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| Tim Starks / CyberScoop: |
CISA Director Jen Easterly says the Log4j flaw likely affects hundreds of millions of devices and may be the most serious bug she has seen in her career — Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Jen Easterly told industry leaders in a phone briefing Monday that a vulnerability …
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| Bloomberg: |
Documents and interviews reveal Apache developers' efforts to patch the Log4j vulnerability, after an Alibaba employee alerted them of the flaw on November 24 — At 2:51 p.m. on Nov. 24, members of an open-source software project received an alarming email.
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BleepingComputer, The Cloudflare Blog, WeLiveSecurity, Search Engine Roundtable, Snyk, cybernews.com, TNW, and The Record
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| Tal Eisner / Check Point Software: |
Analysis: Log4j attacks rose from a few thousand on Dec. 10 to over 800K within 72 hours; exploits have been attempted on 40%+ of corporate networks globally — Precisely one year after the SolarWinds Hack, the groundbreaking supply chain attack the world experienced, and while organizations …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Nike acquires RTFKT, an NFT studio founded in 2020, for an undisclosed sum; RTFKT raised an $8M seed in May led by a16z at a $33.3M valuation — Nike is taking a plunge deeper into the world of crypto collectibles, announcing that they're acquiring the NFT studio RTFKT (pronounced “artifact").
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Oppo announces Air Glass, an “assisted reality” product that projects 2D info and weighs 30g with claimed three-hour usage, coming to China in Q1 2022 — Coming to China early next year — Oppo has announced the Air Glass, an AR device that'll go on sale early next year.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: NSO Group is considering shuttering its Pegasus unit and selling the company, among other options, as it struggles to repay $450M in debt — - Moelis tapped to advise on talks with investment funds — One plan would repurpose product for strictly defensive use
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| Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
Apple delays macOS Monterey's Universal Control until spring 2022, after saying it would launch in the fall — Apple has officially delayed Universal Control, a hallmark feature of macOS Monterey and iPadOS 15 announced in June, until Spring 2022. — In an update to the iPadOS 15 …
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Tweets: @samifathi_ and @kirathetechie
| Daniel Rubino / Windows Central: |
Microsoft and iFixit partner to let approved independent repairers buy official Microsoft service tools for Surface devices from iFixit.com — Authorized and independent technicians can new repair select Surface devices thanks to iFixit and Microsoft — What you need to know
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| Financial Times: |
US Department of Labor letter shows it is investigating Apple over Ashley Gjovik's claims that she was fired under a false pretext after retaliation complaints — US labour department inquiry follows claims by ex-senior engineering program manager — The US Department of Labor …
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
US OSHA says it is investigating the deadly collapse of an Amazon warehouse in Illinois caused by a tornado; six workers died, one was injured, 45 were rescued — - OSHA is investigating a collapse at an Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville, Illinois. — The facility collapsed Friday …
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| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
VR meeting startup Spatial officially pivots to NFTs, letting users host galleries and events, and raises $25M, bringing its total raised to $50M — Just a few months after Meta unveiled its own VR meeting platform, a startup known for a similar product is hitting the brakes: Spatial … | BBC: |
UK MPs propose changes to the UK's Online Safety Bill, including adding more offenses and fines, mandating tech firms appoint a “safety controller”, and more — New criminal offences and major changes have been proposed in the UK's landmark Online Safety Bill, which seeks to regulate social media and tech giants.| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
Biden signs an executive order directing 17 US agencies to modernize services and bring more of them online, including passport photo uploads and taxes — The White House is hoping to spur a major technological overhaul of government services with a new executive order President Biden will sign Monday.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
LogMeIn says it will spin out password management tool LastPass; LogMeIn acquired LastPass, used by 30M people and 85K businesses, for $125M in 2015 — LastPass has more than 30 million users — LogMeIn plans to spin out password management tool LastPass as a standalone company, it announced Tuesday.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Snap says it paid out over $250M to more than 12,000 creators through its Snapchat Spotlight programs in 2021 — This year, Snap finally caught user-generated content fever: In 2021, the company has paid out more than $250 million to more than 12,000 creators through its Snapchat Spotlight programs.| Louise Matsakis / The Atlantic: |
Investors have poured $1B+ into startups looking to turn mom-and-pop stores into digital retailers and mini-tech hubs, especially in South and Southeast Asia — Corner stores don't look like much. Maybe the one nearest to you has dusty shelves lined with bags of chips and cookies …
Tweets: @lemonsand, @paulbisceglio, @lmatsakis, @bcmerchant, and @cengizyar
| Reuters: |
Meta acquires the worldwide trademark assets of US regional bank Meta Financial Group for $60M in cash through its affiliate Beige Key — Meta Platforms Inc (FB.O), the owner of social media network Facebook, is behind a $60 million deal to acquire the trademark assets of U.S. regional bank …
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ExchangeWire.com, Coinspeaker, Benzinga, Forbes, StreetInsider.com, and Silicon Valley Business …
Tweets: @scottnover and @gregroumeliotis
| Eva Dou / Washington Post: |
Internal Huawei marketing slides show a broader role in tracking China's population than previously acknowledged, including using voice ID and tracking shoppers — The Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies has long brushed off questions about its role in China's state surveillance …
Tweets: @lilkuo, @kevincarrico, @laurelchor, @jerrydunleavy, and @kylecmatthews
| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Carto, which helps visualize data on interactive maps, raises a $61M Series C led by Insight Partners — Spatial analysis platform Carto has raised a $61 million Series C round. Many companies collect a ton of data with some location element tied to it. Carto lets you display that data …
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| Joe Williams / Bloomberg: |
AWS Outpost head Joshua Burgin leaves for a new job; a recent report said Jassy overruled a recommendation to fire Burgin in 2019 after discriminatory comments — An executive at Amazon.com Inc.'s cloud division who faced an internal investigation over claims of discriminatory behavior …
| Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: |
Munich-based Apex.ai, which offers an OS for mobility, smart machines, and IoT, raises a $56.5M Series B led by Orillion — Munich-based Apex.ai has raised $56.5 million in a Series B funding round. The software maker provides solutions for mobility and autonomous applications …
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| Kyle Alspach / VentureBeat: |
Cloud security remediation startup Dazz raises $50M Series A and $10M seed round from Insight Partners and others — Cloud security remediation startup Dazz, which today announced it has raised $60 million in funding, said it plans to launch its AI-driven product into general availability …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Medal.tv raises $60M to expand its platform for short gaming clips, bringing its total funding to $70M, and says it has nearly 1M DAUs — Medal.tv has raised $60 million in funding for its platform for short-form videos for games. And the company is also launching Medal version 3.0.
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Tech.eu, Pocket Gamer.biz, Silicon Canals, and YouTube
| Mohak Shroff / Official LinkedIn Blog: |
LinkedIn launches InCareer, a mobile and web app to help professionals in China find jobs, two months after Microsoft sunset the Chinese version of LinkedIn — Exactly two months ago, we announced that we were moving into a new chapter in China, sunsetting the local version of LinkedIn to strengthen our focus on jobs with a new app.
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TechRadar, MSPoweruser, and Pandaily
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Tel Aviv-based Guardio, which offers a cybersecurity browser extension used by 1M+, raises $47M led by Tiger Global — Some say that antivirus software that you install on your PC may have run its course when it comes to the next generation of computing in the cloud.
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| Reuters: |
China fines Weibo ~$470K for repeatedly publishing information deemed illegal; China has imposed 44 penalties on Weibo, totaling ~$2.3M, in the year to November — Chinese social media platform Weibo Corp has been slapped with a 3 million yuan ($470,000) fine by China's internet regulator for repeatedly publishing illegal information.
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