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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.| 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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| 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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| 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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Beijing to Britain. Tweets: @jsrailton, @carolecadwalla, @ohra_aho, @trmcdonald, @chris_skinner, and @ngleicher
| 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.| 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’| 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 …
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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.| 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?”
Tweets: @micahjay1, @josephflaherty, @kevingibbon, @zakimahomed, @josephflaherty, @hkanji, @katgleason, and @micahjay1
| Sha Hua / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Alibaba fired a female employee who accused a supervisor of rape, allegations that triggered widespread debate in July over workplace sexual misconduct — In dismissal notice, Chinese e-commerce giant alleges she spread false information that damaged the company's reputation
Tweets: @kubota_yoko, @joshchin, @wsj, @jchengwsj, and @dariuslongarino
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