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| 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?
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| 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, BleepingComputer, The Next Web, and CoinGeek
Tweets: @holisticinfosec, @ushadrons, @binitamshah, @virusbtn, and @notameadow
| 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: @matonis, @securitybeard, @a_greenberg, @a_greenberg, @nxthompson, and @a_greenberg
| 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
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
ESET details a hacking campaign, active for the past 6 years, by the Russia-linked group the Dukes or Cozy Bear, which was thought to be dormant since DNC hack — Largely out of the spotlight since 2016, Cozy Bear hackers have been caught perpetrating a years-long campaign.
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BleepingComputer, ZDNet, MIT Technology Review, and Slashdot
Tweets: @wired, @wired, @a_greenberg, @karolcummins, and @issaintl
| 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, Furniture Today, The Hustle, BusinessDen, PitchBook, and Business of Home
Tweets: @archdigest and @furnituretoday
| 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
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Samsung says fingerprint bug on Galaxy devices is due to the sensor reading 3D patterns in screen protectors as fingerprints, will patch it as soon as next week — And advises removing silicone screen protecting cases for now — Samsung says that it plans to release a patch for its phones …
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Tweets: @holly, @iphonedo, @natisho, and @techlinkedyt
| FinSMEs: |
Radius Networks, which enables location-based transactions like curbside and in-store pickup, raises $15M Series A — Radius Networks, a Washington, DC-based technology company that uses its machine learning location platform to allow businesses to conduct location-based transactions with their customers … | 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, @ainowinstitute, @varoonmathur, @techreview, @jason_pontin, @techreview, and @hiphination
| 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, InsideBitcoins.com, BetaKit, iMore, 9to5Mac, Coinspeaker, Engadget, Cointelegraph, The Verge, and Slashdot
Tweets: @kricoyll, @octogoddess, @satisfysarah, @ted_livingston, @kik, and @kin_foundation
| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Y Combinator partners talk about its online Startup School program, which has enlisted 30K+ startups, as the institution tries to overcome its insular image — About 30,000 startups have enrolled in the accelerator's online program, as the iconic institution tries to overcome its insular image.Sponsor Posts
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