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| Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: |
FireEye says some internal systems were hacked by nation state actors, compromising its Red Team tools, used to test the defenses of its thousands of customers — The cybersecurity company said the attack compromised its software tools used to test the defenses of its thousands of customers
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Sources: FTC and 40+ state AGs to file antitrust lawsuits against Facebook on Wednesday, alleging Instagram and WhatsApp purchases were made to kill competition — More than 40 attorneys general and the U.S. government are preparing to file antitrust lawsuits against Facebook on Wednesday …
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CNET, Gizmodo, and USA Today
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Apple announces AirPods Max, over-ear headphones with noise cancellation, adaptive EQ, spatial audio, and audio sharing, available from December 15 for $549 — The first over-ear headphones with an Apple logo on them — It turns out Apple has one more major hardware announcement …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: as Bob Mansfield retires, Apple puts AI chief John Giannandrea in charge of self-driving car project Titan; Doug Field runs the project day to day — - Company has been developing autonomous vehicle tech for years — AI executive Giannandrea takes lead after Bob Mansfield leaves
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Atomico report: European tech startups are on track to receive a record $41B in VC funding in 2020, driven by fintech and SaaS startups — Despite the upheavals and uncertainties, 2020 is on track to be a record year for the amount of capital invested into European tech.| Washington Post: |
An internal Huawei document, found on its website, says Huawei tested facial recognition with a “Uighur alarm” to alert Chinese police when it detected Uighurs — An internal report claims the face-scanning system could trigger a “Uighur alarm,” sparking concerns that the software …
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| Associated Press: |
Pornhub will no longer let users download videos or unverified users upload videos, after a NYT report alleged that it was hosting videos of rape, underage sex — NEW YORK (AP) — Pornhub said Tuesday it was halting unverified users from uploading video material after a report alleged …
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| CNBC: |
Sources: DoorDash is expected to price shares in its IPO at $102, valuing the company ~$38.7B fully diluted, well above last week's $90 to $95 range — - DoorDash sold shares at $102 a piece in its IPO, above its range of $90 to $95, according to people familiar with the matter.| Max Weinbach / Android Police: |
Sources: Samsung Unpacked will take place on January 14, and official marketing teasers for Galaxy S21, S21+, and S21 Ultra appear to have leaked — Samsung's next-gen Galaxy S21 series is just about a month away, and with that official debut coming up fast, renders of the device are inevitably …
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| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Google says it is opening up its open source Fuchsia OS to outside developers, the first formal announcement about the project — For the past four years, Google has been developing a new operating system, Fuchsia, from the ground up. Starting today, Google's Fuchsia OS is now being developed more openly …
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Tweets: @ziromr, @suka_hiroaki, @ohmdee, @googleoss, @chrismessina, @backlon, @stshank, and @adambarth
| Amy Feldman / Forbes: |
Supply chain and logistics cloud software startup Stord has raised $31M Series B at a ~$200M valuation led by Founders Fund, bringing its total funding to $46M — Sean Henry, 24, and Jacob Boudreau, 22, founded flexible warehousing startup Stord while in college at Georgia Tech in 2015.| Scott Chipolina / Decrypt: |
Square commits $10M to fund efforts to mine bitcoin with renewables; Dorsey believes “that cryptocurrency will eventually be powered completely by clean power” — Payments company Square has launched a Bitcoin Clean Energy Investment Initiative.| Angus Whitley / Bloomberg: |
A proposed Australian bill to force Google and Facebook to pay publishers for news now recognizes the monetary value of traffic that platforms send publishers — Google and Facebook Inc. won a key concession in Australia as the government unveiled details of a world-first law to force … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon launches a preview of HealthLake, a HIPAA-eligible service for health organizations to store, transform, and analyze life science data in AWS — During its re:Invent 2020 virtual keynote today, Amazon launched Amazon HealthLake, a service that enables health care organizations to store …
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| Phil LeBeau / CNBC: |
Uber is selling its flying car project, Elevate, to Joby Aviation and is investing $75M into the company as part of the deal; terms were not disclosed — - The move will allow Joby to use Uber's app to offer air taxi rides when the company's aircraft eventually enters service, which could be as soon as 2023.
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New York Times, TechCrunch, BBC, PR Newswire, Silicon Valley Business …, and Ubergizmo
Tweets: @edzitron, @drmtown, @stevekovach, @cademetz, and @maijapalmer
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Samsung's SmartThings will support Google Nest devices starting in January 2021 — Support for Nest products through the SmartThings app arrives next month — Google and Samsung are bringing their smart home platforms together for the first time. Samsung's SmartThings …
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The Keyword, Samsung Global Newsroom, and TechRadar
Tweets: @smartthingsbeat and @samsungnewsus
| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Google announces Look to Speak, an experimental project for Android that helps users with speech and motor impairments by selecting phrases with their eyes — The Android app is designed to make communication easier for people with motor and speech impairments
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The Keyword, Releases, BGR, and ZDNet
Tweets: @dangerot, @thedicea, @krliu_advocate, @lilririah, and @speedoftrust27
| Karl Bode / VICE: |
Senate votes 49-47 to appoint Trump ally Nathan Simington to the FCC for a five-year term, which could mire the FCC in partisan gridlock — Nathan Simington's was chosen to attack free speech and net neutrality. He could gridlock internet policy for the next five years.
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Ars Technica, CNBC, Medium, Morning Consult, Wall Street Journal, Variety, and Deadline
Tweets: @rob_sheridan, @karlbode, @chuckwendig, and @karlbode
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Substack CEO Chris Best on why it is not a media company, content moderation, making a reader app for users to easily read their newsletters, and more — On today's episode of Decoder, I'm talking to Chris Best, co-founder and CEO of Substack, the subscription newsletter startup that's taken …
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| D'Arcy Coolican / Andreessen Horowitz: |
Any consumer product that has a social component baked in has fundamental and asymmetric advantages over competing non-social products in that category — Social Strikes Back is a series exploring the next generation of social networks and how they're shaping the future of consumer tech.| Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: |
Swedish startup GetAccept, whose B2B sales software helps companies close deals remotely, has raised $20M Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners — GetAccept aims to help small and medium-sized businesses close more sales, starting with automating sales enablement and engagement … | Michael Larabel / Phoronix: |
CentOS, a free Linux distro functionally compatible with its upstream source, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, says it's ending support for recently announced CentOS 8 — Well here is a surprise for those that have long used CentOS as the community-supported rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux …
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The Register, iTWire, and iTWire
Tweets: @nixcraft, @chris_dag, @0x47df, @phoronix, @gaveen, @ibuildthecloud, @htbaa, @michaelkofler, and @quinnypig
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
GitHub expands its Sponsors program to let companies directly fund open source projects, starting with Amazon, AmEx, Daimler, Stripe, and others — Amazon.com Inc., American Express Co., Daimler AG and Stripe Inc. are among those joining a new GitHub program that will let companies directly …
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The GitHub Blog and The Register
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Unit, whose API helps companies integrate banking services like payment cards and checking accounts, emerges from stealth with $18.6M in funding — Companies like Stripe and Twilio have changed the game for online businesses by making it easier to integrate payments and communications services … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Truecaller: 31.3B spam calls were received between Jan. and Oct. globally, up 18% YoY, with the average American getting 28.4 spam calls/month, up from 18.2 YoY — Despite several efforts from carriers, telecom regulators, mobile operating system developers, smartphone makers and a global pandemic … Sponsor Posts
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