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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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NPR, Ars Technica, The Verge, Financial Times, OneTrust, TechSpot, 9to5Mac, CIO Dive, MobileSyrup, ZDNet, ComputerWeekly.com, CNET, and The Hill. Tweets: @pkedrosky
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The Register, The Record, The Cloudflare Blog, CISA, Cloud Monitoring …, Search Engine Roundtable, The New Stack, WeLiveSecurity, ZDNet, and Security Boulevard
Tweets: @eastdakota, @taliaringer, @eastdakota, @gossithedog, @techjournalist, @soychicka, @rover829, @williamturton, and @jamietarabay
| Tim Starks / CyberScoop: |
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CISA, ZDNet, Business Insights …, Wired, PYMNTS.com, VentureBeat, BleepingComputer, SecurityWeek, TechRadar, 360, HotHardware.com News, Tom's Guide, CNN, PIA VPN Blog, Check Point Software, The Record, Livemint, Sophos News, Threatpost, WinBuzzer, The Hacker News, FedScoop, SiliconANGLE, Dark Reading, AppleInsider, Tech Monitor, and Nextgov
| 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.
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YouTube, OPPO, XDA Developers, PCMag, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, Android Beat, Phandroid, Liliputing, KnowTechie, ntmbulo.com, TechEBlog, Tom's Guide, SlashGear, TNW, Digital Trends, GSMArena.com, TechRadar, NextPit, Livemint, Android Authority, Android Police, Android Central, Android Central, and XDA Developers. Tweets: @epro
| Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: |
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
LogMeIn plans to spin out password management tool LastPass; LogMeIn acquired LastPass, now 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 LastPass Blog, Gizmodo, Neowin, TechSpot, TechRadar, Liliputing, infosecurity-magazine.com, ZDNet, Forbes, and Help Net Security. Tweets: @lastpass
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
A look back at tech's three eras, from Bell Labs to Facebook, and why the metaverse is the fourth, defined by its bifurcation with the physical world — For the first several years of Stratechery I would write a year end article about “The State of Consumer Technology”; the last one I wrote …
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Marvin’s Newsletter. Tweets: @rjs, @stratechery, @ntaylor963, @dkthomp, @rjcc, @akberzins, @bryanmenegus, @jamcnn, @dkthomp, and @mdudas
| 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.| 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.
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The Verge, Fortune, iPhone Hacks, and iPhone in Canada Blog
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
US OSHA is investigating the collapse of an Amazon warehouse in Illinois caused by a tornado, where six workers died, one was injured, and 45 were rescued — - OSHA is investigating a collapse at an Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville, Illinois. — The facility collapsed Friday as a tornado rolled through, killing six employees.
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The Intercept, BBC, Reuters, New York Times, Engadget, Washington Post, The Guardian, Bloomberg, CNN, Forbes, Ars Technica, The Independent, The Verge, and ALU News
Tweets: @moreperfectus, @lucaskuncemo, @amazonlabor, @kenklippenstein, @mannyfidel, and @shiloh1950
| Hannah Miller / The Information: |
A look at Solana's early backers including 500 Startups, Slow Ventures, Multicoin Capital, and angels David Quiec and Chris McCann, who have $1B+ stakes — When Solana Labs CEO Anatoly Yakovenko tried to raise money in 2018 to develop his idea for a faster blockchain for financial transactions …
Tweets: @brianmcc, @amir, @bob_wins, and @theinformation
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
The UK's CMA issues an interim report voicing concerns over Apple and Google's “vice-like grip” on the mobile ecosystem, hinting at future antitrust action — The UK's antitrust watchdog has given the clearest signal yet that interventions under an upcoming reform …
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GamesRadar, International Business Times, GOV.UK, Patently Apple, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, cybernews.com, TechRadar, Digital Trends, The Guardian, 9to5Google, iPhone Hacks, Pocket Gamer.biz, and The Independent
Tweets: @s8mb, @cmagovuk, @benedictevans, @benedictevans, @benedictevans, @benedictevans, and @eric_seufert
| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Snap launches a preview of Story Studio, a standalone video editing app for iOS, aimed at users who make more professional content, like Spotlight creators — The app is for users wanting to make more professional content, like Spotlight creators — Snap has launched a standalone video …
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The Information, App Store, and 9to5Mac
| Eva Dou / Washington Post: |
Internal Huawei marketing slides show a broader role in surveilling China's population than it has admitted to, 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, saying it just sells general-purpose networking gear.
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iPhone in Canada Blog and The Hill
Tweets: @lilkuo, @benpershing, @kevincarrico, @jordanschnyc, @kylecmatthews, @laurelchor, @tedcruz, and @jerrydunleavy
| CoinDesk: |
Institutional bitcoin broker and custody services provider NYDIG raises $1B led by WestCap, valuing the startup 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, Bloomberg, TheBitTimes.Com’s Newsletter, Crypto Briefing, Blockworks, Bitcoin Magazine, The Block, and CryptoPotato
Tweets: @fintechfrank and @kr00ney
| Charmaine D'Silva / The Keyword: |
Google details Android 12 Go edition, coming to low-end phones in 2022 with faster app launches, longer battery life, better sharing, and more privacy controls — Android (Go edition) launched in 2017 with the goal to help more people access the best of Android and Google through affordable, entry-level phones.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the NSO Group is considering shuttering its Pegasus unit and selling the company, amid US restrictions and the danger of defaulting on $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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Financial Times, AppleInsider, Beyond Search, Silicon Republic, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @runasand, @malwarejake, @glcarlstrom, and @jsrailton
| Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
Apple delays macOS Monterey's Universal Control until spring 2022, after already delaying it to “later this fall” — Apple has officially delayed Universal Control, a hallmark feature of macOS Monterey and iPadOS 15 announced in June, until Spring 2022.
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Thurrott, MacDailyNews, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, PCMag, XDA Developers, Six Colors, AppleTrack, SlashGear, The Verge, The Eclectic Light Company, Digital Trends, CNET, and iDownloadBlog.com
Tweets: @kirathetechie and @samifathi_
| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
VR meeting startup Spatial pivots to NFTs, letting users host galleries and events, and raises $25M, bringing its total funding 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 … | 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: @cengizyar, @paulbisceglio, @lemonsand, @bcmerchant, and @lmatsakis
| 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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NIKE NEWS, Axios, The Hill, Tech.co, Bitcoin News, CNBC, CryptoPotato, Marketing Dive, Engadget, Crypto Bulls and Bears, Insider, The Market Herald Fancy, Complex, CoinDesk, Bloomberg, HYPEBEAST, Crypto Briefing, Benzinga, and Forbes
Tweets: @rtfktstudios, @zaptio, @rtfktstudios, @jowyang, @carnage4life, @deray, @lucasmtny, and @cdixon
| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Twitter rolls out automatic captions for videos, with support for over 30 languages, but not for previously uploaded videos — Starting today, Twitter is rolling out auto-generated captions on videos. This feature will make videos more accessible for Deaf and hard-of-hearing users.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Tel Aviv-based Guardio, whose cybersecurity browser extension has 1M active users, raises $47M led by Tiger Global — Some say that antivirus software that you install on your PC may have run its course when it comes to the next generation of computing in the cloud.
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| Kyle Alspach / VentureBeat: |
Cloud security remediation startup Dazz raises a $50M Series A and a $10M seed from investors including Insight Partners, Greylock Partners, and Index Ventures — Cloud security remediation startup Dazz, which today announced it has raised $60 million in funding, said it plans to launch …
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WinBuzzer and SiliconANGLE
| 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.
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UK Parliament, Insider, Forbes, Gizmodo, Social Media Today, The Guardian, CapX, TechCrunch, ComputerWeekly.com, Committees, UK Parliament, The Register, CNBC, The Times, Lexology, politicshome.com, and Richmond and Twickenham Times
Tweets: @onlinesafetycom, @charleskriel, @britishalba, @andymay101, @webdevlaw, @nadinedorries, @mattnavarra, @willperrin, @joetidy, @nadinedorries, @s8mb, @markscott82, @ellenejudson, @ellenejudson, @ellenejudson, @ellenejudson, @ellenejudson, @ellenejudson, @edinarl, @edinarl, @martinslewis, and @marktaber_fii
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