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How the role of open-source maintainers could be professionalized, as the maintainer who fixed the log4j zero-day says he works on the project in his spare time — Open Source software runs the Internet, and by extension the economy. This is an undisputed fact about reality in 2021.
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Narendra Modi's Twitter account was briefly compromised, tweeting that India had adopted bitcoin as legal tender and linking to a sketchy website — The Twitter account of India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi was “briefly compromised” on Sunday, his office said.
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Rescuers confirm at least six workers died in an Amazon warehouse hit by tornadoes in Illinois; authorities shift from rescue to recovery efforts — Six Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) workers were confirmed dead on Saturday after a series of tornadoes roared through a warehouse near St. Louis …
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AWS blames its hours-long Tuesday outage on network devices overloading, plans to revamp its status page to address complaints about updates and support cases — - A major Amazon Web Services outage on Tuesday started after network devices got overloaded, the company said on Friday.
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Salesforce Chief Revenue Officer says the MuleSoft unit is “going through a bit of a rough patch”, amid a wave of high-level departures and slowing sales growth — - Unit key to company's future ‘Customer 360’ ambitions — Executive says MuleSoft has hit ‘a bit of a rough patch’| Founder Collective: |
Analysis of 166 tech IPOs from 2010 to 2019: the 30 most valuable startups raised half as much capital and produced nearly 4X the value as the 30 most funded — Does raising a large amount of capital make a startup more likely to succeed? Is capital a weapon? Do startup founders need to “go big or go home?”
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Nuvocargo, a logistics software startup focused on moving cargo between Mexico and the US, raises $20.5M at a $180M post-money valuation, up from $70M in April — Nuvocargo, a logistics startup out to help simplify the challenges of cross-border trade, has raised $20.5 million in a round led by Tiger Global Management.
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Samsung names its newly merged smartphone, consumer electronics, and home appliances businesses the DX (Device eXperience) Division — Samsung Electronics Co. named its newly merged mobile-phone and home-appliances businesses “DX Division” as the tech giant moves to strengthen its corporate structure.
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Investigation: a site providing directions on how to die is linked to at least ~45 suicides, as Google and Bing refuse to remove it absent a legal requirement — It has the trappings of popular social media, a young audience and explicit content on suicide that other sites don't allow.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
iOS 15.2 will bring Messages nudity detection, macro lens toggle, better privacy controls, and more; no digital IDs in Wallet or Universal Control for macOS yet — Apple Inc. is set to release new features with iOS 15.2, including scanning for nude photos sent to or from children in Messages.| Angelica Mari / ZDNet: |
Brazil's Ministry of Health suffers a major ransomware attack, blocking access to millions of COVID-19 digital vaccination certificates and 50TB of data — Hackers claimed to have copied and deleted 50 TB worth of data from internal systems. — Websites under Brazil's Ministry of Health … | Rebecca Torrence / FierceHealthcare: |
Reveleer, which lets US government-sponsored health care payers analyze member and provider data, raises $65M led by Oak HC/FT — Reveleer, a cloud-based platform helping payers analyze member and provider data, has landed $65 million in fresh capital. — The company allows government … Sponsor Posts
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