Netflix has suspended its service in Russia to protest the country's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
What to expect from Apple's March 8 event: a 5G iPhone SE, an iPad Air, a new Mac, and a “wild card” preview of a new monitor, an iMac Pro, or a smaller Mac Pro
The Lapsus$ group leaks ~190GB of alleged confidential Samsung files, including a suspected dump of source code and related device security and encryption data
Sunday, March 06, 2022 // (IG): BB //Weekly Sponsor: ISG Sofia Wyciślik-Wilson / BetaNews : Lapsus$ hackers leak Samsung source code and massive data dump from security breach Tweets: Martin Sfp Bryan...
Crypto exchange FTX will start offering services in Europe and the Middle East, with an HQ in Switzerland and a base in Cyprus
Cryptocurrency exchange operator FTX Trading Ltd. is poised to start offering services in Europe and the Middle East, following its rapid rise to become …
Scams and fraud are widespread on P2P payments app Zelle but the US banks backing the app say returning money to defrauded customers is not their responsibility
Zelle, the payments platform used by millions of customers, is a popular target of scammers.
Kuo: a more powerful Mac mini and a more affordable 27-inch external display without mini-LED will launch in 2022, a Mac Pro and an iMac Pro are coming in 2023
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TikTok plans to start labeling videos from some state-controlled media outlets “over the coming days”, expediting its policy due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine
Samsung confirms a breach of its internal company data, including source code related to Galaxy phones, but says users' personal data was not affected
Samsung Electronics Co. suffered a cybersecurity breach that exposed internal company data, including source code for the operation …
A look at Apple's power over suppliers, which don't include its name in public filings and presentations to avoid accidentally revealing competitive information
A tech giant is known to billions, but suppliers hardly ever mention its name; ‘the honored North American customer’
DDoS attacks are using TCP Middlebox Reflection, an amplification technique utilizing a fleet of 100K+ misconfigured servers to deliver large-scale attacks
100,000 misconfigured servers are creating a new way to knock sites offline. — Last August, academic researchers discovered …
TikTok suspends livestreaming and new content uploads in Russia in response to the country's new law that would impose prison terms for spreading “fake news”
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Coinbase says it has blocked 25K+ addresses related to Russian entities believed to be engaged in illicit activity and shares them with the US government
Crypto exchange Coinbase has said it has blocked over 25,000 Russia-linked addresses it believes were associated with illicit activity.
Sydney-based Immutable, which develops Ethereum-based tools to monetize NFTs in games, raises $200M led by Temasek at a $2.5B valuation
Australian NFT startup Immutable has raised fresh funding from investors led by Singapore's Temasek in a round that values it at $2.5 billion …
AutoFi, an e-commerce startup for online car sales and financing, raises $85M at a nearly $700M valuation from Santander and others
AutoFi, a San Francisco-based eCommerce platform for online car sales and financing, has closed $85 million in funding, valuing the company at nearly $700 million …
Former YouTube Kids employees describe how the service embraced human curation over virality to address criticism it wasn't doing enough to protect children
Former employees say platform embraced human curation over virality to address criticism it wasn't doing enough to protect younger consumers Tweets: @yoreekoh , @kevinroose , and @martinhoffmann Tweet...
[Thread] the Russia/Ukraine cyberwar reportedly opened with a Russian cyberattack on Viasat's satellite ISP KA-SAT, but Ukraine dominates the information space
per a BSI letter cited below. https://twitter.com/... @hatr : Spiegel now also reporting Viasat was likely hacked, in german gov assessment. Lines up with our reporting that routers which have receive...
The Washington State Senate passes a bill granting gig drivers some benefits without classifying them as employees; Gov. Inslee has not said if he will sign it
New York Times : Tweets: @greenhousenyt and @terrigerstein Tweets: Steven Greenhouse / @greenhousenyt : Many worker advocates voice alarm that the Washington State Senate, acting in a huge rush, has ...
Binance says it has resumed bank transfers for European users, except those in Switzerland and The Netherlands, after suspending the service in July 2020
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A deep-dive on AngelList, including its ecosystem, origins and evolution, and separate entities AngelList Venture, AngelList Talent, and AngelList India
Naval Ravikant's company is both a unicorn and a creator of unicorns. It may just be getting started. — In collaboration with Masterworks... Tweets: @anmolm_ , @michaelsidgmore , @ericjorgenson , @...
UAE-based Tabby, the Middle East's largest BNPL provider, raises a $54M Series B led by Sequoia Capital India and Saudi VC firm STV
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Security researchers say threat actors are using two of Nvidia's code-signing certificates leaked by the Lapsus$ group to sign Windows malware and hacking tools
it wants $NVDA to stop limiting crypto mining on its GPUs and to open source its drivers. The deadline was Friday. No news on if Nvidia is negotiating or if the hackers will make do on the threat to l...
Intel says its self-driving car unit Mobileye has confidentially filed for an IPO in the US but did not reveal any details, including the valuation
Current and former esports players and agents say many contracts are predatory, have time-based gimmicks, allow trading players without their consent, and more
Noah Smith / Washington Post : Tweets: @jerome_coupez , @benpearce , @vildehaya , @leadergrev , @launcherwp , and @mikehumepost Tweets: @jerome_coupez : ‘Additionally, agents told The Post of several...
China- and US-based robotaxi startup Pony.ai raises a Series D at an $8.5B valuation, up from $5.3B in 2020, but doesn't say the amount raised or its source
Rita Liao / TechCrunch :
Espresso Systems, which is using zero-knowledge proofs to build a private and scalable blockchain, raises a $29.9M Series A led by Greylock and Electric Capital
Anita Ramaswamy / TechCrunch :
Convelio, which helps automate shipping for artwork, furniture, and other luxury goods, raises $35M, bringing its total funding to $45M
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Bengaluru-based B2B online seafood marketplace Captain Fresh raises a $50M Series C co-led by Tiger Global and Prosus Ventures at a $500M valuation
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
CredAvenue, an online marketplace for companies securing debt from lenders, raises $137M Series B led by Insight, B Capital, and Dragoneer, at a $1.3B valuation
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Ghana-based unified payments app Dash raises a $32.8M seed led by Insight Venture Partners
Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch :
Open-source data architectures like Iceberg and Hudi, incubated by Netflix and Uber, now form the foundation of products sold to enterprises as data lakehouses
Kate Kaye / Protocol : Tweets: @protocol and @katekayereports Tweets: @protocol : What vendors today call “the lakehouse” is, to many data professionals, just an evolved version of the data lake that...
How Alibaba, which has a joint venture in Russia and significant sales in Ukraine, navigates challenges caused by Russia's invasion and international sanctions
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