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Pinterest settles shareholder lawsuits over allegations of discrimination by pledging $50M to overhaul its corporate culture and promote diversity — Pinterest pledged $50 million to overhaul its corporate culture and promote diversity as part of an agreement to resolve allegations …
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Roblox sues Ruben Sim, a YouTuber it banned over harassment and sexual content, for leading a “cybermob” that it says terrorizes its platform and developers — The banned Roblox user is also a popular and controversial YouTube creator, Ruben Sim
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| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
EU proposes broad disclosures about political ads and banning targeting based on sensitive data, but not microtargeting, and fines of up to 5% of global revenue — Proposed measure would ban targeting political ads based on categories such as religious views, sexual orientation
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify confirms it is testing Discover, a TikTok-like vertical feed of music videos that appears to repurpose Canvas videos, in its iOS app — TikTok has seen its short-form video feed copied by a host of competitors, from Instagram to Snap to YouTube and even Netflix.| Patricia Allen / EU-Startups: |
Everstox, which offers product management and monitoring software for logistics operators, raises a €20M Series A led by Acton Capital — Logistics-as-a-service tech company everstox has just secured a €20 million boost to expand across Europe. The Munich-based startup …
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| Nathaniel Mott / PCMag: |
Check Point details MediaTek DSP firmware vulnerabilities in some Android smartphones that could be exploited to eavesdrop; MediaTek released patches in October — Check Point Research discovers a vulnerability in the digital signal processor found in MediaTek's system-on-chip offerings.
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Check Point Software, ZDNet, Check Point Research, TechCircle, Dark Reading, TechRadar, The Register, BleepingComputer, The Record, The Hacker News, and infosecurity-magazine.com. Tweets: @pcmag
| Olatunji Olaigbe / The Record: |
How one Nigerian university student turned to cybercrime during the pandemic to pay his bills, driven by high unemployment, few well-paying jobs, and boredom — ILORIN, Nigeria—Around November 2020, Kayode said he was invited to a house party—the kind attended mostly by others involved in the country's illicit digital economy.
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| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Israel reduces the countries approved for export of cyber tools from 102 to 37, most of which are in the West, after the US sanctioned NSO Group and Candiru — The Ministry of Defense has reduced the number of countries approved for export of cyber tools by Israeli companies from 102 to 37
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The Times of Israel and Candid.Technology
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| Paul Stamatiou: |
A look at some key design challenges in crypto and Web3, from onboarding to wallet security, that need to be addressed for the next generation of users — It's still early days in crypto. — That's what you'll hear everywhere when you start digging into crypto and web3 today.
Tweets: @developer_dao, @integralhq, and @alexisohanian
| Michael McSweeney / The Block: |
Coinbase acquires crypto wallet startup BRD and says BRD wallet users will have the option to migrate to the Coinbase wallet in 2022 — Crypto exchange Coinbase has acquired the crypto wallet startup BRD, according to a notice from its leadership team. — In a letter address …
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Tweets: @coinbasewallet, @cointelegraph, @surojit, @cointelegraph, @brdhq, @sid_coelho, and @spencerchen
| Keith Zhai / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: at least nine state-run Chinese companies, including China Mobile, tell staff to stop using Tencent's chat app Weixin, citing security concerns — Employees were told to disband chat groups over security concerns, as Beijing's scrutiny into Tencent grows
Tweets: @jchengwsj and @johnkoetsier
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Adam Mosseri agrees to testify about Instagram's effects on teenage users before a Senate Commerce subcommittee during the week of December 6 — Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, has agreed for the first time to testify before Congress, as bipartisan anger mounts over harms to young people from the app.Sponsor Posts
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