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A now-fixed 10-year-old bug in Sudo used in several versions of Linux allowed any local user to gain root access — A now-fixed Sudo vulnerability allowed any local user to gain root privileges on Unix-like operating systems without requiring authentication.| Dave Lee / Financial Times: |
More than 2,000 police and fire departments in the US have now partnered with Amazon's Ring, with 1,189 new departments added over the past year — Controversial surveillance network has doubled in size in the country in the past year — More than 2,000 police and fire departments in the US …
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| Jeff Horwitz / Wall Street Journal: |
In August, internal research at Facebook showed that ~70% of the platform's most active civic Groups were considered too toxic to recommend to users — The giant struggled to balance Mark Zuckerberg's free-expression mantra against findings that rabid partisanship had overrun a feature central to its future
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| Cat Ferguson / MIT Technology Review: |
VAMS, a CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M to manage rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, has been abandoned by states due to bugs and problems — The CDC ordered software that was meant to manage the vaccine rollout. Instead, it has been plagued by problems and abandoned by most states.
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A look at the criticism in DC directed at CSET, a State Dept. bureau focused on cybersecurity and emerging technologies formed in the last days of Trump's admin — A newly established State Department bureau focused on cybersecurity and emerging technologies could give the Biden administration … | Susan Adams / Forbes: |
Profile of Chegg, which is valued at $12B, employs 70,000+ freelance tutors in India, and faces the issue of students using it to cheat by getting test answers — I'm a senior editor in charge of Forbes' education coverage. — This story appears in the March 31, 2021 issue of Forbes Magazine.| Yueqi Yang / Bloomberg: |
Robinhood reduces the number of companies with trading restrictions from 50 to 8, according to its website; GME, NOK, and BB are still among those restricted — Robinhood Markets Inc. reduced the number of companies with trading restrictions to eight from 50 on Sunday, according to an update on its website.| Kellen Browning / New York Times: |
League of Legends teams in the US recruited 40+ superstar players from Asia since 2016, with an average salary of $460K for a player in a team's starting five — League of Legends teams in the U.S. lag behind their competitors in Asia, so they recruit the world's best players by offering huge salaries.| Sara Castellanos / Wall Street Journal: |
The pandemic has increased the adoption of AR in automotive and other industries, where it is being used to provide remote assistance for employees in real time — Whether to fix cars or apply makeup, companies hamstrung by the pandemic found immediate uses for the distanced expertise AR technology can provide
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Riverlane, which spun out of Cambridge University, raises $20M Series A led by Draper Esprit to build Deltaflow, its operating system for quantum computers — According to IBM, “Quantum computers can boost the development of new breakthroughs in science, medications to save lives …
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| Igor Bosilkovski / Forbes: |
Yotta Savings raises $13.2M Series A for its savings account app that instead of interest offers depositors a chance to win prizes ranging from 10 cents to $10M — Savings account app Yotta Savings, cofounded by two Under 30 honorees, announced today that it has raised a $13.2M Series A …
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SetSail raises $26M Series A for its service that recommends when to pay salespeople, by monitoring the progress of sales across CRM, email, and other systems — SetSail wants to upend the way sales people get compensated by paying them throughout the sales cycle, rather than a single commission after the sale closes.Sponsor Posts
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