Meaghan Tobin / Rest of World: Amid a trial in India, researchers say blocking Sci-Hub would benefit wealthy North American and European universities that can pay to access published papers — Dozens of Indian academics say blocking the site would have catastrophic consequences. — The doctoral researchers …
The announcement comes just days after Ukraine raised more than £200m in a sale of war bonds.
Katie Roof / Bloomberg: Founders Fund raises $5B+ in two new funds across early and late-stage investing, increasing the assets under its management to $11B — Founders Fund said that it has closed more than $5 billion in two new funds across both early and late-stage investing, increasing the assets under its management to…
CEO Brian Chesky says Airbnb is suspending all operations in Russia and Belarus (The Economic Times)
The Economic Times: CEO Brian Chesky says Airbnb is suspending all operations in Russia and Belarus — Home rental company Airbnb Inc is suspending all operations in Russia and Belarus, chief executive officer Brian Chesky said in a tweet on Thursday. … Earlier this week, Airbnb said it is offering free short-term housing …
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Data extortionists who stole up to 1 terabyte of data from Nvidia have delivered one of the most unusual ultimatums ever in the annals of cybercrime: allow Nvidia's graphics cards to mine cryptocurrencies faster or face the imminent release of the company's crown-jewel source code.
A ransomware group calling…
Paresh Dave / Reuters: Google says it is pausing all ad sales in Russia including on Search, YouTube, and outside publishing partners, following similar moves by Twitter and Snap — Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google said on Thursday that it had stopped selling online advertising in Russia, a ban that covers search, YouTube and outside…
Steam Deck is a powerful handheld in terms of its hardware but also in terms of its operating system, which supports open apps.Read More
2021 saw a significant rise in API security incidents as orgs transformed their ways of working and as developers built more apps and APIs.Read More
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: NonFungible: the average NFT selling price has declined to ~$2K, after an all-time high of ~$6.9K on January 2, with a ~40% drop since Russia attacked Ukraine — While anecdotal evidence that the NFT market is beginning to cool abounds, there are no bigger red flags that what's going on…
Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: Outside of Russia, Apple Maps and Weather apps now display Crimea as part of Ukraine, after displaying the region as not part of any country starting in 2019 — In 2019, Apple made a controversial change in its Maps and Weather apps to show the Crimean Peninsula as a region…
Maersk has ordered 12 huge ships that run on methanol rather than marine oil fuel.
Davey Alba / New York Times: US surgeon general formally requests Big Tech turn over information about the scale of COVID-19 misinformation on their platforms before May 2 — Dr. Vivek Murthy also demanded information from the platforms about the major sources of Covid-19 misinformation. Companies have until May 2 to submit the data.