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Sources: investigators are checking if SolarWinds was hacked via its offices in Czechia, Poland, and Belarus, where the company moved much of its engineering — Those behind the widespread intrusion into government and corporate networks exploited seams in U.S. defenses and gave away nothing to American monitoring of their systems.| Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: |
Microsoft says SolarWinds hackers were able to view some of its source code by hacking into an employee account but were unable to modify code or access emails — The hackers gained more access than the company previously revealed, though the attackers were unable to modify code or access emails.
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Developer of Amphetamine says Apple agreed to let the Mac app stay up with its current name and logo, after previously threatening to remove it due to its name — Amphetamine is a free app that helps keep your Mac awake. Amphetamine has been on the Mac App Store since 2014 and it's been downloaded over 432,800 times.
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Researchers: more than 100K Zyxel firewalls and VPN gateways have a hardcoded admin-level backdoor that can grant attackers root access to devices — The username and password (zyfwp/PrOw!aN_fXp) were visible in one of the Zyxel firmware binaries. — More than 100,000 Zyxel firewalls …
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35 tech executives, investors, and experts offer their forecasts on tech trends in 2021, from increased investments in remote work to new data governance models — As we come to the end of a crazy 2020, many of us are suffering from COVID-19 exhaustion. But as two vaccines begin their rollouts … | Wall Street Journal: |
An overview of tech to expect in 2021: better webcams, portable UV sanitizers, “assisted reality” glasses, more subscription services attached to hardware — New ways to work, exercise, see the doctor, watch movies and sanitize every surface in sight will continue to proliferate.| Katie Paul / Reuters: |
Rob Leathern, Facebook's chief of advertising integrity who handled ad products around sensitive subjects, says he left the company on December 30 — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc's chief of advertising integrity, who handled the company's ad products around sensitive subjects such as politics …
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| Alice Gledhill / Bloomberg: |
Bitcoin crosses $30K to reach an all-time high, after growing almost 50% in December — Bitcoin, the world's largest cryptocurrency, topped $30,000 for the first time, just weeks after passing another major milestone. — The currency gained almost 6% on Saturday to reach nearly $31,000 …
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NYSE says it will delist three Chinese companies, China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom, on January 7 to comply with a US EO imposing restrictions — The New York Stock Exchange said it will delist three Chinese companies to comply with a U.S. executive order that imposed restrictions …
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Facebook says there were 1.4B+ voice and video calls on WhatsApp on NYE 2020 globally, up 50%+ YoY, and 55M+ live streams across Facebook and Instagram — Like all of 2020, last night's New Year's Eve was different. There were fewer crowds celebrating in the streets around the world.| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
A look at the tech companies and people that helped with issues from COVID-19 to wildfires to Black Lives Matter in 2020 — This year, technology firms big and small stepped up to help with the Covid-19 pandemic and other thorny challenges. — Some years, I have to dig deep to come …
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| Karlene Lukovitz / MediaPost: |
Parks Associates: 20% of US broadband households currently use ad-supported streaming services and 15% use a freemium service, like Peacock — Twenty percent of U.S. broadband households currently use an ad-supported OTT service, and 15% use a “freemium” service, according to Parks Associates research.| @larsiusprime: |
[Thread] As a promised replacement for Flash, HTML5/JS is still in the stone age as a newbie-friendly animation/graphics-first authoring toolset — To this day, I am super mad at all the people who put for the codswallop that HTML5 was this perfect replacement for Flash. It's been 10 years since “Thoughts on Flash” was published and HTML5 STILL doesn't (in actual practice) replicate what mattered about Flash.
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