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Overview of the ongoing efforts by the US to modernize its spy operations, to contain the damage from the 2014 OPM breach, be more resilient to tracking, more — When hackers began slipping into computer systems at the Office of Personnel Management in the spring of 2014 …
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Microsoft wins court order to seize 50 domains run by North Korean cyber-espionage group Thallium, the fourth APT Microsoft has combated with this tactic — Microsoft takes control of 50 domains operated by Thallium (APT37), a North Korean cyber-espionage group.
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US shoppers are expected to return $100B worth of unwanted goods bought this holiday season; online purchases 3x more likely to be returned than those in stores — US consumers are expected to send back a record $100bn worth of unwanted goods bought between Thanksgiving and Christmas as the rise of ecommerce causes a returns epidemic.| Kate Eichhorn / MIT Technology Review: |
Obsessive documentation of one's life online has made it hard for young people to shed their past identities and might have bad effects for society at large — As past identities become stickier for those entering adulthood, it's not just individuals who will suffer. Society will too.
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| Peerzada Abrar / Business Standard: |
Report: Indian startups raised a record $14.5B in 2019, up from $10.5B in 2018 and $550M in 2010; Sequoia, Accel, and Tiger Global were the most active VCs — As the decade is coming to an end, it has seen an impressive 25x growth from a tiny $550 million in 2010 to $14.5 billion in 2019 …
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Amazon is set to open a homeless shelter in its Seattle HQ with the capacity to serve 275 people, through an expanded partnership with nonprofit Mary's Place — - Amazon is building a homeless shelter on its Seattle campus. — The shelter will be run by Mary's Place, a nonprofit that has worked with the company for years.
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Report: in January, YouTube will expand limitations on the data that videos aimed at kids can collect and stop showing personalized ads to underage viewers — Children are worth their weight in data to YouTube creators, who're scrambling to stop the Federal Trade Commission from taking that income away.
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Facebook has quietly started removing some misleading ads about HIV prevention drugs, weeks after activists said they could cause a public-health crisis — The ads, first reported by The Washington Post, threatened to create a public health crisis, LGBT groups had said.
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How Amazon has shaped the economy of Campbellsville, KY, where it opened one of its first fulfillment centers and is now the town's largest private employer — In Campbellsville, Ky., the tech giant's influences abound. The profits, not so much. — CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. — In the late 1990s … | Reuters: |
Huawei says India will let it participate in upcoming trials for 5G networks — (Reuters) - The Indian government has allowed Chinese telecom company Huawei Technologies Co to participate in trials for 5G networks, a company spokesman said on Monday. — India's nod to Huawei comes …
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VMware completes its $2.7B acquisition of Pivotal, originally announced in August — VMware is closing the year with a significant new component in its arsenal. Today it announced it has closed the $2.7 billion Pivotal acquisition it originally announced in August.
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Cloud Native Apps Blog, SDxCentral, and SiliconANGLE
Tweets: @alexwilliams, @briansolis, @rseroter, @joebaguley, @ron_miller, and @pivotal
| Eileen Yu / ZDNet: |
Grab partners with Singtel to apply for a Singapore digital banking license, with Grab owning a 60% share in the joint entity — Ride-sharing operator and telco plan to form a joint entity, with Grab owning a 60% share, and apply for a digital bank licence in Singapore, where they will look to target …
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