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Analysis finds 24+ organizations that installed SolarWinds code, including Cisco, Intel, Nvidia, VMware, Belkin, a CA hospital, and Kent State university — A Wall Street Journal analysis identified at least 24 organizations that installed software laced with malicious code by Russian hackers
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| Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
Profile of Dina Srinivasan, who is helping Texas AG's antitrust investigation of Google after her treatises on Facebook and Google reframed antitrust thinking — Regulators are relying on insiders like Dina Srinivasan, who left her digital ad job after concluding that “Facebook and Google …
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Citizen Lab: NSO's zero-day, zero-click exploit chain, active in at least iOS 13.5.1, was used to hack ~36 Al Jazeera reporters via iMessage in summer of 2020 — Summary & Key Findings — In July and August 2020, government operatives used NSO Group's Pegasus spyware …
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| Margaret Harding McGill / Axios: |
Congress' COVID-19 relief deal includes $7B in broadband funding, with $1.9B to remove Huawei and ZTE equipment, $3.2B to low-income families, and more — The coronavirus relief package deal that Congressional leaders reached Sunday includes $7 billion in funding for broadband internet access.
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| Zach Dorfman / Foreign Policy: |
Interviews with 36+ current and former US officials describe China's strategy of analyzing vast quantities of stolen US personal data to identify CIA operatives — Around 2013, U.S. intelligence began noticing an alarming pattern: Undercover CIA personnel, flying into countries in Africa …
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| Nandita Bose / Reuters: |
Sources: executives and employees at Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, and others are seeking to place allies in senior roles at government agencies under Biden — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Silicon Valley is working behind the scenes to secure senior roles for tech allies in lesser-known … | Aislinn Keely / The Block: |
Personal information of 270K+ customers of hardware wallet Ledger has been leaked online, including emails, home addresses, and phone numbers — A database containing the personal information of over 270,000 Ledger customers has been published on RaidForums, a marketplace for buying, selling, and sharing hacked information.
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Decrypt, BleepingComputer, Ledger Support, Bitcoinist.com, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, blockchain.news, Crypto Briefing, and CoinDesk
Tweets: @ledger, @adeldmeyer, @yellowblock_io, @doncryptodraper, @ourielohayon, and @isafepal
| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Wired: |
Cyberpunk 2077's developer hamstrung reviewers by forcing NDAs and sending copies just days before launch to prevent players from seeing the buggy mess — Video game companies are increasingly putting restrictions on what reviewers can show, widening the gap between expectations and reality.
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The Verge, Destructoid, Defector, International Business Times, Tom's Guide, Forbes, and IGN
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Cultural taboos around porn have led to blind spots in Silicon Valley, with VCs missing out on many of the industry's breakout hits like OnlyFans — It always was, it always will be. … One of the biggest and most interesting things happening in the consumer web right now is running almost completely under the radar.
Tweets: @arvidkahl, @hkanji, @ericzawo, and @cathyreisenwitz
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TikTok launches its first personalized annual recap feature, “Year on TikTok”, which highlights what sort of videos were watched the most, favorite tracks, more — Spotify users have Wrapped and Instagram users have their Top 9. And now TikTok users will have their own year-in-review feature, too.| Isabel Woodford / Sifted: |
Study: the number of neobanks worldwide has tripled since 2017, climbing to nearly 300; in 2019, more than 70 neobanks went live — The number of neobanks worldwide has tripled since 2017, climbing from 100 to nearly 300 worldwide. — That means, over the last three years … | The Economic Times: |
Pine Labs, which makes POS software and provides last-mile retail transaction tech for merchants, raises $75M-$100M at a $2B valuation — Pine Labs is currently India's third largest fintech startup after Paytm and PhonePe. It counts Lone Pine Capital, Sequoia India, Temasek, Mastercard, Paypal and Actis LLP as among its investors.
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Medianama, YourStory.com, Inc42 Media, and Livemint
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| Bloomberg: |
Apartment List, a rental service that earns a fee only when a property is rented, raises $50M and is now valued at $600M+, roughly double its prior valuation — - Public listing ‘realistic’ in the next two years, CEO says — Company enabled more than 175,000 rentals to new tenantsSponsor Posts
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