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| Tim Starks / CyberScoop: |
CISA Director Jen Easterly says the Log4j flaw likely affects hundreds of millions of devices and may be the most serious bug she has seen in her career — Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Jen Easterly told industry leaders in a phone briefing Monday that a vulnerability …
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| Tal Eisner / Check Point Software: |
Analysis: Log4j attacks rose from a few thousand on December 10 to 800K+ within 72 hours; exploits have been attempted on ~44% of corporate networks globally — Precisely one year after the SolarWinds Hack, the groundbreaking supply chain attack the world experienced, and while organizations …
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ZDNet, Cybersecurity Dive, CNET, Financial Times, ComputerWeekly.com, and The Hill
| Bloomberg: |
Documents and interviews reveal Apache developers' efforts to patch the Log4j vulnerability, after an Alibaba employee alerted them of the flaw on November 24 — At 2:51 p.m. on Nov. 24, members of an open-source software project received an alarming email.
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The New Stack, The Cloudflare Blog, WeLiveSecurity, Snyk, Search Engine Roundtable, cybernews.com, TNW, and The Record
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
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Tweets: @_jfeldman, @campuscodi, @uuallan, @ldignan, and @jasonlk
| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Oppo unveils Air Glass, a 30g “assisted reality” wearable that projects 2D info into the user's FoV with a claimed three-hours usage, coming to China in Q1 2022 — Coming to China early next year — Oppo has announced the Air Glass, an AR device that'll go on sale early next year.| Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: |
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The Irish Times, OPPO, Tech Advisor, South China Morning Post, Digit, Pocketnow, Trusted Reviews, and Digital Trends. Tweets: @oppo
| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Nike acquires RTFKT, an NFT studio founded in 2020, for an undisclosed sum; RTFKT raised an $8M seed in May led by a16z at a $33.3M valuation — Nike is taking a plunge deeper into the world of crypto collectibles, announcing that they're acquiring the NFT studio RTFKT (pronounced “artifact").
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Sources: Instagram passed 2B monthly active users this fall, up from 1B in June 2018, the last time it publicly disclosed the metric — - Instagram now has more than 2 billion monthly active users worldwide, according to employees with knowledge of the key metric.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: NSO Group is considering shuttering its Pegasus unit and selling the company, among other options, as it struggles to repay $450M in debt — - Moelis tapped to advise on talks with investment funds — One plan would repurpose product for strictly defensive use
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Tweets: @runasand, @malwarejake, @glcarlstrom, and @jsrailton
| Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
Apple delays macOS Monterey's Universal Control until spring 2022, after saying it would launch in the fall — Apple has officially delayed Universal Control, a hallmark feature of macOS Monterey and iPadOS 15 announced in June, until Spring 2022. — In an update to the iPadOS 15 …
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Tweets: @samifathi_ and @kirathetechie
| Financial Times: |
US Department of Labor letter shows it is investigating Apple over Ashley Gjovik's claims that she was fired under a false pretext after retaliation complaints — US labour department inquiry follows claims by ex-senior engineering program manager — The US Department of Labor …
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New York Times, TheStreet, 9to5Mac, PhoneArena, Insider, CNET, MacRumors, iThinkDifferent, iMore, AppleInsider, and Cult of Mac
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
PwC report details the ransomware attack on Ireland's public health system in May 2021 and finds that IT admins failed to respond to multiple warning signs — The consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers recently published lessons learned from the disruptive and costly ransomware attack in May 2021 on Ireland's public health system.| Daniel Rubino / Windows Central: |
Microsoft and iFixit partner to let approved independent repairers buy official Microsoft service tools for Surface devices from iFixit.com — Authorized and independent technicians can new repair select Surface devices thanks to iFixit and Microsoft — What you need to know
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The Verge, iFixit News, PCMag, Engadget, iFixit News, Pureinfotech, WinBuzzer, ZDNet, TechSpot, and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @tomwarren and @benbajarin
| CoinDesk: |
Institutional bitcoin broker and custody services provider NYDIG raises $1B in a funding round led by WestCap, valuing it at $7B+ — NYDIG said Tuesday it raised a stunning $1 billion in a funding round that will value the firm at over $7 billion - and potentially expand bitcoin's reach into …
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PR Newswire, Blockworks, The Block, Crypto Briefing, Cointelegraph, and CryptoPotato
Tweets: @kr00ney and @fintechfrank
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
LogMeIn says it will spin out password management tool LastPass; LogMeIn acquired LastPass, used by 30M people and 85K businesses, for $125M in 2015 — LastPass has more than 30 million users — LogMeIn plans to spin out password management tool LastPass as a standalone company, it announced Tuesday.
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LogMeIn Remote Access, The Register, PCMag, Engadget, Forbes, and Liliputing
| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
VR meeting startup Spatial officially pivots to NFTs, letting users host galleries and events, and raises $25M, bringing its total raised to $50M — Just a few months after Meta unveiled its own VR meeting platform, a startup known for a similar product is hitting the brakes: Spatial … | BBC: |
UK MPs propose changes to the UK's Online Safety Bill, including adding more offenses and fines, mandating tech firms appoint a “safety controller”, and more — New criminal offences and major changes have been proposed in the UK's landmark Online Safety Bill, which seeks to regulate social media and tech giants.| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
US OSHA says it is investigating the deadly collapse of an Amazon warehouse in Illinois caused by a tornado; six workers died, one was injured, 45 were rescued — - OSHA is investigating a collapse at an Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville, Illinois. — The facility collapsed Friday …
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| Eva Dou / Washington Post: |
Internal Huawei marketing slides show a broader role in tracking China's population than previously acknowledged, including using voice ID and tracking shoppers — The Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies has long brushed off questions about its role in China's state surveillance …
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The Hill. Tweets: @benpershing, @jordanschnyc, @lilkuo, @kevincarrico, @kylecmatthews, @laurelchor, and @jerrydunleavy
| Louise Matsakis / The Atlantic: |
Investors have poured $1B+ into startups looking to turn mom-and-pop stores into digital retailers and mini-tech hubs, especially in South and Southeast Asia — Corner stores don't look like much. Maybe the one nearest to you has dusty shelves lined with bags of chips and cookies …
Tweets: @lemonsand, @paulbisceglio, @lmatsakis, @bcmerchant, and @cengizyar
| Kyle Alspach / VentureBeat: |
Cloud security remediation startup Dazz raises $50M Series A and $10M seed round from Insight Partners and others — Cloud security remediation startup Dazz, which today announced it has raised $60 million in funding, said it plans to launch its AI-driven product into general availability …
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Carto, which helps visualize data on interactive maps, raises a $61M Series C led by Insight Partners — Spatial analysis platform Carto has raised a $61 million Series C round. Many companies collect a ton of data with some location element tied to it. Carto lets you display that data …
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| Mohak Shroff / Official LinkedIn Blog: |
LinkedIn launches InCareer, a mobile and web app to help professionals in China find jobs, two months after Microsoft sunset the Chinese version of LinkedIn — Exactly two months ago, we announced that we were moving into a new chapter in China, sunsetting the local version of LinkedIn to strengthen our focus on jobs with a new app.
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TechRadar, OnMSFT.com, MSPoweruser, and Pandaily
| Joe Williams / Bloomberg: |
AWS Outpost head Joshua Burgin leaves for a new job; a recent report said Jassy overruled a recommendation to fire Burgin in 2019 after discriminatory comments — An executive at Amazon.com Inc.'s cloud division who faced an internal investigation over claims of discriminatory behavior …
| Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: |
EU details the Alliance for Industrial Data, Edge and Cloud, with 39 founding companies—none from the US or China—in a bid to improve European cloud prowess — - Region attempting to lessen its reliance on U.S. tech firms — EU also working on a bloc-wide semiconductor strategy| Reuters: |
China fines Weibo ~$470K for repeatedly publishing information deemed illegal; China has imposed 44 penalties on Weibo, totaling ~$2.3M, in the year to November — Chinese social media platform Weibo Corp has been slapped with a 3 million yuan ($470,000) fine by China's internet regulator for repeatedly publishing illegal information.
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CNBC, Barron's Online, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Coinspeaker, and Reuters
| Reuters: |
Meta acquires the worldwide trademark assets of US regional bank Meta Financial Group for $60M in cash through its affiliate Beige Key — Meta Platforms Inc (FB.O), the owner of social media network Facebook, is behind a $60 million deal to acquire the trademark assets of U.S. regional bank …
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