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How homegrown courier services in French Polynesia are building their own online shopping service to fill the gaps left by e-commerce giants in remote islands (Tiare Tuuhia/Rest of World)

Tiare Tuuhia / Rest of World: How homegrown courier services in French Polynesia are building their own online shopping service to fill the gaps left by e-commerce giants in remote islands — E-commerce giants don't reliably deliver to the remote islands of French Polynesia, so locals made their own online shopping service. https://bit.ly/3tWQlQ5

Sources: Biden administration considers changing a Trump-era policy which let DoD and Cyber Command authorize cyber operations without White House approval (Suzanne Smalley/CyberScoop)

Suzanne Smalley / CyberScoop: Sources: Biden administration considers changing a Trump-era policy which let DoD and Cyber Command authorize cyber operations without White House approval — The Biden administration is reviewing whether and how to change a Trump-era policy which gave unprecedented authority to the Department … https://bit.ly/3IRm5ud

Researchers: an allegedly Russia-tied wiper malware, AcidRain, which shares similarities with the malware VPNFilter, was behind the attack on Viasat in February (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Researchers: an allegedly Russia-tied wiper malware, AcidRain, which shares similarities with the malware VPNFilter, was behind the attack on Viasat in February — AcidRain is the seventh wiper associated with the Russian invasion of Ukraine — Viasat—the high-speed-satellite-broadband … https://bit.ly/3qRxjJ1

Internal report: a now-fixed Facebook bug led to a "massive ranking failure" that increased views of harmful content up to 30% over the past six months (Alex Heath/The Verge)

Alex Heath / The Verge: Internal report: a now-fixed Facebook bug led to a “massive ranking failure” that increased views of harmful content up to 30% over the past six months — A group of Facebook engineers identified a “massive ranking failure” that exposed as much as half of all News Feed views to … https://bit.ly/38iWVbe

Sources: a Competition Commission of India probe found Google's Play Store billing guidelines are "unfair and discriminatory"; further hearings are planned (Tarush Bhalla/The Economic Times)

Tarush Bhalla / The Economic Times: Sources: a Competition Commission of India probe found Google's Play Store billing guidelines are “unfair and discriminatory”; further hearings are planned — In addition, the regulator also examined allegations that Google used “search manipulation' to push Google Pay. https://bit.ly/3LsLmfV

VivoSense, which develops wearable biometric sensors to collect and organize data from patients for clinical drug trials, raises a $25M Series A (Keerthi Vedantam/dot.LA)

Keerthi Vedantam / dot.LA: VivoSense, which develops wearable biometric sensors to collect and organize data from patients for clinical drug trials, raises a $25M Series A — As the CEO of Sarepta Therapeutics from 2011 to 2015, Chris Garabedian led a biotech firm striving to find cures for rare diseases. https://bit.ly/3Lt1VIr

IoT manufacturer Ubiquiti sues cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs, claiming he falsely accused the company of covering up a cyberattack (Steve Zurier/SC Media)

Steve Zurier / SC Media: IoT manufacturer Ubiquiti sues cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs, claiming he falsely accused the company of covering up a cyberattack — Ubiquiti on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against industry blogger Brian Krebs for $425 million in damages for allegedly falsely accusing the company of “covering up” a cyberattack. https://bit.ly/3wNBj0H