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A look at Positive Technologies, a Russian cybersecurity firm sanctioned by the US, which sources say provides hacking tools and ops support for Russian spies — Washington has sanctioned Russian cybersecurity firm Positive Technologies. US intelligence reports claim it provides hacking tools and runs operations for the Kremlin.
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The White House, CyberScoop, CoinDesk, CRN, SC Media, and Vox
Tweets: @howelloneill, @maxbergmann, @dellcam, @ericgeller, @howelloneill, and @hatr
| NBC News: |
US sanctions Russia for 2020 election interference and SolarWinds hack, blacklisting six tech companies that provide support to Russian intelligence services — The United States is hitting Russia with fresh sanctions for interference in the 2020 presidential election …
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Tweets: @nsacyber, @selenalarson, @michaeldweiss, @jimsciutto, @kimmasters, @martinmatishak, @wakeywakey16, @petestrzok, @saysdana, @gossithedog, @dnvolz, @jennamc_laugh, @profwoodward, @iblametom, @gordoncorera, @dfriedman33, @peterzeihan, @selectedwisdom, @usembassykyiv, @timobrien, @natashabertrand, @wylienewmark, @x0rz, @bing_chris, @brfreed, @thegrugq, @breakingnews, @iblametom, @iblametom, @kevincollier, @craigcaplan, and @ridt
| Naaman Zhou / The Guardian: |
Australian Federal Court rules Google misled Android users into thinking it would not collect their location data when they turned location history off — Google collected data on some Android and Pixel phones even when customers ticked ‘No’ or ‘Do not collect’
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Tweets: @acccgovau, @elgaree, @jpwarren, @jendudley, @manjusrii, and @chris_griffith
| The Guardian: |
Facebook planned to remove a network of fake accounts that artificially inflated the popularity of an MP in India, until it realized it was for a BJP politician — Whistleblower points to double standard in Facebook's enforcement of rules against powerful — Facebook allowed a network …
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| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
Executives from Intel, Nvidia, and TSMC say the global chip shortage will likely continue at least into 2022 and maybe into 2023 — Companies reeling from natural disasters and massive demand from OEMs, consumers. — How many years will the ongoing chip shortage affect technology firms across the world?| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Google's Project Zero updates its vulnerability disclosure policy to include a 30-day cushion before publishing bug details to give users time to apply patches — The Google Project Zero security team has updated its vulnerability disclosure guidelines today to add a cushion of 30 days …
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Project Zero, XDA Developers, Engadget, SecurityWeek, infosecurity-magazine.com, ZDNet, and 9to5Google
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Apple's App Store hosted kids' games that became crypto-based casinos if launched from some non-US locations — Kosta Eleftheriou has found another iOS scam — In popular culture, access to an illicit gambling den is as easy as stumbling into the right shop and saying the password — or greasing some palms.
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| David Priest / CNET: |
Jeff Bezos says Amazon Prime now has 200M+ subscribers, up 50M from the beginning of 2020, and Amazon's net profit in 2020 was $21.3B — A new letter to shareholders from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos revealed that the tech giant's Prime service now has over 200 million subscribers.
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Facebook's own ads that display the number of Facebook Dating users in a specific region show the service may have far fewer users than competitors like Tinder — Dawn Hallson has tried nearly every dating app you can think of — Tinder, Bumble, eHarmony, Plenty of Fish, and Match, just to name a few.
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Android Authority. Tweets: @ashleyrcarman, @alexeheath, @jake_k, @reckless, @stevekovach, @reckless, @mattnavarra, and @tonyromm
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft launches a Kids Mode for Edge, with two age range options of between 5 to 8 years or 9 to 12 years — A free and simple tool for parents — Microsoft is launching a new Kids Mode for its Edge browser today. It's built directly into Microsoft Edge on Windows and macOS … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Walmart-owned Flipkart says it will acquire India-based online travel and hotel ticketing company Cleartrip; source says the deal values Cleartrip at about $40M — Flipkart said on Thursday it has agreed to acquire online travel and hotel ticketing firm Cleartrip as the Walmart-owned e-commerce firm looks … | Wall Street Journal: |
FBI Director Wray says social media companies play a key role in disseminating the messaging of domestic violent extremists, similar to foreign disinformation — Christopher Wray's warning comes amid rise in homegrown attacks — WASHINGTON—Social-media companies play a central role …
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New York Times. Tweets: @stuntpants, @anthony, @malinowski, @reneritchie, @clearing_fog, @jgreenblattadl, and @dnvolz
| James Rundle / Wall Street Journal: |
For the first time, NATO wargames include scenarios exploring the impact of widespread cyberattacks on financial infrastructure — Financial industry helped plan scenarios in which widespread disruption would hit banks and other firms — One of the world's largest cyber wargames is …
Tweets: @natesibley
| Reuters: |
Massachusetts seeks revocation of Robinhood's broker-dealer license, charging that it encourages inexperienced investors to place risky trades without limits — Massachusetts regulators on Thursday sought the revocation of Robinhood's broker-dealer licenseafter charging …
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Insider, Under the Hood, CNN, Wall Street Journal, PYMNTS.com, Bloomberg, Cointelegraph, SiliconANGLE, The Boston Globe, Forbes, and Crowdfund Insider
Tweets: @robinhoodapp, @kr00ney, @jmihaljevic, @sheeltyle, @reuterslegal, @knieriemen, and @epro
| Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: |
Oculus says developers can now sell recurring subscriptions to their Quest apps, and each subscription will have a free trial period — Each subscription will have a free trial period — Developers who have apps or games on the Oculus Store can now sell recurring subscriptions to their titles …
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Oculus, CNET, Protocol, Laptop Mag, Road to VR, UploadVR, UploadVR, Ars Technica, UploadVR, SlashGear, Input, The Information, TechCrunch, and VentureBeat
| Megan Graham / CNBC: |
KKR-backed mobile gaming company AppLovin closes down 18.5% on its first day of trading, after raising $2B in its IPO at a valuation of $28.6B — - Nine-year-old AppLovin, which has a portfolio of mobile games and also sells marketing services to game companies, began trading Thursday.
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Yahoo Finance, Investor's Business Daily, Adweek, Silicon Valley Business …, TheStreet, MarketWatch, CNN, CNBC, Crunchbase News, Bloomberg, Bloomberg, and AppleInsider
Tweets: @megancgraham, @johnkoetsier, @mattrosoff, and @w_chloe
| David Folkenflik / NPR: |
Officials say USAGM CEO Michael Pack and others pushed to subsidize software built by Falun Gong adherents, diverting OTF money from other tech for dissidents — Of all the disruptions unleashed by the Trump White House on how the federal government typically works, the saga of one small project …
Tweets: @opentechfund, @skestenbaum, @normornstein, and @davidfolkenflik
| Mars W. Mosqueda Jr / DealStreetAsia: |
Netstars, a payments aggregator and fintech company, raises $60.6M led by KKR; Netstars' StarPay is used by 280K+ merchants in Japan — Netstars Co Ltd, the operator of Japan's largest QR code payment gateway, has raised 6.6 billion yen ($60.6 million) in its latest funding round led …
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netstars.co.jp, PYMNTS.com, and Finextra
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Cart.com, which provides end-to-end software and services to scale e-commerce businesses, raises $25M Series A led by Mercury Fund and Arsenal Growth — Cart.com, a Houston, TX-based end-to-end e-commerce services provider delivering a fully integrated and owned suite of software …
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| Diane Bartz / Reuters: |
House Judiciary Committee formally approves a 450-page report accusing Big Tech of buying and crushing smaller rivals, a potential blueprint for legislation — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee has formally approved a report accusing Big Tech companies …
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AppleInsider, Axios, Patently Apple, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, PYMNTS.com, MacDailyNews, FOSS Patents, and 9to5Mac
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