Meta details influence operations from Russia, impersonating news websites to spread anti-Ukraine content in Europe, and China, targeting the US and Czechia
Russia set up a sprawling and sophisticated network of websites impersonating mainstream media outlets, which it used …
FTX US wins the auction for bankrupt crypto brokerage Voyager Digital's assets with a bid valued at ~$1.4B, including an “additional consideration” worth ~$111M
FTX US, the digital-asset exchange founded by billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried, won the auction for the assets of bankrupt crypto brokerage Voyager Digital Ltd.
As the Optus hacker appears to release data of 10,000 customers, Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin says the Australian police are investigating a ransom demand
Australian mobile-phone company Optus said authorities are investigating an online ransom demand following a major data hack …
California, New York, and other states take action against crypto lender Nexo, from sending cease and desists to suing, focusing on interest-bearing accounts
A group of U.S. state regulators announced an array of legal actions against crypto lender Nexo on Monday.
Study: in January 2022, 62.4% of bitcoin mining electricity came from fossil fuels, contradicting the Bitcoin Mining Council's estimate that ~59% is sustainable
The CCAF uses publicly available data to run a theoretical model to estimate the environmental footprint of bitcoin mining. Source: Cambridge Judge Business … .
Meta tests one interface to manage Facebook and Instagram accounts and updates its registration pages to let users create accounts and login to both services
- Meta is testing new features intended to help people more easily manage their Facebook and Instagram accounts via one interface.
Celsius co-founder and CEO Alex Mashinsky resigns from the bankrupt cryptocurrency lender, writing his “role as CEO has become an increasing distraction”
The crypto lender filed for bankruptcy in July — Alex Mashinsky—chief executive and cofounder of bankrupt cryptocurrency …
Substack launches Reader for the web with search, keyboard shortcuts, dark mode, recommendations, and an “Add RSS feed” feature for non-Substack publications
Revenge of RSS — There's a new reading experience waiting for you at Substack.com.
Robinhood releases its non-custodial, Polygon-based crypto wallet, Robinhood Wallet, in beta to 10,000 users who signed up in May
Robinhood has been steadily moving away from its original “walled garden” approach to crypto over the past year. — No-fee trading platform Robinhood …
FTX US President Brett Harrison says he plans to step down in the coming months after joining in May 2021 and overseeing huge growth
- Brett Harrison — who joined FTX.US as president soon after its launch — is exiting the role. — “Over the next few months I'll be transferring …
Crypto lender Nexo buys a stake in the parent of Summit National Bank, a US regulated bank, paving the way for it to offer US licensed banking services
- Cryptocurrency lender Nexo said it has agreed to buy an undisclosed stake in Hulett Bancorp, which owns a little-known bank called Summit National Bank.
Beijing-based Nreal launches its $379 Air AR glasses in the US and adds iPhone support with a $59 dongle, expanding on its $599 Nreal Light glasses from 2021
Augmented reality company Nreal is launching its stripped-down Air glasses in the United States.
Review of the $699 AMD Ryzen 9 7950X, built on Zen 4 with 16 cores: higher single- and multi-threaded performance and superb efficiency helps beat Intel's chips
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Walmart debuts metaverse experiences Walmart Land and Walmart's Universe of Play in Roblox, which it calls a testing ground, to try to reach younger shoppers
whatever you're into, let's have some fun with it. Come for the inspo, stay for the verch & live performances. Let's go! https://www.roblox.com/... https://twitter.com/... @gayesian : the future sucks...
London police arrest a 17-year-old and charge him with computer misuse and breach of bail offenses; some speculate he is behind the Uber, Rockstar, and 2K hacks
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer :
Netflix plans to open a new game studio in Helsinki “built from scratch” and led by ex-Zynga Vice President and General Manager Marko Lastikka
Cheri Faulkner / NME :
Chicago-based Strike, a bitcoin payment service that uses the Lightning network for faster transactions, raised an $80M Series B led by Ten31
Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Wyoming were among the investors in the Series B funding round.
The UK's ICO could fine TikTok £27M after provisionally finding that the company may have breached data protection rules by failing to protect children's data
Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg :
A look at the vote for secretary general of the UN's International Telecommunications Union between a US and a Russian candidate, and its open web implications
or whether autocratic countries like Russia and China get to set the rules. https://www.wired.com/... Margrethe Vestager / @vestager : .@ITU is here to ensure that #DigitalConnectivity benefits us all...
Denver-based Flatfile, which uses AI to onboard, structure, and clean data, raised a $50M Series B led by Tiger Global, bringing its total funding to $94.7M
Data cleansing — prepping data for applications like predictive analytics — takes time. In fact, data scientists spend …
Researchers found 75 apps on Google Play and 10 on Apple's App Store that engaged in ad fraud and collectively had 13M installs; Apple and Google removed them
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer :
Samsung launches a co-branded Visa credit card with Axis Bank in India, where it has 175M customers, offering 10% cashback to customers buying Samsung products
Munsif Vengattil / Reuters : Source: Samsung Newsroom .
Boston-based Wasabi, which competes with AWS S3 cloud storage, raised a $250M Series D, $125M in debt and $125M in equity, led by L2 Point at a $1.1B+ valuation
The cloud services sector is still dominated by Amazon and the other so-called “hyperscalers” — e.g. the Microsoft Azures …
Milan-based app developer Bending Spoons, which makes Splice and Remini, raised $340M+ from Italian banks Intesa Sanpaolo and Banco BPM, Ryan Reynolds, and more
DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and other text-to-image generation systems use datasets of images scrapped without permission and it's not easy to opt out
Chloe Xiang / VICE :
South Korea's science minister says a “sense of crisis” grips the chip industry, as the country passed legislation in August to boost its global competitiveness
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A subreddit with 1.5M members, r/PoliticalHumor, challenges Texas' content moderation law by only approving comments with “Greg Abbott is a little piss baby”
Mike Masnick / Techdirt : Tweets: @mmasnick , @genefortexas , @tentonheart , @peteccde , @espiers , @oneunderscore__ , and @mmasnick Tweets: Mike Masnick / @mmasnick : Subreddit is stress testing Tex...
A look at South Korea-based Zepeto, Asia's largest metaverse platform with 15M to 20M MAUs, as the Naver subsidiary steps up its global expansion
Asia's largest metaverse platform, Zepeto, is stepping up its global expansion as it looks to compete against the Big Tech groups … Tweets: @crsdavies Tweets: Christian Davies / @crsdavies : Zepeto ha...
Bangkok-based Line Man Wongnai, which offers food delivery and an e-commerce platform for businesses, raised a $265M Series B led by GIC at a $1B+ valuation
Anuchit Nguyen / Bloomberg :
Paris-based Regate, which offers an all-in-one service to manage invoices, expense reports, and incoming payments, raised a $20M Series A led by Valar Ventures
Romain Dillet / TechCrunch :
Sources: crypto derivatives exchange Deribit raised ~$40M from existing investors at a $400M valuation; source says it raised $100M in 2021 at a $2.1B valuation
Yogita Khatri / The Block :
Beijing-based Well-Link Technologies, which is building real-time cloud rendering tech for video games and VR, raised a $40M Series B2 led by Temasek
Evelyn Cheng / CNBC :
A look at Nvidia's issues, including crypto mining demand collapsing and GPUs flooding second-hand markets, and opportunities, including gaming and data centers
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.