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Robinhood says an unauthorized party obtained a list of email addresses for ~5M users, full names for another ~2M users, and more info on ~310 others — Late in the evening of November 3, we experienced a data security incident. An unauthorized third party obtained access to a limited amount …
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US charges a Ukrainian suspect, arrested in Poland last month, and a Russian citizen over REvil attacks, and says it seized $6M in ransom payments — (CNN)Law enforcement officials have seized an estimated $6 million in ransom payments, and the US Justice Department is expected to announce Monday …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Europol has arrested seven people suspected of helping REvil and GandCrab with over 7,000 cyberattacks since early 2019, in a Romanian-led investigation — Europol has announced today the arrests of seven suspects who worked as “affiliates” (partners) for a major ransomware cartel …
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Niantic launches Lightship, a platform to build “real-world metaverse” AR iOS and Android apps, and commits $20M to fund companies building AR apps — The maker of Pokémon Go wants to power future AR glasses. — Niantic is releasing a platform for building what it calls “real-world metaverse” apps.
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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
Ex-Israeli soldiers say the country built a “Facebook for Palestinians” over the last two years to monitor Palestinians through facial recognition tech — HEBRON, West Bank — The Israeli military has been conducting a broad surveillance effort in the occupied West Bank … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia unveils Riva Custom Voice, a toolkit which companies can use to create custom, “human-like” voice assistants with only 30 minutes of speech data — At its fall 2021 GPU Technology Conference (GTC), Nvidia unveiled Riva Custom Voice, a new toolkit that the company claims … | Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
| Pranob Mehrotra / XDA Developers: |
Samsung unveils 14nm, 16GB LPDDR5X DRAM chip for mobile devices, claims data transfer speeds of 8.5Gbps, 1.3x faster than the LPDDR5 and consumes 20% less power — Samsung today announced the world's first LPDDR5 DRAM chip for mobile devices. The new memory module is fabricated using …
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| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
AMD touts Meta as a data center chip customer, as it targets Nvidia with new chips like MI200, a family of server accelerators to boost ML and other workloads — Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD.O) on Monday said it has won Meta Platforms Inc (FB.O) as a data center chip customer …
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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Unpacking some key aspects of what constitutes a metaverse, such as making and owning virtual property, 3D telepresence in a persistent world, and more — Will we all live in the metaverse soon? Or is the idea just Second Life redux? — These days it seems like everybody …
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
PayPal reports Q3 revenue of $6.18B, up 13% YoY, vs $6.23B est., Venmo payment volume up 36% YoY to $60B, says Venmo users can make Amazon purchases next year — - PayPal reported a 13% increase in year-over-year revenue for the third quarter. — The company issued a fourth-quarter forecast …
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| Bloomberg: |
Netflix for iOS is rolling out Kids Clips, a TikTok-like feature that shows new daily short videos from its children's library — - Company to test ‘Kids Clips’ on iOS in U.S., other countries — Feature is similar to ‘Fast Laughs’ comedy offering for adults| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
Nextdoor closes its first day on the NYSE at $13.01, up 17%, after going public via a SPAC merger which raised $674M and valued it at ~$4.3B — Shares of the social-networking platform for local neighborhoods jump 17% — Shares in Nextdoor Inc. surged Monday in their first day of trading …
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Tweets: @thefriley, @thefriley, and @thefriley
| Johana Bhuiyan / The Guardian: |
Documents show LAPD's new predictive policing effort is similar to surveillance programs PredPol and Operation Laser that were shut down amid public outcry — Documents show how data-driven policing programs reinforced harmful patterns, fueling the over-policing of Black and brown communities| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Profile of virtual events startup Hopin, which rode the pandemic-led videoconferencing wave to a $7.8B valuation in August and six acquisitions in the past year — Valued at roughly $8bn, the software start-up is one of Europe's biggest success stories in the Covid era
Tweets: @hopin
| Nick Robins-Early / VICE: |
Researchers and journalists in Ethiopia say Meta has done little to stop hate speech amid Ethiopia's civil war, claiming moderation often falls to volunteers — Online hate is adding fuel to the country's deadly conflict, and researchers say Facebook is failing to stop it. — NRSponsor Posts
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