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Malwarebytes says it was hacked by group that breached SolarWinds, via Azure and Office 365 exploits, but attackers only accessed a subset of internal emails — Malwarebytes becomes fourth major security firm targeted by attackers after Microsoft, FireEye, and CrowdStrike.
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| Zoë Bernard / The Information: |
Sources: Andreessen Horowitz to launch an opinion section on its website that will publish articles related to technology and business from outside contributors — Silicon Valley investment firm Andreessen Horowitz, which once courted attention from the news media, is ramping up its own media efforts.| Eric Newcomer / Newcomer: |
A look at a16z's communication efforts over the years, as the firm expands its own media operations and has largely stopped cooperating with reporters — Why media whisperer Margit Wennmachers is going direct. — Benedict Evans, Andreessen Horowitz's former in-house analyst … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Brave becomes the first major browser to natively support IPFS protocol, useful for accessing censored content; Wikipedia and other sites offer IPFS versions — Brave users will now be able to seamlessly access ipfs:// links. — With the release of Brave 1.19 today …
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| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Donald Trump pardons ex-Waymo, Uber engineer Anthony Levandowski; Peter Thiel and Palmer Luckey were among those supporting a pardon for Levandowski — Last year Anthony Levandowski pleaded guilty to one count of stealing materials from Google, where he was an engineer for its self-driving car efforts …
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Netflix reports Q4 revenue of $6.64B vs. $6.63B est., up 21.5% YoY, global streaming paid memberships 203.7M, up 8.5M vs. 6.5M est.; stock up 12%+ after hours — - Netflix reported fourth quarter 2020 earnings Tuesday that beat analyst expectations on revenue and net subscriber additions but fell below EPS estimates.
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| Alexandra Alper / Reuters: |
Trump signs an executive order that seeks to thwart foreign use of cloud computing products or services for malicious cyber operations against the US — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Outgoing President Donald Trump has signed an executive order aimed at thwarting foreign use of cloud computing products …
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Biden picks former CFTC chairman Gary Gensler, who taught courses on cryptocurrencies and blockchain at MIT, to head the SEC — Gary Gensler's nomination to head the U.S. Securities and Exchange is welcome news for the cryptocurrency industry given his ongoing and deep interest in the technology.
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| Bloomberg: |
Jack Ma has resurfaced after months out of public view, addressing teachers on an online conference, quashing intense speculation about his fate — Alibaba and Ant co-founder Jack Ma has resurfaced after months out of public view, quashing intense speculation about the plight …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Instagram head Adam Mosseri on keeping users safe at scale, content moderation, Facebook's actions against Trump, future regulation, Reels, and more — Adam Mosseri has a broad view of Facebook, its capabilities, and its challenges. And Facebook has a lot of challenges right now …
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Intel is in more danger than its profits suggest and should spin off its manufacturing business unless the US can subsidize it, ideally with purchase guarantees — One of the first Articles on Stratechery, written on the occasion of Intel appointing a new CEO, was, in retrospect, overly optimistic.
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| The Markup: |
Data from Facebook users: 12 political groups were in the top 100 recommended in Jan.; FB said it would not recommend “political content or social issue groups” — According to Citizen Browser data, the platform especially peppered Trump voters with political grouprecommendations
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| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
Douyin, ByteDance's Chinese version of TikTok, has launched e-wallet “Douyin Pay” to compete with China's dominant e-payment services WeChat Pay and Alipay — Tencent's WeChat Pay and Alibaba's affiliate Alipay have long dominated digital payments in China, but they have always faced new challengers.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
FireEye releases a free tool that audits networks to determine whether certain techniques, known to be employed by SolarWinds hackers, were used — New Azure AD Investigator is now available via GitHub. — Cybersecurity firm FireEye has released today a report detailing the techniques used …
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| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
YouTube says it will extend its suspension of Trump's channel for another week over “ongoing potential for violence” — YouTube on Tuesday said it's extending its suspension of President Donald Trump's channel for another week over “ongoing potential for violence,” …
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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Electric autonomous vehicle startup Cruise raises $2B at a $30B valuation from Microsoft, GM, Honda, and others — Cruise has raised $2 billion in a new equity round that has pushed its valuation up to $30 billion and delivered Microsoft as an investor and partner.
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Tweets: @kvogt, @alex, @msftnews, @cruise, and @kirstenkorosec
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers detail seven flaws in Dnsmasq, a popular open-source DNS forwarding and management suite; 1M+ networking devices are exposed online, patch available — Israel-based security consultancy firm JSOF disclosed today seven Dnsmasq vulnerabilities, collectively known as DNSpooq … | Ina Fried / Axios: |
Google is investigating why Margaret Mitchell, who helps lead its ethical AI team, downloaded and shared a large number of files with people outside the company — Google is investigating recent actions by Margaret Mitchell, who helps lead the company's ethical AI team, Axios has confirmed.
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| Meagan Simpson / BetaKit: |
South Korean search engine company Naver Corp. has acquired online self-publishing platform Wattpad for an estimated ~$600M — Wattpad is set to be acquired by South Korean internet company Naver Corp. for an estimated $754 million CAD ($600 million USD). — Naver announced the deal early before market open in South Korea.| Macarena Munoz Montijano / Bloomberg: |
Spanish delivery app Glovo raises $121M from Swiss real estate firm Stoneweg to build out delivery-only convenience stores for sub-30 minute delivery times — - Stoneweg will build, refurbish property to help Glovo expand — Glovo's orders for convenience items have surged 300%
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