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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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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
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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| Richa Naidu / Reuters: |
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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| Joe Williams / Bloomberg: |
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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| New York Times: |
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.| Heejin Kim / Bloomberg: |
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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| 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.| Mishaal Rahman: |
How a bug in Android 10 and above, triggered by the user not being logged in to the Microsoft Teams app, could prevent 911 calls — On the 29th of November, Reddit user KitchenPicture 5849 posted a harrowing story about how their Pixel phone failed to connect to emergency services.
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Android Police, The Verge, Mashable, Platy’s Web Excursions, Releases, MSPoweruser, Engadget, MobileSyrup, 9to5Google, The Verge, and Android Police
Tweets: @xlerb, @mistydemeo, @yifanlu, @mishaalrahman, @ronamadeo, @liliputingnews, @killedbygoogle, and @journeydan. Thanks:@mishaalrahman
| 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 … | Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
TrueNorth, a logistics service for independent truckers, raises a $50M Series B led by the Altman brothers and former Stripe executive Lachy Groom — Jin Stedge studied aerospace engineering at MIT, but after she found herself at Scotty Labs, an SRI International spin-out focused on autonomous driving …
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Tweets: @truenorthfleet, @elizabeth, and @ycombinator
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