The Biden administration has waived sanctions related to Iran’s civilian nuclear activities as part of its efforts to bring the regime back into compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal – while stressing that the waivers did not equal sanctions relief for Tehran.
Aluisio Alves / Reuters : Brazil-based Gupy, which uses AI to help around 1,500 companies select, hire, and train employees, raises ~$93M led by SoftBank Latin America Fund and Riverwood — Brazilian digital human resources startup Gupy said on Monday it has raised 500 million reais ($93.15 million) …
Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day : Meta, which ignored creators for years, has only “shameless” creators and their awful content to fall back on in its pivot to video and eventual irrelevance — Read to the end for a tremendous meditation on February — Facebook Made Its Own World And Now It's Stuck In It
Ilena Peng / Bloomberg : Cart.com, which provides an end-to-end service for 3,000+ brands to launch online stores, raises $240M in equity and debt, bringing its total funding to $380M — E-commerce company Cart.com Inc. raised $240 million in equity and debt funding for its end-to-end platform for online retailers.
Lily James' transformation into Pamela Anderson for her role in Hulu's “Pam & Tommy” was quite the undertaking, so much so that the actress admits she didn't recognize herself.
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., says he has plans to advocate for an “international convention of civilized countries” to gather and discuss the dangers of gain-of-function research.
Catalin Cimpanu / The Record : Microsoft says only 22% of its Azure Active Directory enterprise customers used multi-factor authentication to secure their accounts in 2021 — Despite years of promotional efforts to get users to enable stronger authentication mechanisms, Microsoft said this week that only 22% …
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia never prosecuted Dale Paul Melvin after he drove his Chevy Tahoe onto the sidewalk of the U.S. Supreme Court near the Capitol last October.
Nina Bambysheva / Forbes : Trust Machines, which wants to build DeFi apps, DAOs, and NFTs on Blockstack, now called Stacks, raises $150M via Breyer Capital, Union Square Ventures, others — It's summer 2017. Muneeb Ali, a PhD candidate in computer science at Princeton, is finishing his thesis …
Two Republican lawmakers sent a letter to Cardona on Thursday regarding a Florida student’s suicide attempt after speaking with her school about becoming a boy.
Corbin Davenport / XDA Developers : Google releases Flutter 2.10 with support for developing Windows apps out of beta; macOS and Linux support remains in beta — Google has been working on Flutter for a few years now, with the goal to create the cross-platform software framework of developers' dreams.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer skipped over the late Justice Thurgood Marshall when he claimed Thursday that the Supreme Court was made up of "all White men" until 1981.
Vice President Kamala Harris, in an interview this week, reiterated that the effects of the Biden administration’s policy on migration won’t be seen "overnight" – even as the crisis at the southern border rages into its second year.
Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch : Mos, a challenger bank for students, raises a $40M Series B led by Tiger Global at a $400M valuation, up from $50M in May 2020 — ‘I wish I had to only convince 1,000 nerds, but we need to convince 20 million students.’ — Human rights activist and Mos founder Amira Yahyaoui couldn't afford …
The White House is backing away from its characterization that Russia’s invasion into Ukraine is "imminent," saying officials "still don't know" if Russian President Vladimir Putin has "made a decision" on incursion.
Catalin Cimpanu / The Record : GitHub, which owns the npm JavaScript package manager, announces it's enrolling the 100 most popular libraries hosted on npm into two-factor authentication — The administrators of the Node Package Manager (npm), the largest package repository of the JavaScript ecosystem …
Hundreds of former Playboy staffers and Playmates are speaking out in defense of Hugh Hefner following what they say have been “unfounded allegations” made in A&E's series about the late magazine founder's empire.
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch : Customer data management service RudderStack raises $56M Series B led by Insight Partners, says from 2020 to 2021, its customer base grew 3x, revenue grew ~4.5x — RudderStack, a platform that focuses on helping businesses build their customer data platforms to improve their analytics and marketing efforts …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : SiriusXM rolls out AudioID to track its audience across its apps Pandora and Stitcher and its satellite radio service, offering first-party ad targeting — The use of tracking cookies is winding down, and Apple's anti-tracking privacy update has impacted mobile apps' advertising revenues.
New York State Assembly Member Kevin Byrne, R-Mahopac, proposed a state constitutional referendum to block noncitizens from casting ballots in New York state.
Matt Burgess / Wired : Internal messages from the Trickbot ransomware gang during 2020 detail its structure, target choices, plans to open St. Petersburg offices, and more — Internal messages WIRED has viewed shed new light on the operators of one of the world's biggest botnets.
Two more artists are joining Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and Nils Lofgren in pulling their music libraries from Spotify due to the content on Joe Rogan’s podcast.
Howard Hesseman, who played the radio disc jockey Dr. Johnny Fever on the sitcom “WKRP in Cincinnati” and the actor-turned-history teacher Charlie Moore on “Head of the Class,” has died. He was 81.
The Biden administration has developed “specific sanctions packages” for Russian elites and their family members if Moscow invades Ukraine, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday.
Brendan Sinclair / GamesIndustry.biz : Sony Interactive Entertainment announces it is buying Bungie, which makes Destiny and other games, for $3.6B; Bungie will become an independent subsidiary — Destiny studio will remain multiplatform, able “to self-publish and reach players wherever they choose to play”
Janet Jackson is opening up about her relationship with Justin Timberlake following their highly controversial 2004 Super Bowl Halftime Show performance.
Daniel Ek / Spotify : Spotify publishes its long-standing Platform Rules and says it is working to add a content advisory to podcast episodes that include a discussion about COVID-19 — A decade ago, we created Spotify to enable the work of creators around the world to be heard and enjoyed by listeners around the world.
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey insisted Sunday that cartels are shaping policy at the U.S.-Mexico border, as the Biden administration acts as their “marketing arm” in failing to curb illegal immigration.
As rumors swirl that Tom Brady is poised to announce his retirement from the NFL very soon, many football fans are taking to Twitter to lay blame for the end of the beloved quarterback’s career on his wife, fashion model Gisele Bundchen.
Baltimore’s top prosecutor, Marilyn Mosby, is expected to make her first court appearance on federal charges alleging she lied about experiencing COVID-19-related financial hardships to draw from a city fund and made false statements on mortgage applications to purchase vacation homes in Florida.
Andrew Hayward / Decrypt : NFT marketplace LooksRare, which launched on Jan. 10, had $9.5B+ in trading volume, $8.3B+ of which seems to be users “wash trading” between their own wallets — CryptoSlam says the vast majority of the hot NFT marketplace's sales are illegitimate trades made to manipulate the token rewards model.