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Colonial Pipeline, which carries 45% of fuel consumed on the US East Coast, says it halted operations due to a ransomware attack — Operator of the Colonial Pipeline, the leading fuel conduit to the East Coast, said it had temporarily halted operations after discovering the threat Friday
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| Brian Barrett / Wired: |
Using PayPal for Twitter's Tip Jar could reveal tipper's address to the recipient and possibly recipient's email to the tipper; Twitter says it will add a label — Sending its users to PayPal has created all sorts of problems that Twitter should have caught ahead of time.
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Flurry analysis: just 4% of iPhone users in the US and 12% worldwide have so far actively chosen to opt into app tracking after the rollout of iOS 14.5 — An early look at an ongoing analysis of Apple's App Tracking Transparency suggests that the vast majority of iPhone users …
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| Robert Hart / Forbes: |
Study of 430K+ adolescents from the US and UK finds that there is “little evidence” of a link between teens' technology use and mental health problems — There is “little evidence” of a link between teens' technology use and mental health problems, according … | Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: |
Report: fintech startups across India, Africa, and Latin America raised a total of $23B since 2017; Indian companies raised $11.6B, including $4.8B just in 2019 — Tech investments in emerging markets have been in full swing over the past couple of years and their ecosystems have thrived as a result.| Don Clark / New York Times: |
Semiconductor firms received more than $12B from equity investors in 2020, up 8x since 2016, as the industry sees a spike in new startups and ideas — While a variety of industries struggle with supplies, semiconductor experts say there are plenty of new ideas and, most surprising, start-ups.
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| Anna Wiener / New Yorker: |
A look at the rise of “renderporn”, the aspirational, hyperrealistic interior design imagery on Instagram created using 3D modelling software like SketchUp — “Renderporn” domesticates the aspiration and surreality of the digital age. — Last spring, several months into the pandemic …
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| Anna Leask / NZ Herald: |
US endorses Christchurch Call, an effort to stop the spread of extremist content online, which Big Tech signed on to in 2019 and Trump's White House rejected — Anna Leask is a senior reporter for the New Zealand Herald — The United States has joined the Christchurch Call to Action … | Gerry Smith / Bloomberg: |
eMarketer: US advertisers will spend $11.36B on streaming TV commercials on services like Hulu, Pluto TV, and Peacock in 2021, up from $8.11B in 2020 — Ben Chappell was binge-watching The X-Files on Hulu recently when he kept seeing the same ads for sports betting apps again and again.
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| Bloomberg: |
Global chip shortage is forcing automakers to leave out some high-end features like navigation systems and “intelligent” rearview mirrors from their vehicles — - Automakers cut back on functions to keep production going — Navigation systems, large displays get nixed as crisis worsens| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Court docs detail Apple's app review process: 500+ people review ~100K apps/week, app rejection rate is less than 40%, less than 1% of rejections are appealed — As the Epic Games v. Apple court case goes forward, we have been learning more details about internal discussions within each company about their business models and more.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
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| John Paczkowski / BuzzFeed News: |
Apple hires ex-Cisco communications chief Stella Low as new VP of worldwide corporate communications; Phil Schiller has been overseeing Apple's PR since 2019 — Apple has hired a new vice president of worldwide corporate communications. Stella Low, former communications chief at networking giant Cisco …
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| Zachery Eanes / Raleigh News & Observer: |
Prescient, a North Carolina-based startup that makes architectural software, raises $190M from JE Dunn and Eldridge, bringing its total raised to around $295M — Prescient, a North Carolina-based startup that makes architectural software, said Monday it has raised $190 million from investors …
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