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T-Mobile confirms reports of a data breach caused by SIM swap attacks on a “very small number of customers”, following six other data breaches since 2018 — T-Mobile confirmed that recent reports of a new data breach are linked to notifications sent to a “very small number of customers” who fell victim to SIM swap attacks.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: following Haugen's leaks, Meta sought to divide lawmakers along partisan lines to forestall regulation, as Zuckerberg told employees not to apologize — Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg drove response to disclosures about company's influence; sending deputies to testify in Congress| Austen Goslin / Polygon: |
Epic confirms Fortnite is experiencing a major outage preventing players from logging in and causing other issues, and says it is working on a fix — No one knows when Fortnite servers will be back up — Fortnite's servers are currently offline, but Epic says that it's investigating the problem and working toward a solution.
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As the US faces record COVID-19 infections, effective use of exposure notification apps is unlikely given slow adoption and lack of data on their efficacy — The United States is grappling with record-high infections, but adoption of the system is still far behind what its creators and proponents envisioned
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How tech founders and investors use the Qualified Small Business Stock tax break, a 1990s-era provision for SMBs, to minimize taxes on their investment profits — Once aimed at small businesses, a 1990s-era tax break has become a popular way for Silicon Valley founders and investors to avoid taxes on their investment profits.
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Autonomous trucking startup TuSimple says its semi truck completed an 80-mile route in Arizona without a human on board and no human intervention — Autonomous trucking startup TuSimple has completed its first autonomous truck run on open public roads without a human in the vehicle, according to the company.
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Web3 game Axie Infinity's play-to-earn model blurs the lines between “player” and “worker”, creating a Ponzi scheme with built-in deniability — In Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, David Graeber makes the case that a sizable chunk of the labour economy is essentially people …
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The dogecoin bull run in 2021 and recent $SOS token airdrop by a third party to OpenSea users show that the only scarce resource in crypto is attention — People talk a lot about scarcity in crypto. Whether it's enforcing digital scarcity through NFTs or the idea that “there's 55m millionaires but only 21m bitcoins”.
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HDMI Forum will introduce HDMI 2.1a, the new standard, at CES 2022, offering minor updates that will further complicate a system with haphazard device support — Brace yourself for yet another new HDMI standard — The HDMI standards are a mess. HDMI 2.1, in particular …
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Apple puts Foxconn's southern India factory on probation after worker protests shut it down and an investigation revealed substandard living conditions — - Foxconn apologized for lapses in worker living conditions — Apple has asked for corrective actions before factory reopens
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Google, Microsoft, and Oracle invest in potential cloud clients to beat AWS; Google claims 6% cloud market share, behind AWS at 41% and Microsoft at 20% — Alphabet company and others invest in potential clients as they look to close gap with Amazon in fast-growing sector
Tweets: @aatilley
| Youkyung Lee / Bloomberg: |
Six of the 10 best-performing South Korean stocks in 2021 are linked to the metaverse or NFTs, including Wemade Max, up 1,500%, and Giantstep, up 1,200% — For equity investors in South Korea, this was the year the metaverse arrived. — Six of the nation's 10 best-performing stocks in 2021 …
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