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Twilio hackers exposed 1,900 Signal users in phishing attack
The hackers that breached the cloud communications company Twilio Inc. earlier this month may have exposed the phone numbers of 1,900 users of the encrypted messaging app Signal, the company said today – but that’s about all that the hackers had access to. Signal assured users that hackers had no access to users’ message history, contact ...
Google officially releases Android 13 to Pixel devices
Google LLC is officially rolling out Android 13 today and pushed the source code into the Android Open Source Project for developers. The new mobile operating system release is replete with new features and apps that Google’s Android team has been developing for the past months. They’re aimed at user privacy and security, superior developer ...
Galaxy Digital backs out of $1.2B acquisition deal for crypto wallet provider BitGo
Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd. today announced that it’s terminating a $1.2 billion deal to acquire enterprise cryptocurrency wallet startup BitGo Inc. The digital asset merchant bank said it ended the deal after BitGo failed to “deliver audited financial statements for 2021” in compliance with the requirements of the acquisition agreement that had been inked in ...
Alleged Tornado Cash dev arrested in Netherlands, more arrests ‘not ruled out’
A 29-year-old man has been arrested by Dutch police in connection to the Tornado Cash cryptocurrency mixing service suspected of “involvement in concealing financial flows” and “facilitating money laundering.” The Dutch Fiscal Information and Investigation Service, or FIOD, described the man as a “developer” in a statement published today after his apprehension in Amsterdam on ...
Coinbase’s staking products and listings under scrutiny by SEC
Major cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Inc. confirmed that the United States Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating some of its products, including staking, which allows holders to earn interest by holding certain digital assets. The company revealed the information in its quarterly report on Tuesday stating that it had received subpoenas from the SEC for documents ...
Superblocks nabs $37M for custom enterprise internal tool development
Superblocks, the newly launched startup that provides a platform to create bespoke internal apps and workflows for companies, said today it has raised $37 million in funding to change how businesses build and maintain their own internal tools. Kleiner Perkins, Greenoaks, Spark and Meritech led the funding round. Additional investment came from a number of ...
Injective raises $40M to build finance-focused blockchain
Injective, a company that has built and deployed a purpose-built blockchain for finance, said today that it has raised $40 million in new funding. The move capitalizes on a trend in which blockchain-based applications are redefining finance with decentralized technologies. The funds were raised in a private token sale led by Jump Crypto. BH Digital, the ...
Cloudflare targeted by same hackers that breached Twilio
Cloud content delivery provider Cloudflare Inc. disclosed Tuesday that it was targeted by an attack similar to the one that breached Twilio. Cloudflare said that some of its employees did fall for the attack, but it confirmed that none of its internal systems were compromised due to its own security technologies. The hackers used what ...
At SIGGRAPH, Nvidia pushes the envelope for virtual worlds and digital humans
Nvidia Corp. took the stage today at the ACM SIGGRAPH computer graphics and technology conference in Los Angeles to announce advances in tools that developers will use to create the metaverse and avatars for digital humans. “The combination of artificial intelligence and computer graphics will power the metaverse, the next evolution of the internet,” said Jensen ...
Pinata raises $21.5M to optimize NFT distribution for Web3 creators
Pinata, a nonfungible token content delivery network, said today it has raised $21.5 million in funding to build an ultra-fast, reliable platform for delivering the media represented by NFTs such as images, video and apps. The total comes from a recently closed $18 million Series A round co-led by Greylock and Pantera and a $3.5 ...