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GPS metadata from videos posted to Parler on Jan. 6 shows several users deep inside the Capitol; source: FBI has expressed interest in examining the data — At least several users of the far-right social network Parler appear to be among the hoard of rioters that managed to penetrate deep inside …
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Ars Technica, VICE, The Verge, Vox, USA Today, ComputerWeekly.com, and Business Insider
Tweets: @evanchill, @janelytv, @kcimc, @chipgoines, @vabvox, @daphnehk, @jason_koebler, @donk_enby, @ggreenwald, @epro, and @darren_mooney
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
After reports of all of Parler's data being downloaded by third parties, analysis shows Parler lacked basic security measures to prevent such a data breach — The “free speech” social network also allowed unlimited access to every public post, image, and video.
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Newsweek, KnowTechie, Washington Post, evan.law, and Tom's Guide
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
WhatsApp clarifies its new data sharing policy with Facebook, which mostly concerns businesses, after recent backlash and surge in Telegram and Signal downloads — The company is trying to contain fallout over a privacy policy update — WhatsApp has published a new FAQ page …
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WhatsApp Blog, Financial Times, Axios, TechCrunch, CNN, Forbes, MacRumors, Engadget, Android Police, MarketWatch, SlashGear, iMore, Business Insider, Vox, The Economic Times, XDA Developers, Business Insider, International Business Times, Snopes.com, San Francisco Business Journal, Android Police, iPhone Hacks, CNBC, Softpedia News, 9to5Mac, coinspeaker.com, India Today, iPhone Hacks, Mashable, WABetaInfo, NDTV.com, Neowin, Fast Company, and phonearena.com
Tweets: @elonmusk, @tayhatmaker, @snowden, @signalapp, @whatsapp, @campuscodi, @mosseri, @heminator, @ericgarland, @fboversight, @ryan_browne_, @shivaroor, @zsk, @nickstatt, and @tanvi_madan
| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
A look at those unlucky enough to forget the password to access their bitcoin; Chainalysis says 20% of all bitcoin, or ~$140B, appears to be lost or stranded — Bitcoin owners are getting rich because the cryptocurrency has soared. But what happens when you can't tap that wealth …
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Business Insider, Bloomberg, The Verge, PYMNTS.com, Bitcoinist.com, CoinDesk, Slashdot, and Daring Fireball
Tweets: @asteadwesley, @nathanielpopper, @obsoletedogma, @evan_greer, @levie, @raverbruggen, @xrpartisan, @alexstamos, @mattsmithkiro7, @jbarro, @docolumide, @dylanreeve, @justmoon, @andrewrsorkin, @jacobtamme, @ancapchildren, @jacobmargolis, @cliffordlevy, @mdudas, @cd_hooks, @roddymcglynn, @howielindsey, @asemota, @zittrain, @duncanweldon, @teddyfuse, @nathanielpopper, @carnage4life, @xamat, @iansherr, and @lachlan
| Wall Street Journal: |
Visa is abandoning its $5.3B planned acquisition of fintech firm Plaid after the DOJ sued over antitrust concerns in November — Justice Department sued in November to challenge $5.3 billion deal — Visa Inc. is abandoning its $5.3 billion planned acquisition of Plaid Inc. …
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U.S. Department of Justice, Business Wire, FinLedger, TechCrunch, Fortune, ZDNet, CoinDesk, Associated Press, Engadget, TechCrunch, Crunchbase News, Forbes, SiliconANGLE, pitchbook.com, CNN, CNBC, Cointelegraph, Axios, PYMNTS.com, and New York Post
Tweets: @hserunjogi, @peter, @leah_nylen, @arampell, @regulatorynerd, @mark_goldberg_, @mdudas, @anthony, @lucasmtny, @rickyang, and @joeysolitro
| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
Sources: Apple held talks with EV startup Canoo in 2020; Apple was largely interested in Canoo's unique scalable electric vehicle platform — As part of the Silicon Valley giant's secretive push into the automotive space — Apple held meetings with California EV startup Canoo in the first half …
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Sony, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Micromobility Industries, Nikkei Asia, Ubergizmo, Pocket-lint, iMore, iPhone in Canada Blog, iMore, iDownloadBlog.com, Apple Terminal, and O'Grady's PowerPage
Tweets: @micromobilityco, @asymco, @detroitborg, @asymco, @siracusa, @auto_schmidt, @siracusa, @asymco, @nikkeiasia, @sokane1, @dcseifert, @sokane1, @carnage4life, and @backlon
| Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech: |
AMD says it will now directly sell Threadripper Pro CPUs to consumers, which support up to 128 PCIe 4.0 lanes and eight-channel memory, starting in March — Stepping out of its supposed ‘exclusivity deal’ with Lenovo, who had the first rights to Threadripper Pro in the ThinkStation P620 … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
CrowdStrike details Sunspot, a newly discovered malware strain that was the first to be used in the SolarWinds supply chain attack, beginning in September 2019 — CrowdStrike, one of the two security firms formally investigating the hack, sheds some light on how hackers compromised the SolarWinds Orion app build process.
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Krebs on Security, CrowdStrike, BleepingComputer, Dark Reading, and Nextgov
Tweets: @crowdstrike, @malwaretechblog, and @briankrebs
| Zoe Schiffer / The Verge: |
Report: GitHub fired an employee who used the term “Nazis” in an internal Slack during the US Capitol riot; ~200 staff signed a letter questioning the firing — Roughly 200 employees have signed an open letter asking for answers — GitHub reportedly fired a Jewish employee …
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Gizmodo and Boing Boing
Tweets: @inafried, @nerdyandnatural, @zoeschiffer, and @iff_or
| Anna Schecter / NBC News: |
How right-wing extremists are using Telegram channels, including some affiliated with Proud Boys, to call for violence against government officials on Jan. 20 — Right-wing extremists are using channels on the encrypted communication app Telegram to call for violence against government officials on Jan. 20 … | Jeff Stone / CyberScoop: |
Europol says it has shut down DarkMarket, the largest online marketplace for illicit goods with 2,400+ vendors, and apprehended a suspect, an Australian man — German law enforcement has shut down an internet market where users bought and sold narcotics, stolen data and hacking tools, authorities said Tuesday.
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Europol, Gizmodo, The Verge, Telegraph, ZDNet, The Guardian, DW.COM, news.com.au, VICE, Washington Times, ABC, Infosecurity Magazine, BeInCrypto, GovInfoSecurity, The Times, Bloomberg, Associated Press, Decrypt, Crypto Briefing, Security Affairs, Threatpost, The Block, Bitcoin Magazine, and iTnews
Tweets: @doberah and @zackwhittaker
| Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: |
Samsung unveils the Exynos 2100 flagship SoC, produced on a 5nm process node, touting 19% better single core and 33% better multi-core performance than last gen — Today, Samsung LSI took the virtual stage to announce the new Exynos 2100 flagship SoC. The new chip is quite special …
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Samsung Global Newsroom, HotHardware.com News, Android Authority, ZDNet, TechPP, Engadget, Pocketnow, XDA Developers, and SamMobile
Tweets: @universeice, @rdrv3, @mobile_dom, @anandtech, @rdrv3, @cardyak, and @maxwinebach
| Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia unveils RTX 3060, 3070, and 3080 GPUs, suited for mobile gaming, and says laptops with the RTX 3070 and 3080 will start rolling out this month — Nvidia's Ampere architecture is going mobile. The company revealed its plans and partnerships to bring GeForce RTX 30-series GPUs to more than 70 laptops throughout 2021.| Alex Heath / The Information: |
Memo: following its Trump ban, Facebook has told employees to avoid wearing company-branded apparel in public as it might put staff at risk — Facebook on Monday told employees to avoid wearing or carrying company-branded clothing and other items in public following the company's suspension …
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New York Times, The Verge, Telegraph, BBC, Gizmodo, The Information, and The Hill
Tweets: @alexeheath, @jamestodaromd, @alexeheath, @wbm312, @davepell, @iansherr, @theofanning, @fraying, @slpng_giants, @amir, and @jason_kint
| Dave Nyczepir / FedScoop: |
White House launches the National AI Initiative Office, which will implement national AI strategy and coordinate research across gov., industry, and academia — The White House on Tuesday fulfilled its requirement to establish an office responsible for coordinating artificial intelligence research …
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The White House, The Next Web, The Hill, VentureBeat, and Nextgov
Tweets: @willknight, @whostp, @mark_riedl, @uscto, and @tiffanycli
| Billy Steele / Engadget: |
Outdoor grill company Weber has acquired smart oven startup June for undisclosed sum; June worked previously to help develop Weber's smart grilling system — Weber enlisted June, the company behind the June smart ovens, to help it build Weber Connect. That platform powers …
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TechCrunch, CNET, The Verge, The Spoon, Forbes, and SlashGear
Tweets: @mvanhorn and @peterpham
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook expands its Access Your Information tool, adding six new categories of data, a search tool, and more, available now on its Android and iOS apps — Facebook today is rolling out an update to its Access Your Information tool with the goal of making the tool easier to both use and navigate …
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About Facebook, 9to5Mac, Input, MobileSyrup, Adweek, Social Media Today, iPhone Hacks, Neowin, iDownloadBlog.com, Vox, and MacRumors. Tweets: @alexvoica
| Maggie Miller / The Hill: |
European Medicines Agency says that hackers leaked third-party documents on COVID-19 vaccines and medicines as part of a breach discovered late last year — The European Medicines Agency (EMA) announced Tuesday that hackers had leaked information on COVID-19 vaccines stolen as part of a breach discovered late last year.
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European Medicines Agency, CyberScoop, Security Affairs, and Bloomberg
| Will Oremus / OneZero: |
Facebook has long embraced a “view from nowhere”, favoring political neutrality, but comments from Instagram's head suggest that agnostic stance is changing — Trump's extremism is forcing tech companies to abandon the pretense of political objectivity — for now
Tweets: @mosseri
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Google details a sophisticated hacking operation first detected in early 2020 that used several novel Chrome exploits to compromise users on Android and Windows — The attackers used a combination of Android, Chrome, and Windows vulnerabilities, including both zero-days and n-days exploits.
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Project Zero, iTnews, Security Affairs, and Project Zero
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Affirm priced its IPO at $49 per share, above the marketed range of $33 to $38 set earlier this week, raising roughly $1.2B — - Affirm is first big technology IPO of this year set to trade — Consumers use Affirm to finance Peloton bikes, other items| Pew Research Center: |
Survey of 9,220 US adults: 53% get news from social media at least sometimes; 36% regularly get news from Facebook, 23% from YouTube, 15% from Twitter — Facebook stands out as a regular source of news for about a third of Americans … As social media companies struggle to deal …
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TechCrunch and Social Media Today
Tweets: @pewjournalism, @pewjournalism, @jasminramsey, @getongab, @pewresearch, @epro, and @pressgazette
| Bloomberg: |
Zoom says it is seeking to raise $1.5B through a new stock offering — Zoom Video Communications Inc. is seeking to raise $1.5 billion through a stock offering, capitalizing on surging demand for the video-conferencing platform during pandemic. — Zoom said in a statement Tuesday it expects …
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Zoom, Wall Street Journal, Barron's Online, Business Insider, and CNBC
| Jason Koebler / VICE: |
Salesforce said it had “taken action” against RNC to stop it from sending emails that may lead to violence; RNC says it has stopped all online fundraising — The Donald Trump campaign has not used its millions-strong email list since the riots at the Capitol.
Tweets: @jason_koebler and @vice
| Will Knight / Wired: |
After an outcry, HireVue, which offers automated assessments of job applicants, will stop using facial analysis but will still analyze intonation and behavior — But it's still using intonation and behavior to assist with hiring decisions. — JOB HUNTERS MAY now need to impress …
Tweets: @scottthurm, @jdmar3, @tsimonite, @linadencik, @varoonmathur, @_jack_poulson, @drewharwell, @wired, @christinebannan, @hypervisible, @jevanhutson, and @mer__edith
| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
E-commerce infrastructure startup Nacelle closes $18M Series A led by Inovia, after closing a $4.8M seed round in mid-2020 — Consumer online shopping habits have led to a windfall of revenues for these web storefronts, but COVID-era trends have also breathed new life into the market … | Shibani Mahtani / Washington Post: |
Chinese authorities are ramping up the use of digital tools to clamp down on Hong Kong activists, including website blocking, as some fear broader surveillance — HONG KONG — The police officers who came to take away Owen Chow on national security grounds last week left little to chance.| Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post: |
Gig workers and unions sue in CA Supreme Court to have Prop 22 overturned, alleging it violates the state constitution and limits the power of legislators — The lawsuit alleges Prop 22 violated the state constitution, and limited the powers of legislators to provide labor protections they are authorized to grant.
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Los Angeles Times, The Verge, San Francisco Chronicle, TechCrunch, CBS News, Engadget, Axios, Gizmodo, and CNN
Tweets: @_bayrising and @veenadubal
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