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New York-based Black Crow AI, which delivers predictive analytics to e-commerce retailers, raises a $25M Series A led by Imaginary Ventures (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Report: E3 2022 in all forms is canceled and we can't believe it

Sources: WH is split over Kaspersky Lab sanctions, as they could provoke a Russian cyberattack and the company's large customer base would make enforcement hard (Wall Street Journal)

After announcing in January that it canceled the in-person E3 2022, ESA is informing partners that there will also be no digital event (Rebekah Valentine/IGN)

Apple releases iOS 15.4.1, iPadOS 15.4.1, and macOS 12.3.1 to fix two zero-days that "may have been actively exploited"; Apple fixed five zero-days this year (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Battlefield 2042’s big map changes leave fans disappointed

Internal report: a "massive ranking failure" at Facebook elevated harmful content for the past six months, spiking views by as much as 30% before a March 11 fix (Alex Heath/The Verge)

Apple now lets "reader" apps link to websites that help create or set up user accounts, once the developer is granted access to the appropriate app entitlement (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

IT and software consultancy firm Globant says its code repo was partially breached, after Lapsus$ shared 70GB of allegedly stolen data; Globant stock down 12%+ (Carly Page/TechCrunch)

Dagger, a new DevOps service co-founded by Docker's Solomon Hykes, launches in public beta and announces a $20M Series A led by Redpoint Ventures (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Sources say Apple and Meta divulged customer data to hackers in response to forged Emergency Data Requests, after Discord confirmed fulfilling a forged EDR (William Turton/Bloomberg)

Starfield's lead designer says the game covers ‘so much new ground’

Sources: Apple is developing a range of financial services, including payments processing, lending risk assessment, credit checks, fraud analysis, and more (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Google says it has used its BERT algorithm to cut explicit Search results by 30% in the last year for terms related to ethnicity, sexual preference, and gender (Paresh Dave/Reuters)

Intel unveils i9-12900KS, an unlocked i9-12900K meant to be overclocked, with a 30MB L3 cache, 150W base power, a 5.5 GHz max frequency, coming April 5 for $739 (Liam Tung/ZDNet)

Nielsen agrees to be acquired by a group of private equity firms, led by Brookfield and Elliott, in a deal valuing it at $16B, or $28 per share, including debt (Cara Lombardo/Wall Street Journal)

Judge approves an $18M settlement between Activision Blizzard and the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, ending the federal sexual harassment lawsuit (Shannon Liao/Washington Post)

Meta halts plans to build a large data center in the Netherlands, amid rising opposition from the government over environmental concerns (April Roach/Bloomberg)

Diablo 4 looks gritty and dark – so dark you'll need to squint to see anything

Pinecone, which offers a serverless vector database designed specifically for the needs of data scientists, raises a $28M Series A led by Menlo Ventures (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)

The DOJ endorses the American Innovation and Choice Online Act, which would stop large platforms from favoring their own products and services over competitors' (Ryan Tracy/Wall Street Journal)

Sourceful, which helps brands reduce supply chain emissions via its online marketplace of vetted suppliers, raises a $20M Series A led by Index Ventures (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

UAE-based telehealth startup Altibbi raises a $44M Series B led by Foundation Holdings, Hikma Ventures, Global Ventures, and DASH Ventures (Laura Lovett/MobiHealthNews)

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 (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)

Spotify rolls out an advisory for content that mentions COVID-19, two months after promising the feature amid controversy over Joe Rogan's podcast (Jessica Bursztynsky/CNBC)

HR and payroll platform Papaya Global is acquiring Azimo, a London-based money transfer service; source: the deal is worth between $150M and $200M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Xbox tech set to reduce CPU overhead by up to 40% when gaming on Windows 11

Q&A with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on integrating hardware and software, the company's full-stack approach, ML opportunities, attempting to buy Arm, and more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)