May 14, 2025

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REPORT: HACKERS SCRAPED DATA OF 500M LINKEDIN USERS AND POSTED IT FOR SALE ONLINE; LINKEDIN CONFIRMS THE DATASET INCLUDES PUBLICLY VIEWABLE INFO FROM ITS SITE (KATIE CANALES/INSIDER)

INTERVIEW WITH QUALCOMM’S INCOMING CEO CRISTIANO AMON ON THE GLOBAL CHIP SHORTAGE, WHY IT WON’T BUILD ITS OWN FABS, AND OPPOSITION TO THE NVIDIA-ARM DEAL (SHARA TIBKEN/CNET)

LEAKED AUDIO FROM A FEBRUARY 8 MEETING REVEALS PARLER’S CHIEF POLICY OFFICER SAYING: “WE ARE NOT GOING AFTER MISINFORMATION IN ANY WAY” (WILLIAM TURTON/BLOOMBERG)

Leaked audio from a February 8 meeting reveals Parler’s chief policy officer saying: “We are not going after misinformation in...

PAYPAL SAYS IT WILL WIND DOWN ITS DOMESTIC PAYMENT OPERATIONS IN INDIA BY APRIL 1 AND FOCUS ON ITS EXISTING CROSS-BORDER TRADE BUSINESS (ASHWIN MANIKANDAN/THE ECONOMIC TIMES)

AN ORAL HISTORY OF #HUGOPS AND THE GROWING COMMUNITY OF OPERATIONS ENGINEERS WHO OFFER SUPPORT FOR THEIR PEERS BEFORE AND DURING MAJOR CLOUD SERVICE OUTAGES (TOM KRAZIT/PROTOCOL)

UK HIGH COURT RULES THAT SECURITY SERVICES CANNOT SEARCH THE COMPUTERS AND PHONES OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE UNDER A SINGLE “GENERAL WARRANT” (EMMA WOOLLACOTT/FORBES)

AVANTI, WHICH WANTS TO OFFER CUSTODY SERVICES FOR BTC AND OTHER DIGITAL ASSETS AS WELL AS API-BASED PAYMENT SERVICES FOR WIRE TRANSFERS, RAISES $37M SERIES A (ANDREW ASMAKOV/DECRYPT)

STREAM, WHICH LETS DEVELOPERS BUILD CHAT AND ACTIVITY STREAMS INTO APPS AND OTHER SERVICES WITH A FEW LINES OF CODE, RAISES $38M SERIES B (INGRID LUNDEN/TECHCRUNCH)

AUTODESK SAYS IT WILL ACQUIRE INNOVYZE, WHICH MAKES A SAAS PRODUCT FOR THE DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, OPERATION, AND MAINTENANCE OF WATER INFRASTRUCTURE, FOR $1B (NATALIE GAGLIORDI/ZDNET)

Autodesk says it will acquire Innovyze, which makes a SaaS product for the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of water...