The CISA and US Coast Guard Cyber Command warn companies of Log4Shell exploits in the wild, citing one incident of threat actors exfiltrating over 130GB of data
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the United States Coast Guard Cyber Command (CGCYBER) …
Instagram begins testing tools to verify ages, starting with 17 and under, using either Yoti's facial video analysis, photo IDs, or adults vouching for users
Meta's new policy will make it tougher for teens to update to adult accounts. But they can still lie about their age in the first place
OSOM, founded by ex-Essential employees, scraps its OV1 phone and partners with Solana to produce Saga, a $1,000 Web3-focused Android phone launching in Q1 2023
The OSOM OV1 was a new Android smartphone built from the bones of Essential, but it's now being rebranded as a crypto/web3 device, the “Solana Saga.”
Harmony says its Horizon bridge between Ethereum, Binance Chain, and Bitcoin has been exploited for $100M in altcoins but its BTC bridge has not been affected
The layer-1 blockchain's main bridge between Ethereum, Binance Chain, and Bitcoin has been exploited for nine figures, but says its BTC bridge has not been affected.
Italy's data watchdog finds a local web publisher's use of Google Analytics violated EU data protection rules due to privacy risks over data transfers to the US
Another strike against use of Google Analytics in Europe: The Italian data protection authority has found a local web publisher's use …
Intel delays its scheduled July 22 groundbreaking of a $20B Ohio chip plant due to uncertainty around the Bipartisan Innovation Act, but still plans to build it
Company still plans to build the Ohio chips facility, but frustrated about status of proposed law supporting U.S. semiconductor industry
Coinbase Derivatives Exchange is launching its first crypto derivatives product, Nano Bitcoin futures (BIT), at 1/100th of the size of a Bitcoin, on June 27
Coinbase Derivatives Exchange hopes to capitalize on a market that is $3 trillion in volume worldwide and provide hedging options for traders.
Axie Infinity developer Sky Mavis says it will reimburse a total of $216.5M in USDC and ethereum on June 28 to the victims of the $625M Ronin bridge hack
A total of $216.5 million in USDC and ethereum at today's prices will be returned to users. — Sky Mavis, the developer behind popular play …
Amazon is working on letting Alexa mimic any voice after hearing less than a minute of audio, as a way to “make the memories last” of deceased family members
your dead relative's James Hennessy / The Terminal : Art, death and imagined conversations Argam Artashyan / Gizchina : So Will The New Alexa Feature Resurrect The Dead Or Not? Kate Kozuch / Tom's Gui...
Walmart says its own hybrid cloud system now has 10K “edge nodes” across the US, helping to reduce costs by 10%-18% annually and lessen reliance on cloud giants
Retailer says new hybrid system allows the company to switch between cloud providers and its servers, saving time and money
Binance launches Binance Institutional, for VIP and institutional investors to trade digital assets; the service is not available to customers of Binance.US
The exchange's release of Binance Institutional aligns with CEO Changpeng Zhao's commitment to expand and hire during the bear market.
Zendesk to be acquired by an investor group in an all-cash deal valuing the company at ~$10.2B and will go private once the deal closes; stock is up 30%+
- Customer experience software company Zendesk agreed to be acquired by an investor group in an all-cash transaction valuing it around $10.2 billion.
Sources: FTX is in talks to acquire a stake in BlockFi; FTX gave the crypto lender a $250M credit line this week
FTX gave crypto lender a $250 million credit line this week — Crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried has become a lender of last resort to his beleaguered industry.
Yandex opens YaLM 100B to the public, claiming the AI research language model contains 100B parameters, “more than any GPT-like model available in open-source”
Russian technology company Yandex (YNDX.O) said on Thursday it had made a large language model for artificial …
Google details the commercial spyware Hermit, used in Kazakhstan and Italy, targeting Android and iOS; the iOS version has six exploits, including two zero-days
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch :
Cisco plans to wind down its business in Russia and Belarus, after suspending its Russian operations in March, and offered to relocate its few hundred employees
Zomato acquires instant delivery service Blinkit, formerly Grofers, for $568.1M; Blinkit raised about $700M in total and was valued at $1B+ in 2021
Zomato has acquired Blinkit, a struggling 10-minute grocery delivery startup, in a $568.1 million deal as the loss-making food delivery firm looks …
Facebook has emerged in Mexico City as a low-cost alternative to food delivery services like Uber Eats and Rappi, as restaurateurs seek to avoid high fees
The platform has emerged as a hack around Uber Eats and Rappi's high fees. — • XOCHIMILCO, MEXICO Tweets: @anirvan , @khushbuoshea , @leomschwartz , @lenton_chris , @cowvala , @kayla_s_stewart , @as...
China issues new rules for live streamers, including requiring influencers to have relevant qualifications to discuss topics such as law, finance, and medicine
Tracy Qu / South China Morning Post :
Crypto may be “more bad than good” but it has use cases like cutting out middlemen via decentralization, so the claim that it has “no use cases” is not rational
Evan Conrad :
Microsoft announces gaming features for Edge, including a new homepage, exclusive free-to-play games, Clarity Boost for streamed games, and a performance option
Phillip Tracy / Gizmodo :
Yelp closes its NY, Chicago, and Washington DC offices as CEO Jeremy Stoppelman doubles down on remote work and calls hybrid offices “the worst of both worlds”
Danielle Abril / Washington Post :
Coinbase plans to shut down its standalone, trader-focused Pro service by the end of 2022 and replace it with Advanced Trade as part of its main app and website
manual trading, staking and API trading. https://blog.coinbase.com/... @rager : Coinbase phasing out Pro Even though they fail often I still use Coinbase Pro as a means to quickly trade BTC and ETH an...
Amazon launches CodeWhisperer, a GitHub Copilot-like AI pair programming tool, in preview within the AWS IDE Toolkit, supporting Java, JavaScript, and Python
reducing app build time. AbraCODEabra, it's #ML magic. 👉 https://aws.amazon.com/... #AWS https://twitter.com/... Clare Liguori / @clare_liguori : CodeWhisperer looks pretty cool, but now I feel bad fo...
Report: video game revenue in China fell for a third consecutive month in May 2022, down 6.7% YoY to $3.4B, amid a slowing economy and regulatory uncertainties
Xinmei Shen / South China Morning Post :
Spotify replaces Concert Hub with a Live Events Feed, populated by Ticketmaster, AXS, DICE, Eventbrite, See Tickets, and other partners, for finding tour dates
Mariella Moon / Engadget :
Google plans to bring Chrome's Enhanced Safe Browsing, which helps track URLs to monitor dangerous websites, to Chrome for iOS, expanding on Android and desktop
Jon Porter / The Verge :
A look at r/LossPrevention, a subreddit for busting shoplifters; members monitor Reddit's pro-shoplifting community and share videos of people being apprehended
Jessica Lucas / Input :
A look at efforts to reduce online advertising's carbon footprint, which, according to a 2018 study, accounts for roughly 10% of the internet's energy usage
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Sources: the EU is planning a “phase 2” antitrust investigation into Broadcom's $69B VMware acquisition, which could take well over a year and derail the deal
Cryptoys, which is building blockchain-based kids toys in partnership with Dapper Labs, raised a $23M Series A led by a16z, after a $7.5M seed in October 2021
Lucas Matney / TechCrunch :
Vibrant Planet, a public-benefit startup that is developing software for forest management, has raised a $17M seed
Tim De Chant / TechCrunch :
Evinced, which helps companies build accessible websites and apps, raised a $38M Series B led by Insight Partners; Microsoft's M12 and others also invested
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
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