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Sources: Apple is planning to manufacture a car by 2024 which may include self-driving tech, 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 …
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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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| Raphael Satter / Reuters: |
Microsoft, Alphabet, Cisco, LinkedIn, GitHub, VMware, and the Internet Association file an amicus brief in support of WhatsApp in the WhatsApp v. NSO Group case — (Reuters) - Tech giants Microsoft, Alphabet , Cisco, and VMware on Monday joined Facebook's legal battle against hacking company NSO …
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
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, @ledger, @oddslotcom, @ledger, @ledger, @ledger, @ledger, @cointracker, @yellowblock_io, @ledger, @adeldmeyer, @bleepincomputer, @rsrfren, @doncryptodraper, @ourielohayon, @isafepal, @ledger, @timccopeland, @ledger, and @lunoglobal
| 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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| Jesse Pound / CNBC: |
SoftBank files to launch its SPAC, planning to raise $525M in the IPO — - SoftBank filed for an initial public offering for its special purpose acquisition company on Monday. — The firm plans to raise $525 million to invest in a technology company. — SoftBank Group filed to launch …
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| 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 … | BBC: |
Facebook says it had to remove some features in EU, including some child abuse detection tools, due to new rules banning automatic scanning of private messages — Facebook has switched off some of its child abuse detection tools in Europe in response to new rules from the EU.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TikTok launches its first personalized annual recap feature, “Year on TikTok”, which highlights what sort of videos were watched the most, favorite tracks, more — Spotify users have Wrapped and Instagram users have their Top 9. And now TikTok users will have their own year-in-review feature, too.| The Information: |
Sources: Ironclad, which helps companies create and manage business contracts, raises $100M+ Series D led by Bond Capital, valuing it at $950M+ — Ironclad, which develops software that helps companies such as Dropbox and Mastercard create and manage business contracts …
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| 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 …
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Ripple CEO says the SEC will file a suit against the company over the alleged sale of unlicensed securities, calls it a parting shot by the Trump administration — Ripple, one of the most important companies in the cryptocurrency industry, said Monday evening that the Securities … | 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
| 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: @samfbiddle, @samfbiddle, @amnestyusa, @theintercept, @amnestyusa, @samfbiddle, @theintercept, @derektmead, @fboversight, and @slpng_giants
| Reuters: |
Opendoor goes public through a merger with a SPAC, as shares rose 5.9% in their Nasdaq debut on Monday, giving Opendoor a market capitalization of $17B — (Reuters) -Shares of Opendoor Technologies Inc, a home-selling platform backed by SoftBank Group, ended 5.9% higher in their Nasdaq debut on Monday …
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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| 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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