Okta confirms an attacker accessed an engineer's laptop in January consistent with posted screenshots by Lapsus$, as customers struggle to grasp their exposure
Authentication firm Okta's statements on the Lapsus$ breach fails to answer key questions. — The digital extortion group Lapsus$ threw …
Sony releases PS4 and PS5 updates; the PS5 will get Variable Refresh Rate “in the coming months”, syncing a display's refresh rate to the PS5's graphical output
Sony says VRR will be available in the coming months on the PS5 — Sony is planning to release a Variable Refresh Rate …
Microsoft confirms Lapsus$ compromised “a single account” and stole portions of source code for some products, but says no customer code and data was involved
Lapsus$ says it has accessed data from Okta, Nvidia, Samsung, and Ubisoft — The hacking group Lapsus$ …
Okta says the “maximum potential impact” of its security breach was to 366 customers, out of 15K+, whose data was accessed by contractor Sitel; Okta is down 5%+
Hundreds of customers of digital authentication firm Okta Inc have possibly been affected by a security breach caused …
Yuga Labs, the owner of three of the top NFT brands including Bored Ape Yacht Club, raises $450M at a $4B valuation led by a16z to build an NFT media empire
In my first newsletter issue “From Corporation to Self-Actualization” … Michael Spencer / Web3 Digest : Bored Ape Yacht Club creator raises $450 million to build an NFT metaverse Nancy Dahlberg / refr...
For the second day in a row, Apple's App Store, Music, Podcasts, and other services were disrupted; Apple's System Status page says the issues are resolved
Apple's services and apps appear to be experiencing yet another outage, with complaints on Twitter about problems with Apple Maps …
El Salvador postpones its $1B bitcoin-backed bond, planned for March 15-20, citing unfavorable market conditions; BTC is down ~35% from its November 2021 peak
SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - El Salvador postponed an unprecedented issue of a bitcoin-backed bond planned for last week …
Apple acquired UK banking startup Credit Kudos, which offers APIs for lenders, sources say earlier this week; a source says the deal is valued at around $150M
Quick Take — Credit Kudos becomes the latest European open banking startup to be snapped up by a US acquirer.
ApeCoin DAO lets Yuga Labs talk up the virtues of decentralization while also enjoying the benefits of centralization, namely collecting all the profits
Tokens like the new one from Bored Ape Yacht Club promise to decentralize the web. So why are insiders reaping most of the profits? — I.
Apple adds driver's licenses and state IDs to Wallet in Arizona, the first state with the feature; Colorado, Hawaii, Mississippi, Ohio, and Puerto Rico are next
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Carl Pei teases Nothing's Phone (1), a smartphone running Android with a Nothing OS skin, launching this summer
Nothing will launch its debut smartphone this summer, its CEO and former OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei announced today during a live stream. It'll be called the Phone 1 …
Nvidia unveils the Grace CPU Superchip, an ARM-based discrete data center CPU with 144 high-performance cores and 1TB of secondary memory, coming in 2023
Nvidia offered details on its Grace central processing unit (CPU) “Superchip” during CEO Jensen Huang's keynote speech at its virtual Nvidia GTC 2022 event.
SpaceX increases the prices of Starlink's starter kit to $599, up $100, and its monthly internet service to $110, up $11, according to an email to customers
It's going to be $11 more a month — SpaceX's internet-from-space program Starlink is increasing prices for both the purchase …
Crypto VC Katie Haun, who left a16z in 2021, raises $1.5B, the largest debut fund by a female VC yet, allotting $500M for early- and $1B for late-stage startups
- Crypto investor Katie Haun has raised $1.5 billion for her new firm after a surprise departure from Andreessen Horowitz last year.
FIFA adds Crypto.com as a sponsor for the 2022 soccer World Cup in Qatar, months after Crypto.com replaced Staples as the title sponsor for Los Angeles' arena
Fifa has added Crypto.com as one of the sponsors for this year's soccer world cup in Qatar, the latest step in the cryptocurrency …
The FBI says internet crime victims in the US reported losing over $6.9B in 2021, up from $4.2B in 2020, and it received 847,376 complaints in 2021, up 7% YoY
The FBI releases its annual Internet Crime Report, detailing the most prevalent cybercrimes in 2021. Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation .
Nvidia announces its next-gen Hopper GPU architecture, optimized for AI workloads, and the first graphics card to use it, Hopper H100, which has 80B transistors
Instagram is rolling out a Following chronological feed and Favorites feed to all iOS and Android users globally, neither of which can be set as default
Instagram today is making a chronological feed available to all users, as earlier promised, alongside another new feed filtering option …
Nvidia says 150K+ creators have downloaded Omniverse, up from ~100K in January, and makes the real-time collaborative design tool available in the cloud
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said today that the Omniverse virtual simulation and its tools will be available in the cloud so that developers can use it on just about any computer.
The EU could unveil the Digital Markets Act as early as Thursday; sources say the DMA targets companies with €75B+ market cap and at least 45,000 active users
Digital Markets Act now expected to target core online platforms with market cap of at least €75bn
Sources: Sam Altman's Worldcoin is raising $100M in a token sale from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, a previous backer, and Khosla, at a $3B valuation
Worldcoin, the cryptocurrency startup co-founded by former Y Combinator president Sam Altman, is raising $100 million …
Snap acquires Paris-based neurotech startup NextMind and discontinues its $400 headband that let users control aspects of a computer; NextMind had raised ~$4.5M
NextMind made a headband for controlling virtual objects with your thoughts — Meta, Apple, and a slew of other tech companies …
Valve releases an alpha version of Steam for Chrome OS, available on select recent high-end Chromebooks, after Google announced the effort in January 2020
check out Steam on Chrome OS Abner Li / 9to5Google : Steam on Chrome OS is now officially available for Alpha testing Maggie Tillman / Pocket-lint : How to install Steam on a Chromebook: Everything yo...
A look at the confusion, culture clash, and shifting goals in SiriusXM's Stitcher deal, as many shows and over 25% of Stitcher's staff left post-acquisition
SiriusXM leapt into podcasts with a $325 million deal — insiders say it's off to a messy start — Illustrations by Vincent Kilbride for The Verge Tweets: @jake_k , @francoolivera , @brandongrugle , @...
Zoom launches Avatars, which lets users show up to meetings as Memoji-like animals, and plans to add new video filter avatar options in the future
Mitchell Clark / The Verge :
Meta's top executives are embracing remote work, as sources say Mark Zuckerberg spends extended periods in Hawaii; Sandberg is taking a sabbatical this spring
Executives are scattering to locations far from Silicon Valley headquarters, working from Hawaii, Cape Cod, Europe Tweets: @dkthomp , @brianmcc , @iansherr , @loganbartlett , @orientaljanedoe , @sal19...
Nvidia debuts Drive Map to provide the AV industry with ground truth mapping coverage of 300K+ miles of roads in North America, Europe, and Asia by 2024
API discovery and management service RapidAPI raises a $150M Series D led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 at a $1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $272M
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat :
Tencent reports Q4 revenue rose 8% YoY to $22.62B, the slowest growth since going public in 2004, as the company continues to face significant headwinds
Zheping Huang / Bloomberg :
Data orchestration service Astronomer, built on the Apache Airflow open-source tools, raises a $213M Series C led by Insight and acquires data tool Datakin
Astronomer has grown quite a lot since we briefly profiled the company back in 2017. — At that time, the scrappy data analytics company …
Indian startup Oxyzo, the lending arm of B2B financing startup OfBusiness, raises a $200M Series A at a $1B valuation led by Alpha Wave
Harsh Upadhyay / Entrackr :
Sources: Spotify will rename its live conversation product, from Greenroom to Spotify Live, and plans to integrate the content into its main app in Q2
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg :
A SCOTUS ruling making it harder for people to pursue surveillance cases will undercut Biden's US-EU Privacy Shield negotiations, unless Congress steps in now
@PatrickCToomey & I explain: https://thehill.com/...
Datagen, which offers synthetic data tools for computer vision research, raises a $50M Series B, bringing its total funding to $70M+
Anna Heim / TechCrunch :
Dallas-based Island, which develops an enterprise browser, raises a $115M Series B at a $1.3B valuation, after emerging from stealth with $100M in February
Carly Page / TechCrunch :
Twitch launches a portal where users facing account suspensions can appeal rulings and monitor requests, and updates its reporting system with search and menus
Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch :
Tokyo-based Terra Drone, which offers drone software, hardware, and management tools for other uncrewed aircraft, raises a $70M Series B led by Mitsui
Kate Park / TechCrunch :
Kickstarter CEO Aziz Hasan is departing at the end of March after three years, to spend more time with his family; COO Sean Leow will serve as interim CEO
Steven Melendez / Fast Company :
Nvidia debuts Isaac Nova Orin, an autonomous mobile robot computing and sensor architecture powered by Jetson AGX Orin, and starts selling $2K Jetson dev kits
Instagram plans to let all US users, not just creators, tag Shopping products in the coming months, and says 1.6M users tag at least one brand per week
Adobe reports Q1 revenue of $4.26B, up 9.1% YoY, Digital Media revenue of $3.11B, up 9% YoY, and Digital Experience revenue of $1.06B, up 13% YoY
Tiernan Ray / ZDNet :
TokenEx, which uses tokenization to help companies secure financial data, raises $100M from K1
Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE :
Chinese AR startup Rokid raises a $160M Series C, following a $100M raise in 2018, bringing its total funding to $378M
Rita Liao / TechCrunch :
DevOps startup Lightlytics, which makes SaaS tools to help model cloud infrastructure, raises a $26M Series A led by EIP
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE :
Upshot, which provides NFT appraisals after launching in 2019 as an insurance-focused prediction tool, raises a $22M Series A2 led by Polychain Capital
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