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US investigators probing a breach at Codecov, a software auditing company, that affected some of its 29K customers; the breach was in Jan. but detected in April — U.S. federal investigators are probing an intrusion at San Francisco-based software auditing company Codecov that affected …
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Newly filed Google Ireland Holdings accounts show $75B+ in profits moved through the subsidiary in 2019, the last year Google used the “double Irish” tax scheme — Newly filed accounts show that over $75bn in profits moved through a subsidiary of Google that was incorporated in Ireland in 2019 …
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The Irish Times. Tweets: @dolanedward, @peterjimbryant, @naomiohreally, @irishtimes, @think_or_swim, @cian2me, @ecowarriorss, @paddycosgrave, and @mattcarthy
| Julie Zhu / Reuters: |
Sources: Ant Group is exploring options for founder Jack Ma to divest his stake and give up control to appease Chinese regulators — Ant Group is exploring options for founder Jack Ma to divest his stake in the financial technology giant and give up control, as meetings with Chinese regulators signaled … | Dina Temple-Raston / NPR: |
Company officials, victims, experts, and intel officials discuss the SolarWinds hack, which successfully compromised ~100 companies and a dozen govt. agencies — “This release includes bug fixes, increased stability and performance improvements.” — The routine software update … | Cristiano Lima / Politico: |
Facebook Oversight Board, which had 90 days to review Trump's indefinite suspension, delays its decision to “the coming weeks”, citing immense public interest — Facebook suspended the former president's account in the wake of the Jan. 6 siege on the Capitol.
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| Ira Boudway / Bloomberg: |
How Aurora, now the owner of Uber's ATG, is moving to bring its self-driving tech to market via deals with Volvo in trucking, Uber and Toyota in taxis, more — On Feb. 11, about a month after closing on the acquisition of Uber's Advanced Technologies Group, or ATG, the self-driving-car startup Aurora held an all-hands meeting.| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Dogecoin, the cryptocurrency that started out as a joke in 2013, now has a market cap of $40B+ after growing nearly 400%+ in the past seven days — - Dogecoin is a cryptocurrency based on the “Doge” meme, which rose to popularity in late 2013. It started out as a joke.
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CNET, Under the Hood, Crypto Briefing, CNN, Mashable, The Verge, Ars Technica, CryptoSlate, Slate, Bloomberg, Bitcoin News, Financial Times, PYMNTS.com, Decrypt, Bitcoinist.com, MUO, CoinDesk, The Independent, and CNN
Tweets: @elonmusk, @wolfejosh, @anothercohen, @thestalwart, @billym2k, @billym2k, @caseynewton, @carmencrincoli, @zguz, @tomgara, @epro, @counternotions, @ryan_browne_, and @itstaylorlocke
| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
Big tech whistleblowers describe the severe emotional toll that standing up to gigantic companies takes and how it sets them on the path to advocacy — Last summer, just before she published a viral Twitter thread about the discrimination she said she faced at Pinterest … | Rest of World: |
Internet blackouts following a military coup have shut down swathes of the online economy in Myanmar, where internet penetration had surged to around 43% — Amid internet blackouts, economic isolation, and massive strikes, a decade of development is unwinding.
Tweets: @peterguest, @emilyfishbein11, @p_annawitt, @restofworld, @baptist_simon, @tmclaughlin3, @nunulusan, @cengizyar, and @santhaishin
| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Twitter says it is “investigating a possible system irregularity currently affecting all Twitter API v2 endpoints” that is causing issues for some users — Users on the east coast in the US started reporting problems Friday night — It looks like problems on Twitter …
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Variety, Insider, CNET, BleepingComputer, and Engadget
Tweets: @stevenhovater, @joshspiegel, @_hector_mtz, and @rickdicksonreal
| Shen Lu / Protocol: |
How Weibo helps Chinese authorities quash the feminist movement by deleting activist accounts, while also profiting from their nationalist harassers — Prominent feminist activist Xiao Meili had never expected to find herself in the center of a nationalist storm.
Tweets: @ninedragons2, @johnhemmings2, @dwertime, @grantwyeth, @theasianfmnst, @theasianfmnst, and @letahong
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
As the EU considers new regulations for AI, 60+ NGOs ask the EC to ban automatic gender recognition systems, which rely on outmoded understandings of gender — Dangers posed by facial recognition like mass surveillance and mistaken identity have been widely discussed in recent years.
Tweets: @thedextriarchy, @mistydemeo, @accessnow, @cendemtech, @jjvincent, and @autistichoya
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