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Sources: investigators are checking if SolarWinds was hacked via its offices in Czechia, Poland, and Belarus, where the company moved much of its engineering — Those behind the widespread intrusion into government and corporate networks exploited seams in U.S. defenses and gave away nothing to American monitoring of their systems.
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Samsung announces its Galaxy Unpacked event will be held on January 14, where it's expected to unveil the Galaxy S21, S21 Plus, and S21 Ultra — Ring in 2021 with Samsung's latest smartphones — Samsung will officially be announcing its latest lineup of Galaxy flagship phones … | William C. Gustafson / GitHub: |
Developer of Amphetamine says Apple agreed to let the Mac app stay up with its current name and logo, after previously threatening to remove it due to its name — Amphetamine is a free app that helps keep your Mac awake. Amphetamine has been on the Mac App Store since 2014 and it's been downloaded over 432,800 times.
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Researchers: more than 100K Zyxel firewalls and VPN gateways have a hardcoded admin-level backdoor that can grant attackers root access to devices — The username and password (zyfwp/PrOw!aN_fXp) were visible in one of the Zyxel firmware binaries. — More than 100,000 Zyxel firewalls …
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| Taylor Lorenz / New York Times: |
A look at the biggest TikTok trends of 2020, the industries it impacted, the lens it offered on service workers amid COVID-19, and how it shaped US culture — Business, entertainment, news, activism and social connection will never be the same. — It's been well over two years since TikTok arrived … | About Facebook: |
Facebook says there were 1.4B+ voice and video calls on WhatsApp on NYE 2020 globally, up 50%+ YoY, and 55M+ live streams across Facebook and Instagram — Like all of 2020, last night's New Year's Eve was different. There were fewer crowds celebrating in the streets around the world.
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| Hannah Ellis-Petersen / The Guardian: |
Netflix and Prime Video are reshaping India's creative landscape amid threats of censorship; Netflix invested $400M in original content in India in 2019 — The streaming giants are making bold TV shows but the threat of censorship looms large — This year's Emmy awards …
Tweets: @danrayburn, @bollywoodnewbie, @gquaggiotto, @raju, and @sub8u
| Josh Ye / South China Morning Post: |
Behind the success of Tencent's Honour of Kings, a League of Legends-like mobile title launched in 2015, which became the first game in history to hit 100M DAUs — Honour of Kings was created after Chinese gaming giant Tencent failed to convince League of Legends' creators to develop …
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Austin-based legal tech services startup Disco raises $60M in equity and $40M in debt, bringing its total raised to $235M, at a valuation of $785M — Disc o, an Austin, TX-based legaltech company, received $40M debt financing from Comerica. — This deal brought Disco to complete … | Ann-Marie Alcántara / Wall Street Journal: |
A brief look at the evolution of video chat during 2020, as Zoom, Microsoft, and others added features to make the medium more interactive and easier to use — Software innovations made the medium more lively and easier to use as the pandemic pressed on — When Claire Cheng …
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An overview of tech to expect in 2021: better webcams, portable UV sanitizers, “assisted reality” glasses, more subscription services attached to hardware — New ways to work, exercise, see the doctor, watch movies and sanitize every surface in sight will continue to proliferate.
Tweets: @shashib, @francisxrocca, @shashib, @wsjtech, @nicnguyen, @mims, @mokoenadee, and @joannastern
| Jennifer Ouellette / Ars Technica: |
Interview with two anthropologists about combining “pick and trowel” field work with the use of big data to bring a new birds-eye perspective to archeology — Combining traditional “pick and trowel” field work with a sweeping birds-eye view| Alice Gledhill / Bloomberg: |
Bitcoin crossed $34K to reach an all-time high, after growing almost 50% in December — Bitcoin, the world's largest cryptocurrency, topped $34,000, just weeks after passing another major milestone. — The currency gained as much as 7.8% to $34,182.75, before slipping to about $33,970 as of 3:05 p.m. on Sunday in Singapore.
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