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US sanctions four companies, including NSO Group, that sell spyware or hacking tools, adding them to a list of entities engaging in “malicious cyber activities” — The US government has sanctioned today four companies that develop and sell spyware and other hacking tools, the US Department of Commerce announced today.
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Washington Post, Financial Times, The Guardian, Ars Technica, PCMag, The Verge, Reuters, Protocol, CNN, The Hill, Wall Street Journal, BleepingComputer, Bloomberg, VICE, AppleInsider, Engadget, and CyberScoop
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Instagram brings back support for Twitter card previews starting today, after removing the feature in 2012 — Instagram is bringing back support for Twitter Card previews starting today. Now when users share an Instagram link on Twitter, a preview of the post will be shown in the tweet.
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XDA Developers, 9to5Mac, Engadget, and The Verge
Tweets: @instagram, @xor, @bcmerchant, @brittaniwarrick, @mosseri, @almeezyuh, and @caseynewton
| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
A look at the booming market for bots that steal 2FA codes, often using SMS services like Twilio, to break into Coinbase, Amazon, PayPal, and bank accounts — The bots convincingly and effortlessly help hackers break into Coinbase, Amazon, PayPal, and bank accounts. — Joseph Cox
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The Sun. Tweets: @josephfcox, @josephfcox, @josephfcox, @racheltobac, @timmarchman, @jason_koebler, @spencerdailey, @josephfcox, @josephfcox, @josephfcox, @rzol, @motherboard, @josephfcox, @motherboard, @josephfcox, and @josephfcox
| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Meta announces new Facebook creator tools, including custom subscription links that use its native payments system to bypass Apple's 30% IAP cut — The change is specifically about circumventing Apple's 30 percent tax, according to Zuckerberg — Facebook has found a way to skirt Apple's 30 percent tax on in-app transactions.
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CNET, Build a sustainable business …, 9to5Mac, Engadget, and iMore
Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Tweets: @fbforcreators, @mikeisaac, @btj_games, @skasriel, and @alexeheath
| Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
Coinbase confirms it is testing Coinbase One, a subscription service that internal docs show could feature zero trading fees and prioritized phone support — Quick Take — Coinbase is testing out a new subscription service, dubbed Coinbase One — The service would give users access to more features such as zero-fee trading
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Bloomberg, Protocol, CNET, Benzinga, and CoinDesk
Tweets: @joemccann, @jeffwangcrypto, @datacommandant, @killedbygoogle, @caseynewton, @hidenotslide, and @mdudas
| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
CISA creates a catalog of known exploited vulnerabilities, including from Apple and Google, and orders federal agencies to apply patches within timeframes — The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has established today a public catalog of vulnerabilities known to be exploited …
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CISA, ZDNet, BleepingComputer, PCMag, The Verge, Bloomberg, TechRadar, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, and FedScoop
Tweets: @ericgeller, @cisainfrasec, @kpyke, @campuscodi, @daveaitel, @jimlangevin, @gossithedog, and @ericgeller
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google News will return to Spain “early next year” following a change to Spain's copyright laws that will let Google negotiate fees with individual publishers — Spain has changed its copyright law in accordance with EU legislation — Who should get paid when big tech platforms aggregate news stories?
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The Keyword, Search Engine Land, CNET, Android Central, and Engadget
Tweets: @googlenews, @pedrodias, and @googleeurope
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
GitHub CEO Nat Friedman is stepping down on November 15; Thomas Dohmke, who became chief product officer in August, will take over as CEO — GitHub CEO Nat Friedman is stepping down from his role on November 15 to become the Chairman Emeritus of the Microsoft-owned service.
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The GitHub Blog, GeekWire, Bloomberg, The Verge, Protocol, ZDNet, CNBC, and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @natfriedman, @natfriedman, @dvdsgl, @scottgu, @tlakomy, @brian_armstrong, @joshmanders, @rauchg, @natfriedman, @natfriedman, @stroughtonsmith, @sbisson, @ericabrescia, and @github. Thanks:@colegarry2
| Paulina Duran / Reuters: |
Australia's largest bank Commonwealth Bank to become the country's first to offer customers crypto services, including cryptocurrency trading via its app — Commonwealth Bank of Australia will become the country's first to offer retail clients crypto services, Australia's largest bank said on Wednesday …
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CommBank, Australian Financial Review, Bankless Times, Coinspeaker, Australian Financial Review, Bitcoin Magazine, and Cointelegraph
Tweets: @cbanewsroom, @commbank, and @chainalysis
| Mike Minotti / VentureBeat: |
Activision Blizzard says Blizzard co-leader Jen Oneal is stepping down, leaving Mike Ybarra as sole leader; Oneal says she'll focus on diversity in the industry — Activision Blizzard announced today that Jen Oneal is stepping down from her role as Blizzard co-leader, which she started in August along with Mike Ybarra.
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Blizzard News, Kotaku, Activision Publishing, GameSpot, GamingBolt, MCV/DEVELOP, Engadget, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, and PC Games Insider
Tweets: @pezradar, @velocciraptor, @lepidopterrors, @blizzard_ent, and @jasonschreier
| New York Times: |
Meta plans to shut down Facebook's decade-old facial recognition system this month, deleting the face scan data of 1B+ users following legal and regulatory woes — Saying it wants “to find the right balance” with the technology, the social network will delete the face scan data of more than one billion users.
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Ars Technica, Meta, Wired, Vox, UploadVR, Reuters, Common Dreams, Electronic Frontier Foundation, KnowTechie, ComputerWeekly.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, Social Media Today, Android Headlines, HackRead, govtech.com, Digital Photography Review, VICE, BetaNews, The Hacker News, Tech in Asia, MediaNama, Pocket-lint, PhoneArena, Wccftech, The Overspill, fossbytes.com, XDA Developers, Pocketnow, Telecoms.com, Gamereactor UK, TechCircle, and iThinkDifferent
Tweets: @kashhill, @nytimes, @kevinbankston, @jovialjoy, @kashhill, @swodinsky, @katecrawford, @eff, @kharijohnson, @xor, @aprilaser, @neontaster, @samfbiddle, @charlescearl, @rajiinio, @petermdenton, @rmac18, @tomgara, @shiraovide, @rmac18, @katienotopoulos, @aprilaser, @caseyjohnston, @shahidforchange, @broderick, @aprilaser, @blackamazon, @edzitron, @guntruth, @akianastasiou, @evacide, @om, @om, @om, @jt_teran, @brianbrackeen, @eculliford, @jfreewright, @marshacollier, @peninsulaqatar, and @rmac18
| Campbell Kwan / ZDNet: |
A joint probe by Australia and UK's Information Commissioners finds Clearview AI collected data on 3B+ people by indiscriminately scraping info from the web — Despite uncovering Clearview AI's intrusive practices, Australia's Information Commissioner conceded that the number of Australians …
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Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. More:
The Verge, BuzzFeed News, Fortune, TechCrunch, Reuters, and Silicon Republic
Tweets: @kashhill, @rmac18, @jason_kint, @oaicgov, @joshgnosis, @arielbogle, @andrewtychen, and @privacyint
| Michael Bellusci / CoinDesk: |
CB Insights: global VC funding of crypto and blockchain hit a record $6.5B in Q3 across 286 deals; US startups raised $2.97B, followed by Asia with $1.4B — Coinbase Ventures was the most active investor in the quarter by far, with 24 deals. — Global venture capital funding into cryptocurrency … Thanks:@keithswiader
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Tencent announces cloud operating system Orca and three new chips, one each for AI, video processing, and high-performance networks — Chinese technology giant Tencent Holdings (0700.HK) touted progress in semiconductor chip development and investment on Wednesday, offering a rare public glimpse of its R&D initiatives.| Reuters: |
Chinese central bank official says some 140M people opened wallets for digital yuan as of October and used it for around $9.7B in transactions — Some 140 million people had opened “wallets” for China's new digital yuan as of October and used it for transactions totalling around 62 billion yuan …
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Bloomberg, Crypto Briefing, Coinspeaker, and Cointelegraph
| Eli Tan / CoinDesk: |
Faze Technologies, which wants to launch a Cricket NFT marketplace and build “the metaverse for cricket”, raises a $17.4M seed led by Tiger Global — Tiger Global led a $17.4 million seed round for Faze Technologies, the company announced Wednesday.| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Zillow says it is shutting down its home buying business, laying off ~2,000 employees, and taking a write down of $500M+; stock drops 10%+ — Zillow Group's ambitious tech-fueled bid to shake up how people buy and sell homes is coming to a surprising end. — The Seattle online real estate giant …
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Bloomberg, Stratechery, CNBC, Zillow Group, Inc., Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, KnowTechie, VICE, Insider, Axios, The Seattle Times, Fast Company, Gizmodo, Mercury News, New York Times, CNN, and MarketWatch
Tweets: @opendoor, @adamnash, @jowens510, @kelseyhightower, @jeffnolan, @business, @pmddomingos, @toddhagopian, @lt3000lyall, @darrenrovell, @derektmead, @carnage4life, @jonfortt, @paul_essen, @seldo, @samro, @dangeiger79, @xerxeswuff, @ajlatrace, @carnage4life, @kyweise, @killedbygoogle, @mikeisaac, @jowens510, and @jowens510. Thanks:@kslosh
| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Source: ByteDance co-founder Zhang Yiming, who stepped down as CEO in May, has left the board after stepping down as chairman; CEO Liang Rubo to become chairman — - Zhang announced in May he was giving up his CEO title — Chinese tech giant this week announced a restructuring
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Wall Street Journal, Forbes, CNBC, Coinspeaker, Financial Times, Nikkei Asia, Tech in Asia, Reuters, and Insider. Tweets: @pingroma
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
HoneyBook, which offers business management tools to SMBs and freelancers, raises a $250M Series E led by Tiger Global at a $2.4B valuation, up from $1B+ in May — HoneyBook, a client management and financial platform for independent contractors, today announced that it raised $250 million …
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FinLedger, TechCrunch, and Globes Online
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft will bring its mixed reality platform Mesh with 3D avatars and VR support to Teams in the first half of 2022 — Microsoft and Meta are on a collision course for metaverse competition — Microsoft is entering the race to build a metaverse inside Teams, just days after Facebook rebranded …
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Microsoft, CoinDesk, Road to VR, Forbes, The Official Microsoft Blog, International Business Times, BBC, TechRadar, TechSpot, Axios, Quartz, Input, Forkast, Silicon Republic, MediaNama, TNW, Coinspeaker, cryptodaily.co.uk, BGR India, Cointelegraph, Pocket-lint, Game Rant, and TechCircle
Tweets: @satyanadella, @broderick, @dujunx, @avinash, and @chriscapossela
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Notable, which makes RPA-based tools to speed up health care administrative tasks, raises a $100M Series B led by Iconiq Growth at a $600M valuation — Timing is everything in healthcare — yet too often diagnoses, treatments and procedures are held up by paperwork, administrative red tape between patients …
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VentureBeat, hitconsultant.net, Crunchbase News, and SiliconANGLE
| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
The criminal group behind BlackMatter ransomware announces plans to shut down the operation, citing “pressure from the authorities” — The criminal group behind the BlackMatter ransomware have announced plans today to shut down their operation, citing pressure from local authorities.
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TechCrunch, BleepingComputer, Security Affairs, Threatpost, cybernews.com, and Graham Cluley
| Billy Perrigo / TIME: |
Sources: Facebook has done little to act on the Islamophobic “Love Jihad” conspiracy theory on its platform in India due to “political sensitivities” — In a video posted to Facebook in November 2020, an extremist priest called for Hindus to rise up and begin killing Muslims in India.
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