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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
SEC sues Ripple Labs, its CEO Brad Garlinghouse, and Chairman Chris Larsen, alleging they violated federal securities laws in selling XRP to retail consumers — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) believes Ripple Labs violated federal securities laws in selling the XRP cryptocurrency to retail consumers.
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| Jennifer Epstein / Bloomberg: |
Biden transition team says Twitter told it current followers of @POTUS won't carry over to Biden, whose @POTUS account will start at zero, a reversal from 2017 — - Followers were transfered to Trump from Obama in 2017 — First lady, press secretary accounts also reset to zero
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| Alex Gallagher / NME: |
The COVID-19 relief bill passed by Congress includes the Felony Streaming Bill, which makes illegal streaming for profit a felony, with up to 10 years jail time — Targeting illegal for-profit streaming providers, not individual users — The US Congress has passed a COVID-19 stimulus bill …
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| Substack Blog: |
Explaining its content moderation policy, Substack says it will “resist public pressure to suppress voices that loud objectors deem unacceptable” — Building a system that puts readers and writers in charge — As Substack grows, there is increasing interest in the stance we take on content moderation.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Three VPNs popular with criminals and active for over a decade have had their servers and web domains seized by law enforcement from US, Germany, France, others — The three VPN services provided safe haven for cybercriminals to carry out ransomware attacks, web skimming operations, spearphishing, and account takeovers.
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| BuzzFeed News: |
Internally, Facebook staff have voiced skepticism over the company's campaign to portray itself as a defender of small businesses in its fight against Apple — Last Tuesday, Facebook launched what it portrayed as a full-throated defense of small businesses.| Shoshana Wodinsky / Gizmodo: |
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Certificate authority Let's Encrypt says it has found a workaround that will extend older Android phones' compatibility with its certificates by three years — When you haven't been updated since 2016, expiring certificates are a problem. — Things were touch-and-go for a while …
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| John Harney / Bloomberg: |
DHS has issued an advisory to US businesses, warning of data security risks with using communication equipment and services from China-linked companies — - Homeland Security warns of trade secret, competition risks — Advisory comes after hack that Trump advisers blame on Russia
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| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
Chinese autonomous driving startup WeRide raises $200M from Chinese bus manufacturer Yutong; WeRide says the raise is first tranche of its Series B — WeRide, one of China's most-funded startups developing autonomous driving capabilities, said on Wednesday that it has raised …
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A look at India's booming dark data economy: stalkerware and spyware apps, databases about parents, cable customers, pregnant women, mutual fund investors, more — Thanks to lax privacy laws and high consumer demand, details on everything from how you shop to who you date are all for sale.
Tweets: @virsanghvi, @restofworld, @nilchristopher, @snowcrashdotfun, @cengizyar, and @anupkaphle
| Shoshana Wodinsky / Gizmodo: |
An explainer on digital advertising's header bids, third-party brand safety vendors, and “evercookies”, illustrated by a ubiquitous pajama onesie ad — If you're reading this, you might have read the juicy piece that Elle dropped this weekend chronicling how a former Bloomberg reporter torched … | Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Honeywell says it is buying Sparta Systems, which makes regulatory and quality management software for the life sciences industry, for $1.3B — Software industrial giant Honeywell Inc. said today it's buying life sciences software company Sparta Systems Inc. for $1.3 billion in order to expand …
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| Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal: |
Investigation details Amazon's campaigns over the years to steamroll rivals and partners, including those on its marketplace, sometimes with Bezos' involvement — CEO Jeff Bezos still runs the e-commerce giant with the drive of a startup trying to survive, and that strand of its corporate DNA is becoming a liability
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| Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says GDPR shows that “regulation can get it wrong” and “we are still a small part of the overall information ecosystem” — For Google, the Techlash arrived with a vengeance last week. After years of mounting angst about the power of Big Tech …
Tweets: @mikebutcher
| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
After 11 years, Australia declares its national broadband network is “built and fully operational” with 11.86M premises wired, leaving 35K not yet connected — Those 35,000 connections that aren't built? Celebrate the 11.86 million that were, says Minister
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Paul Fletcher MP, iTnews, ZDNet, Sydney Morning Herald, iTnews, and Slashdot
| Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal: |
SEC approves NYSE's plan to let companies raise capital and issue new shares via direct listings, potentially helping startups save on bank fees — Proposal lets companies raise capital through direct listings — The Securities and Exchange Commission will allow companies …
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Tweets: @bgurley, @startupecon, @btaylor, @bgurley, @markjeffrey, @skupor, @bgurley, @aosipovich, and @bgurley
| Sascha Segan / PCMag: |
Testing suggests Verizon's dynamic spectrum sharing tech, which reuses parts of 4G channels for 5G, often produces slower speeds on 5G than its LTE network — Verizon's DSS 5G can be slower than 4G. We explain why, and how to turn off or disable 5G on your iPhone.
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The Verge, AppleInsider, SlashGear, and Pocketnow
Tweets: @saschasegan, @nevilleray, @dcseifert, @waltlightshed, @notpenguino_, @3g4guk, @dcseifert, and @erivaldoff
| Washington Post: |
Sources: in the early stages of US antitrust investigations, Facebook offered to help others build a social networking competitor using its network and code — The company ramped up its lobbying, hired high-powered lawyers and launched a slew of internal initiatives as the government prepared to sue …
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The Verge, CNBC, Input, Reclaim The Net, PYMNTS.com, SiliconANGLE, Gizchina, Android Central, Tech Xplore, CNET, Thurrott, AppleInsider, New York Post, and Engadget
| David McCabe / New York Times: |
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