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| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Source: Eric Schmidt left his role as technical advisor to Alphabet in February, ending his 19-year tenure at Google — Eric Schmidt , who drove Google's transformation from Silicon Valley start-up to global titan, is no longer an adviser to the search giant and its parent Alphabet …
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| Jon Caramanica / New York Times: |
Instagram Live has become the definitive medium of quarantine for rappers, producers, DJs, and other artists, with hip-hop stars leading the way — The pandemic halted in-person gatherings, but a new type of party was born on social media, with rap stars leading the charge.
Tweets: @nytimesmusic
| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Canada-based Tehama, a SaaS company that helps remote workers securely connect to enterprise systems, raises $10M Series A led by OMERS Ventures — Tehama, a SaaS platform that aims to offer a secure way to deploy a virtual workforce, has raised $10 million in a Series A round, the Ontario … | Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
ShinyHunters claims to have stolen 500GB+ of data from Microsoft's private GitHub repositories; Microsoft says it is investigating the claims — A hacker claims to have stolen over 500GB of data from Microsoft's private GitHub repositories, BleepingComputer has learned.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Hacker group ShinyHunters claims it has breached ten companies, including dating app Zoosk, and is selling their 73M+ user records on a dark web marketplace — Hacker group “ShinyHunters” is selling the data of 10 companies on a dark web cybercrime marketplace.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Microsoft starts rolling out a new Reply All Storm Protection feature to Office 365 customers that lets IT staff detect and stop Reply-All email storms — Redmond adds protection against massive “Reply-All” email storms after suffering two internal incidents in 2019 and 2020.
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| Annie Musgrove / Tech.eu: |
France-based Agicap, creator of a SaaS tool that helps companies manage and forecast their cash flows, raises €15M Series A led by Partech — French startup Agicap, creator of a SaaS tool for cash flow management, has raised €15 million in a round led by Partech …
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| Art Raymond / Deseret News: |
CEO of surveillance firm Banjo resigns after a report last month that he was once a neo-Nazi and was involved in the drive-by shooting of a synagogue — PARK CITY — Embattled event detection tech firm Banjo announced Friday that the company's current CEO and founder, Damien Patton … | Joseph Marks / Washington Post: |
A number of cybersecurity companies form an alliance to offer free help to 87 hospitals and four national health services in Europe, with plans to expand to US — Cybersecurity companies and professionals are banding together to offer free digital defenses to hospitals that are being pummeled …
Tweets: @ironnetcyber
| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Treasury Prime, which is developing APIs to help banks automate and accelerate certain routine business processes, raises $9M Series A — Treasury Prime, a startup that built software tooling to help banks automate and accelerate routine tasks, announced today that it has closed a $9 million Series …
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| Yupu Li / Pandaily: |
China-based AI chipmaker Enflame raises $98.6M Series B led by Summitview Capital, with Tencent and others participating — China's cloud artificial intelligence-training platform Enflame Technology, backed by Tencent, raised RMB 700 million ($98.6 million) in Series B funding led …
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China Money Network, Caixin Global, and DealStreetAsia
| Erin Brodwin / STAT: |
An overview of Amazon's efforts to fight COVID-19, from lending its staff expertise to funding research/clinical trials, and shipping at-home diagnostic tests — Shipping behemoth Amazon is increasingly throwing its weight into the pandemic response, sharing its staff's web and research design expertise …
Tweets: @statnews, @undarkmag, and @erbrod
| Taylor Lorenz / New York Times: |
A look at TikTok's emerging meme culture, as multi-platform meme brands and independent Instagram meme influencers begin investing heavily in the platform — Bombarding a platform known for dance crazes and skits is strategic, and potentially very lucrative.| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Both Defcon and Black Hat, originally scheduled for August, have cancelled in-person events, instead opting to host conferences online — For real this time. Its sister conference, Black Hat, has also been called off. — For years, a simple and elegant inside joke has permeated Defcon, the influential hacking conference.
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ZDNet, DEF CON Announcements!, DEF CON Forums, Neowin, BleepingComputer, Mashable, and Threatpost
Tweets: @find_evil, @marcwrogers, @alethedenis, @lilyhnewman, @padresj, and @kimzetter
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