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Researchers find 1,000+ web apps, from Ford, American Airlines, and others, mistakenly exposed 38M records stored on Microsoft's Power Apps service — Misconfigured Power Apps from Microsoft led to more than a thousand web apps accessible to anyone who found them.
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| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Poly Network says it has now recovered all of $610M in cryptocurrencies it lost to a hacker, and is in the process of returning them to their rightful owners — One of the most unusual cryptocurrency heists in recent memory has come to a close. On Monday, Poly Network …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Tim Cook and Satya Nadella plan to attend a meeting with Joe Biden on Wednesday to discuss efforts by private companies to improve cybersecurity — Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook and Microsoft Corp. CEO Satya Nadella plan to attend a White House meeting with President Joe Biden … | Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
After criticism, Centre, the consortium founded by Circle and Coinbase, says it will exclusively back its USDC stablecoin reserves with cash and US treasuries — - Digital currency company Circle says it's changing the makeup of its dollar-pegged stablecoin USD Coin to just cash and U.S. Treasury bonds.
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Instagram says it's retiring the swipe-up link feature, which allows users to visit external links by swiping up, in favor of tappable stickers starting Aug. 30 — The swipe-up will be no more. Instagram is planning to retire the feature, which allows people to visit external webpages by swiping up …
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| Turner Wright / Cointelegraph: |
Substack begins accepting bitcoin as payment for subscriptions, initially for a few crypto publications, using payments processor OpenNode — Substack has more than 500,000 paid subscribers, but Bitcoin payments will first be available to “a select group of crypto-focused publications.”
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| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
Apple confirms it has been scanning iCloud Mail for CSAM since 2019 but has not been scanning iCloud Photos or iCloud backups — Apple has confirmed to me that it already scans iCloud Mail for CSAM, and has been doing so since 2019. It has not, however, been scanning iCloud Photos or iCloud backups.
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Tweets: @benlovejoy, @gregbensinger, and @foxfortmobile
| Reuters: |
Report: Didi has suspended plans to launch in the UK and Europe for at least a year, amid a regulatory backlash in China over data privacy — China's ride-hailing giant Didi Global Inc (DIDI.N) has suspended its plans to launch in Britain and continental Europe, The Telegraph reported on Monday …
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| Packy McCormick / Not Boring: |
An in-depth look at Solana blockchain project: $0.0001/transaction and 65,000 transactions/second, well ahead of Bitcoin and Ethereum, and a $21.2B market cap — The $21B Blockchain and the Arrow of Time … Today's essay, the whole thing, is brought to you by... Solana — Hi friends 👋,
Tweets: @packym, @ldrogen, @forculus, @zoescaman, @divine_economy, @mccannatron, and @solanablog
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TikTok launches Effect Studio, which allows developers to build AR effects for use in the app, in private beta in select markets including the US — Both Facebook and Snap offer tools that allow developers to build out augmented reality (AR) experiences and features for their own respective family of apps.| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Visa says it acquired CryptoPunk 7610, one of the 3,840 female punk NFTs, for around $150K last week, adding it to its art collection — Quick Take — Visa has bought CryptoPunk 7610 as it enters into the world of NFT commerce. — “NFTs are an intersection of culture and commerce … | Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Facebook is running a test in the US to bring voice and video calling back to the main Facebook app, to reduce the need to jump between Facebook and Messenger — - New test will bring Messenger technology back into Facebook — Facebook Inc. is bringing voice and video calling …
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AppleInsider, MacRumors, The Verge, Reuters, SlashGear, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @kurtwagner8, @kurtwagner8, @zerohedge, and @mattnavarra
| Gillian Tan / Bloomberg: |
Nigerian mobile payments service OPay raises $400M led by Vision Fund 2 at a $2B valuation, marking SoftBank's first investment in Africa — - Sequoia Capital China and Redpoint China also participated — Investment marks Vision Fund 2's first bet in Africa
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TechCrunch, Quartz, PYMNTS.com, TechCabal, afrotech.com, FinLedger, Finextra, Tech News, and Total Telecom
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| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
UN-backed initiative Tech Against Terrorism adds the Taliban to its list of terrorist organizations and will alert tech companies when Taliban content is posted — A key UN-backed group that advises the tech industry on dealing with terrorist groups online has added the Afghan Taliban … | Android Developers Blog: |
Google says it will make app ratings on the Play Store more personalized by localizing by users' country from November 2021 and device type from early 2022 — Ratings and reviews are important. They provide valuable quantitative and qualitative feedback on your users' reported experience …
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