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Sources: Apple is targeting 2024 to produce a passenger vehicle that may include internally developed lidar sensors and breakthrough battery tech — (Reuters) - Apple Inc is moving forward with self-driving car technology and is targeting 2024 to produce a passenger vehicle that could include …
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
The omnibus funding bill Congress is set to vote on contains the controversial CASE Act, which may ratchet up copyright trolling, and the Felony Streaming Bill — from the but-why? dept — As we warned about earlier this month, it appears that Congress has in fact put …
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| Margaret Harding McGill / Axios: |
Congress' COVID-19 relief deal includes $7B in broadband funding, with $1.9B to remove Huawei and ZTE equipment, $3.2B to low-income families, and more — The coronavirus relief package deal that Congressional leaders reached Sunday includes $7 billion in funding for broadband internet access.
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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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Personal info including emails, home addresses, and phone numbers of 272K+ users of hardware cryptocurrency wallet Ledger are freely available on hacker forums — A threat actor has leaked the stolen email and mailing addresses for Ledger cryptocurrency wallet users on a hacker forum for free.
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Tweets: @ledger, @oddslotcom, @ledger, @cointracker, @ledger, @timccopeland, @bleepincomputer, @ledger, @ledger, @ledger, @ledger, @ledger, @ledger, @yellowblock_io, @adeldmeyer, @rsrfren, @doncryptodraper, @ourielohayon, @isafepal, and @lunoglobal
| Zach Dorfman / Foreign Policy: |
Interviews with 36+ current and former US officials describe China's strategy of analyzing vast quantities of stolen US personal data to identify CIA operatives — Around 2013, U.S. intelligence began noticing an alarming pattern: Undercover CIA personnel, flying into countries in Africa … | Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
Despite complaints from pro-democracy activists and celebrities in Vietnam, Facebook allows groups focused on harassing dissidents and getting them arrested — For the past two years, Do Nguyen Mai Khoi has been trying painfully, futilely, to get Facebook to care about Vietnam.
Tweets: @amnestyusa, @samfbiddle, @theintercept, @fboversight, @amnestyusa, @samfbiddle, @theintercept, @derektmead, and @slpng_giants
| Nandita Bose / Reuters: |
Sources: executives and employees at Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, and others are seeking to place allies in senior roles at government agencies under Biden — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Silicon Valley is working behind the scenes to secure senior roles for tech allies in lesser-known …
Tweets: @timnitgebru, @teddyschleifer, @lanceulanoff, @anildash, @rachelbovard, and @blmohr
| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
UK grocery franchise Southern Co-op is using London-based Facewatch's facial recognition tech in 18+ stores to prevent shoplifting, raising privacy concerns — Branches of the British grocer Southern Co-op are using surveillance technology to look for potential shoplifters.
Tweets: @wired
| 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: |
| Bloomberg: |
Apartment List, a rental service that earns a fee only when a property is rented, raises $50M and is now valued at $600M+, roughly double its prior valuation — - Public listing ‘realistic’ in the next two years, CEO says — Company enabled more than 175,000 rentals to new tenants| 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
| 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 …
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| 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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