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| Taylor Lorenz / New York Times: |
How TikTok is making inroads into US schools, as students create TikTok clubs to riff on the latest memes, and shoot videos on Newton's Laws for extra credit — Teens love the app, and now it's getting the stamp of approval with teacher-approved clubs. Did school just get ... fun?| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
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| Owen S. Good / Polygon: |
Twitch is testing Watch Parties, a feature that allows streamers to screen Prime Video content that their viewers can watch along if they have Amazon Prime — This is fargin' awesome! — Twitch is now testing out a long-requested “watch parties” feature, which means that streamers …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researchers find malware operators are now using steganography techniques to hide malicious code in WAV audio files — Steganography malware trend moving from PNG and JPG to WAV files. — Two reports published in the last few months show that malware operators are experimenting with using WAV audio files to hide malicious code.
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Symantec, Cylance Blog, Boing Boing, BleepingComputer, and The Next Web
Tweets: @holisticinfosec, @ushadrons, @binitamshah, @virusbtn, and @notameadow
| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Y Combinator partners talk about its online Startup School program, which has enlisted 30K+ startups, as the institution tries to overcome its insular image — About 30,000 startups have enrolled in the accelerator's online program, as the iconic institution tries to overcome its insular image.
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Tweets: @matt_levine, @coyotespike, @cnet, @stephenpiment, @samuelgil, @ycombinator, and @richardjnieva. Thanks:@akwired
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
A behind-the-scenes account of a cyberattack that disrupted the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics, which was tied to a specific unit of Russia's GRU — How digital detectives unraveled the mystery of Olympic Destroyer—and why the next big attack will be even harder to crack.
Tweets: @matonis, @securitybeard, @a_greenberg, @a_greenberg, @nxthompson, and @a_greenberg
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
ESET details a hacking campaign, active for the past 6 years, by the Russia-linked group the Dukes or Cozy Bear, which was thought to be dormant since DNC hack — Largely out of the spotlight since 2016, Cozy Bear hackers have been caught perpetrating a years-long campaign.
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BleepingComputer, ZDNet, MIT Technology Review, and Slashdot
Tweets: @nordvpn, @wired, @a_greenberg, @wired, @karolcummins, and @issaintl
| Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost: |
eMarketer: Google will take 37.2%, or $48.05B, of all US digital ad spend this year, down from 38.2% in 2018, while Amazon will take 8.8%, up from 6.8% in 2018 — Google dominates the search ad market today, but eMarketer's latest forecast shows that within the next two years, Google's revenue share will fall and Amazon's will rise.| Bloomberg: |
Seven US lawmakers, including Wyden, Cruz, Ocasio-Cortez, and Rubio accuse Apple of “censorship of apps” at the “behest of the Chinese government”, in a letter — - Cruz, AOC, others ask Apple to reinstate HK map app it pulled — Apple CEO discussed consumer rights with Chinese regulator
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Fox News, The Verge, MacRumors, Reuters, 9to5Mac, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden …, iMore, TechCrunch, Financial Times, The Mac Observer, Engadget, CNET, Business Insider, The Hill, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, and MacDailyNews
Tweets: @markgurman and @anderscorr
| Allie Weiss / Architectural Digest: |
Havenly, which connects interior designers with clients for $99 virtual full-room makeover sessions, raises $32M Series C, bringing its total raised to $57.8M — The interior design service's latest funding will support the launch of a private-label collection and more
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TechCrunch, Furniture Today, The Hustle, BusinessDen, PitchBook, and Business of Home
Tweets: @archdigest and @furnituretoday
| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
David Sacks' Craft Ventures, which led Bird's Series A round, has closed its second fund with $500M, up from the $350M it had closed for its debut fund — Craft Ventures, the venture firm launched in 2017 by serial entrepreneur David Sacks, has closed its second fund with $500 million …
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PE Hub and Crunchbase News
| Melanie Ehrenkranz / OneZero: |
A look inside a community of hackers who tinker with Kindle e-readers to disable Amazon's tracking, circumvent file format restrictions, install games, and more — And installing ‘Zork’ while they're at it — t's easy to make the case for a Kindle. It's portable, you can read it in the dark …
Tweets: @dlberes, @medium, and @mvzelenks
| New York Times: |
Comparing Trump and Democratic 2020 presidential campaigns online: it is “like a supercar racing a little Volkswagen Bug”, with Democrats being the Volkswagen — On any given day, the Trump campaign is plastering ads all over Facebook, YouTube and the millions of sites served by Google … Sponsor Posts
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