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The UK and US say they have identified “Cyclops Blink”, new botnet malware linked to Russian-backed Sandworm hacking group, which appears to replace VPNFilter — The Russian government's Sandworm group uses previously unseen Cyclops Blink. — Hackers for one of Russia's …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Mark Zuckerberg showcases a concept for voice-controlled VR space generation, plans for a universal language translator, and more in a Meta livestream — 'Let's go to the beach' — Meta is testing an artificial intelligence system that lets people build parts of virtual worlds by describing them …
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| Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times: |
As Joe Rogan, Ben Shapiro, and other right-wing commentators sour on Google, some push DuckDuckGo as an alternative, arguing Google suppresses results — The embrace by some conservative influencers and conspiracy theorists is part of a broader effort to shift people away from Big Tech.
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A researcher posing as a 13-year-old girl used a Meta Quest to access VRChat, and witnessed virtual grooming, sexual material, a rape threat, and racist insults — Some apps in the virtual-reality metaverse are “dangerous by design”, the NSPCC has warned in response to a BBC News investigation.
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| Joe Williams / Bloomberg: |
Cloudflare acquires email protection startup Area 1 Security for $162M in cash and stock; Cloudflare's stock is down 55%+ from its November 2021 all-time high — Cloudflare Inc. said it has agreed to buy email protection provider Area 1 Security Inc. for $162 million, the security vendor's … | Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
Trump's Truth Social has been almost entirely inaccessible in its first few days due to technical glitches, a 13-hour outage, and a 300,000-person waitlist — Former president Donald Trump, a longtime critic of how Democrats debuted Healthcare.gov, is facing a bungled website launch of his own.
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| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Researchers say Samsung shipped ~100M phones, including Galaxy S21, with since-patched design flaws that could let attackers extract secret cryptographic keys — Academics found TrustZone-level code could not be trusted to keep secrets — Academics at Tel Aviv University in Israel …
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
eBay reports Q4 revenue of $2.6B, up 5% YoY, gross merchandise volume of $20.7B, down 10% YoY, 147M annual global active buyers, down 9%; stock down 5%+ — - Shares of eBay slid in extended trading on Wednesday after the company gave first-quarter earnings and revenue guidance that fell short of analysts' expectations.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Intel debuts 12th Gen Alder Lake P-series and U-series CPUs for thinner and lighter laptops, claiming up to 70% better multi-threaded performance over 11th Gen — Laptop P-series and U-series chips teased at CES 2022 will arrive in March — Intel launched the first wave of its 12th … | Stephen Totilo / Axios: |
SEC filing: Activision CEO Bobby Kotick would get $15M if Microsoft fires him without cause; Phil Spencer began acquisition talks three days after WSJ's exposé — There are big potential payouts ahead for controversial Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick, according to an extensive SEC filing …
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft adds Google Cloud support to its Defender for Cloud tool that finds and monitors security weak spots, three months after adding AWS support — Microsoft Corp. is expanding its product for finding and monitoring security weak spots in cloud-computing to include rival Alphabet Inc.'s Google Cloud Platform.| Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters: |
Twitter says it mistakenly suspended around a dozen accounts posting about Russian military movements near the Ukrainian border, and reinstates some accounts — Twitter (TWTR.N) said on Wednesday it had mistakenly suspended around a dozen accounts that were posting about Russian military movements …
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| Rachel Treisman / NPR: |
Center for Countering Digital Hate: Facebook did not label 50.5% of posts linking to 184 climate change denial articles from 10 publishers since May 2021 — Facebook is falling short on its pledge to crack down on climate misinformation, according to a new analysis from a British watchdog group.
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| Ash Parrish / The Verge: |
Twitch launches the Ad Incentive Program to pay select streamers a guaranteed monthly minimum ad revenue based on amount of ads run per hour and hours streamed — The Ad Incentive Program will pay streamers a guaranteed minimum amount of ad revenue per month
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Secureframe, which helps companies comply with HIPAA, SOC 2, and other standards, raises a $56M Series B led by Accomplice, bringing its total funding to $78.5M — Meeting compliance standards like HIPAA and SOC 2 can be a critical — and often mandatory — part of the matrix of boxes … | Andy Maxwell / TorrentFreak: |
Reddit publishes its 2021 transparency report: 297M pieces of content were removed out of 5.8B total, 2,813 users and 2,625 subreddits were permanently banned — As one of the more popular user-submitted content sites on the internet today, Reddit and its community moderators have to work hard to keep the platform in order.| Kellen Browning / New York Times: |
Despite letting some employees permanently work from home, tech companies are spending billions of dollars expanding their office spaces across the US — Even as they allow some employees to change how often they come into the office, tech companies are rapidly buying and leasing properties around the country.| Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: |
The EU unveils the Data Act, setting rules on how companies can access anonymized data; cloud providers like AWS and Azure would be forced to simplify switching — The European Union unveiled new rules that will make it easier for users to transfer data generated from products like Amazon.com Inc.'s Alexa or a Tesla Inc. vehicle.Sponsor Posts
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