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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
SEC sues Ripple Labs, its CEO Brad Garlinghouse, and Chairman Chris Larsen, alleging they violated federal securities laws in selling XRP to retail consumers — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) believes Ripple Labs violated federal securities laws in selling the XRP cryptocurrency to retail consumers.
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Tweets: @bgarlinghouse, @vitalikbuterin, @bgarlinghouse, @yoshitaka_kitao, @nathanielpopper, @coindesk, @mackattackxrp, @fifikobayashi, @ahcastor, @vcnetworkco, @paulhjossey, @dan_murphy, @coindesk, @kylesamani, @canteringclark, @jaredctate, @femisapien_z, @cablecarcapital, @bgarlinghouse, @nathanielpopper, @ourielohayon, @jason, @arrington, @nathanielpopper, @jason, @caitlinlong_, and @nathanielpopper
| Jennifer Epstein / Bloomberg: |
Biden transition team says Twitter told it current followers of @POTUS won't carry over to Biden, whose @POTUS account will start at zero, a reversal from 2017 — - Followers were transfered to Trump from Obama in 2017 — First lady, press secretary accounts also reset to zero
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| John Harney / Bloomberg: |
DHS has issued an advisory to US businesses, warning of data security risks with using communication equipment and services from China-linked companies — - Homeland Security warns of trade secret, competition risks — Advisory comes after hack that Trump advisers blame on Russia| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Telegram debuts group voice chat as CEO Pavel Durov says it is nearing 500M MAUs and will launch an ad platform for public one-to-many channels next year — Instant messaging app Telegram is “approaching” 500 million users and plans to start generating revenue starting next year to keep the business afloat …
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Certificate authority Let's Encrypt says it has found a workaround that will extend older Android phones' compatibility with its certificates by three years — When you haven't been updated since 2016, expiring certificates are a problem. — Things were touch-and-go for a while …
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Tweets: @letsencrypt, @icing, @goretsky, @charlesarthur, and @arw
| Substack Blog: |
Explaining its content moderation policy, Substack says it will “resist public pressure to suppress voices that loud objectors deem unacceptable” — Building a system that puts readers and writers in charge — As Substack grows, there is increasing interest in the stance we take on content moderation.
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| Logic Magazine: |
Q&A with an anonymous AWS cybersecurity engineer on why AWS is easy to migrate to but difficult to leave, how the pandemic compounded AWS' advantages, and more — Amazon is on a mission to own the infrastructure of our lives. The second-largest private employer in the United States after Walmart …
Tweets: @moiragweigel, @snaidunl, @jyuter, and @jathansadowski
| Rachel Sandler / Forbes: |
NY Governor signs a bill to suspend the use of facial recognition and other biometric ID tech in schools until July 2022, the first such regulation in the US — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill Tuesday temporarily banning the use of facial recognition in schools, making it the first state to take such a step.
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Internally, Facebook staff have voiced skepticism over the company's campaign to portray itself as a defender of small businesses in its fight against Apple — Last Tuesday, Facebook launched what it portrayed as a full-throated defense of small businesses.
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
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| Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says GDPR shows that “regulation can get it wrong” and “we are still a small part of the overall information ecosystem” — For Google, the Techlash arrived with a vengeance last week. After years of mounting angst about the power of Big Tech …
Tweets: @rikefranke, @rachelcoldicutt, @johnthornhillft, @financialtimes, and @mikebutcher
| Alex Gallagher / NME: |
The COVID-19 relief bill passed by Congress includes the Felony Streaming Bill, which makes illegal streaming for profit a felony, with up to 10 years jail time — Targeting illegal for-profit streaming providers, not individual users — The US Congress has passed a COVID-19 stimulus bill …
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| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
Chinese autonomous driving startup WeRide raises $200M from Chinese bus manufacturer Yutong; WeRide says the raise is first tranche of its Series B — WeRide, one of China's most-funded startups developing autonomous driving capabilities, said on Wednesday that it has raised …
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| Sascha Segan / PCMag: |
Testing suggests Verizon's dynamic spectrum sharing tech, which reuses parts of 4G channels for 5G, often produces slower speeds on 5G than its LTE network — Verizon's DSS 5G can be slower than 4G. We explain why, and how to turn off or disable 5G on your iPhone.
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Tweets: @saschasegan, @nevilleray, @dcseifert, @waltlightshed, @notpenguino_, @3g4guk, @dcseifert, and @erivaldoff
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Three VPNs popular with criminals and active for over a decade have had their servers and web domains seized by law enforcement from US, Germany, France, others — The three VPN services provided safe haven for cybercriminals to carry out ransomware attacks, web skimming operations, spearphishing, and account takeovers.
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Europol, U.S. Department of Justice, SiliconANGLE, CyberNews, Gizmodo, BleepingComputer, Tech.co, TechRadar, CyberScoop, and Security Affairs
Tweets: @europol, @zackwhittaker, and @campuscodi
| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
After 11 years, Australia declares its national broadband network is “built and fully operational” with 11.86M premises wired, leaving 35K not yet connected — Those 35,000 connections that aren't built? Celebrate the 11.86 million that were, says Minister
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Paul Fletcher MP, iTnews, Sydney Morning Herald, ZDNet, iTnews, and Slashdot
| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Honeywell says it is buying Sparta Systems, which makes regulatory and quality management software for the life sciences industry, for $1.3B — Software industrial giant Honeywell Inc. said today it's buying life sciences software company Sparta Systems Inc. for $1.3 billion in order to expand …
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PR Newswire, ZDNet, Forbes, Bloomberg, and SiliconANGLE
| Rest of World: |
A look at India's booming dark data economy: stalkerware and spyware apps, databases about parents, cable customers, pregnant women, mutual fund investors, more — Thanks to lax privacy laws and high consumer demand, details on everything from how you shop to who you date are all for sale.
Tweets: @virsanghvi, @restofworld, @nilchristopher, @snowcrashdotfun, @cengizyar, and @anupkaphle
| Financial Times: |
Formula One's outgoing CEO says the company is in active talks with Amazon over streaming deals to screen its Grand Prix races — Internet giants part of motorsport's digital future, says outgoing F1 chief Chase Carey — Formula One is in “active” talks with US internet giant Amazon … Sponsor Posts
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