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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Hackers breached SyTech, a contractor for Russia's FSB, and stole 7.5TB of data about its projects for the agency, including one for deanonymizing Tor traffic — SyTech, the hacked company, was working on research projects for the FSB, Russia's intelligence service.
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Forbes, The Merkle Hash, BleepingComputer, and Slashdot
| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Profile of Calibra's head of strategy Morgan Beller, previously a partner at a16z, and the original driving force behind Facebook's push into cryptocurrency — KEY POINTS — Morgan Beller is one of three people — all Facebook employees — listed as a co-creator of the proposed Libra digital currency …
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| Washington Post: |
Sources: the FTC has finalized a multimillion dollar settlement with Google in an investigation into YouTube for violating federal data privacy laws for kids — The Federal Trade Commission has finalized a settlement with Google in its investigation into YouTube for violating federal kids …
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Neowin, The Hill, Engadget, Financial Times, Business Insider, The Daily Caller, CNET, and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @tonyromm, @reckless, @stevekovach, @jason_kint, @benpatrickwill, @profcarroll, @anabmap, @lam_barrett, @lam_barrett, @lam_barrett, @karlbode, and @tonyromm
| AnnaMaria Andriotis / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Equifax is nearing a ~$700M settlement to resolve federal and state probes and a national class-action lawsuit over the breach disclosed in Sept. 2017 — Credit-reporting firm nears deal to settle investigations into 2017 hack that exposed millions of Americans' personal data
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New York Times, TechSpot, Engadget, CNET, and Axios
Tweets: @hshaban, @nacin, @wbm312, @adambkaplan, @jamesvgrimaldi, and @brianpkime
| Andrew Liptak / The Verge: |
Some publishers are demanding Audible to exclude their audiobooks from Captions, Audible's upcoming AI-powered transcriptions feature, citing copyright claims — Some are asking for their books to be withheld from the feature — Earlier this week, Audible revealed that it was working … | FinSMEs: |
BriteCore, a cloud-based insurance platform used by 50+ property and casualty insurers, raises $47.5M led by Warburg Pincus, bringing its total raised to $70M — BriteCore, a Springfield, MO-based provider of next-generation core software solutions for insurers, received $47.5m in growth funding.
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blog.britecore.com
| Biswarup Gooptu / The Economic Times: |
India-based MogliLabs, which operates the B2B industrial goods marketplace Moglix, raises $60M Series D, sources say at a valuation between $200M and $300M — The company will primarily use the proceeds to ramp up infrastructure. Moglix is currently present in 14 locations, and plans to be in 22-25 industrial hubs.
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YourStory.com and FinSMEs
| Dzanemorris / Fortune: |
Dust Identity, which covers objects with a diamond dust coating with a unique pattern to track them across complex supply chains, raises $10M Series A — Startup Dust Identity has raised $10 million in a series A funding round, led by Kleiner Perkins and including strategic investments …
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TechCrunch
| Megan Farokhmanesh / The Verge: |
Instagram “tag cleaners” have flooded a murdered user's tagged photos with pleasant images to combat trolls and drown out tagged images of gore — Over the last few days, a teenager named Taylor has spent more than a dozen hours uploading north of 900 photos to Instagram.
Tweets: @megan_nicolett, @megan_nicolett, and @kevinroose
| The Block: |
Coinbase has quietly shut down Coinbase Bundle, which allowed users to buy a market-weighted basket of cryptocurrencies for as little as $25 — The Coinbase Bundle product has been deprecated, per an FAQ on the cryptocurrency exchange's site. All cryptocurrency balances …
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BitcoinExchangeGuide, CryptoGlobe, The Next Web, and Cointelegraph
Tweets: @mdudas and @kylesamani
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Chrome and Firefox extensions with up to 4M installs leaked sensitive data, including names and passwords, to marketing intelligence service Nacho Analytics — Have your tax returns, Nest videos, and medical info been made public? — When we use browsers to make medical appointments … | Paris Martineau / Wired: |
The app Who's in Town shows how much sensitive location data users unwittingly share on Instagram and how much the aggregated data reveals — By aggregating data from geotagged posts and stories, Who's in Town can paint a detailed picture of the habits and haunts of anyone with a Instagram account.
Tweets: @parismartineau
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