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Hacker paid a company called Sakari $16 to reroute a reporter's texts and used SMS 2FA to break into his accounts, showing the need for regulation of SMS tools — A gaping flaw in SMS lets hackers take over phone numbers in minutes,by simply paying a company to reroute text messages. — Joseph Cox
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| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
Report: iPhone 12 lineup lags behind 25 Android phones in 5G download speeds; Samsung accounts for 60% of top 25 5G performers with Galaxy S21 5G at the top — A new report from Opensignal paints a rough picture for how 5G performance on the iPhone 12 lineup stacks up against Android smartphones in the US.| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Report: Amazon is expanding FC Games, “mini-games” that let workers compete for digital rewards like virtual pets by finishing warehouse tasks, across 20 states — The program, FC Games, is expanding to at least 20 fulfillment centers in the US| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft releases one-click Exchange On-Premises Mitigation Tool to help businesses, who don't have expertise, easily patch recently disclosed vulnerabilities — Microsoft has released a one-click Exchange On-premises Mitigation Tool (EOMT) tool to allow small business owners to easily mitigate …
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| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
Gumroad, which helps creators sell their works, raised $5M via the SEC's new rules, which raised equity crowdfunding from $1.07M to $5M per year on March 15 — New SEC equity crowdfunding rules open the door to welcome non-accredited investors — Gumroad, a startup that helps creators sell their work …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Reports claim that an Nvidia test driver for developers to test the Windows Subsystem for Linux can unlock the RTX 3060's Ethereum cryptomining performance — Nvidia probably didn't mean to do this — Nvidia implemented a special system to reduce the hash rate of Ethereum mining on its new RTX 3060 graphics card last month.
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| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
Signal app and website are unavailable in China but the app is still available in the App Store; Greatfire says Signal's website was banned on March 15 — Chinese users of the instant messenger Signal knew that the good times wouldn't last long. The app, which is used for encrypted conversations …
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News Corp says it has reached a three-year deal with Facebook to provide news to Facebook users in Australia through the Facebook News product — Expands News Corp-Facebook Connection, Which Began With Deal In US — New York, NY (March 15, 2021) - News Corp announced today that it has reached …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Tencent and ByteDance are a testing a new tool called CAID, developed by the China Advertising Association, to bypass Apple's IDFA ad privacy changes — ByteDance and Tencent see if they can keep tracking iPhone users with solution created by state-backed group
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Cruise acquires Voyage in another autonomous vehicle startup merger; Voyage focuses on fleets of low-speed vehicles making trips to retirement communities — Dense, urban testing meets low-speed retirement community testing — Cruise, a majority-owned subsidiary of General Motors …
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| Brianna Provenzano / Gizmodo: |
California approves new regulations under CCPA to prohibit the use of “dark patterns”, tricks deployed by websites and apps to frustrate or mislead users — New regulations were approved under California's Consumer Privacy Act on Monday that will prohibit the use of so-called dark patterns … | Tyler Sonnemaker / Business Insider Australia: |
30 current and former Mailchimp staffers detail the conditions that led to a “mass exodus” of women and people of color, including high profile execs, directors — - Women and people of color have left Mailchimp in droves in recent months. — Those who spoke to Insider …
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Sources: Google will lower its commission on all in-app purchases from 30% to 15% in South Korea for developers with less than $1M annual sales, starting July 1 — Global tech giant Google pushs to lower its planned commission rate for app developers, parliamentary and industry sources said Monday …
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Wearable device shipments for 2020 grew 28.4% to 444.7M units globally, led by Apple which grew 27.2% in Q4 and has 36.2% marketshare, followed by Xiaomi at ~9% — Worldwide shipments of wearable devices reached 153.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2020 (4Q20), a year-over-year increase …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Adobe data on US e-commerce: consumers spent $844B online from March 2020 to February 2021, up $183B YoY, and are on track to spend over $1T annually by 2022 — The COVID-19 pandemic boosted U.S. online shopping by $183 billion, according to a new report by Adobe's e-commerce division, released this morning.
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| BuzzFeed News: |
Researchers found that on Amazon, COVID-19 conspiracy books have appeared on the first page of search results for terms like “covid”, “covid-19”, and “vaccine” — Conspiracy theorist David Icke's lies about COVID-19 caused Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Spotify to ban him.
Tweets: @slpng_giants, @stephaniecarvin, and @elastigirlvotes
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Vienna-based trading platform Bitpanda raises $170M Series B led by Valar Ventures at $1.2B valuation, making it Austria's first unicorn — One of the bigger startups in Europe operating a trading platform for cryptocurrency has closed a big round of funding on the heels of very rapid growth …
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| Queenie Wong / CNET: |
Facebook debuts tools to promote COVID-19 vaccinations: helping US users find slots, partnering with health authorities on WhatsApp, labeling all vaccine posts — Facebook said Monday it's releasing new tools to make it easier for people to get vaccinated against COVID-19 …
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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
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| Micah Lee / The Intercept: |
An examination of the 65GB of hacked data from Gab finds that only 1.5M of the total 4M+ Gab accounts in the repository have posted content to the site — In late February, somebody hacked Gab, an online safe space for white supremacists and other extremists.| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
WeLeakInfo, which sold access to 12B+ stolen credentials before the FBI seized its domain, leaked account and payment info of over 24,000 of its own customers — A little over a year ago, the FBI and law enforcement partners overseas seized WeLeakInfo[.]com, a wildly popular service …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Indian fintech startup CRED is in talks to raise about $200M at a ~$2B valuation, following its $81M Series C that valued it at ~$806M in January — Bangalore's fintech startup ecosystem is inching closer to delivering a new unicorn: CRED. — Two-year-old CRED is in advanced stages … Sponsor Posts
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