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| Politico: |
Sources: Energy Dept. and NNSA, which maintains the US nuclear weapons stockpile, have evidence that their networks were accessed as part of the SolarWinds hack — The Energy Department and National Nuclear Security Administration, which maintains the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile …
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Ars Technica, VICE, Engadget, NBC News, Threatpost, The Hill, BleepingComputer, Input, and CISA
| Washington Post: |
CISA issues an alert that says evidence suggests attackers used malware to access US systems, beyond SolarWinds vulnerabilities, but offers no other details — Federal investigators reported Thursday on evidence of previously unknown tactics for penetrating government computer networks …
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Bloomberg, Associated Press, New York Times, Reuters, BleepingComputer, Nextgov, and Reuters
Tweets: @ericgeller, @bing_chris, @business, @exavierpope, @doritoribio, @digiphile, @nakashimae, @bobbychesney, and @shiraovide
| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
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Ars Technica, ZDNet, and CNBC
| Thomas P. Bossert / New York Times: |
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CNN, Financial Times, cyberscoop.com, and NPR
Tweets: @tombossert, @thufirhawat, @latenightseth, @dana_balter, @sifill_ldf, @frankpallone, @dandrezner, @aodespair, @daviddtss, @ewong, and @jimsciutto
| Washington Post: |
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us-cert.cisa.gov, Wired, NPR, Politico, Forbes, GeekWire, CRN, New York Times, HotHardware.com News, and The Hill
| Twitter: |
Twitter says it will start its new verification policy on January 21 and is developing profile labels to designate bots and memorial accounts — A couple of weeks ago, we announced that we're planning to bring back our public verification program in 2021, shared a draft of our new policy …
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Gizmodo, Reuters, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Engadget, Ars Technica, and Mashable
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter launches Spaces, its Clubhouse-like service, in private beta on iOS, limited to select individuals, largely from under-represented backgrounds — Last month, Twitter announced it would soon begin testing a new social experience on its platforms involving audio-only chat rooms …
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The Verge, CNET, XDA Developers, Engadget, and iDownloadBlog.com
| Jack Morse / Mashable: |
Twitter is testing “humanization prompts” which will show users' shared interest and mutual followers when replying to another user's tweet — Twitter wants you to remember that there are actual people on the other side of your replies. — The company began testing a new feature …
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The Hill. Tweets: @twittercomms, @tonyromm, @hunterwalk, @green_footballs, @jmorse_, @lolgop, @yashar, @brandyzadrozny, and @jolingkent
| Jack Morse / Mashable: |
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iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @twittersupport, @twittersupport, @twittersupport, @unseven, and @javi_draws
| New York Times: |
A bipartisan group of 38 AGs sues Google for alleged antitrust violations in search, its third antitrust suit, including exclusionary contracts with Apple — More than 30 states said that the company downplayed websites that let users search for information in specialized areas.
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The Keyword, Colorado Attorney General, The Verge, Android Police, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, Reuters, Protocol, MIT Technology Review, 9to5Google, Bloomberg, NPR, AppleInsider, Search Engine Land, The Hill, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, Yelp, CNET, NBC News, TechSpot, VICE, Politico, and Engadget
Tweets: @b_fung, @googlepubpolicy, @halsinger, @legalwritingpro, @mikeisaac, @mhbergen, @obrien, @adrjeffries, @randfish, @ceciliakang, @kantrowitz, @adrjeffries, and @ceciliakang
| Gilad Edelman / Wired: |
A look at allegations in Texas AG's antitrust suit, accusing Google of giving Facebook special privileges in exchange for not supporting a competing ad system — A new antitrust case against Google alleges that the two companies made a deal to reduce competition in online advertising.
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New York Times, The Information, The Keyword, United States District Court, The Verge, Gizmodo, AdExchanger, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, The Economic Times, 9to5Google, Fortune, MarketWatch, The Guardian, Light Reading, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @txag, @ousfourita, @johnnyryan, @robinberjon, @wired, @lucasmtny, @hoofnagle, @jason_kint, @dseetharaman, @daiwaka, @parismarx, @matthewstoller, @froomkin, and @brynstole
| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Coinbase says it has confidentially filed for an IPO — Cryptocurrency giant Coinbase announced on Thursday that is has confidentially filed for a public offering, becoming the latest in a parade of high-profile startups to pursue an IPO in 2020. — Founded in 2012 as a simple way for consumers … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
GitHub says it is doing away with all non-essential cookies and will no longer feature “irritating” cookie banners on GitHub.com and its subdomains — Microsoft -owned GitHub today announced that it is doing away with all non-essential cookies on its platform.
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The GitHub Blog, InfoWorld, Fortune, and Neowin
Tweets: @jamiequint, @eff, @joelanman, @gernot, @tomstuart, @jessicamalonso, @microserf2005, and @tomwarren. Thanks:@colegarry2
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Facebook hits back at Apple with a second full-page newspaper ad, saying upcoming iOS 14 changes will “change the internet as we know it - for the worse” — Facebook isn't done criticizing Apple just yet — Facebook is stepping up its campaign against Apple's privacy changes with a second full-page newspaper ad today.
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MacRumors, NBC News, 9to5Mac, CNBC, 9to5Mac, Hindustan Times, 9to5Mac, and Softpedia News
| Bloomberg: |
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Facebook for Business, Daring Fireball, Gizmodo, TidBITS, Social Media Today, TechSpot, Computerworld, and Washington Post
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Avast found 28 malicious Chrome and Edge extensions with 3M+ downloads, many posing as third-party add-ons for Instagram and Facebook; 25 still remain in stores — Extensions could redirect users to ads, phishing sites, collect user data, or download malware on infected systems.
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Avast EN, Press EN-WW, Threatpost, Ars Technica, SlashGear, HotHardware.com News, Tom's Guide, HackRead, Chrome Unboxed, and cloudpro.co.uk. Tweets: @campuscodi
| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Facebook rolls back a post-election change that boosted news from authoritative outlets, even as some staff asked for the “nicer news feed” to be made permanent — Facebook confirmed that it has in the past few days rolled back a change that lifted news from authoritative outlets …
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The Verge. Tweets: @kevinroose, @brianstelter, @poniewozik, @mims, @ericschultz, @alexandriajwitt, @oliverdarcy, @johnkruzel, @eshap, and @froomkin
| Maggie Fitzgerald / CNBC: |
Robinhood agrees to pay $65M to settle SEC charges that the company deceived customers between 2015 and late 2018 about its source of revenue — The Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday charged Robinhood with the deceiving customers about how the stock trading app makes money and failing to deliver best execution of trades.
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U.S. Securities …, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Gizmodo, New York Post, Fortune, and InsideBitcoins.com
Tweets: @oduneweniyi and @s_mikhailovich
| Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
Automation software maker UiPath has confidentially filed for an IPO, size and price unknown, for sometime in H1 2021; UiPath was last valued at $10.2B in July — - Software maker could have $20 billion-plus value in 2021 IPO — Company has about $500 million in annual recurring revenue| Patricia Nilsson / Financial Times: |
An investigation into who owns MindGeek, the secretive company behind Pornhub, which had $460M in revenue in 2018 and has 115M+ daily visitors to its sites — Mario Salieri was shooting a pornographic movie in a lavish Prague villa two decades ago when he first caught sight of the computer geeks who were about to upend his industry.| Wesley Hilliard / AppleInsider: |
Judge orders Apple to produce Tim Cook and Craig Federighi to testify in Apple vs. Epic lawsuit; Apple wants Tim Cook's testimony to be limited to four hours — A judge has ordered Apple to produce Tim Cook and Craig Federighi to testify for the Apple versus Epic lawsuit … | CNBC: |
The European Commission approves Google's $2.1B acquisition of Fitbit, on condition of compliance with a set of commitments related to privacy and user consent — - The Commission on Thursday set out a number of commitments that Google must follow over the next 10 years.
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European Commission, PCMag, Bloomberg, PYMNTS.com, equalocean.com, Pocketnow, Forbes, 9to5Google, Neowin, Android Central, and Android Headlines
Tweets: @lewis_crofts, @tomvalletti, @ryan_browne_, @markdistef, @kostasrossoglou, and @geoffreyfowler
| The Intercept: |
Microsoft Threat Intel docs suggest state-sponsored hackers, likely from Russia, breached Austin, TX's city network in Oct. and used it to stage other attacks — State-sponsored hackers believed to be from Russia have breached the city network of Austin, Texas, The Intercept has learned.| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Google to shut down Android Things, a stripped-down version of Android designed for smart home devices, on January 5th, 2022 — The smart home OS went pretty much nowhere — Google plans to shut down Android Things, a stripped-down version of Android designed for smart home devices.
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XDA Developers, Android Developers, Ars Technica, 9to5Google, Slashdot, and SlashGear
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Walmart partners with TikTok to test live-streamed video shopping, during which users will be able to shop Walmart fashion without leaving the app — Walmart and TikTok announced this morning they will be partnering on the first pilot test of a new shoppable product experience on TikTok's social video app.
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Walmart Inc., Fast Company, USA Today, PYMNTS.com, and marketingdive.com
Tweets: @ginnymarvin and @producthunt
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Discord raises $100M led by Greenoaks Capital, bringing its total raised to $479.3M, and says it now has 140M MAUs — Discord has raised another $100 million in funding as the instant messaging app popularized by gamers has now hit 140 million monthly active users.| Raymond Zhong / New York Times: |
Alibaba's cloud business site detailed how clients could use its software to detect the faces of Uighurs and other ethnic minorities within images and videos — The website for the tech titan's cloud business described facial recognition software that could detect members … | Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Vice food vertical Munchies is launching a channel on OnlyFans, the first verified media publisher to do so, to post exclusive weekly videos for $4.99/month — Vice's food vertical, Munchies, is launching a verified channel on the breakout creator platform OnlyFans, a subscription site … | Christina Wilkie / CNBC: |
Biden says US will impose “substantial costs” on adversaries who engage in cyberattacks; Trump has yet to personally comment about the SolarWinds hack — - President-elect Joe Biden says the U.S. will join with allies to impose “substantial costs” on adversaries who engage in cyberattacks.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Unity partners with Snap to extend the reach of Unity's ads and integrate SnapKit in Unity's game engine, including Bitmoji in 2021 — Game engine maker Unity has teamed up with Snap to extend the reach of its ads and technology platform. — The deal will extend the reach of Unity's Ads supply … Sponsor Posts
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