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Tumblr will add support for ActivityPub, the open and decentralized social networking protocol powering Mastodon, Instagram-like Pixelfed, PeerTube, and others (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Tumblr will add support for ActivityPub, the open and decentralized social networking protocol powering Mastodon, Instagram-like Pixelfed, PeerTube, and others  —  Tumblr will add support for ActivityPub, the open, decentralized social networking protocol that’s today powering social networking software …

Versa Networks, which helps companies unify network and security tools into a single console, raised $120M in equity and debt, bringing its funding to $316M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Versa Networks, which helps companies unify network and security tools into a single console, raised $120M in equity and debt, bringing its funding to $316M  —  Networking and cybersecurity firm Versa today announced that it raised $120 million in a mix of equity and debt led by BlackRock, with participation from Silicon Valley Bank.

Sources: Apple’s mixed reality headset is expected to have the ability to scan the irises of users to let them log in and make payments inside the headset (Wayne Ma/The Information)

Wayne Ma / The Information:
Sources: Apple’s mixed reality headset is expected to have the ability to scan the irises of users to let them log in and make payments inside the headset  —  By the time Apple introduces its much-anticipated mixed reality headset—planned for sometime next year—Meta Platforms …

Sources: Apple is ramping up work on a mixed-reality headset to be introduced as early as next year and has renamed the headset’s OS from realityOS to xrOS (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is ramping up work on a mixed-reality headset to be introduced as early as next year and has renamed the headset’s OS from realityOS to xrOS  —  Apple Inc. is ramping up work on a mixed-reality headset, its first major new product category since the Apple Watch …

As Meta spends billions on VR, some developers worry over strict app store rules, using acquisitions to dominate the market and throttle competition, and more (Naomi Nix/Washington Post)

Naomi Nix / Washington Post:
As Meta spends billions on VR, some developers worry over strict app store rules, using acquisitions to dominate the market and throttle competition, and more  —  Virtual reality creators say Meta now has the power to determine which apps will be successful and which will be left in obscurity