After announcing in January that the in-person E3 2022 was canceled, ESA informs its partners that there will be no digital event equivalent this year either
Though a possible digital event was floated behind the scenes, that too is now off the table. — After previously canceling …
Meta confirms a now-fixed Facebook bug led to a “massive ranking failure” that increased views of harmful content up to 30% over the past six months
A group of Facebook engineers identified a “massive ranking failure” that exposed as much as half of all News Feed views to potential …
A dozen current and former employees at Undead Labs, the Xbox studio behind State of Decay 3, describe sexism, mismanagement, and a toxic workplace culture
Staff say Undead Labs' transition to Xbox studio was hampered by toxic workplace conditions and lack of direction
UK police charge a 16-year-old with five counts and a 17-year-old with six counts related to the Lapsus$ gang; the teenagers remain in custody
Two teenagers from the UK have been charged by police over hacking for a notorious cyber-crime gang. — A 16 and 17-year-old will appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on Friday.
Microsoft renames Your Phone, its Android phone linking app for Windows announced in May 2018, to Phone Link and updates the app to match Windows 11's design
Phone Link now has a matching Windows 11 design — Microsoft is rebranding its Your Phone app to Phone Link and updating it with a Windows 11 design overhaul.
Researchers: an allegedly Russia-tied wiper malware, AcidRain, which shares similarities with the malware VPNFilter, was behind the attack on Viasat in February
AcidRain is the seventh wiper associated with the Russian invasion of Ukraine — Viasat—the high-speed-satellite-broadband …
Samsung partners with NFT auction service Nifty Gateway to let users “browse, display, and interact with NFTs” on select premium 2022 TVs
It's partnering with Nifty Gateway for its NFT platform — Samsung is making good on its promise from CES 2022 to bring NFTs to its TVs …
Since Russia invaded Ukraine, an estimated 70,000 IT workers have left Russia, despite no income taxes until 2024, relocating to Poland, Latvia, and Lithuania
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Russia's tech workers are looking for safer and more secure professional pastures.
DWAC, Trump's Truth Social SPAC, has lost 31% of its value since the app launched; Apptopia says downloads are down 95% from its peak and the app has ~513K DAUs
Shares of the blank-check firm bringing Donald Trump's media venture public are sinking with daily downloads …
Apple Business Essentials launches for all SMBs in the US, starting at $2.99/month; the management service is getting Google Workspace integration in the spring
“Thousands of small businesses in the Apple Business Essentials beta reported significant time savings and renewed ability to focus on their mission” https://www.apple.com/... https://twitter.com/... ...
A look at @depthsofwikipedia, a viral social media account created by 22-year-old Annie Rauwerda that shares bizarre, amusing, and surprising Wikipedia snippets
On @depthsofwikipedia, Annie Rauwerda is compiling some of the crowdsourced site's most bizarre pages. Tweets: @nytimes , @raju , @pomeranian99 , @macmccanntx , @joshuatopolsky , @markyarm , @yaso , a...
Sources: the UK quietly approved the controversial sale of Welsh microchip factory Newport Wafer Fab to Nexperia, the Dutch subsidiary of China's Wingtech
LONDON — The U.K. government has quietly approved the controversial sale of a Welsh microchip factory to a Chinese-owned firm.
An Indonesian tax official says the country will charge VAT on crypto asset transactions and tax capital gains on crypto investments at 0.1% starting on May 1
Indonesia plans to charge value-added tax (VAT) on crypto asset transactions and an income tax on capital gains from such investments …
Wyze had been aware of several remote access vulnerabilities in its home security cameras for months and years without fixing them, despite Bitdefender warnings
Wyze knew hackers could remotely access your camera for three years and said nothing Ryan Whitwam / ExtremeTech : Wyze Left Security Cameras Open to Hacking for Three Years Corbin Davenport / XDA Deve...
A look at the growing skepticism within Silicon Valley of Russian money, once welcomed with open arms, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine
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Apple releases iOS 15.4.1, iPadOS 15.4.1, and macOS 12.3.1 to fix two zero-days that “may have been actively exploited”; Apple has fixed five zero-days in 2022
Update Now Warning Issued To All iPhone Users Mariella Moon / Engadget : Apple's latest iOS and macOS updates patch two zero-day vulnerabilities Bogdan Popa / Softpedia News : iOS 15.4.1 Finally Resol...
Instagram rolls out updates to DMs, including 30-second song previews, the ability to reply while browsing, quick post resharing, status, and “silent messages”
The House Oversight Committee opens an investigation into Amazon's labor practices during severe weather events, after a tornado killed six workers in Illinois
@RepMaloney, @RepAOC, & @RepCori https://www.nytimes.com/...
Review of the $899 OnePlus 10 Pro, available in the US on April 14: sleek build but subpar cameras, no IP rating for the unlocked version, and no 5G on AT&T
Samsung partners with iFixit to launch a self-repair program, offering parts, tools, and guides, coming this summer for the Galaxy S20, S21, and Tab S7 Plus
Umar Shakir / The Verge :
How homegrown courier services in French Polynesia are building their own online shopping service to fill the gaps left by e-commerce giants in remote islands
an area five times as large as the French mainland. Now it's getting online shopping https://restofworld.org/... Vicki Turk / @vickiturk : How do you do online shopping when you live on a tiny remote ...
The EU Parliament votes to outlaw anonymous crypto payments, extending KYC rules to even the smallest transactions with unhosted or self-hosted wallets
Texas starts requiring new large-scale cryptocurrency miners to seek permission to access its power grid, in anticipation of increasing demand for 2022 and 2023
Google plans to add “highly cited” Search labels for original reporting and press releases, coming “soon” in the US on mobile and “in the coming weeks” globally
Jon Porter / The Verge :
To avoid erroneously flagging CSAM, Meta's training docs tell content moderators to “err on the side of an adult” when judging people's age in photos or videos
Michael H. Keller / New York Times :
Apple opposes bills targeting gay and transgender people in Iowa, Texas, Florida, and other states through lobbying, filing court briefs, and recruiting allies
Apple is quietly mobilizing its vast resources to lobby against anti-LGBTQ legislation proliferating across the country … Tweets: @marceelias , @robininny , and @knowwhatisreal Tweets: Marc E. Elias /...
Filing: Andy Jassy received $212.7M in his first year as Amazon's CEO, mostly via stock; AWS CEO Adam Selipsky made $81.4M and consumer CEO Dave Clark made $56M
Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter :
Open source containerization company Docker raises a $105M Series C led by Bain Capital Ventures at a $2.1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $163M
Sources: The White House is split over Kaspersky sanctions, which could spur Russian cyberattacks and make enforcement hard due to the company's large clientele
but the idea has split the administration due to concerns over the size and scope of such a move. w/ @vmsalama https://www.wsj.com/... Jan Lemnitzer / @janlemnitzer : Like the EU, the US government is...
Q&A with Michael Chobanian, founder of Ukraine's biggest crypto exchange KUNA, on Kyiv's crypto scene before the war, crypto donations and their utility, more
Alastair Marsh / Bloomberg :
Three European food delivery stocks, Delivery Hero, Just Eat, and Deliveroo, lost a combined $23.7B, more than half their market value, in the first quarter
Henry Ren / Bloomberg : Tweets: @ivanlevingston and @business Tweets: Ivan Levingston / @ivanlevingston : Brutal quarter for Europe's food delivery companies, especially Delivery Hero https://twitter...
New York-based Black Crow AI, which delivers predictive analytics to e-commerce retailers, raises a $25M Series A led by Imaginary Ventures
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Interview with DOJ antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter, his first since taking office, on the agency's goals, clamping down on mergers, and more
Bloomberg : Tweets: @stuloren , @paulaedwyer , @tina_davis , and @benbrodydc Tweets: Stuart Loren / @stuloren : 1/ Antitrust wasn't my best grade in law school, but I learned enough to know that you ...
A look at the eclectic group of pro-crypto lawmakers in Washington, from libertarians to tech utopians, who were galvanized by the recent infrastructure bill
Kiran Stacey / Financial Times : Tweets: @jimmie_lenz Tweets: Jimmie Lenz / @jimmie_lenz : This “crypto caucus” is set to become one of the most powerful blocs on Capitol Hill in the coming years, as...
Sources: Biden administration considers changing a Trump-era policy which let DoD and Cyber Command authorize cyber operations without White House approval
Suzanne Smalley / CyberScoop :
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