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March 16, 2021, 4:20 AM

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Joseph Cox / VICE:
Hacker paid a company called Sakari $16 to reroute a reporter's texts and used SMS 2FA to break into his accounts, showing the need for regulation of SMS tools  —  A gaping flaw in SMS lets hackers take over phone numbers in minutes,by simply paying a company to reroute text messages.  —  Joseph Cox
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
Microsoft releases one-click Exchange On-Premises Mitigation Tool to help businesses, who don't have expertise, easily patch recently disclosed vulnerabilities  —  Microsoft has released a one-click Exchange On-premises Mitigation Tool (EOMT) tool to allow small business owners to easily mitigate …
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Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch:
Gumroad, which helps creators sell their works, raised $5M via the SEC's new rules, which raised equity crowdfunding from $1.07M to $5M per year on March 15  —  New SEC equity crowdfunding rules open the door to welcome non-accredited investors  —  Gumroad, a startup that helps creators sell their work …
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Cruise acquires Voyage in another autonomous vehicle startup merger; Voyage focuses on fleets of low-speed vehicles making trips to retirement communities  —  Dense, urban testing meets low-speed retirement community testing  —  Cruise, a majority-owned subsidiary of General Motors …
News Corp:
News Corp says it has reached a three-year deal with Facebook to provide news to Facebook users in Australia through the Facebook News product  —  Expands News Corp-Facebook Connection, Which Began With Deal In US  —  New York, NY (March 15, 2021) - News Corp announced today that it has reached …
Rita Liao / TechCrunch:
Signal app and website are unavailable in China but the app is still available in the App Store; Greatfire says Signal's website was banned on March 15  —  Chinese users of the instant messenger Signal knew that the good times wouldn't last long.  The app, which is used for encrypted conversations …
Financial Times:
Sources: Tencent and ByteDance are a testing a new tool called CAID, developed by the China Advertising Association, to bypass Apple's IDFA ad privacy changes  —  ByteDance and Tencent see if they can keep tracking iPhone users with solution created by state-backed group
Tyler Sonnemaker / Business Insider Australia:
30 current and former Mailchimp staffers detail the conditions that led to a “mass exodus” of women and people of color, including high profile execs, directors  —  - Women and people of color have left Mailchimp in droves in recent months.  — Those who spoke to Insider …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Adobe data on US e-commerce: consumers spent $844B online from March 2020 to February 2021, up $183B YoY, and are on track to spend over $1T annually by 2022  —  The COVID-19 pandemic boosted U.S. online shopping by $183 billion, according to a new report by Adobe's e-commerce division, released this morning.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Vienna-based trading platform Bitpanda raises $170M Series B led by Valar Ventures at $1.2B valuation, making it Austria's first unicorn  —  One of the bigger startups in Europe operating a trading platform for cryptocurrency has closed a big round of funding on the heels of very rapid growth …
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Queenie Wong / CNET:
Facebook debuts tools to promote COVID-19 vaccinations: helping US users find slots, partnering with health authorities on WhatsApp, labeling all vaccine posts  —  Facebook said Monday it's releasing new tools to make it easier for people to get vaccinated against COVID-19 …
Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
WeLeakInfo, which sold access to 12B+ stolen credentials before the FBI seized its domain, leaked account and payment info of over 24,000 of its own customers  —  A little over a year ago, the FBI and law enforcement partners overseas seized WeLeakInfo[.]com, a wildly popular service …
Yonhap News Agency:
Sources: Google will lower its commission on all in-app purchases from 30% to 15% in South Korea for developers with less than $1M annual sales, starting July 1  —  Global tech giant Google pushs to lower its planned commission rate for app developers, parliamentary and industry sources said Monday …
Emily Birnbaum / Protocol:
Survey of 1,504 tech employees across the US: 78% say the tech industry is too powerful, 40% say it does more harm than good, 73% support more AI regulation  —  Big Tech executives do a lot of talking.  On their platforms, in interviews and on Capitol Hill.
AnandTech:
Review of the 3rd-gen EPYC Milan chips shows AMD continues to strengthen and maintain a very stark one-sided performance advantage against its main rival, Intel  —  The arrival of AMD's 3rd Generation EPYC processor family, using the new Zen 3 core, has been hotly anticipated.
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