Report: some NFT startups say they are limiting functionality in iOS apps, as Apple insists that its 30% commission from IAP must be paid on all trades
Startup and trading NFT firms say they ignore the App Store because Apple's rules, and 30% commission, make it untenable for them. Source: The Information .
Apple signs a multiyear NFL deal to have Apple Music replace Pepsi as the main sponsor for the Super Bowl halftime show; sources say the NFL was seeking ~$50M
Or Won't—Perform At The Super Bowl Halftime Show Marketing Dive : Apple Music to sponsor Super Bowl Halftime Show as services take spotlight Sissi Cao / Observer : Apple Will Be the New Title Sponsor ...
Governor Newsom vetoes a crypto regulation bill that required licenses to facilitate transactions; the bill was passed by the California Assembly last month
The California Assembly passed the bill, which would create a licensing regime and stablecoin stipulations, at the end of August. Source: California Governor .
Internal letter shows Twitch SVP of global creators Constance Knight resigned on the same day the company announced revenue sharing changes for top creators
The senior vice president of global creators at Twitch told employees she is leaving the company on the same day it announced changes …
Center for Countering Digital Hate: the largest “incel” forum is becoming more violent; Google, YouTube, Cloudflare, Twitter, and Discord facilitate its growth
The Center for Countering Digital Hate analyzed more than 1 million posts showing a rise in advocacy of rape, mass killings
Russian native and likely proprietor of the RSOCKS botnet was arrested in Bulgaria at the request of the US; he requested and was granted extradition to the US
A 36-year-old Russian man recently identified by KrebsOnSecurity as the likely proprietor of the massive RSOCKS botnet …
Leaked audio: at a Google all-hands, Sundar Pichai expressed some annoyance at employees asking about cost cutting, telling them not to “equate fun with money”
- Google CEO Sundar Pichai spent much of this week's all-hands meeting addressing employee concerns about company cost-cutting measures.
Sci-fi author Neal Stephenson's blockchain technology startup Lamina1 releases a whitepaper on building an open metaverse, dubbed Theee Metaverse
Neal Stephenson's Lamina1 blockchain technology startup dropped a white paper today on building the open metaverse. It's quite the manifesto.
Australian telco Optus, which has suffered a massive cyberattack, has repeatedly opposed changes to privacy laws to give customers more rights over their data
especially ID numbers — were stored. Here's the response they've now sent through: https://twitter.com/... James / @cashbonez : I'm not concerned by the Optus data leak. Rental applications these days...
CFTC fines blockchain protocol bZeroX and its team $250K for illegal off-exchange digital asset trading and files a civil action against its successor, Ooki DAO
This is a very broad theory of liability ("joint and several") and confirms what crypto lawyers have suspected — https://www.cftc.gov/... Let's untangle things: 🪡 https://twitter.com/... Ryan Selkis /...
Source: Byju's has paid ~$234M to Blackstone for ~38% shares in Aakash, settling all its dues owed to the PE firm as part of a ~$1B deal from April 2021
Byju's has cleared all its dues to Blackstone by paying $234 million it owed the global investment giant for the $1 billion acquisition of Aakash …
Study says LinkedIn's A/B testing of its People You May Know algorithm, involving 20M users from 2015 to 2019, may have affected some users' livelihoods
A study that looked back at those tests found that relatively weak social connections were more helpful in finding jobs than stronger social ties. Tweets: @taylorlorenz , @joshelman , @martinsfp , @ca...
DARPA hires crypto intelligence firm Inca Digital to conduct a year-long review of cryptocurrencies, assessing threats to national security and law enforcement
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How an 8-year-old's YouTube account and a parent activist sparked a debate in Denmark on Google's ubiquity in schools and its handling of children's data
An 8-year-old's YouTube snafu—and one unlikely parent activist—sparked a nationwide debate on the tech giant's ubiquity and handling of children's data. Tweets: @benpatrickwill , @agavrielatos , and @...
Report: an email shows Amazon is walking back some corporate employee raises after a bug caused it to overstate bonuses by using older, higher stock prices
they even included a linkback to me, considerate of them! https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... Emil Protalinski / @epro : Better than layoffs https://twitter.com/... Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz : Da...
France plans to impose a minimum €3 delivery fee for online book orders under €35 to help independent bookstores compete with big sellers like Amazon and Fnac
Analysis finds 16 smartphone apps, used as alternatives to ankle monitors in the US, allow access to wide swaths of information and are frequently unreliable
Researchers at the University of Washington and Harvard Law School recently published a groundbreaking study analyzing … Source: USENIX Source: USENIX : Electronic Monitoring Smartphone Apps: An Analy...
How Whale Safe is using real-time data and AI to detect endangered whales in the Bay Area's busy shipping lanes and alert ships to avoid collisions
Is your iPhone whale-safe? Smartphones, like many consumer products, arrive in the US on giant container ships, vessels that are leading killers …
Adobe argues Figma will help the company rethink design tools for the cloud era; Adobe's competing product, XD, generated just $15M in ARR after seven years
a minuscule fraction of Figma's $400 million annual recurring revenue.' https://www.axios.com/... Ryan Ford / @theryanford : It's not that XD is a bad product. It isn't. It's that it wasn't inherently...
A look at some of the challenges of zero-trust systems that can create friction for users and employees, as businesses increasingly adopt them to fight hackers
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Ex-Twitter employee Anika Navaroli reveals she is the whistleblower who testified to the January 6 committee about the company's failure to curb Donald Trump
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Google's Mandiant says it observed four instances of pro-Russian hacktivist groups publishing data within 24 hours of the GRU stealing it using wiper malware
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A look at the crowded podcast market, where competition has made almost everything in the business more difficult, and some say no one is taking creative risks
& its same kind of 'pivot to video'/ corporate media fuckery that happens to every good creative medium/thing — is so inspiring i could cry https://twitter.com/... John DeLore / @revjohndelore : Gotta...
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
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
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.