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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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| 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 …
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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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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| 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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| 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 … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Khatabook, which helps small Indian businesses digitize bookkeeping and accept payments online, raises $100M Series C at a valuation “close to $600M” — Khatabook, a startup that is helping merchants in India digitize their bookkeeping and accept online payments …
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| 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.| Varsha Bansal / Rest of World: |
A look at the decade long struggle to bring the script of Tulu, an Indian language, into Unicode, and the problem of keeping languages alive in the digital age — For 10 years, experts have tried to bring Tulu to smartphones. But they can't agree on how. — • BENGALURU, INDIA
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| Aria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch: |
SpaceX says it has now shipped 100K Starlink terminals to customers, and has launched more than 1,700 satellites since its first in November 2019 — Elon Musk's Starlink project, which aims to provide global broadband connectivity via a constellation of satellites, has shipped 100,000 terminals to customers.| 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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| 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 👋,
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| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
Tokyo-based CADDi, a B2B ordering and supply service in the manufacturing and procurement industry, raises $73M Series B, sources say at a ~$450M valuation — With COVID-19 disrupting the entire manufacturing supply chain including semiconductor shortages, companies across multiple industries …
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| Nicole LaPorte / Fast Company: |
Profile of Invisible Universe, which is developing animated franchises using characters born on social media with the help of influencers like Serena Williams — Last week, Realqaiqai, the Instagram handle for Qai Qai (pronounced “kway kway"), the doll turned social media star belonging to Olympia Ohanian … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Pakistan-based Bazaar, which operates a B2B marketplace for merchants and helps them digitize their bookkeeping, raises the country's largest Series A at $30M — A one-year-old startup that is building a business-to-business marketplace for merchants in Pakistan and also helping them digitize …
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| Bloomberg: |
ForgeRock, which makes identity management software, has filed for an IPO seeking to raise $100M; sources say it may seek a valuation of $3B-$4B+ — - Share sale would add to year's U.S. software rush to market — San Francisco firm said to have sought up to $4 billion value
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