A roundup of Elon Musk's newly released text messages show the inner workings of Silicon Valley dealmaking and how Musk lost interest in his Twitter acquisition
Newly released text messages shine a light on how tech's most powerful do business — and perhaps why Musk lost interest in Twitter.
Microsoft confirms two zero-days in Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019 are being exploited in the wild; security firm GTSC suspects a Chinese threat actor
Microsoft has confirmed that two recently reported zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019 are being exploited in the wild.
In a closely watched case, a UK coroner rules 14-year-old Molly Russell died by suicide after consuming extensive self-harm material on Instagram and Pinterest
Inquest told 14-year-old took her own life while suffering from depression and had interacted with harmful social media content
Apple VP of Procurement Tony Blevins is leaving, sources say after joking in a viral, September 5 TikTok video that he fondles “big-breasted women” for a living
One of Apple Inc.'s most senior executives is leaving after he turned up in a viral video on TikTok making …
Microsoft says the Lazarus group is weaponizing open-source software like PuTTY, KiTTY, TightVNC, and Sumatra PDF Reader to compromise “numerous” organizations
PuTTY, KiTTY, TightVNC, Sumatra PDF Reader, and muPDF/Subliminal Recording all targeted.
Chainalysis: sub-Saharan Africa crypto usage is driven by everyday necessity; 80% of crypto payments in the region are under $1K, the world's highest proportion
The report shows strong crypto usage and adoption rates in the region. With highly educated young people and low job prospects … Source: Chainalysis . Tweets: @chainalysis , @bradydale , and @chainal...
Court filing: in March 2022, former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey told Elon Musk that he tried to add Musk to the board but the other members were “super risk averse”
- Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey wanted Elon Musk on the board of the social media company, but felt the rest …
Google plans to shut down Stadia on January 18, 2023, and will refund hardware, software, and DLC purchases; members of the Stadia team will be reassigned
which scary games do you have queued up? @slimefiend : but... game streaming is the future https://twitter.com/... @wario64 : “We will be refunding all Stadia hardware purchases made through the Googl...
Bloomberg Intelligence: Apple moving just 10% of its production capacity out of China, where ~98% of iPhones are made, would take around eight years
Supply Lines is a daily newsletter that tracks Covid-19's impact on trade. Sign up here, and — American companies have had a growing list …
Internal Palantir documents detail a plan to deepen its ties to the UK's NHS by buying up smaller rivals, helping avoid scrutiny and increase health data
Palantir Technologies had a secret plan to deepen its relationship with the UK's National Health Service without public scrutiny. Tweets: @oliviasolon , @parismarx , @xtophercook , @hkanji , @einstein...
Intel plans to launch the $349 Arc A770 Limited Edition with 16GB of GDDR6 memory and the $289 A750 Limited Edition on October 12, beside the $329 A770 with 8GB
Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica :
Twitch is testing Elevated Chat, letting users make one-time payments of $5 to $100 to highlight a message in select chats from 30 seconds to 2.5 minutes
Twitch wants to help viewers support their favorite content creators by allowing them to pay up to $100 to elevate their message in chat.
Amazon rolls out QVC-style service Amazon Live in India, running ~15 livestreams per day hosted by 150+ creators from 10am-1am, covering electronics and more
Amazon has launched a QVC-style livestream shopping in India, the company said Friday, broadening its offerings in the key overseas market …
A look at debates by Wikipedia editors over citing Fox News, deemed a “marginally reliable” source for politics and science and now cited in 16,000+ articles
Kevin Li recently faced a daunting task. Wikipedia contributors had just spent nearly two months locked in a heated debate …
Twitter plans to add a TikTok-like full-screen video scrolling UI for English-speaking users on iOS, and a video carousel to the Explore tab on iOS and Android
Mitchell Clark / The Verge :
Source: Mark Zuckerberg told staff in a weekly Q&A that Meta will freeze hiring, restructure some teams, and cut budgets across most teams, citing the economy
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg :
Meta opens NFT sharing to Facebook users in the US and to all Instagram users in 100 countries, including the US, where digital collectibles are available
Eli Tan / CoinDesk :
Governor Newsom signs a law forbidding California-based businesses from giving users' personal info in response to out-of-state abortion-related search warrants
CNN : Tweets: @bauerkahan , @agrobbonta , @eff , @bauerkahan , and @hypervisible Tweets: Asm Rebecca Bauer-Kahan / @bauerkahan : Governor Newsom has signed #AB2083 protecting ratepayers from paying f...
Former eBay executives Jim Baugh and David Harville are sentenced to 57 and 24 months in prison for their roles in a 2019 cyberstalking campaign against critics
Nate Raymond / Reuters :
An interview with Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao on delisting tether and USDC, stablecoin and CBDC evolution, the “Chinese company” label, the downturn, and more
Benjamin Pimentel / Protocol : Tweets: @cz_binance and @tenderminttimmy Tweets: @cz_binance : » Is Binance a ‘Chinese company’? Changpeng Zhao explains. - Protocol https://www.protocol.com/... @tende...
Short-form video app Triller raised $310M from Global Emerging Markets ahead of its IPO, but does not need to draw the full sum; Triller claims 350M+ downloads
Eileen AJ Connelly / The Wrap :
Micron reports Q4 revenue down 25% YoY to $6.64B, from $8.27B, plans to cut total capital spending by 30% YoY and wafer-fab equipment spending by nearly 50% YoY
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE :
An investigation shows how self-publishing platform Wattpad's lack of moderation, age verification, and safety features helps sexual predators exploit teens
Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes : Tweets: @forbes . Thanks: @rashishrivast18 See also Mediagazer Tweets: @forbes : A Forbes investigation found rampant sexual predation on Wattpad, a storytelling app with...
How angel investing became a pastime and a social currency in Silicon Valley, where the “post-economic” elite bet small amounts on their friends' startups
it's a way to stay connected.” I wrote about how everyone in tech is an angel investor now! which makes angel investing a new (and complicated) way of socializing: https://www.bloomberg.com/...
VMware and Google's Mandiant say a sophisticated hacker group has been installing backdoors in VMware's virtualization software on multiple targets' networks
Andy Greenberg / Wired :
Brave plans to hide and, where possible, completely block cookie consent notifications, a “more privacy-preserving” approach than other browsers' systems
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer :
Saudi Arabia's Savvy Gaming Group says it plans to invest $37.8B in gaming to expand the kingdom's role in the sector, including $18B for minority investments
YouTube plans to show “Personal Stories”, videos of people diagnosed with certain disorders, in US search results for health-related queries starting this week
Meta confirms taking “enforcement actions” against The OG App, which offers ad-free Instagram feeds, as developer UN1feed says Apple removed the App Store app
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.