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Daily Crunch: Game developer bans 6,700 cheaters and publishes their usernames

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Let’s kick this off by reminding you there’s only 5 days left to save $1,000 on Disrupt passes ! — Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 No one likes a cheater : Definitely not Russian game developer Battlestate Games, which banned and doxed 6,700 cheaters from its Escape from Tarkov game. Lorenzo has more.

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Daily Crunch: SBF says he’s ‘had a bad month,’ but is he really giving us the full story?

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Web3 developer platform Fleek has raised $25 million in Series A funding led by Polychain Capital , the company told Jacquelyn. Image Credits: Andriy Onufriyenko (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. TechCrunch+ is our membership program that helps founders and startup teams get ahead of the pack. You can sign up here.

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Daily Crunch: Indian government orders Apple, Google to delist popular game BGMI from app stores 

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Indian government: 1 : It was unclear why the Indian government had ordered to block Battlegrounds Mobile India, Manish reports, but whatever the reason, Google yanked the game from the Play Store in India. co-founder and CEO Kurt Mackey says that developers don’t really understand the term “edge computing,” Ron reports.

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5 ways to improve mental health for software developers

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Lorna Mitchell is head of Developer Relations at Aiven , a software company that combines the best open source technologies with cloud infrastructure. I have worked remotely in technology for over a decade, and I’ll share my tips for how fast-paced technical startups can take good care of their software development talent. Contributor.

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Daily Crunch: Mobile World Congress 2023 kicks off with new features for Android, Chromebook and Wear OS

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We have a team over in Barcelona for the Mobile World Congress, and one of the top stories coming out of there is the slew of new features Google has announced for Android, Chromebook and Wear OS. Using predictive LTV to juice up marketing campaigns Three more from the TC+ team: Making more : Why so many gigafactories? Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Green card sponsorships, startup prenups, agtech VC survey

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But there’s no way to know how well a founding team will get along by the time a company reaches maturity. Set aside the romantic notion that startup teams consist of visionary mavericks who are building the future in real time; they’re also human beings, with all of their flaws. Image Credits: Vori (opens in a new window).

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TechCrunch+ roundup: 3 views on Epic-Bandcamp deal, SPAC letdown, CIO sales strategy

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Over timer founders and sales teams who adopt this mindful approach can turn customers into assets, says Khan. Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window). Image Credits: SOPA Images (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Preparing your team to interact with the code source. yourprotagonist. Staying up to date.

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