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CI/CD service CircleCI says hackers infected an employee's laptop and stole 2FA-backed credentials to breach the company's systems and data in December 2022 — CircleCI's chief technology officer said malicious hackers infected one of their engineer's laptops and stole elevated account privileges …
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How Elon Musk's Twitter moderation cuts boosted hate speech outside the US and Canada, where 75%+ of the service's 280M DAUs live, including in Japan and India — With 75 percent of its audience outside the U.S. and Canada, the impact of Elon Musk's moderation cuts has been great elsewhere| Paul Roberts / The Seattle Times: |
Meta and Microsoft are vacating some of their Washington office buildings in Seattle and Bellevue, respectively, amid job cuts and popularity of remote work — In the latest sign of change in the tech sector — and softness in the office market here — Facebook parent Meta and Microsoft …
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Emails show Twitter is offering free ad space by matching ad spending up to $250K; all ads must run by February 28, a period that includes the Super Bowl — Tech company to match advertisers' ad spending up to $250,000 — Twitter Inc. is offering advertisers a new incentive in an attempt … | Mack DeGeurin / Gizmodo: |
Three ex-employees say SoundHound laid off ~200 people, or ~50% of staff, with two weeks of severance that will only be paid if the company can raise more money — The massive restructuring comes just one year after the company went public via SPAC and two months after a separate layoff that cut 10% of staff.| Pete Syme / Insider: |
An FTX lawyer told the Delaware bankruptcy court that SBF asked FTX cofounder Gary Wang to create a secret backdoor to let Alameda borrow $65B of clients' money — - Bankruptcy lawyers said Sam Bankman-Fried's Alameda had access to a $65 billion credit line from FTX.
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How All-In, the popular tech podcast moderated by Jason Calacanis and his billionaire pals, gives an insight into Twitter under Elon Musk — On Nov. 7, about a week after Elon Musk took over Twitter and laid off half the staff, a company vice president offered a group of concerned employees … | Bloomberg: |
Customs data shows China's chip imports fell 15% in 2022 to 538.4B units, the first annual drop since at least 2004; imports grew 17% in 2021 and 22% in 2020 — China's imports of integrated circuits declined in 2022 for the first time in almost two decades.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Hackers are exploiting a critical remote code execution vulnerability in unpatched versions of the Control Web Panel, a widely used interface for web hosting — A patch was released in October, but not all servers have installed it. — Malicious hackers have begun exploiting …
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| Adam Popescu / MIT Technology Review: |
A look at Congo's Virunga National Park, which is running a Bitcoin mine that uses power from a hydro plant to pay salaries and build infrastructure projects — In an attempt to protect its forests and famous wildlife, Virunga has become the first national park to run a Bitcoin mine.
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Amazon is testing $12/year Prime Lite in India with free two-day delivery and ad-supported Prime Video in SD; Prime costs $18/year or $2.20/month in India — Amazon is quietly piloting a new tier for its Prime membership in India, providing customers with access to popular benefits such as free … | Peter Blumberg / Bloomberg: |
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