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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
The WikiLeaks-style group DDoSecrets claims that Parler-like site Gab has been breached and is now set to share 70GB of passwords, private posts, and more — The transparency group DDoSecrets says it will make the 70GB of passwords, private posts, and more available to researchers, journalists, and social scientists.
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| Jennifer Epstein / Bloomberg: |
Pres. Biden says there should be “no coercion, no threats, no anti-union propaganda” by Amazon amid its warehouse workers' vote on whether to form a union in AL — - ‘The choice to join a union is up to the workers,’ Biden said — Mail-in voting for 6,000 workers began in mid-February
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| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Verizon support advised its users in a now-deleted tweet to “turn on LTE”, which would turn off 5G, to preserve battery life — This, despite the carrier's relentless promotion of its 5G network — Despite its relentless promotion of 5G phones and the fact that it spent …
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The Desk, phonearena.com, Gizmodo, MUO, Mashable, Slashdot, and Huawei
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Axonius, a security startup developing an end-to-end device management platform, raises $100M Series D led by Stripes, at a $1.2B post-money valuation — Remote work has become the norm for many businesses in the last year, and today a startup that has built a cybersecurity platform …
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| Jason Aten / Inc.com: |
A look at Clubhouse's privacy flaws: room audio is “temporarily” saved for trust and safety purposes, user accounts or personal data can't be deleted, and more — Clubhouse was sort of perfectly made for the pandemic. People aren't going out, and they're desperately searching for social connections and entertainment.
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WIRED UK, iPhone in Canada Blog, Wired, Japan Today, and Wired
| Bob Davis / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Biden's efforts to partner with allies to boost key tech sectors and counter China, going beyond Trump-era measures like restricting sales of SMIC — Combined efforts in semiconductors, artificial intelligence seen as way to thwart Beijing's ambitions
Tweets: @ajwsmall, @tanvi_madan, @bobdavis187, @justinhendrix, @baldingsworld, and @jchengwsj
| Patrick McGee / Financial Times: |
Skydio raises $171M led by a16z at a valuation of $1B+, the first significant fundraising by a US-based drone maker after China's DJI was blacklisted by the US — Placement of DJI on trade blacklist has opened new opportunities for US manufacturers — California-based Skydio has become …
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| Mark Serrels / CNET: |
Escort sex workers, from countries where their profession is legal, say they are being banned from sites like OnlyFans that are bound by the US FOSTA-SESTA law — Editors' note: This story contains sexually explicit language and descriptions not suited for younger readers.
Tweets: @njnp_dc
| Antonio Garcia-Martinez / The Pull Request: |
Q&A with Lambda School's Austen Allred on how the company helps bridge the class divide for students, like setting up bank accounts for those who don't have one — Austen Allred and the class escalator — Austen Allred is the CEO and founder of Lambda School, a unique coding school …
Tweets: @antoniogm, @kaylahroxout, @koehrsen_will, @antoniogm, @sarthakgh, @elidourado, @tommycollison, @pkafka, @celinehalioua, @robkhenderson, @paulg, and @dangrover
| Natalia Drozdiak / Bloomberg: |
Swedish payments startup Klarna raises $1B at a valuation of $31B, triple its valuation in its last funding round in September — - Swedish firm raised $1 billion in new funding from investors — Klarna to donate 1% of new funds to climate change initiatives| Soraya Permatasari / Bloomberg: |
Grab is setting up a drive-through vaccination service across Indonesia with the government, plans to vaccinate 2,500 drivers and 5K people/week in Bali center — - Grab's Bali center is capable of giving 5,000 shots a week — Government targets to inoculate 70 million people by August
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PYMNTS.com and Tech in Asia
| Mario Gabriele / The Generalist: |
How Reddit, at ~$6B arguably one of the most undervalued companies in world, can unlock the next step-change in valuation and protect against niche competitors — One of social media's oldest companies is also its most undervalued. … — “You ever stop to realize how fragile all this is?”
Tweets: @zoescaman, @thebrowser, @mariodgabriele, @mariodgabriele, @p_j_boyle, @mariodgabriele, and @ricefield
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