Some YouTube users say the service is asking them to purchase a Premium subscription to watch videos in 4K, a feature that is currently free for all users (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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Some YouTube users say the service is asking them to purchase a Premium subscription to watch videos in 4K, a feature that is currently free for all users  —  YouTube’s Premium paid subscription includes benefits like ad-free viewing, video and song downloads for offline consumption, and background plays.

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PhotoRoom, which is bringing generative AI to its photo editing app for e-commerce vendors and SMBs, raised a $19M Series A; the app has 7M MAUs, 40M+ downloads (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)

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Victoria Song / The Verge:
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Russia’s second-largest bank, VTB, is hit with a large DDoS attack causing its apps and website to go offline; “IT Army of Ukraine” claims credit for the attack (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

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Russia’s second-largest bank, VTB, is hit with a large DDoS attack causing its apps and website to go offline; “IT Army of Ukraine” claims credit for the attack  —  Russia’s second-largest financial institution VTB Bank says it is facing the worse cyberattack in its history …

How Indonesia’s premium streaming video service Vidio is outperforming Netflix and Disney+ in terms of consumption in the world’s fourth most populous country (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

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