Frank Konkel / Nextgov: GAO sustains a Microsoft’s protest and asks NSA to reevaluate the award of a secret cloud computing contract worth up to $10B to AWS — NSA awarded the contract to Amazon Web Services in July. — The Government Accountability Office Friday sustained Microsoft’s protest …
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Lily Hay Newman / Wired: Leaked documents show Okta’s contractor Sitel first sent a Lapsus$ breach notification to Okta on January 25, and a detailed “Intrusion Timeline” on March 17 — Documents shed some light on how Okta and its subprocessor Sitel reacted to a breach, but they don’t explain the apparent lack of urgency.
Bloomberg: Instacart is slashing its valuation by almost 40% to $24B, down from $39B from March 2021 when it raised $265M — Instacart Inc. is slashing its valuation by almost 40% to about $24 billion, a move it says will help the company attract talent and adapt to market conditions.
Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft details changes to AltspaceVR to improve safety and moderation, including removing social spaces and making users to sign in with a Microsoft account — You’ll also need a Microsoft Account for AltspaceVR soon — Microsoft is removing all social hubs hosted in AltspaceVR …
Peter White / Deadline: Sources: Netflix is exploring live streaming for its unscripted shows and stand-up specials, which would enable live voting for competitions — EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is going live for the first time. — Deadline understands that the streamer is exploring the launch of live streaming.
Tom Warren / The Verge: Discord begins testing Premium Memberships, which let creators monetize servers through tiered perks, making channels or servers exclusive to paying users, more — You’ll soon be able to subscribe directly to Discord servers — Discord is starting to test a new Premium Memberships feature …
Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: Deep dive on Pixel 6’s Tensor SoC, its architecture, and how it compares to rival chips like Snapdragon 888 and Exynos 2100 in performance and efficiency tests — It’s been about two weeks since Google officially announced their newest flagship devices in the form of the Pixel 6, and Pixel 6 Pro.
Kollen Post / The Block: Chainalysis launches smart contracts to identify crypto wallets that fall under sanctions and plans to launch a free sanctions screening API later this month — On March 10, blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis announced the launch of new tools for identifying crypto wallets that fall under sanctions.
Jason Koebler / VICE: President Biden backs consumers’ right to repair and acknowledges the anticompetitive practices of electronics manufacturers — “Too many areas, if you own a product, from a smartphone to a tractor, you don’t have the freedom to choose how or where to repair that item you purchased.”
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Lacework, which offers automated cloud security tools for containers and more, raises $1.3B led by Tiger Global and others at an $8.3B post-money valuation — Lacework, a developer of automated containerized workload defense and compliance solutions, today announced that it closed …