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| Anirban Sen / Reuters: |
Sources: Coinbase is exploring going public via a direct listing as early as this year; Coinbase was last valued at $8B+ in 2018 — Anirban Sen, Joshua Franklin, Anna Irrera — (Reuters) - Coinbase Inc has started plans for a stock market listing that could come as early as this year …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Sensor Tower: of the ~910K users that signed up for Quibi's 3-month free trial in April, only 8%, ~72K, converted to a paid subscription after the trial ended — The struggling streaming video platform has a not-so-great conversion rate — Streaming service Quibi only managed to convert …
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Police are buying access to hacked data, including passwords, IP addresses, and more to help with investigations in an end-run around the usual legal processes — The sale is “an end-run around the usual legal processes.” — Joseph Cox — Hackers break into websites, steal information …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Microsoft details Kernel Data Protection, upcoming Windows 10 tech that it says blocks malware from modifying OS memory by making parts of the kernel read-only — New KDP security feature is currently being tested with Windows 10 Insider builds. — Microsoft has published today …
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
In a first, the CENTRE Consortium has blocked an Ethereum address holding $100K USDC stablecoin in response to a law enforcement request — The CENTRE Consortium blacklisted a USDC address in response to a law enforcement request, freezing $100,000 worth of the stablecoin, a spokesperson said Wednesday.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Apple says it remains “committed to the future of Thunderbolt and will support it in Macs with Apple silicon” — Apple silicon will still work with Intel's port standard — Apple is moving away from Intel's chipsets in favor of its new, custom-designed ARM chips …
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| Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk claims Tesla is “very close” to developing fully autonomous vehicles despite Tesla's “Full Self Driving” feature not living up to its name since 2016 — - The billionaire says it'll have basics worked out this year — Tesla's in an industry race to develop fully self-driven cars
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Epic Games releases an iOS app, called Live Link Face, that lets developers record facial expressions directly into the Unreal Engine — Using Apple's ARKit and the iPhone's TrueDepth camera — A newly released iOS app from Epic Games lets developers record facial expressions …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
TikTok says it took down 49M+ videos globally for content violations during H2 2019 and again claims it received no takedown requests from China — TikTok's second transparency report offers more details on video removals — TikTok took down more than 49 million videos from users across …
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| Washington Post: |
Facebook says it removed 100+ Pages and accounts linked to felon Roger Stone, as well as some linked to Brazil's Bolsonaro, for coordinated inauthentic behavior — The longtime Trump friend and former campaign adviser used fake accounts and other deceptive tactics to manipulate public debate, the company said
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| Noel Randewich / Reuters: |
Nvidia surpasses Intel as the most valuable US chipmaker, with a market cap of $248B+ as its stock has surged 68% in 2020 — (Reuters) - Nvidia (NVDA.O) has overtaken Intel (INTC.O) for the first time as the most valuable U.S. chipmaker. — In a semiconductor industry milestone …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp Business adds support for QR codes, allows businesses to create and share links to their catalogs to post elsewhere, and says it has 50M users — The global COVID-19 health pandemic has raised the stakes for businesses when it comes to using digital channels to connect with customers … | Andy Maxwell / TorrentFreak: |
EU court rules that online platforms like YouTube need not hand over to rights holders the email or IP addresses of users who upload pirated content — A judgment handed down by the EU Court of Justice this morning has found that online platforms, including YouTube, do not have to hand … | Mengqi Sun / Wall Street Journal: |
US Treasury Department says Amazon settled allegations that it violated US sanctions, primarily due to flaws in its automatic screening process, for $135,000 — The e-commerce giant's screening system allegedly failed to flag transactions with blacklisted customers
Tweets: @maria_shagina
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
XM Cyber, which develops simulation and remediation software to expose cyberattack vectors, raises $17M Series B, bringing its total raised to $49M — XM Cyber, a startup developing a simulation and remediation platform to expose cyberattack vectors, today announced it raised $17 million.
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| Nico Grant / Bloomberg: |
Google scrapped a campus security system asking employees to check colleagues' badges, sources say after complaints Black and Latinx workers were singled out — - Company encouraged staff to check colleagues' ID badges — System scrapped after workers complained to CEO Sundar Pichai| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Open source database startup MariaDB adds $25M extension to its $27M Series C, bringing total raised to $125M+, says it's doubled its last valuation of ~$354M — Cloud services continue to be a key component of how organisations remain operational even as so much else …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google releases Android 11 Beta 2 for Pixel phones, says Android 11 has reached platform stability and all app APIs and behaviors have been finalized — Google today launched Android 11 Beta 2, or the sixth preview of its next mobile OS version. Beta 2 marks Android 11's Platform Stability milestone …
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9to5Google, Android Police, Android Developers, XDA Developers, SiliconANGLE, and Pocketnow. Tweets: @epro
| Sue Halpern / New Yorker: |
An in-depth look at Microsoft's ElectionGuard voting software, led by cryptographer Josh Benaloh, which aims to check whether election results are accurate — A mathematician's quest to make American elections more trustworthy. — Near the end of last year, I met Josh Benaloh …
Tweets: @bradsmi, @tonitwhitley, @tomburt45, @brennancenter, @ahier, and @ericgeller
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Google has open sourced Tsunami, a vulnerability scanner for large-scale enterprise networks consisting of thousands of internet-connected systems and servers — Google says Tsunami is an extensible network scanner for detecting high-severity vulnerabilities with as little false-positives as possible.
Tweets: @quinnypig
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