Mobile games company Voodoo acquires BeReal (techcrunch.com)
Raspberry Pi is now a public company (techcrunch.com)
Misinformation works, and a handful of social 'supersharers' sent 80% of it in 2020 (techcrunch.com)
Encrypted services Apple, Proton and Wire helped Spanish police identify activist | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
By the way, the earlier posted article restoreprivacy.com/protonmail-discloses-user-data… had an update starting at the paragraph with title Update: Statement from Proton and additional commentary
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone joins board of Mastodon's new US nonprofit | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
European police chiefs target E2EE in latest demand for 'lawful access' (techcrunch.com)
Hackers are threatening to publish a huge stolen sanctions and financial crimes watchlist | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Apex Legends hacker says game developers patched exploit used on streamers (techcrunch.com)
Proton picks up Standard Notes to deepen its pro-privacy portfolio (techcrunch.com)
Proton said the Standard Notes app, which is available for both mobile and desktop, will remain “open source, freely available and fully supported”....
Automattic buys Beeper for $125MM, launches closed-source "privacy" app (techcrunch.com)
Curious how none of the coverage of this launch mention that the app isn’t actually open-source (though they pretend to be an open-source project), which makes all of their claims of “end-to-end encryption” worthless...
Magnets are switching up the keyboard game with an additional keystroke setting (techcrunch.com)
These keyboards rely on magnets and springs and activate by sensing changes in the magnetic field. Popularized by Dutch keyboard startup Wooting, these switches rely on the Hall Effect and have actually been around since the 1960s....
Apple changes App Store rules to allow retro game emulators globally | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Ten years later, Facebook's Oculus acquisition hasn't changed the world as expected (techcrunch.com)
Facebook bought a VPN company and deployed it, in part, to spy on its users. (techcrunch.com)
This is the problem with using VPN services in general, you have to have complete trust in the service provider.