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Sources: US Cyber Command is deploying offensive malware in Russia's power grid, using powers granted in 2018 by Congress and a secret presidential directive — WASHINGTON — The United States is stepping up digital incursions into Russia's electric power grid in a warning to President Vladimir V. Putin …
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NIST study: a widespread GPS outage would have an estimated $1B/day impact on the US economy; 90% of GPS' financial impact has come since 2010 — 90 percent of the technology's financial impact has come since just 2010. — Since becoming fully operational in 1995, Global Positioning System technology … | Matthew Hughes / The Next Web: |
Jack Dorsey on plans to hire a team of five engineers and one designer, reporting directly to him at Square, to work on contributions to the Bitcoin ecosystem — NO JERKS ALLOWED. — Square is a company best known for its disruptive card payment technology.
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Sources: as Stellar and others refused to partner and MobileCoin refused to sell, Facebook hired several dozen blockchain experts for several million/year each — Facebook's GlobalCoin project, also known as Project Libra, may face significant hurdles as the social media giant works toward a prospective launch.
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| Craig Timberg / Washington Post: |
20 years since children's online protection law COPPA was passed, it has been weakened by court rulings, uneven enforcement, and relentless technological change — Two decades after Congress tried to wall off the worst of the Internet in hopes of protecting the privacy and innocence of children, the ramparts lie in ruins.
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| Barclay Bram / Nautilus: |
WeChat's data centralization has inextricably linked it to all aspects of daily life in China and made it a cornerstone of the government's social-credit system — Living in China with the app that knows everything about me. — It's 9 a.m. on a typical morning in Chengdu and I'm awakened by the sound of my phone alarm.
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| Gregory Barber / Wired: |
Wyoming's laws exempting some digital tokens from state securities rules, and cryptocurrency from state property taxes, spawned dozens of crypto LLCs there — IF YOU BELIEVE you may have stumbled into a cryptocurrency conference (godspeed, my friend), there are a few telltale signs.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon shuts down Spark, its Instagram rival launched in 2017; URL directs to #FoundItOnAmazon, its product discovery site similar to its Interesting Finds tool — Amazon's two-year-old Instagram competitor, Amazon Spark, is no more. — Hoping to capitalize on the social shopping trend … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google's Chrome 76, now in beta, will block Flash by default; a Google employee claims Chrome 76 will prevent sites from detecting users in Incognito Mode — Following version 75's release on Android, Mac, Windows, and Linux last week, the next beta release of Google's browser is rolling out.
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| The Citizen Lab: |
An in-depth report on stalkerware apps: a technical assessment of their invasive surveillance capabilities, marketing for abusive spouses, security risks, more — Executive Summary — Persons who engage in technology-facilitated violence, abuse, and harassment sometimes install spyware on a targeted person's mobile phone.
Tweets: @adam_senft, @einsteinsattic, and @caparsons
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Testim, which makes AI-based tools for automated software testing, raises $10M Series B led by SignalFire, with participation from Lightspeed and others — Automated software testing platform Testim has raised $10 million in a series B round of funding led by SignalFire …
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