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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
GoDaddy confirms some of its staff fell for a social engineering scam, after hackers changed the email and DNS records for a number of crypto trading platforms — Fraudsters redirected email and web traffic destined for several cryptocurrency trading platforms over the past week.
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CoinDesk, Mashable, Engadget, Gizmodo, Cointelegraph, Trustnodes, and Slashdot
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| David Pierce / Protocol: |
Inside YouTube Music's plans to compete with Spotify and others by putting the entire music business, including livestreams and tickets, onto a single platform — For the last eight months, musicians and bands haven't been able to tour, play festivals or go much of anywhere.| Drew Armstrong / Bloomberg: |
A look at Covid Tracking Project, a website run mostly by volunteers, which has become one of the most trusted sources on the spread of COVID-19 in the US — At the start of 2020, Amanda French was in between academic jobs. Her mother had died about a year earlier, and she'd taken time off to help settle her affairs.| Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal: |
Teachers say they are spending hours reviewing tests that were scored incorrectly by auto-grading bots, which try to match a student's response to an answer key — Auto-grading software often marks answers incorrect when they are right, giving teachers and families more remote-school headaches
Tweets: @sub8u, @hypervisible, @brittanystoroz, @wsj, and @mims
| Ayden Férdeline / Increment: |
Moving ICANN's public forums online and removing barriers like travel helped it broaden participation, allowing 1,752 people from 130 countries to participate — How a foundational internet policy maker responded to a global crisis—and where it goes from here. — Remote| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
A look at the growing world of virtual HQs on services like Branch, Gather, and Huddle, which are using spatial tech to create a metaverse dedicated to work — ‘The future of transportation is no transportation’ — In retrospect, 2019 feels like the working world's last dance with spontaneity.
Tweets: @siliconallee, @rossdawson, @nmasc_, @azeem, @drorpoleg, @zck, and @joshelman
| Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times: |
Experts say AI-based apps like qXR, which help clinicians diagnose tuberculosis early, could make an enormous impact on the control of the disease in India — In rural India and other places where tuberculosis is rampant, A.I. that scans lung X-rays might eliminate the scourge.
Tweets: @erictopol, @puneetkdewan, @rinachandran, @paimadhu, @nythealth, @nythealth, and @juneymb
| Forbes: |
Profile of Vishal Garg, CEO of Better.com, who is fighting lawsuits that accuse him of fraud and misappropriation of funds at previous business ventures — The $4 billion fintech startup is hurtling towards an IPO. But its volatile leader is fighting multiple lawsuits that could complicate his ambitions.
Tweets: @edzitron, @kenwattana, @forbes, @forbes, @noah_kirsch, @forbes, @kerrydolan, @zoeschiffer, and @alexrkonrad
| Max Kim / Rest of World: |
Critics of Coupang, South Korea's online retail giant, describe the COVID-19 outbreak at a warehouse as an inevitable outcome of putting efficiency over safety — South Korea's Coupang promised to make e-commerce lightning fast. A Covid-19 outbreak at one of its warehouses shows that its workers paid the price.
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The Korea Times. Tweets: @restofworld, @sidhubaba, @longreads, @restofworld, @restofworld, @deepnews_ai, @anupkaphle, @maxsoeunkim, @anupkaphle, @telliotter, @restofworld, @lmatsakis, @anupkaphle, @longreads, @peterguest, @restofworld, and @restofworld
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
A year in, Stadia's free-to-play and added phone support are great, but it needs a successful Cyberpunk 2077 launch to be seen as a true console alternative — Firing up a big-budget modern video game inside a Chrome browser window for the first time feels like you're tapping into some arcane magic … | TechCrunch: |
a16z closes two new funds totaling $4.5B, focused on early and later-stage investments, bringing total assets under management to $16.5B — Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has closed a pair of funds totaling $4.5 billion, the firm confirmed in a blog post this morning.
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Andreessen Horowitz, FinSMEs, FinLedger, PitchBook, and Forbes
Tweets: @a16z, @anneleeskates, @mikebutcher, @bencasnocha, @andrewchen, @shaig, @sub8u, @stevesi, @danielsunread, and @abrams
| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Canvas, which develops machine learning-powered robots for installing drywall at construction sites, emerges from stealth with $19M in funding — Canvas, a company that uses machine learning to install drywall at construction sites, emerged from stealth today.
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San Francisco Business Journal and Wired
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