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Sources: Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky withdrew $10M from the crypto lender weeks before the company froze user accounts; a source says ~$8M was used for taxes — Scrutiny of Alex Mashinsky grows after crypto lender was left with hole in balance sheet — Celsius Network founder Alex …
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| Morgan Meaker / Wired: |
A look at the fake online traffic business, as some ad exchanges look the other way and advertisers are embarrassed to admit they purchased fraudulent inventory — Botmasters have created a Kafkaesque system where companies are paying huge sums to show their ads to bots. And everyone is fine with this.| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
From shutting down services only in Texas to letting users opt out of hateful content, tech companies are gaming out responses to the state's social media law — Experts said the measure, which bars companies from moderating content, could prove challenging for platforms to deal with
Tweets: @blakersdozen, @ctblogger, @edbott, @washingtonpost, and @dsilverman
| Nate Hopper / New Yorker: |
A profile of David Mills, who created the Network Time Protocol in the 1980s, as about two dozen Internet Engineering Task Force contributors work toward NTPv5 — An obscure software system synchronizes the network's clocks. Who will keep it running? — In 1977, David Mills …
Tweets: @hkanji, @dsilverman, @yminsky, @hannahseidlitz, @rlove, @nicolasnova, and @uhoelzle
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Symantec details an ongoing campaign by the Witchetty hacking group, potentially tied to a China-backed threat actor, that hides malware in a Windows logo image — Security researchers have discovered a malicious campaign by the ‘Witchetty’ hacking group, which uses steganography to hide a backdoor malware in a Windows logo.
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Threat Intelligence | Broadcom Software Blogs. More:
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Tweets: @threatintel and @campuscodi
| Bettina Makalintal / Eater: |
Instagram food photography is becoming more realistic, driven by generational changes, more diverse food creators, and a frustration with the curation culture — The food blogger aesthetic has given way to something more realistic and DIY: Laissez-faire Instagram food is here| The Citizen Lab: |
New Pegasus attacks on Mexican activists and reporters from 2019-2021 found using 0-click exploits, after the new president called Pegasus a thing of the past — Key Takeaways — Mexican digital rights organization R3D (Red en los Defensa de los Derechos Digitales) …
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Prosus Ventures terminates its deal to acquire Indian payments company BillDesk for $4.7B in cash, saying “certain conditions precedent” were unfulfilled — Prosus Ventures has called off the $4.7 billion merger of BillDesk it announced last year, saying “certain conditions precedent” …
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| Tristan Fiedler / Politico: |
NXP Semiconductors CEO Kurt Sievers estimates the EU must invest €500B to achieve its 20% global chip market share goal by 2030, short of the Chips Act's €43B — DRESDEN — The leader of one of Europe's most prominent microchips companies on Thursday warned the bloc's intended investment …
Tweets: @politicoeurope
| Dan De Luce / NBC News: |
Kentik: Iran's three main mobile operators shut down service for about eight hours in the evening for 10 consecutive days, causing an uptick in landline traffic — Internet freedom activists are scrambling to help Iranians evade Tehran's online crackdown and are urging the U.S. government …
Tweets: @yashar, @netblocks, and @dandeluce
| Amy Forliti / Associated Press: |
JD.com founder Richard Liu settled a US lawsuit filed by a former University of Minnesota student who alleged he raped her in 2018; the amount was not disclosed — Chinese billionaire and JD.com founder Richard Liu agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by a former University of Minnesota student …
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| Grace Browne / Wired: |
A look at the AI chatbots designed to improve mental health, like Wysa and Woebot, which have millions of users despite scant research to support their efficacy — With human therapists in short supply, AI chatbots are trying to plug the gap—but it's not clear how well they work. — Bots Run the InternetSponsor Posts
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