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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Deep dive on the DarkSide ransomware gang, which pressures victims into paying via phone calls by affiliates, DDoS attacks, and threats of tipping short sellers — The FBI confirmed this week that a relatively new ransomware group known as DarkSide is responsible for an attack …
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FireEye, Bloomberg, Federal Bureau …, CNBC, The Overspill, Flashpoint, Intel471.com, SC Media, BGR, New York Times, and Netskope
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| Eamon Javers / CNBC: |
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| Anna Cooban / Insider: |
WhatsApp details the experience for those who don't agree to its new privacy policy, including losing access to calls, messages, and notifications — - WhatsApp will eventually stop users sending and receiving messages if they refuse a new privacy policy. — If users do not agree to the policy …
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WhatsApp FAQ, SiliconANGLE, WhatsApp FAQ, Social Media Today, The Register, TNW, WeLiveSecurity, The Indian Express, The Guardian, India Today, Moneycontrol, and BGR India
Tweets: @wongmjane, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @mikaelthalen, @vijayshekhar, and @sub8u
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple says that ~1M new apps and ~1M app updates were rejected in 2020, 470,000+ developer accounts were terminated over fraud concerns, and more — - Apple said it rejected almost 1 million apps that were submitted to its App Store for the first time in 2020.
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Apple, ZDNet, CNET, MacRumors, Neowin, MarketWatch, phonearena.com, Wccftech, Daring Fireball, Patently Apple, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, Digital Trends, iMore, AppleInsider, and Protocol
Tweets: @kocienda, @lanceulanoff, @marcoarment, @marcoarment, @marcoarment, @kocienda, and @kifleswing
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube plans to pay $100M to top creators on YouTube Shorts, its TikTok competitor, through 2022, starting in the next few months in the US and India — YouTube is giving its TikTok competitor, YouTube Shorts, an injection of cash to help it better compete with rivals.
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YouTube Official Blog, The Verge, Ubergizmo, Search Engine Journal, Neowin, Android Central, Adweek, XDA Developers, Social Media Today, PYMNTS.com, Variety, Reuters, Engadget, and CNBC
| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Researcher discovers a series of vulnerabilities, known as Frag Attacks, impacting Wi-Fi devices from the past 24 years, even when WEP and WPA are activated — A Belgian security researcher has discovered a series of vulnerabilities that impact the WiFi standard, with some bugs dating …
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FragAttacks, ZDNet, Wi-Fi Alliance, The Register, and Mathy Vanhoef, PhD
Tweets: @therecord_media, @vickerysec, and @freebsdhelp
| The Coinbase Blog: |
Coinbase to ban pay negotiations in hiring and will offer the same pay to new hires in the same position and location; top performers to still get “multipliers” — Coinbase is always evolving. In the last year, we've grown our headcount by 100%, hired in 6 new countries …
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| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
GitHub adds security key support for SSH Git operations, as it continues its plan to remove password support for Git operations later this year — Support has been added to bolster defense against account compromise. — GitHub has announced support for security keys to prevent account compromise in SSH Git operations.| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Zigbee Alliance renames as Connectivity Standards Alliance and unveils Matter, an interoperable connectivity standard to ship in smart home devices this year — Partners behind a standard called Matter want to make it easier for us to embrace smart lightbulbs, door locks and thermostats.
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MacRumors, Business Wire, Stacey on IoT, Engadget, ZDNet, Gizmodo, iMore, iThinkDifferent, TechHive, AppleInsider, MacDailyNews, 9to5Mac, The Verge, and Business Wire
Tweets: @this_justintech, @glynmoody, @andrewgirdwood, @bfrancis, @interbrand, and @stshank
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Cycode, which focuses on helping enterprises secure their DevOps pipelines, raises $20M Series A led by Insight Partners, bringing its total raised to $24.6M — Israeli security startup Cycode, which specializes in helping enterprises secure their DevOps pipelines and prevent code tampering …
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SiliconANGLE, SecurityWeek, VentureBeat, FinSMEs, Business Wire, and CTech
| MK Manoylov / The Block: |
eBay says it will allow NFTs to be sold on its platform and will add new “capabilities” for blockchain-driven collectibles in the coming months — The online sales platform eBay is now permitting the sale of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for digital collectibles.
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TechCrunch, CNET, The Economic Times, The Verge, MUO, Input, Bitcoinist.com, cryptodaily.co.uk, PYMNTS.com, The Hill, and Cointelegraph. Tweets: @ahcastor
| Tripp Mickle / Wall Street Journal: |
Google says it plans to double the size of its team studying AI ethics in the coming years, as it looks to strengthen the group battered by recent controversies — CEO will boost operating budget of team tasked with evaluating code and product to avert discrimination and other problems
Tweets: @_jack_poulson, @alexhanna, @hughhewitt, @carissaveliz, @zeerakw, @_alialkhatib, @mer__edith, @edroso, @zoeschiffer, @parismarx, @lizthegrey, @taliaringer, and @timnitgebru
| Dr. Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
Intel unveils 11th-gen Core Tiger Lake-H 10nm mobile processors for desktop-caliber performance and gaming, with five consumer chips and five commercial ones — Ever since the launch of the first series of Intel Core 11th Generation Tiger Lake processors aimed at the ‘U-series’ 15 W market … | Monica Chin / The Verge: |
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MSI, TechSpot, BGR, KnowTechie, The Verge, MUO, HotHardware.com News, The Verge, and YouTube. Tweets: @dcseifert
| Wall Street Journal: |
Uber and Lyft will offer free rides to and from US vaccination sites until July 4, partnering with the Biden administration, which is providing site data — New transportation partnership comes as Biden administration explores ways to encourage people to get vaccinated
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| Riley de León / CNBC: |
Online mortgage service Better.com to go public via a SPAC merger with Aurora Acquisition Corp. at $7.7B valuation; deal includes $1.5B SoftBank-led investment — - Digital mortgage lender Better will make its market debut by merging with Aurora Acquisition Corp., valuing the company at $7.7 billion.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Unity reports Q1 revenue of $234.8M, up 41% YoY, and raised full year guidance by $50M, but maintained that Apple's IDFA would reduce 2021 revenue by $30M — Unity Technologies reported today that revenues for the first quarter ended March 31 hit $234.8 million, up 41% from the same quarter a year ago.| Karin Matussek / Bloomberg: |
German regulator orders Facebook to stop collecting users' WhatsApp data citing legality; Facebook says the claim is wrong and won't stop rollout of new ToS — - Hamburg regulator issues a three-month emergency order — Watchdog calls new terms intransparent and overly broad
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euronews, Reuters, TechSpot, AdExchanger, Engadget, Tech Policy Press, CNBC, Financial Times, TechCrunch, Platformer, Pocketnow, Fortune, Android Central, Tech.co, BleepingComputer, and PCMag
Tweets: @digiphile, @euronews, @vijayshekhar, and @jason_kint
| Eric Benjamin Seufert / Mobile Dev Memo: |
Apple's ATT is a commercial land grab dressed up as a moral crusade, an astute attack on Facebook, and will subvert the open web and the freemium business model — Last week, Apple introduced a new ad unit to the App Store: a paid placement on its Search page.
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Insider, AppleInsider, Digital Information World, Pixel Envy, and AdExchanger
Tweets: @benthompson, @the8bit_tech, @benthompson, @jason_kint, @sarthakgh, @matthewstoller, @marcoarment, @drbarnard, @drbarnard, @benthompson, @drbarnard, @drbarnard, @gil_rundmg, @iansherr, @can, @stephennellis, @ballantine70, @stevemoser, @drbarnard, @herrmanndigital, @harrymccracken, @neiltwitz, @matthewstoller, @jason_kint, @pbannist, @sidsareen, @drbarnard, @marcoarment, @marcoarment, @stephennellis, @jason_kint, @mbleigh, @chadloder, @hammer_mt, @jason_kint, @benthompson, @benthompson, @benedictevans, @oliverjhaslam, @pawanp, @krave, @bensava78155446, @famousaspect, @famousaspect, @mohamedblmz, @sth1llay, @almarrone, and @sibacca
| Tiernan Ray / ZDNet: |
Jamf will acquire Wandera, a provider of cloud-based software for zero trust security, to bridge consumer and enterprise needs, in a $400M cash and debt deal — Jamf said Wandera's software will bridge the divide between what consumers want out of their Mac and what enterprises needs to secure its operations.
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9to5Mac, CRN, SiliconANGLE, Wandera, TechCrunch, and AppleInsider
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Sources: TikTok is testing a tool with a group of companies to help brands recruit employees, who can post video resumes in response to job listings — TikTok is testing a tool for brands to recruit employees, sources tell Axios. — Details: The pilot program is designed to help people find jobs …
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Social Media Today, Insider, dot.LA, CNET, and Engadget
Tweets: @jessedamiani, @taylorlorenz, @axios, @sarafischer, @joedonatelli, @rmac18, @blackamazon, @darrenrovell, @ariehkovler, @baldingsworld, and @liahaberman
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Arkose Labs, which is developing a service that detects and mitigates online fraud, raises $70M Series C led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 — Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register fo r the AI event of the year. — Arkose Labs, a startup developing a platform to detect and mitigate online fraud … | Michael Holden / Reuters: |
UK unveils Online Safety Bill which would fine social media firms up to 10% of revenue or £18M if they fail to address online abuses such as racist hate crimes — LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Wednesday a planned new law would see social media companies fined up to 10% of turnover …
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Telegraph, The Guardian, BBC, The Sun, GOV.UK, Ofcom, Bloomberg, and cityam.com
Tweets: @peterwalker99 and @peterwalker99
| Todd Feathers / The Markup: |
A look at the fight over using differential privacy techniques in the US Census, which anonymizes datasets but some argue lowers the quality of the datasets — Several years ago, as the U.S. Census Bureau began to prepare for its 2020 count, it was confronted with an existential problem.
Tweets: @juliaangwin and @toddfeathers
| MK Manoylov / The Block: |
Coinbase reaches #1 on the US iOS App Store for first time since 2017, after reaching the #2 spot on April 14, the day of its IPO — On May 10, the Coinbase app topped the U.S. Apple App Store, a position the crypto exchange hadn't been in since late 2017.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
UK-based Huma, which uses AI and biomarkers to monitor patients at home and for medical research, raises $130M Series C that it can extend with a $70M debt line — While much of the world eagerly watches to see if the vaccination rollout helps curb and eventually stamp out Covid-19 …
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