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Researchers: encryption algorithm GEA-1, used in GPRS data in 2G networks, was deliberately weakened by its designers; ETSI blames export regulations — A new paper shows that two old encryption algorithms still used in mobile networks can be exploited to spy on phones' internet traffic.| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Spotify has acquired Podz, a podcast discovery startup whose tech helps podcasters promote their show using ML to select 60-second clips of key moments — Podcasts are all the rage, but podcast discovery is a challenge. Today, Spotify announced its acquisition of Podz …
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Snap eliminates Snapchat's speed filter, which let users show how fast they were moving, after a US court ruled that Snap could be sued for a fatal car crash — The maker of the Snapchat app is eliminating a feature known as the “speed filter” that lets users capture how fast they are moving and share it with friends, NPR has learned.
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OnePlus CEO Pete Lau says OnePlus and Oppo will have more integrations moving forward, further hinting at a possible merger — OnePlus says it will ‘further integrate’ its business with Oppo. But what does that really mean? — OnePlus CEO Pete Lau has announced a “new journey” …
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| Mishaal Rahman / XDA Developers: |
APK teardown of new version of Google Play Services suggests that Google is working to build an Android device network like Apple's Find My — Because Apple tightly controls the iOS ecosystem, they're able to build a massive, crowdsourced network of devices that can help locate other devices.
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| Laurel Deppen / GeekWire: |
Seattle-based Leafly, which runs an online marketplace for cannabis, raises $23M from existing investors; Leafly has 120M annual visitors — Seattle-based online cannabis marketplace Leafly has closed $23 million in new funding, GeekWire confirmed with the company.| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Facebook says it will begin testing ads on Oculus headsets, starting with the shooter game Blaston, and won't use data stored on devices to target ads — - Facebook on Wednesday announced that it will begin testing advertisements that will appear within the company's Oculus virtual reality headsets.
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| Johana Bhuiyan / Los Angeles Times: |
Emails from 2016 show Ring provided ~100 LAPD officers with free devices or discount codes and encouraged them to promote its devices to fellow LAPD, the public — In a bid to bolster its claims as a crime-fighting tool, Ring deployed a tactic popular in the business world: influencer marketing.
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| Ryan Barwick / Morning Brew: |
Study: 48% of ad traffic on “fake” news publishers and 32% of ad traffic on “low credibility sites” like Breitbart is served by Google — It's about a third for"low credibility" sites. … Fake news is a problem. Yet the sites that publish it keep surviving …
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| Sanket Jain / The Verge: |
Social health activists in India have been tasked with curbing COVID-19 misinformation, with many workers using WhatsApp to stop its spread — The backbone of India's rural healthcare system is now tasked with beating back COVID-19 myths, one message at a time
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Transform, which develops tools for businesses to query and build metrics from data troves, comes out of stealth with $20M Series A, after $4.5M seed in 2020 — The biggest tech companies have put a lot of time and money into building tools and platforms for their data science teams …
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Palmer Luckey's Anduril raises $450M Series D led by Elad Gil, with a16z and others participating; Anduril is now valued at $4.6B, up from $1.9B in July 2020 — The AI-powered defense company founded by tech iconoclast Palmer Luckey has landed a $450 million round of investment that values …
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| John Koblin / New York Times: |
Nielsen announces a new metric, The Gauge, to measure streaming viewing in ~14,000 US homes via hardware that watches internet traffic passing through a router — The company known for measuring television ratings said Netflix and YouTube are far ahead of their digital competitors in time watched on TVs …
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23andMe goes public via merger with a Richard Branson SPAC, raises $600M in IPO at a valuation of $3.5B; shares were up 21% on its first day at Nasdaq — - 23andMe, the genetic testing company that pioneered the business of personalized gene testing kits, traded higher in its public market debut under … | Simon Clark / Wall Street Journal: |
JPMorgan buys UK-based digital wealth manager Nutmeg, which has 140K+ customers and about $5B in assets under management; sources say deal is worth about $1B — Digital wealth manager Nutmeg has around 140,000 customers and $5 billion in assets — JPMorgan Chase & Co. agreed … | Joe Weisenthal / Bloomberg: |
Mark Cuban calls for stablecoin regulation, after trading Iron Finance's algorithmic stablecoin DeFi Titanium, which then crashed from $60 to $0 in a day — Here's a chart you never want to see. It's of the DeFi Titanium token, which in one day went from being valued around $60 to $0.
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Medium, Cointelegraph, CoinDesk, The Information, Bitcoin News, The Register, Crowdfund Insider, Decrypt, CoinDesk, Forbes, CoinGeek, Crypto Briefing, Newsweek, BitcoinExchangeGuide, CryptoSlate, and Cryptonews
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
PUBG Mobile returns to Google Play Store in India with new name Battlegrounds Mobile India, after being banned for nine months on national security grounds — Krafton, which filed for an IPO earlier this week, has built a gigantic gaming empire. If the firm is able to raise the target $5 billion …
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Livemint, The Register, TechRadar, Android Police, Candid.Technology, androidauthority.com, BGR India, and The Verge
Tweets: @videogamenews and @jonrussell
| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Google says it is funding a project to increase Linux security by writing parts of the operating system's core in Rust — Google said Thursday it's funding a project to increase Linux security by writing parts of the operating system's core in the Rust programming language … Sponsor Posts
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