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Internal docs: Instagram spent the majority of its global annual marketing budget since 2018 targeting teenagers, as it worries about losing its user “pipeline” — The app, hailed as Facebook's growth engine, has privately wrestled with retaining and engaging teenagers, according to internal documents.| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
A joint advisory by the FBI, NSA, CISA, and EPA reveals three more ransomware attacks on water treatment plants this year in Nevada, Maine, and California — Ransomware gangs have silently hit three US water and wastewater treatment facilities this year, in 2021, the US government …
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Valve quietly updates Steam's rules to ban games “built on blockchain technology that issue or allow exchange of cryptocurrencies or NFTs” — Your move, Epic Games Store — Games that use blockchain technology or let users exchange NFTs or cryptocurrencies won't be allowed on Steam …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
MagSafe wireless charging continues to underwhelm a year after its release, due to Apple's lack of foresight and a limited ecosystem — Apple's charging ecosystem keeps revealing its limitations — One year ago yesterday, I wrote how MagSafe could be the biggest reason to buy an iPhone 12.| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Twitch downplays last week's hack, saying it had minimal impact and user login credentials, full credit card numbers, and bank information were not exposed — In an update regarding this month's security incident, Twitch downplayed the breach saying that it had minimal impact and only affected a small number of users.
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| Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal: |
Some doctors in the US and other countries say TikTok videos about Tourette syndrome may be contributing to a rise in cases of teen girls with physical tics — When teens started turning up in doctors' offices with sudden, severe physical tics, specialists suspected social media …
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| Chavi Mehta / Reuters: |
Jack Dorsey says Square is considering building an open source Bitcoin miner, using custom silicon, for individuals and businesses — Square Inc (SQ.N) Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey said on Friday the fintech firm is looking to build a bitcoin mining system based on custom silicon …
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| Kyle Chayka / New Yorker: |
A look at Raya, a secretive subscription-based social network with a rigorous user selection process and a rigid code of silence for accepted members — The app has created a space free of the problems that plague the rest of the Web, but only by leaving almost everybody out.
Tweets: @michaelluo, @kari_paul, @dlippman, @newyorker, @evelyndouek, @hels, @chaykak, @simonowens, @markwby, @chaykak, and @samuelaadams
| Aislinn Keely / The Block: |
CFTC files and settles charges against Tether and Bitfinex, ordering them to pay a total of $42.5M for making “untrue or misleading statements” about USDT — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) simultaneously filed and settled charges against Tether and Bitfinex today …
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Tweets: @murphsicles, @tether_to, @jason, @arrington, @ryan_browne_, @kr00ney, @alexisgoldstein, @jason, @aislinnkeely, and @aridavidpaul
| Noah Smith / Washington Post: |
A look at US Cyber Games, jointly founded in April by the US government, academia, and the private sector to find and train candidates for cybersecurity careers — As the United States seeks to shore up its defenses against cyberattacks, the government is seeking to harness the skills …
Tweets: @vildehaya
| Huib Modderkolk / The Guardian: |
Profile of Edwin Robbe, who hacked the Netherlands' largest telecom KPN as a teenager and cost the company €3M, before being found dead in South Korea — Edwin Robbe had a troubled life, but found excitement and purpose by joining an audacious community of hackers.| Pjotr Sauer / The Guardian: |
Moscow introduces Face Pay in its metro system, which Russia says is the world's first mass-scale facial recognition payment system, across 240 stations — Campaigners say Face Pay, launched in over 240 stations, is ‘dangerous step’ in efforts to control populationSponsor Posts
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