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US agrees to remove Xiaomi from blacklist that could have restricted American investment in the company, following Xiaomi's lawsuit earlier this year — - U.S. to vacate order designating company as military-linked — Xiaomi had sued U.S. government following the Trump order
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PCMag, The Verge, CNET, Android Authority, PingWest, Forbes, XDA Developers, 9to5Google, TalkAndroid.com, Wccftech, Android Central, SlashGear, Neowin, Engadget, Android Headlines, phonearena.com, and GSMArena.com. Tweets: @thesiriusreport
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Instagram will let users list up to four pronouns on their profiles, viewable to friends or the public, available in a “few countries” — You can make this public or only viewable to friends — Instagram is making it easier to address people by their defined pronouns.
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Mashable, 9to5Mac, PCMag, TechCrunch, Social Media Today, Silicon Republic, NBC News, Fast Company, Firstpost Tech, TNW, MUO, phonearena.com, TechRadar, Neowin, and Tubefilter
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Researcher discovers a series of vulnerabilities, known as Frag Attacks, impacting Wi-Fi devices from the past 24 years, even when WEP and WPA are activated — A Belgian security researcher has discovered a series of vulnerabilities that impact the WiFi standard, with some bugs dating …
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FragAttacks, Mathy Vanhoef, PhD, Softpedia News, 9to5Mac, GitHub, Engadget, Wi-Fi Alliance, The Hacker News, gHacks Technology News, and The Register
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Deep dive on the DarkSide ransomware gang, which pressures victims into paying via phone calls by affiliates, DDoS attacks, and threats of tipping short sellers — The FBI confirmed this week that a relatively new ransomware group known as DarkSide is responsible for an attack … | The Coinbase Blog: |
Coinbase to ban pay negotiations in hiring and will offer the same pay to new hires in the same position and location; top performers to still get “multipliers” — Coinbase is always evolving. In the last year, we've grown our headcount by 100%, hired in 6 new countries …
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Protocol, Insider, Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At, and Cryptonews
| Maya Gebeily / Reuters: |
Instagram and Twitter apologize for deleting pro-Palestine posts, blaming technical errors, but critics say their “discriminatory” algorithms are to blame — Instagram and Twitter have blamed technical errors for deleting posts mentioning the possible eviction of Palestinians …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Amazon updates the Echo Show 8 and 5 with better cameras, the ability to turn on Alexa's security mode, and adds a $95 Kids Edition of the Echo Show 5 — Plus a price drop for the Echo Show 5 — Amazon is refreshing a handful of products in its Echo line: the Echo Show 8 and Echo Show 5 …
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| Anna Cooban / Insider: |
WhatsApp details the experience for those who don't agree to its new privacy policy, including losing access to calls, messages, and notifications — - WhatsApp will eventually stop users sending and receiving messages if they refuse a new privacy policy. — If users do not agree to the policy …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Bird agrees to go public via a SPAC, at an implied value of around $2.3B; the deal includes a $160M investment led by Fidelity — The E-scooter company will ride its way to the New York Stock Exchange.
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| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon wins appeal over $300M EU tax bill, as EU court annuls a 2017 decision, saying regulators had failed to prove that the company got an illegal advantage — Ruling deals a setback to EU competition chief who is seeking to rein in U.S. tech giants — Amazon. com Inc. struck a new blow …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Cycode, which focuses on helping enterprises secure their DevOps pipelines, raises $20M Series A led by Insight Partners, bringing its total raised to $24.6M — Israeli security startup Cycode, which specializes in helping enterprises secure their DevOps pipelines and prevent code tampering …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple says that ~1M new apps and ~1M app updates were rejected in 2020, 470,000+ developer accounts were terminated over fraud concerns, and more — - Apple said it rejected almost 1 million apps that were submitted to its App Store for the first time in 2020.
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| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
GitHub adds security key support for SSH Git operations, as it continues its plan to remove password support for Git operations later this year — Support has been added to bolster defense against account compromise. — GitHub has announced support for security keys to prevent account compromise in SSH Git operations.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube plans to pay $100M to top creators on YouTube Shorts, its TikTok competitor, through 2022, starting in the next few months in the US and India — YouTube is giving its TikTok competitor, YouTube Shorts, an injection of cash to help it better compete with rivals.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Vinted, an online marketplace for used clothes and home goods, raises €250M Series F led by EQT Growth at a €3.5B valuation — The circular economy — where consumers themselves are both the suppliers and buyers of goods and services — has come into its own in the last year …
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| MK Manoylov / The Block: |
eBay says it will allow NFTs to be sold on its platform and will add new “capabilities” for blockchain-driven collectibles in the coming months — The online sales platform eBay is now permitting the sale of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for digital collectibles.
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| Reuters: |
SoftBank reports Q4 Vision Fund profit of $37B and Group net profit of $45.88B, due to good stock performance of portfolio companies Coupang and Uber — SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) on Wednesday reported a record 4.03 trillion yen ($37 billion) Vision Fund unit profit from a fourth-quarter gain on Coupang …
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| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Panaseer, whose platform helps companies correlate data from all available security tools to check assets, control gaps, and more, raises $26M Series B — Panaseer, which takes a data science approach to cybersecurity, has raised $26.5 million in a Series B funding led by AllegisCyber Capital.
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| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
The US cable industry sees Biden's broadband plan as a grave threat because its language favors fiber and prioritizes funding for locally owned networks — The Biden administration's broadband plan read like a dream come true to Donnel Baird. The $2 trillion American Jobs Plan …
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| Sam Dean / Los Angeles Times: |
Snap suspends anonymous Q&A apps Yolo and LMK after lawsuit over teen's death, allegedly due to bullying messages — Yolo and LMK, two Snapchat apps that allow users to send anonymous messages, are no longer available to users of the social media platform after parent company Snap suspended them Tuesday.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Big Time Studios, started by ex-CEO of Decentraland, comes out of stealth with $21M to let game studios offer NFTs in their games — Did you miss GamesBeat Summit 2021? Watch on-demand here! — Big Time Studios is going big this week with a funding round of $21 million to bring nonfungible tokens …
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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Treasury Prime, which develops APIs to help banks automate routine business processes, raises $20M Series B co-led by Deciens Capital and QED Investors — This morning Treasury Prime, a banking-as-a-service startup that delivers its product via APIs, announced that it has closed … | Riley de León / CNBC: |
Online mortgage service Better.com to go public via a SPAC merger with Aurora Acquisition Corp. at $7.7B valuation; deal includes $1.5B SoftBank-led investment — - Digital mortgage lender Better will make its market debut by merging with Aurora Acquisition Corp., valuing the company at $7.7 billion.
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| Erika Kinetz / Associated Press: |
Investigation: an army of fake bots covertly amplify Chinese propaganda on Twitter by retweeting posts from diplomats and state media tens of thousands of times — BRUSSELS (AP) — China's ruling Communist Party has opened a new front in its long, ambitious war to shape global public opinion: Western social media.
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euronews and Washington Examiner
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| Tripp Mickle / Wall Street Journal: |
Google says it plans to double the size of its team studying AI ethics in the coming years, as it looks to strengthen the group battered by recent controversies — CEO will boost operating budget of team tasked with evaluating code and product to avert discrimination and other problems
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