Twitter says it has been working on an edit tweet option since last year and will start testing the feature in Twitter Blue Labs in the coming months
now that everyone is asking... yes, we've been working on an edit feature since last year! no, we didn't get the idea from a poll 😉 we're kicking off testing within @TwitterBlue Labs in the coming mon...
With Musk on the Twitter board, Parag Agrawal may struggle to balance his own vision against that of an unpredictable board member with a much louder megaphone
Task #1: undermine CEO, consolidate power — Today, let's talk about what Elon Musk means for the future of Twitter.
Elon Musk refiles the SEC disclosure of his Twitter stake to classify himself as an active investor; Musk bought his stake in cash from January 31 to April 1
Elon Musk refiled the disclosure of his stake in Twitter Inc. to classify himself as an active investor, making the change …
Sky Mavis, which runs Axie Infinity, raises $150M led by Binance, with participation from Animoca, a16z, and others, to reimburse users after the Ronin exploit
Sky Mavis, the creator of play-to-earn game Axie Infinity, has raised $150 million to reimburse its users who lost funds during …
Center for Countering Digital Hate: a study of 8,717 DMs sent to five high profile women shows Instagram didn't act on 90% of reported abusive direct messages
Women on Instagram are exposed to an “epidemic of misogynist abuse,” according to a new report.
MicroStrategy uses a loan against its bitcoin holdings to buy $190.5M more bitcoin, a first for the company; MicroStrategy now owns 129,218 BTC, worth ~$6B
MicroStrategy Inc. used a loan against its Bitcoin holdings for the first time to purchase $190.5 million more of the cryptocurrency.
Interview with Tim Sweeney and Epic executives on Unreal Engine 5's launch, its “Nanite” graphic rendering tech, using it in building the metaverse, and more
Growing up in suburban Potomac, Maryland in the 1980s, Tim Sweeney, founder and CEO of Epic Games …
OpenAI unveils DALL-E 2, the successor to its text-to-image neural network, built using its CLIP language model and available to researchers in preview
Researchers can sign up to preview it — Artificial intelligence research group OpenAI has created a new version of DALL-E, its text-to-image generation program.
Intel is suspending all business operations in Russia and says it has implemented business continuity measures to minimize disruption to its global operations
Intel Corp (INTC.O) is suspending all business operations in Russia, effective immediately, the U.S. chipmaker said on Tuesday …
Google AI claims PaLM, its 540B parameter, dense decoder-only Transformer model, shows breakthrough capabilities in tasks like language, reasoning, and coding
In recent years, large neural networks trained for language understanding and generation have achieved impressive results across a wide range of tasks.
Investigation reveals Worldcoin, which collects iris scans in exchange for free crypto, is wrestling with issues, from angry field operators to privacy concerns
As Kudzanayi strolled through the mall with friends, a small crowd caught his attention. At its center, three men held …
Twitter changed how embeds work for deleted tweets, causing blank spaces on websites; Twitter says it is “to better respect” when users deleted their tweets
Twitter Edits You 2022-04-06 With all the fuss about Twitter's promised edit button, and how they might design it …
Binance.US, the exchange's American affiliate, raises a $200M seed at a $4.5B pre-money valuation from RRE Ventures and others
Quick Take — Binance.US has closed its first funding round, raising more than $200 million at a $4.5 billion pre-money valuation.
The DOJ charges Russian national Dmitry Olegovich Pavlov with running the Hydra Market darknet, after German police shut the service down
The US Justice Department on Tuesday filed charges against Dmitry Olegovich Pavlov, a 30-year-old Russian national accused of a range of crimes connected to …
Google Cloud unveils BigLake, a data lake storage engine based on its BigQuery data warehouse, to let customers analyze data across storage systems
Google Cloud plans to launch a new data lake storage engine based on its popular BigQuery data warehouse to help remove barriers preventing customers …
Uber says it plans to add long-distance travel bookings to its UK app in 2022, including intercity trains, coaches, and flights
Ride-booking group aims to become a broader travel hub as part of plan that was delayed by the pandemic — Uber plans to add long-distance travel bookings …
Pinterest will ban ads and posts that feature climate misinformation, as searches about sustainability rise on the service
The virtual pinboard service will remove content that denies climate change after also blocking ads about politics, weight loss and anti-vaccine sentiment.
AMD confirms a bug in its GPU driver is auto-overclocking Ryzen CPUs without the user's knowledge by changing settings in the BIOS
Radeon Adrenalin drivers have a mind of their own — AMD has confirmed to Tom's Hardware that a bug in its GPU driver is, in fact, changing Ryzen CPU settings in the BIOS without permission.
The Ronin Network hackers have so far moved ~$32M of the $600M+ stolen funds, highlighting how the blockchain's ledger makes tracking money laundering easier
David Uberti / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @jonsarlin , @alexhern , @peckshieldalert , @web3isgreat , @peckshieldalert , @peckshieldalert , and @anthony Tweets: Jon Sarlin / @jonsarlin : @Jihoz_Axi...
Meta introduces “Sharing to Reels”, an integration that lets developers add the ability to post videos directly to Facebook Reels from their third-party apps
Facebook is adding the ability to post Reels from third-party apps, its parent company Meta announced on Tuesday.
Grafana Labs, which develops the popular Grafana visualization tools, raises a $240M Series D led by GIC, bringing its total funding to $540M
Grafana Labs, the company behind the popular Grafana visualization tools (and other open-source projects like the Prometheus monitoring system) …
Analysis of 150 US police reports mentioning Apple's AirTags shows 50 cases where women reported being stalked, mostly involving former intimate partners
Motherboard obtained reports of stalking, harassment, and abuse using Airtags, targeting victims of intimate partner violence. — Samantha Cole
Canada's government introduces legislation that would force major online platforms run by Google and Meta to negotiate deals with publishers, like in Australia
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Twitter begins “drastically” reducing the reach of Russian government accounts and will remove tweets from government-affiliated accounts with prisoners of war
Mitchell Clark / The Verge :
Microsoft will let Windows 11 PCs boot straight to Windows 365 Cloud PCs and switch between cloud and native desktops using the virtual desktops feature
Blockchain developer Near Protocol raises $350M led by Tiger Global, after raising $150M in January; CoinGecko says Near's market cap is over $10B
The blockchain developer Near Protocol raised $350 million, more than double what it got just three months ago.
Edo, an ad measurement service for TV and streaming co-founded by actor Edward Norton, raises $80M from Shamrock Capital at a $200M+ pre-money valuation
Company, co-founded by actor Edward Norton, wants to compete with Nielsen by helping advertisers see whether consumers take action after seeing a commercial
Sources: one-click checkout startup Fast is shutting down entirely; Fast raised $120M from backers including Stripe, Index Ventures, and Addition
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Inside Kyiv's IT office, whose workers have spent the past five weeks adapting and repurposing everyday tech, like the Kyiv Digital smartphone app, for wartime
Vera Bergengruen / TIME : Tweets: @verambergen Tweets: Vera Bergengruen / @verambergen : “I never imagined that I would develop software in 2022 to help people stay alive...I felt like I was part of ...
Overview of macOS vulnerabilities, some actively exploited, that Apple fixed in Monterey but left unfixed in some supported, older versions including Big Sur
Wednesday, April 6, 2022 // (IG): BB //Weekly Sponsor: Cloakedentryco Arnold Zafra / The Mac Observer : Apple Fails to Patch Big Sur and Catalina, Leaves Older Macs Vulnerable to Two Security Exploits...
Uber signs with Yellow Cab SF and Flywheel Technologies to bring all of San Francisco's 1,075 taxis to its app in the coming months, after a similar deal in NYC
Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle :
IBM unveils its z16 mainframe, generally available on May 31, which the company claims will be resistant to upcoming encryption-breaking quantum computers
Dan Swinhoe / DCD :
How cryptocurrency exchange FTX wants to automate risk management in US futures trading, replacing traditional brokers with its tech, and introduce 24/7 trading
Sam Bankman-Fried cut an unlikely figure as he took the stage on the final morning of this year's big derivatives-industry conference in Boca Raton, Florida. Tweets: @giano , @staffordphilip , and @ft...
Google Maps gets estimated toll road prices, map details like stop lights and stop signs, directions on Apple Watch, and an iOS widget that shows pinned trips
South Korea says Google can't block developers from providing an in-app link to an outside website to buy digital goods under the country's app payment law
Jiyoung Sohn / Wall Street Journal :
Apple confirms it has been piloting a feature, launching “very soon”, that lets developers like Disney+ automatically charge users for subscription price hikes
Racing game F1 Delta Time, where some users spent almost $300,000 on a single NFT transaction, shuts down after owner Animoca Brands didn't renew its F1 license
Luke Plunkett / Kotaku :
Berlin-based Productsup, which offers e-commerce tools for 900+ brands, raises a $70M Series B led by Bregal Milestone, bringing its total funding to ~$90M
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Rattle, which lets sales teams integrate CRM apps like Salesforce inside Slack or Microsoft Teams, raises a $26M Series A led by Insight Partners
Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat :
London-based Fidel API, which offers identity, data, and payments tools, raises a $65M Series B led by Bain Capital, bringing its total funding to $88M
Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch :
Several Instagram creators say Reels payments have fallen in recent weeks by up to 70% and the view threshold for getting paid is over 10 times higher
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times : Tweets: @coralreefer420 , @rachelszero , and @benedictevans Tweets: Coral Kamstra-Brown / @coralreefer420 : I've been getting reels $ for 3 months now & it would ...
Dropbox launches Shop, which lets creators sell digital content directly to customers, in beta in the US with more store customization options and tipping
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch :
Records show the FBI signed a contract worth up to $27M for 5K licenses to use Babel X, a social media surveillance tool, and requested “predictive analytics”
Aaron Schaffer / Washington Post :
The SEC sides with Amazon shareholders asking for a vote on greater tax disclosures, one of the first times the regulator has granted such a request
Emma Agyemang / Financial Times : Tweets: @muradahmed and @fairtaxmark Tweets: Murad Ahmed / @muradahmed : Scoop in @FT from @EmmaAgyemang - Amazon investors who want the tech giant to provide greate...
VerSe Innovation, the parent company of news aggregator app Dailyhunt and short video app Josh, says it has raised $805M at a valuation of nearly $5B
Tech workers describe interrogations as they flee Russia; recruitment service HeadHunter says the government demand for IT workers in Russia has increased 100%
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.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
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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.