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Five former Kaseya employees say they had warned the company about its lax security practices, and were laid off or quit as Kaseya failed to address the issues — - Ransomware attack hit as many as 1,500 businesses this month — Workers say Kaseya ignored warnings about key vulnerabilities| The Economic Times: |
Twitter names a resident grievance officer for India and publishes a compliance report, meeting two key requirements under India's new IT rules — Amid tensions with the government, Twitter has appointed a Resident Grievance Officer, days after it designated a chief compliance officer …
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| James Pearson / Reuters: |
Investigation sheds light on Force 47, the Vietnamese army's online information warfare unit behind pro-state Facebook Groups that aim to correct “wrong views” — In Vietnam, where the state is fighting a fierce online battle against political dissent, social media “influencers” …
Tweets: @pearswick, @samfbiddle, @samfbiddle, @tostevinm, and @timothyjgraham
| Cal Newport / New Yorker: |
The key for tech companies to make remote work sustainable is not through policy, but by shifting “work” away from in-person surveillance toward defined results — Companies must move away from surveillance and visible busyness, and toward defined outcomes and trust.
Tweets: @newyorker, @newyorker, @toymango, @raju, and @jamescham
| Financial Times: |
Intel details its European expansion plans, says $20B investment into a regional semiconductor fab may be spread across several EU member states — Semiconductor maker talks of ‘ecosystem-wide project’ as it lobbies for support from bloc — US chipmaker Intel has said investment …
Tweets: @workmj, @sime0nstylites, @chadbown, and @swen_2017
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Profile of PodSwap, a startup offering a battery replacement service for Apple's AirPods, and a great example of why we need right-to-repair legislation — - Owners have noticed that Apple AirPods eventually will last only an hour or so before needing to be recharged, compared to their four-to-five-hour battery life out of the box.| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Makers of CVCheat claim their computer vision-based cheat tool can offer “undetectable” “full auto-aim and auto-shots” for any game on PC, Xbox, or PlayStation — Capture cards, input hardware, and machine learning get around system-level lockdowns.
Tweets: @tylerglaiel, @flugazi, @eposvox, and @storagezilla
| Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: |
Analysis: in H1 2021, private funding for cybersecurity companies reached $9B, up more than 2x from H1 2020 and eclipsing record total of $7.8B for all of 2020 — Perhaps the only thing more abundant than headlines about cyberattacks this year has been reports of record funding rounds …
Tweets: @crunchbasenews
| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Jack Cable of Krebs Stamos Group launches Ransomwhere, a crowdsourced ransomware payment tracker; the site is already tracking $32M+ in ransom payments for 2021 — Ransomware attacks, fueled by COVID-19 pandemic turbulence, have become a major money earner for cybercriminals, with the number of attacks rising in 2020.
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| Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review: |
A look at startups like WellSaid Labs and VocaliD, which are building custom AI voice actors for digital assistants, video game characters, and corporate videos — A new wave of startups are using deep learning to build synthetic voice actors for digital assistants, video-game characters, and corporate videos.| Indianapolis Business Journal: |
OnBoard, which provides cloud-based software to help companies digitize boardroom management, has raised a $100M growth investment from PE firm JMI Equity — Editor's note: You can comment on IBJ stories by signing in to your IBJ account. If you have not registered, please sign up for a free account now.
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
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