Month: April 2023

Dogecoin’s price spikes 20%+ after Twitter replaces its website logo with the dogecoin logo; Elon Musk is fighting to get a dogecoin-related lawsuit dismissed (Alex Wilhelm/TechCrunch)

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: Dogecoin’s price spikes 20%+ after Twitter replaces its website logo with the dogecoin logo; Elon Musk is fighting to get a dogecoin-related lawsuit dismissed  —  Today Twitter users are noticing that an image of a dog has been added to a place of prominence.

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Filing: the US DOJ files an antitrust complaint against Activision Blizzard over salary limits in professional esports leagues (Diane Bartz/Reuters)

Diane Bartz / Reuters: Filing: the US DOJ files an antitrust complaint against Activision Blizzard over salary limits in professional esports leagues  —  The U.S. Justice Department filed an antitrust complaint against Activision Blizzard (ATVI.O) on Monday, according to a court filing.  —  The complaint was not immediately available on the docket.

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Google Search adds new travel features, including a “price guarantee” tool for flights and a way to browse hotels in a swipeable story format (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Google Search adds new travel features, including a “price guarantee” tool for flights and a way to browse hotels in a swipeable story format  —  Google announced today that it’s introducing three new Search features to make it easier for users to research hotels …

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The Steve Jobs Archive is releasing a free ebook

The cover of Make Something Wonderful. | Image: The Steve Jobs Archive The Steve Jobs Archive is releasing a new free ebook with speeches, interviews, and correspondence from the Apple co-founder, according to an announcement on the archive’s website. Titled Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs in his own words, the book will feature Job’s perspective

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The Tor Project partners with VPN maker Mullvad to launch the Mullvad browser, available on Windows, macOS, and Linux, seeking to reduce a user’s “fingerprint” (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)

Mitchell Clark / The Verge: The Tor Project partners with VPN maker Mullvad to launch the Mullvad browser, available on Windows, macOS, and Linux, seeking to reduce a user’s “fingerprint”  —  The Tor Project, the organization behind the anonymous network and browser, is helping launch a privacy-focused browser that’s …

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Western Digital reports a network breach and says the hacker obtained internal data but the full scope is unknown; some systems are offline including My Cloud (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Western Digital reports a network breach and says the hacker obtained internal data but the full scope is unknown; some systems are offline including My Cloud  —  Western Digital announced today that its network has been breached and an unauthorized party gained access to multiple company systems.

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