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Google researchers found a watering hole attack in August exploiting a macOS zero-day and targeting Hong Kong pro-democracy sites; Apple patched on September 23 — “The nature of the activity and targeting is consistent with a government backed actor,” the Google researchers say.
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Amazon will let Prime users on iOS share video clips up to 30 seconds long for some of its content — You can now help Amazon with its marketing if you have iOS — Amazon has announced that it'll let you easily share video clips showing up to 30 seconds of some of its Prime Video content, right from the iOS app.
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| Owen Fernau / The Defiant: |
Ethereum Name Service's ENS token hits $1B market cap, just two days after its airdrop in which users received the token for free in their crypto wallets — ENS, the governance token of Ethereum Name Service, hit a market capitalization of $1.1B in early morning trading Eastern Standard Time.
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Google creates a new Labs team under Clay Bavor, comprising its Area 120 incubator, AR and VR efforts, and Project Starline holographic video booth — Google Labs is back, but this time around, it's not a consumer-facing brand delivering a range of experimental products.| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Universal Music Group says it is creating a “band” called Kingship out of four Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs and plans to feature them in video games, VR, and more — Kingship, consisting of four virtual apes, reimagines the idea of a band — and a brand
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| Sandra Upson / Wired: |
Profile of CryptoPunks, an NFT project founded by two Canadian developers in 2017, which has reached $1.5B in lifetime sales as NFTs explode in popularity — When two Canadian coders started an online project called CryptoPunks, they had no idea they'd spark a hyped-up, blockchain-fueled cultural juggernaut.| Campbell Kwan / ZDNet: |
Biden signs the Secure Equipment Act of 2021, denying FCC licenses to national security threats, effectively banning Huawei and ZTE network equipment in the US — The Secure Equipment Act of 2021 received bipartisan support prior to it being signed by Biden.| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Binance, which sources say could be worth $300B if it goes public, as its unfettered, unregulated growth comes to an end amid global scrutiny — The trading platform surged by operating from nowhere in particular—without offices, licenses or headquarters. Now governments are insisting on taking some control.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify acquires audiobook distributor Findaway and says it expects the deal to close in Q4 2021 — In an effort to expand beyond music, Spotify has been investing hundreds of millions to build out its podcasts business. Now the company has set its sights on another form of audio …
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Discord CEO Jason Citron says the service has no plans to add crypto and NFT tools, following a backlash to an internal concept he shared on Twitter — Discord founder and CEO Jason Citron sought to reassure users Wednesday that the company doesn't have impending plans to shift its business toward NFTs.
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| Rebecca Falconer / Axios: |
US joins a global cybersecurity partnership launched in 2018 with 80 countries and companies like Google and Microsoft, after declining to sign up under Trump — The U.S. is now part of an international agreement on cybersecurity that the Trump administration declined to sign up for …
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
YouTube starts hiding public dislike counts on videos to keep smaller creators from being targeted by dislike attacks, following a test in March — Creators will still be able to see how many people disliked their videos — YouTube has announced that it'll be hiding public dislike counts on videos across its site, starting today.
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