After announcing in January that it canceled the in-person E3 2022, ESA is informing partners that there will also be no digital event (Rebekah Valentine/IGN)

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Apple releases iOS 15.4.1, iPadOS 15.4.1, and macOS 12.3.1 to fix two zero-days that "may have been actively exploited"; Apple fixed five zero-days this year (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

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Internal report: a Facebook bug led to a "massive ranking failure" that elevated harmful content for six months, spiking views about 30% before a March 11 fix (Alex Heath/The Verge)

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Microsoft renames Your Phone, its Android phone linking app for Windows announced in May 2018, to Phone Link and updates the app to match Windows 11's design (Tom Warren/The Verge)

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Apple Business Essentials launches for all SMBs in the US, starting at $2.99/month; the management service is getting Google Workspace integration in the spring (Bradley Chambers/9to5Mac)

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Facebook in 'bare-knuckle' fight with TikTok The Washington Post alleges a consultancy was paid by Meta to promote stories of dangerous TikTok trends. April 01, 2022 at 12:18AM

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Apple now lets "reader" apps link to websites for creating or managing user accounts, after the company gives access to an External Link Account Entitlement (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

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IT and software consultancy firm Globant says its code repo was partially breached, after Lapsus$ shared 70GB of allegedly stolen data; Globant stock down 12%+ (Carly Page/TechCrunch)

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Dagger, a new DevOps service co-founded by Docker's Solomon Hykes, launches in public beta and announces a $20M Series A led by Redpoint Ventures (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

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Sources say Apple and Meta divulged customer data to hackers in response to forged Emergency Data Requests, after Discord confirmed fulfilling a forged EDR (William Turton/Bloomberg)

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Sources: Apple is planning to expand its financial services by adding payment processing, lending risk assessment, credit checks, fraud analysis, and more (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Google says it has used its BERT algorithm to cut explicit Search results by 30% in the last year for terms related to ethnicity, sexual preference, and gender (Paresh Dave/Reuters)

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Rise of TikTots - under-age kids on social media An annual survey of media habits, from Ofcom, reveals how under-age children use social media. March 30, 2022 at 03:09AM

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Intel unveils i9-12900KS, an unlocked i9-12900K meant to be overclocked, with a 30MB L3 cache, 150W base power, a 5.5 GHz max frequency, coming April 5 for $739 (Liam Tung/ZDNet)

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Nielsen agrees to be acquired by a consortium of PE firms, led by Brookfield and Elliott, in a deal valuing it at ~$16B, or $28 per share, including debt (Cara Lombardo/Wall Street Journal)

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Judge approves an $18M settlement between Activision Blizzard and the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, ending the federal sexual harassment lawsuit (Shannon Liao/Washington Post)

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Meta halts plans to build a large data center in the Netherlands, amid rising opposition from the government over environmental concerns (April Roach/Bloomberg)

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Pinecone, which offers a serverless vector database designed specifically for the needs of data scientists, raises a $28M Series A led by Menlo Ventures (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)

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UAE-based telehealth startup Altibbi raises a $44M Series B led by Foundation Holdings, Hikma Ventures, Global Ventures, and DASH Ventures (Laura Lovett/MobiHealthNews)

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Leaked documents show Okta's contractor Sitel first sent a Lapsus$ breach notification to Okta on January 25, and a detailed "Intrusion Timeline" on March 17 (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)

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Spotify rolls out an advisory for content that mentions COVID-19, two months after promising the feature amid controversy over Joe Rogan's podcast (Jessica Bursztynsky/CNBC)

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HR and payroll platform Papaya Global is acquiring Azimo, a London-based money transfer service; source: the deal is worth between $150M and $200M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

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Ukraine war: Major internet provider suffers cyber-attack Ukrtelecom says a powerful cyber-attack carried out against its infrastructure was "repulsed". March 29, 2022 at 02:30AM

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Can tech help you to manage the cost of living? Personal finance apps are everywhere but are they useful if you are already in debt or on low wages. March 29, 2022 at 04:33AM

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Q&A with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on integrating hardware and software, the company's full-stack approach, ML opportunities, attempting to buy Arm, and more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

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Apple wins its first Oscar as CODA gets the Best Picture award, making Apple TV+ the first streaming service to win the awards' highest honor (Todd Spangler/Variety)

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Researchers identify thousands of computer-generated profile pictures being used on fake LinkedIn profiles for lead generation and product promotion (Shannon Bond/NPR)

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How global supply chains are morphing into "supply webs", as the pandemic, trade wars, and geopolitical conflicts force tech companies to become more resilient (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

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Sources detail NHTSA's difficulties regulating Tesla as it rolls out self-driving features, resorting to threats and flattery in exchanges with Elon Musk (Faiz Siddiqui/Washington Post)

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Beating noise pollution with smart tech A growing number of firms are offering solutions to cut the excessive noise that's harming our health March 28, 2022 at 04:31AM

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Kuo: camera bump on the iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max smartphones will increase about five percent in each dimension due to a larger 48MP sensor (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)

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An analysis of 19.3M NFTs across ~8,400 collections: one in three have little or no trading activity, and another third trade below their original minting cost (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

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iFixit completes its week-long Mac Studio teardown: swappable but likely not upgradable SSDs, a massive heatsink, a dual-fan assembly, and more (Sam Goldheart/iFixit News)

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Leapsome, a Berlin-based startup helping HR teams automate employee feedback and training processes, raises a $60M Series A led by Insight Partners (Dan Taylor/Tech.eu)

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Social media platforms are hastily rewriting rules on hate and propaganda amid the war on Ukraine, setting precedents that may haunt them in the future (Will Oremus/Washington Post)

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Paris-based Lucca, which provides SMBs with tools to automate HR and administrative tasks, raises €65M from One Peak Partners, after 20 years of self-financing (Megha Paul/Tech.eu)

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Electric cars: Five big questions answered The electric car revolution is speeding up but what do buyers really want to know? March 27, 2022 at 05:16AM

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Data Vault Holdings, which lets businesses monetize their data assets through its cloud-based exchange, raises a $30.5M Series A from undisclosed investors (FinSMEs)

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Sources: health startups Cerebral and Done pressured clinicians to use looser pandemic rules and prescribe stimulants, often via 30 minute online consultations (Wall Street Journal)

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Google releases a Chrome update for Windows, Mac, and Linux to fix a high-severity zero-day exploited in the wild, the second such patch for Chrome in 2022 (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

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The US FCC adds Kaspersky Lab, China Telecom (Americas), and China Mobile International USA to its national security threat list (Reuters)

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A group of 12 Google Fiber workers in Kansas City becomes the first NLRB-recognized bargaining unit of the Alphabet Workers Union, a branch of the CWA (Lauren Kaori Gurley/VICE)

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Sources: Apple paid $100K to $200K in stock-based bonuses to select software and hardware engineers, after giving similar bonuses in December to retain talent (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Sources: Exxon is running a pilot to use excess natural gas from North Dakota oil wells to power crypto mining and is considering expanding the test globally (Naureen S Malik/Bloomberg)

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Indian parliament approves a 30% capital gains tax on crypto transactions, in effect starting April 1 (Amitoj Singh/CoinDesk)

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After suspending its paid subscription service in Russia earlier this month, Spotify now says it will fully suspend its service in the country (Jem Aswad/Variety)

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South Korea's antitrust body launches a probe into e-commerce giant Coupang for allegedly forcing staff to post product reviews to attract customers (Korea Bizwire)

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Pakistan-based Jugnu, an e-commerce marketplace that connects retail stores and SMBs directly to manufacturers, raises a $22.5M Series A led by Sary (Kul Bhushan/Tech in Asia)

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Reddit confirms it is considering letting users react to other's videos using editing tools like TikTok's Stitches and Duets (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Sources: SoftBank is seeking a valuation of at least $60B for Arm when the company goes public, higher than the $40B that a sale to Nvidia would have fetched (Bloomberg)

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