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Microsoft says it detected three APTs, from N. Korea and Russia, that launched attacks on at least seven companies developing a COVID-19 vaccine or treatments — The three state-sponsored hacker groups (APTs) are Russia's Strontium (Fancy Bear) and North Korea's Zinc (Lazarus Group) and Cerium.
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| Dan Levin / New York Times: |
The challenge of closing the digital divide for students has proved daunting in N. Carolina, which has a large rural population lacking reliable internet access — Millions of American students lack reliable internet access. Some are learning in parking lots connected to Wi-Fi buses or crashing with relatives to get online.
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Unity posted a net loss of $144.7M, up 218% YoY, on revenue of $200.8M, up 53.3% YoY, in its first earnings report since the company went public in September — - Video game software developer Unity Software's stock fell more than 6% in after-hours trading on Thursday as the company posted …
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Facebook plans to use machine learning to sort its moderation queue prior to human review, prioritizing viral and potentially severe content first — Facebook says it's using AI to prioritize potentially problematic posts for human moderators to review as it works to more quickly remove content that violates its community guidelines.| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Uber has been in talks since October to sell its self-driving car unit, Advanced Technologies Group, to Aurora Innovation — Eighteen months ago, Uber's self-driving car unit, Uber Advanced Technologies Group, was valued at $7.25 billion following a $1 billion investment from Toyota, DENSO and Softbank's Vision Fund.
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Oculus Quest 2 update adds support for 90Hz games; Oculus Move, an app for tracking fitness metrics while playing, rolls out next week — Plus, the mobile app will be able to record the headset's screen in late November — Oculus has rolled out its first big update for the Quest 2 …
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
DoorDash files for IPO, says it had revenue of $1.9B and loss of $149M in the first nine months of 2020, vs. revenue of $587M and loss of $533M a year ago — - DoorDash, the leading food delivery app in the U.S., filed its IPO prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday.
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| Lisa Stiffler / GeekWire: |
Profile of Tom Alberg, an early investor in Amazon, the founder of Madrona Venture Group, and a key figure in shaping the Pacific Northwest's tech economy — It was the mid 1990s, and Tom Alberg had a decision to make. — Jeff Bezos had arrived in Seattle and was looking for investors for his nascent virtual bookstore.
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| Brandon Russell / XDA Developers: |
Amazon announces the GameOn app for Android, which lets mobile gamers record and share gameplay clips — Amazon has unveiled another gaming service, this time aimed at mobile users. Dubbed Amazon GameOn, the service makes it easy for users to capture and share mobile gameplay.
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| Tawnell D. Hobbs / Wall Street Journal: |
Analysis finds that nearly three dozen ransomware attacks have targeted US school districts educating 700,000+ students since the pandemic began in March — Districts around the U.S. are fighting a wave of increasingly aggressive hackers, who are publicly posting sensitive student information| Ken Shirriff / @kenshirriff: |
[Thread] A look at the first ARM processor ARM1, which was built in 1985 and had 25K transistors, next to Apple's M1 chip, which has 8 cores and 16B transistors — how it started: how it's going: https://twitter.com/...| Rich Karlgaard / Forbes: |
Q&A with AI expert Kai-Fu Lee on China catching up to the US in AI, his investment philosophy, ethics in AI, China's natural advantages, and more — Any credible list of influential books about tech from the last decade would include AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley and the New World Order by Kai-Fu Lee.| Ars Technica: |
Many Mac users experienced app slowdowns during the launch of Big Sur, possibly due to issues with Apple's OCSP service being unable to validate certificates — Even Macs that didn't upgrade to Big Sur had problems. — Mac users today began experiencing unexpected issues …
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