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Citizen Lab: NSO's zero-day, zero-click exploit chain, active in at least iOS 13.5.1, was used to hack ~36 Al Jazeera reporters via iMessage in summer of 2020 — Summary & Key Findings — In July and August 2020, government operatives used NSO Group's Pegasus spyware …
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| Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
Profile of Dina Srinivasan, who is helping Texas AG's antitrust investigation of Google after her treatises on Facebook and Google reframed antitrust thinking — Regulators are relying on insiders like Dina Srinivasan, who left her digital ad job after concluding that “Facebook and Google …
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| Andrés Arrieta / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Facebook is attacking privacy with its anti-Apple campaign and has locked SMBs into a surveillance-powered advertising model that's invasive of customers — Facebook has recently launched a campaign touting itself as the protector of small businesses. This is a laughable attempt from Facebook … | Matt Stoller / BIG: |
| Aislinn Keely / The Block: |
Personal information of 270K+ customers of hardware wallet Ledger has been leaked online, including emails, home addresses, and phone numbers — A database containing the personal information of over 270,000 Ledger customers has been published on RaidForums, a marketplace for buying, selling, and sharing hacked information.
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Decrypt, Ledger Support, Cointelegraph, CryptoSlate, Crowdfund Insider, Crypto Briefing, blockchain.news, CoinDesk, and Cryptonews
Tweets: @ledger, @yellowblock_io, @ourielohayon, @isafepal, and @doncryptodraper
| Nico Grant / Bloomberg: |
Zoom says it is under investigation by the SEC and two US attorney offices over security and privacy issues and interactions with China and other governments — - Company says data security, privacy actions under review — Videoconferencing firm's contacts with China spur scrutiny
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AppleInsider, Washington Examiner, infosecurity-magazine.com, and ZDNet
Tweets: @pingroma, @sophiehrw, @jchengwsj, @mollylambert, and @dhh
| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Wired: |
Cyberpunk 2077's developer hamstrung reviewers by forcing NDAs and sending copies just days before launch to prevent players from seeing the buggy mess — Video game companies are increasingly putting restrictions on what reviewers can show, widening the gap between expectations and reality.
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Defector, International Business Times, Tom's Guide, The Verge, IGN, and Forbes
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Sources: SoftBank will file on Monday to raise between $500M and $600M via an IPO of its first SPAC and is preparing at least two additional SPACs — SoftBank on Monday will file to raise between $500 million and $600 million via an IPO of its first SPAC, Axios has learned from multiple sources.
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Bloomberg, The Information, Crunchbase News, TechCrunch, The Economic Times, coinspeaker.com, PYMNTS.com, SiliconANGLE, Tech in Asia, and Reuters. Tweets: @danprimack
| Owen Thomas / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Profile of Bret Taylor, Salesforce's new COO and the architect of its $27.7B acquisition of Slack, who might one day succeed Marc Benioff as CEO of the company — Everyone in Silicon Valley seems to know Bret Taylor. — Few outside do. — That's going to change, as the software engineer …
Tweets: @owenthomas, @sfchronicle, @louisgray, @martinsfp, @hbrucejohnson, @cherylszee, @jeffjarvis, @demianbulwa, @kfury, and @zlurie
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
OneTrust, which offers privacy management and marketing compliance tools, raises $300M Series C at a $5.1B valuation, bringing its total raised to $710M — Atlanta, Georgia-based privacy and marketing solutions firm OneTrust today announced it raised $300 million at a $5.1 billion valuation.
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Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Crunchbase News, and PR Newswire
| Isabel Woodford / Sifted: |
Study: the number of neobanks worldwide has tripled since 2017, climbing to nearly 300; in 2019, more than 70 neobanks went live — The number of neobanks worldwide has tripled since 2017, climbing from 100 to nearly 300 worldwide. — That means, over the last three years … | The Economic Times: |
Pine Labs, which makes POS software and provides last-mile retail transaction tech for merchants, raises $75M-$100M at a $2B valuation — Pine Labs is currently India's third largest fintech startup after Paytm and PhonePe. It counts Lone Pine Capital, Sequoia India, Temasek, Mastercard, Paypal and Actis LLP as among its investors.
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Livemint, Medianama, YourStory.com, and Inc42 Media
Tweets: @amrishrau, @strictlyvc, and @ettech
| Margins: |
Cultural taboos around porn have led to blind spots in Silicon Valley, with VCs missing out on many of the industry's breakout hits like OnlyFans — It always was, it always will be. … One of the biggest and most interesting things happening in the consumer web right now is running almost completely under the radar.
Tweets: @arvidkahl, @hkanji, @ericzawo, and @cathyreisenwitz
| Wall Street Journal: |
Analysis finds 24+ organizations that installed SolarWinds code, including Cisco, Intel, Nvidia, VMware, Belkin, a CA hospital, and Kent State university — A Wall Street Journal analysis identified at least 24 organizations that installed software laced with malicious code by Russian hackers
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ZDNet, TechRadar, and Microsoft Security
Tweets: @dnvolz, @ericgeller, @ryanaraine, @algotrdr, and @blackorbird
| Jacob Knutson / Axios: |
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