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| Brad Smith / Microsoft On the Issues: |
Microsoft identified 40+ customers targeted in the SolarWinds hack, 80% in the US, says the attack is “ongoing” and calls for a global cybersecurity response — The final weeks of a challenging year have proven even more difficult with the recent exposure of the world's latest serious nation-state cyberattack.
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| Washington Post: |
CISA issues an alert that says evidence suggests attackers used malware to access US systems, beyond SolarWinds vulnerabilities, but offers no other details — Federal investigators reported Thursday on evidence of previously unknown tactics for penetrating government computer networks …
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| Politico: |
Sources: Energy Dept. and NNSA, which maintains the US nuclear weapons stockpile, have evidence that their networks were accessed as part of the SolarWinds hack — The Energy Department and National Nuclear Security Administration, which maintains the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Microsoft says compromised SolarWinds apps were on its networks but that no customer data was stolen; it denies report hackers used its systems to attack others — Microsoft denies that hackers pivoted to production systems and abused its software to attack customers.
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| The Intercept: |
Microsoft Threat Intel docs suggest state-sponsored hackers, likely from Russia, breached Austin, TX's city network in Oct. and used it to stage other attacks — State-sponsored hackers believed to be from Russia have breached the city network of Austin, Texas, The Intercept has learned.
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| Twitter: |
Twitter says it will start its new verification policy on January 21 and is developing profile labels to designate bots and memorial accounts — A couple of weeks ago, we announced that we're planning to bring back our public verification program in 2021, shared a draft of our new policy …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter launches Spaces, its Clubhouse-like service, in private beta on iOS, limited to select individuals, largely from under-represented backgrounds — Last month, Twitter announced it would soon begin testing a new social experience on its platforms involving audio-only chat rooms …
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| Jack Morse / Mashable: |
Twitter is testing “humanization prompts” which will show users' shared interest and mutual followers when replying to another user's tweet — Twitter wants you to remember that there are actual people on the other side of your replies. — The company began testing a new feature …
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Social Media Today and The Hill
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
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| Jack Morse / Mashable: |
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| New York Times: |
A bipartisan group of 38 AGs sues Google for alleged antitrust violations in search, its third antitrust suit, including exclusionary contracts with Apple — More than 30 states said that the company downplayed websites that let users search for information in specialized areas.
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| Gilad Edelman / Wired: |
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Coinbase says it has confidentially filed for an IPO — Cryptocurrency giant Coinbase announced on Thursday that is has confidentially filed for a public offering, becoming the latest in a parade of high-profile startups to pursue an IPO in 2020. — Founded in 2012 as a simple way for consumers … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Sony is removing Cyberpunk 2077 from PlayStation Store until further notice, and offering full refunds to people who bought it, amid reports of it being buggy — You can request a refund now — Sony is pulling Cyberpunk 2077 from the PlayStation Store and offering full refunds for anyone …
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| Patricia Nilsson / Financial Times: |
An investigation into who owns MindGeek, the secretive company behind Pornhub, which had $460M in revenue in 2018 and has 115M+ daily visitors to its sites — Mario Salieri was shooting a pornographic movie in a lavish Prague villa two decades ago when he first caught sight of the computer geeks who were about to upend his industry.
Tweets: @mattgarrahan, @lailamickelwait, @b50, @josephstash, @alexhern, and @alexhern
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
GitHub says it is doing away with all non-essential cookies and will no longer feature “irritating” cookie banners on GitHub.com and its subdomains — Microsoft -owned GitHub today announced that it is doing away with all non-essential cookies on its platform.
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The GitHub Blog, Fortune, and InfoWorld
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Google to shut down Android Things, a stripped-down version of Android designed for smart home devices, on January 5th, 2022 — The smart home OS went pretty much nowhere — Google plans to shut down Android Things, a stripped-down version of Android designed for smart home devices.
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Android Developers, Ars Technica, Android Central, Neowin, SlashGear, CNET, and Slashdot. Tweets: @samitsarkar
| Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal: |
As its revenue surges, Roku has become increasingly forceful in its negotiations with media companies, as evidenced by its fights with Fox and WarnerMedia — The maker of the leading streaming-media player has taken up brash negotiating tactics over its terms to carry services like HBO Max and Peacock| Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
Automation software maker UiPath has confidentially filed for an IPO, size and price unknown, for sometime in H1 2021; UiPath was last valued at $10.2B in July — - Software maker could have $20 billion-plus value in 2021 IPO — Company has about $500 million in annual recurring revenue| Reuters: |
Sources: US to add ~80 more Chinese companies and affiliates, including SMIC, to the trade blacklist on Friday — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is set to add dozens of Chinese companies, including the country's top chipmaker SMIC, to a trade blacklist on Friday, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday.| Russ Frushtick / Polygon: |
Q&A with Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser on COVID-19's impact, Animal Crossing, plans for 2021, Switch Online, and more — The president of Nintendo of America on the last year and looking ahead to 2021 — It's hard to imagine a company weathering 2020 much better than Nintendo.| Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: |
LinkedIn data from April to October shows Madison, Cleveland, and Sacramento had biggest gains in tech worker migration, while SF and NYC had steepest declines — The Austin surge that wasn't. Plus booming Seattle, miraculous Madison, and sluggish San Francisco. — 5 hr ago
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Tweets: @dalmaer, @kantrowitz, @cristobalyoung5, @garrytan, @kantrowitz, @kantrowitz, and @margaretomara
| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Rubrik, a data management startup last valued at $3.3B in 2019, acquires tech and IP assets from Igneous, which provides unstructured data management services — Rubrik, a Palo Alto, Calif-based cloud data management startup valued at more than $3 billion, has acquired technology and IP assets from Igneous … Sponsor Posts
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