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Sources: state-backed Russian hacking group APT29, or Cozy Bear, is behind the hacks of US Treasury, NTIA, and FireEye — The Russian government hackers who breached a top cybersecurity firm are behind a global espionage campaign that also compromised the Treasury and Commerce departments …
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| Christopher Bing / Reuters: |
Sources: state sponsored hackers monitored internal emails at US Treasury and broke into National Telecommunications and Information Administration's Office 365 — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A sophisticated hacking group backed by a foreign government stole information from the U.S. Treasury Department …
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Sources: Apple TV+ was making Scraper, a show about Gawker Media, with several episodes written, then Tim Cook sent an email about it and the project was killed — Big tech companies now exert huge influence over what stories get told. The message is clear: Be careful who you offend.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Facebook fears cracking down on Hindu extremist groups in India because of the likelihood that it could lead to violence toward its staff — Social media giant's security team cites possible attacks if extremist Hindu groups are kicked off platform
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| Mark Kleinman / Sky News: |
Source: EA has ignited a bidding war for Codemasters, topping Take-Two Interactive's £725M offer that was agreed upon last month for the British game developer — The $40bn US-based games giant EA has ignited a bidding war for Britain's Codemasters, Sky News understands. — Created with Sketch.
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| Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: |
Nēsos, which is developing a noninvasive, drug-free method to treat rheumatoid arthritis using a wearable earbud, comes out of stealth with $16.5M in funding — Nēsos launched out of stealth Thursday and is poised to commercialize a new method for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.| Rakesh Prakash / Times of India: |
Violent unrest erupts at Wistron's iPhone manufacturing plant near Bengaluru in India, sources say over the company's failure to pay promised wages — A screenshot of the video showing employees damaging properties at the iPhone manufacturing plant. — BENGALURU: The iPhone manufacturing plant …
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AppleInsider, South China Morning Post, Hindustan Times, Channel NewsAsia, Wall Street Journal, The Indian Express, Business Insider, Times of India, Times of India, Livemint, The Economic Times, Swarajyamag, NDTV.com, Somag News, NEWKERALA.COM, The Verge, News18, TechSpot, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, The New Indian Express, Deccan Herald, Business Standard, cnbctv18.com, Livemint, NDTV Gadgets 360, Moneycontrol, India Today, The Week, Patently Apple, Apple Terminal, iMore, and Appleosophy
| Matthew Gault / VICE: |
Indie game developers say Twitch's light touch with nudity in big games like Cyberpunk 2077, despite Twitch's rules against explicit content, is hypocritical — You can't show dicks or nipples on Twitch unless you're playing ‘Cyberpunk 2077.’ — Cyberpunk 2077 is full of dicks.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: point-of-sale lender Affirm is postponing its IPO until next year — The point-of-sale lender is the second company in as many days to pull back from the IPO market — Affirm Holdings Inc. is postponing its initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter … | Benjamin Powers / CoinDesk: |
How US FinCEN became a honeypot for sensitive personal data, a situation made worse by the banking industry's defensive filing of suspicious activity reports — If a despotic government's bank transactions can be leaked, so can yours. — That's perhaps the most overlooked yet unsettling implication … | The Guardian: |
EU funded security research has distributed €1.15B and funded 714 projects but scrutiny and criticism appears to be sidelined in the quest for new tech — EU science funding is being spent on developing new tools for policing and security. But who decides how far we need to submit to artificial intelligence?
Tweets: @filipejdus, @phat_controller, @bigbrotherwatch, @_pmolnar, @techwontsaveus, @digiteracy, and @paulnemitz
| Seeking Alpha: |
Pico, a provider of tech services from infrastructure to analytics for global financial markets, closes $135M Series C from investors including Intel Capital — Includes: BDNCE, INTC, NVS, PYPL, SFTBF, SFTBY … Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) Capital became a strategic investor in Pico …
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