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| Filippo Valsorda / Filippo.io: |
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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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers spot waves of attacks targeting unpatched Apache servers with the Log4j bug, exfiltrating data, spreading botnets, installing crypto miners, more — Threat actors and researchers are scanning for and exploiting the Log4j Log4Shell vulnerability to deploy malware or find vulnerable servers.
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| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
After a deadly warehouse collapse in Illinois, Amazon staff say a ban on phones at work denies access to emergency alerts and a way to contact first responders — - Online retailer is returning to a cell phone ban in warehouses — Workers say they want access to weather alerts, communication
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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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| Financial Times: |
Interview with UK's GCHQ head about the agency's upcoming cyber strategy, issues with state-sponsored digital currencies, hacking firms like NSO, and more — GCHQ head warns technology could allow Beijing to monitor users and exert control over global currency transactions
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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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| CNBC: |
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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| 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.| Maddison Connaughton / New York Times: |
An Australian artist using the @Metaverse Instagram handle for a decade found herself being blocked from using it after Facebook changed its name to Meta — Five days after Facebook changed its name to Meta, an Australian artist found herself blocked, with seemingly no recourse …
Tweets: @ericnewcomer, @nytimes, @evleaks, and @mtvsmkvrs
| 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.| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
Indonesia-based Fuse, which connects insurance companies with multiple distribution channels, raises a $25M Series B, bringing its total funding to $70M+ — Indonesia-based insurtech startup Fuse announced today it has secured $25 million of Series B extension round as it plans to enter …
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| Zephyr Teachout / New Republic: |
Existing laws and the threat of regulation can force tech giants to open up, as recent right to repair-related changes by Apple and Microsoft show — DuckDuckGo is increasingly a rarity, when it should be the most standard kind of company in the country. It is a successful …
Tweets: @doctorow and @newrepublic
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