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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
A behind-the-scenes account of a cyberattack that disrupted the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics, which was tied to a specific unit of Russia's GRU — How digital detectives unraveled the mystery of Olympic Destroyer—and why the next big attack will be even harder to crack.
Tweets: @a_greenberg, @securitybeard, @matonis, @a_greenberg, @nxthompson, and @a_greenberg
| Taylor Lorenz / New York Times: |
How TikTok is making inroads into US schools, as students create TikTok clubs to riff on the latest memes, and shoot videos on Newton's Laws for extra credit — Teens love the app, and now it's getting the stamp of approval with teacher-approved clubs. Did school just get ... fun?
Tweets: @jamiew, @kalhanr, @hshaban, @taylorlorenz, @caseynewton, @taylorlorenz, @nytstyles, @taylorlorenz, @moonalice, and @hwise29
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researchers find malware operators are now using steganography techniques to hide malicious code in WAV audio files — Steganography malware trend moving from PNG and JPG to WAV files. — Two reports published in the last few months show that malware operators are experimenting with using WAV audio files to hide malicious code.
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Symantec, Cylance Blog, Boing Boing, BleepingComputer, The Next Web, and CoinGeek
Tweets: @ushadrons, @binitamshah, @virusbtn, @holisticinfosec, and @notameadow
| Bloomberg: |
Seven US lawmakers, including Wyden, Cruz, Ocasio-Cortez, and Rubio accuse Apple of “censorship of apps” at the “behest of the Chinese government”, in a letter — - Cruz, AOC, others ask Apple to reinstate HK map app it pulled — Apple CEO discussed consumer rights with Chinese regulator
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Tweets: @markgurman and @anderscorr
| Melanie Ehrenkranz / OneZero: |
A look inside a community of hackers who tinker with Kindle e-readers to disable Amazon's tracking, circumvent file format restrictions, install games, and more — And installing ‘Zork’ while they're at it — t's easy to make the case for a Kindle. It's portable, you can read it in the dark …
Tweets: @dlberes, @mvzelenks, and @medium
| Allie Weiss / Architectural Digest: |
Havenly, which connects interior designers with clients for $99 virtual full-room makeover sessions, raises $32M Series C, bringing its total raised to $57.8M — The interior design service's latest funding will support the launch of a private-label collection and more
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TechCrunch, PitchBook, The Hustle, Furniture Today, Business of Home, and BusinessDen
Tweets: @furnituretoday and @archdigest
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
MediaLab, a holding company that owns the Whisper app, buys Kik messenger from Kik Interactive, which now focuses on development of Kin cryptocurrency — The Kik messaging platform has been bought by MediaLab, a holding company which operates Whisper and a number of other apps, the company announced Friday.
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kik.com, TechCrunch, CNN, BetaKit, InsideBitcoins.com, 9to5Mac, iMore, Coinspeaker, Engadget, Cointelegraph, The Verge, and Slashdot
Tweets: @kik, @kricoyll, @octogoddess, @satisfysarah, @ted_livingston, @kik, and @kin_foundation
| MIT Technology Review: |
A game made with a real world dataset of defendants shows the shortcomings of COMPAS, an AI-powered risk assessment tool used in the US criminal legal system — The US criminal legal system uses predictive algorithms to try to make the judicial process less biased. But there's a deeper problem.
Tweets: @_karenhao, @marylgray, @ledataminer, @varoonmathur, @ainowinstitute, @techreview, @jason_pontin, and @hiphination
| New York Times: |
Zuckerberg gives a full-throated defense of Facebook as a champion of free expression and defends Facebook policy to opt out of fact-checking political ads — In an address at Georgetown University, the Facebook chief executive called for more free speech — not less …
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Columbia Journalism Review, Axios, The Guardian, Wired, Facebook, Washington Post, 9to5Mac, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, TechSpot, CNET, South China Morning Post, MIT Technology Review, Fortune, Slate, and Inc42 Media
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| ProPublica: |
Inside Intuit's 20-year fight to make it harder to file taxes for free, including a pact with the IRS that kept a US-run service from competing with TurboTax — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica's Big Story newsletter to receive stories …
Tweets: @justinelliott, @paulkiel, @justinelliott, @ritholtz, @andrewyang, @ewarren, @carnage4life, @eisingerj, @leandra2848, and @sam_alberti
| Wing Blog: |
Wing starts first commercial drone delivery service in the US, delivering orders from FedEx Express, Walgreens, and Sugar Magnolia in Christiansburg, Virginia — This afternoon, in a first for drone delivery in the U.S., Wing is delivering packages, over-the-counter medication …
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Engadget, TechCrunch, TechSpot, Digital Trends, WSET-TV, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, and The Verge. Tweets: @theteamatx
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
After buying Poloniex in 2018 for $400M, Circle spins it out into Polo Digital Assets, backed by an unnamed Asian firm, says it won't serve US customers anymore — Crypto exchange Poloniex is spinning out from its parent firm Circle, the companies announced Friday.
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The Block, The Poloniex blog, Circle blog, Cointelegraph, Crowdfund Insider, The Merkle Hash, Bitcoinist.com, CryptoGlobe, NewsBTC, Decrypt, Crypto Briefing, and The Block
Tweets: @poloniex, @poloniex, @theblock__, @jasonklau, @jamestodaromd, @icodrops, @mdudas, @theblock__, @fintechfrank, and @fintechfrank
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