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London police warn students about using Sci-Hub, calling the self-described “pirate” site for research papers “a threat to their personal information and data” — Police have warned students in the UK against using a website that they say lets users “illegally access” millions of scientific research papers.
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Coinbase will pay a $6.5M fine to settle with the CFTC, over allegations that it self-traded cryptocurrencies between 2015 and 2018 — Coinbase will pay a $6.5 million fine to settle allegations it self-traded cryptocurrencies between 2015 and 2018. — Crypto exchange Coinbase …
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| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
Facebook's decision to crack down on NYU's Ad Observer highlights the increasingly fraught dynamic between tech companies and academics — Laura Edelson was in a state of panic, and I knew I was a little bit to blame for her freakout. — “If this is true,” Edelson told me this week during …
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GroupM: Google, Facebook, and Amazon “triopoly” grew its share of US digital ad market from 80% in 2019 to 90% in 2020, and now collects 50%+ of all US ad spend — The three tech giants now collect more than half of all ad dollars spent in the U.S. The pandemic economy got them there.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Facebook says it has resolved a major outage affecting Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and other Facebook services — The Facebook-owned social networks were down for many — Facebook has resolved a major outage affecting Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and other Facebook services on Friday …
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| Nilesh Christopher / Rest of World: |
Lenders in India are using coercive loan apps that block features and shut down smartphones of customers who fall behind on payments — Lenders are turning to coercive loan apps that shut down smartphones if customers fall behind on payments. — • BANGALORE, INDIA
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
REvil ransomware gang says it had breached Acer, sharing leaked images of internal docs on the dark web, and is demanding $50M; Acer says it is investigating — Taiwanese computer maker Acer has suffered a ransomware attack over the past weekend at the hands of the REvil ransomware gang …
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| Sean Keane / CNET: |
Twitter confirms it's testing an “Undo Tweet” feature, first discovered by Jane Manchun Wong, who suggests it could be part of Twitter's planned subscriptions — An app researcher's screenshot shows that among the options for subscribers of an unrevealed service.
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| Bobby Allyn / NPR: |
Interview with CEO of SkySilk, the hosting company that helped bring Parler online, who says he did it to spite tech giants like Amazon who abuse their might — On Jan. 10, just days after pro-Trump rioters blitzed the U.S. Capitol, Amazon Web Services pulled the plug on the conservative social media site Parler.
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
A look at Facebook's “Red Team X”, an internal hacking team founded in 2020, which probes 3rd-party tech Facebook uses for hardware and software vulnerabilities — The internal hacking team has spent the last year looking for vulnerabilities in the products the company uses …
Tweets: @jenmartinez
| Cat Ferguson / MIT Technology Review: |
Experts discuss challenges of building government tech, including legacy systems, regulatory complexity, lack of data sharing between departments, and more — The pandemic has shown how difficult it can be for the US to succeed with major technology projects. We asked leading thinkers what they would do to change that.| Gita Jackson / VICE: |
As videos from court hearings on Zoom go viral, a look at the debate over the privacy of citizens in those videos and judicial transparency on the internet — 'People's worst day, which is often why they're in court, shouldn't be monetized for a global audience's benefit.'| Ann-Marie Alcántara / Wall Street Journal: |
After Citigroup erroneously sent $900M to lenders using Oracle's Flexcube, some are calling for simplified business software UX to match consumer-facing design — Citi's accidental payment makes a strong case for upgrading back-end technology to match consumer-facing design| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Mark Zuckerberg on Clubhouse says Facebook may be in a “stronger position” after Apple's IDFA changes and that Facebook Shops has 1M+ monthly active businesses — - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday said he is confident the social media company “will be able to manage through” Apple's upcoming privacy changes.
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