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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?
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
| 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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| 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.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Filing: Flipkart to enter the food retail business in India through a new subsidiary called Flipkart Farmermart, will invest $258M in the new venture — India's Flipkart is entering the food retail business as the e-commerce giant looks to expand its reach in the nation, its chief executive said on Tuesday.| 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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| 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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| 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, @mvzelenks, and @medium
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
MediaLab, a holding company that owns the Whisper app, buys Kik messenger from Kik Interactive, which now focuses on development of Kin cryptocurrency — The Kik messaging platform has been bought by MediaLab, a holding company which operates Whisper and a number of other apps, the company announced Friday.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Samsung says fingerprint bug on Galaxy devices is due to the sensor reading 3D patterns in screen protectors as fingerprints, will patch it as soon as next week — And advises removing silicone screen protecting cases for now — Samsung says that it plans to release a patch for its phones …
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Tweets: @holly, @iphonedo, @natisho, and @techlinkedyt
| MIT Technology Review: |
A game made with a real world dataset of defendants shows the shortcomings of COMPAS, an AI-powered risk assessment tool used in the US criminal legal system — The US criminal legal system uses predictive algorithms to try to make the judicial process less biased. But there's a deeper problem.
Tweets: @_karenhao, @marylgray, @ledataminer, @varoonmathur, @ainowinstitute, @techreview, @jason_pontin, @techreview, and @hiphination
| FinSMEs: |
Radius Networks, which enables location-based transactions like curbside and in-store pickup, raises $15M Series A — Radius Networks, a Washington, DC-based technology company that uses its machine learning location platform to allow businesses to conduct location-based transactions with their customers … | ProPublica: |
Inside Intuit's 20-year fight to make it harder to file taxes for free, including a pact with the IRS that kept a US-run service from competing with TurboTax — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica's Big Story newsletter to receive stories …
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