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Colonial Pipeline, which carries 45% of fuel consumed on the US East Coast, says it halted operations due to a ransomware attack — Colonial Pipeline carries roughly 45% of gasoline and diesel fuel consumed on the East Coast — The main pipeline carrying gasoline and diesel fuel …
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Sources: cybercrime gang DarkSide, which caused Colonial Pipeline to halt operations, stole and encrypted ~100GB of data on Thursday before demanding a ransom — - Attackers stole nearly 100GB of data in two hours on Thursday — Theft followed by locking of computers and ransom demand
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Dogecoin dropped by about a third during Elon Musk's SNL appearance, as he conceded in a skit that Dogecoin was merely a “hustle” — Are celebrity CEOs the future of pop culture? When they're dressed as Wario, maybe. — Saturday night was the moment it became absolutely undeniable: tech is culture now.
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| Brian Barrett / Wired: |
Using PayPal for Twitter's Tip Jar could reveal tipper's address to the recipient and possibly recipient's email to the tipper; Twitter says it will add a label — Sending its users to PayPal has created all sorts of problems that Twitter should have caught ahead of time.
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| Robert Hart / Forbes: |
Study of 430K+ adolescents from the US and UK finds that there is “little evidence” of a link between teens' technology use and mental health problems — There is “little evidence” of a link between teens' technology use and mental health problems, according …
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| John Paczkowski / BuzzFeed News: |
Apple hires ex-Cisco communications chief Stella Low as new VP of worldwide corporate communications; Phil Schiller has been overseeing Apple's PR since 2019 — Apple has hired a new vice president of worldwide corporate communications. Stella Low, former communications chief at networking giant Cisco …
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| Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: |
Report: fintech startups across India, Africa, and Latin America raised a total of $23B since 2017; Indian companies raised $11.6B, including $4.8B just in 2019 — Tech investments in emerging markets have been in full swing over the past couple of years and their ecosystems have thrived as a result.| Don Clark / New York Times: |
Semiconductor firms received more than $12B from equity investors in 2020, up 8x since 2016, as the industry sees a spike in new startups and ideas — While a variety of industries struggle with supplies, semiconductor experts say there are plenty of new ideas and, most surprising, start-ups.
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| Mike Peterson / AppleInsider: |
Apple seems to have privately given Zoom access to an iPad OS API allowing camera access in Split View, raising concerns about special treatment for some devs — Zoom appears to have been granted access to a previously unknown iPad software feature that allows camera access during Split View multitasking, one developer claims.
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Apple emails disclosed in Epic trial show that 128M iPhone users, of which 18M were in the US and 55% in China, downloaded apps with XCodeGhost malware in 2015 — As part of the trial against Epic Games, Apple released emails that show that 128 million users, of which 18 million were in the U.S. …
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| Angus Loten / Wall Street Journal: |
IDC: companies around the world are on pace to spend $240.6B on edge computing through 2024, at a compound annual growth rate of more than 15% — Firms world-wide on pace to spend $240.6 billion on edge computing through 2024 — Companies are expected to raise spending over the next few years …
Tweets: @rhatr, @chrismattmann, @alstom, @edgeimpulse, and @paulmiller
| Shoshanna Solomon / The Times of Israel: |
US-based Valmont, which makes irrigation equipment, to buy Israel's Prospera Technologies, maker of AI-based sensors and cameras for monitoring crops, for $300M — Maker of AI-based sensors and cameras to help farmers monitor crops was founded in 2014, had raised $22 million from investorsSponsor Posts
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