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WhatsApp clarifies its new data sharing policy, which relates mostly to businesses, following a backlash and recent surge of Telegram and Signal — The company is trying to contain fallout over a privacy policy update — WhatsApp has published a new FAQ page to its website outlining …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
After reports of all of Parler's data being downloaded by third parties, analysis shows Parler lacked basic security measures to prevent such a data breach — The “free speech” social network also allowed unlimited access to every public post, image, and video.
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Parler is suing Amazon after its AWS suspension, leveling far-fetched antitrust allegations, including that Amazon hoped to reduce competition for Twitter — Parler has sued Amazon after the beleaguered conservative social media site was expelled from AWS, filing a fanciful complaint alleging … | Dell Cameron / Gizmodo: |
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| Alex Heath / The Information: |
Memo: following its Trump ban, Facebook has told employees to avoid wearing company-branded apparel in public as it might put staff at risk — Facebook on Monday told employees to avoid wearing or carrying company-branded clothing and other items in public following the company's suspension … | Twitter: |
Twitter says it has suspended over 70K accounts involved in spreading harmful QAnon-associated content since Friday — Following the horrific events in Washington, DC, last week, here are some of the steps we've taken to protect the conversation on our service from attempts to incite violence …
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| Jay Greene / Washington Post: |
Amazon says it will begin removing QAnon products from its site and third-party merchants attempting to list QAnon goods may have selling privileges revoked — The e-commerce company will block sales in the coming days of products that reference the baseless conspiracy theory whose adherents …
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| Jason Koebler / VICE: |
Salesforce said it had “taken action” against RNC from sending emails that may lead to violence; RNC says it has stopped fundraising on all digital platforms — The Donald Trump campaign has not used its millions-strong email list since the riots at the Capitol.| Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: |
Samsung unveils the Exynos 2100 flagship SoC, produced on a 5nm process node, touting 19% better single core and 33% better multi-core performance than last gen — Today, Samsung LSI took the virtual stage to announce the new Exynos 2100 flagship SoC. The new chip is quite special …
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| Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia unveils RTX 3060, 3070, and 3080 GPUs, suited for mobile gaming, and says laptops with the RTX 3070 and 3080 will start rolling out this month — Nvidia's Ampere architecture is going mobile. The company revealed its plans and partnerships to bring GeForce RTX 30-series GPUs to more than 70 laptops throughout 2021.| Jeff Stone / CyberScoop: |
Europol says it has shut down DarkMarket, the largest online marketplace for illicit goods with 2,400+ vendors, and apprehended a suspect, an Australian man — German law enforcement has shut down an internet market where users bought and sold narcotics, stolen data and hacking tools, authorities said Tuesday.
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Europol, Decrypt, and Threatpost
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
AMD unveils its Ryzen 5000 Series, 8-core x86 chips for gaming laptops and thin-and-light notebooks coming in February, and third-gen Epyc server chips — Advanced Micro Devices showed off some impressive Ryzen 5000 mobile processors today and teased the performance of its 3rd Gen Epyc server chips.
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| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
A look at those unlucky enough to forget the password to access their bitcoin; Chainalysis says 20% of all bitcoin, or ~$140B, appears to be lost or stranded — Bitcoin owners are getting rich because the cryptocurrency has soared. But what happens when you can't tap that wealth …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook expands its Access Your Information tool, adding six new categories of data, a search tool, and more, available now on its Android and iOS apps — Facebook today is rolling out an update to its Access Your Information tool with the goal of making the tool easier to both use and navigate …
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| Bloomberg: |
Zoom says it is seeking to raise $1.5B through a new stock offering — Zoom Video Communications Inc. is seeking to raise $1.5 billion through a stock offering, capitalizing on surging demand for the video-conferencing platform during pandemic. — Zoom said in a statement Tuesday it expects …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Workato, provider of app integration and workflow automation services for businesses, raises $110M Series D at a post-money valuation of $1.7B — Workato, a company that offers an integration and automation platform for businesses, today announced that it raised $110 million at a post-money valuation of $1.7 billion.
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| Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post: |
Gig workers and unions sue in CA Supreme Court to have Prop 22 overturned, alleging it violates the state constitution and limits the power of legislators — The lawsuit alleges Prop 22 violated the state constitution, and limited the powers of legislators to provide labor protections they are authorized to grant.
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| David Z. Morris / Fortune: |
Modern Treasury, which develops software to help integrate direct banking services with online services, raises $38M led by Altimeter Capital — Our mission to make business better is fueled by readers like you. To enjoy unlimited access to our journalism, subscribe today.| Dr. Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
Intel previews 14nm Rocket Lake Core i9-11900K, its next consumer flagship processor, coming in Q1, promising up to 50% better integrated graphics performance — Spending five generations on the same base microarchitecture is a long time. The excitement can be sustained through optimizing a process node …
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| Mike Dano / Light Reading: |
AT&T, Verizon, Airbnb, Comcast, and others are halting donations to lawmakers who opposed certifying election results, such as Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley — A large and growing number of tech and telecom companies are freezing their political contributions to Washington lawmakers … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Gett, a ride-hailing platform focused on business users, raises $115M, bringing its total raised to $965M, says it's now “operationally profitable” — As ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft continue to find their feet in a new landscape for transportation services … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Descript, which offers smart video and audio editing tools, raises $30M Series B led by Spark Capital — The popularity of podcasting and online video shows no signs of slowing down, and so we continue to see a wave of creators publishing a profusion of audio and video content to fill out the airwaves.
Tweets: @ingridlunden
| Brianna Sacks / BuzzFeed News: |
GoFundMe has banned fundraisers for traveling to political events “where there's risk of violence by the attendees”, following the violence at the Capitol — As Trump supporters continue to plan rallies in Washington, DC, before and during Joe Biden's inauguration, GoFundMe … | Jim Wilson / Safety Detectives: |
Chinese startup Socialarks leaked 400GB of scraped data of 200M+ Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn users — High-flying and rapidly growing Chinese social media management company Socialarks has suffered a huge data leak leading to the exposure of over 400GB of personal data including several …
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infosecurity-magazine.com, HackRead, Threatpost, and DataBreaches.net
Tweets: @thexpaw and @jessedamiani
| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
Video-sharing site Rumble, popular among conservatives, sues Google, accusing it of diverting traffic to YouTube — Video-sharing site Rumble, citing a Wall Street Journal investigation, alleges Google diverted traffic away from it toward YouTube — Video-sharing site Rumble Inc. accused Google … | Bijan Stephen / The Verge: |
Spanish gamer David “TheGrefg” Martínez had 2M+ concurrent viewers on Twitch watching him reveal Icon series Fortnite skin, breaking the previous record of 635K — Smashing all previous records — Spanish streamer and EU Heretics team owner David “TheGrefg” …
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