Microsoft says hackers working for Russia, China, and Iran have recently escalated their attacks on people and orgs involved in the US presidential election
Hackers working for Russia, China and Iran have recently escalated their attacks around the U.S. presidential race as Election Day looms, Microsoft says.
Epic says Apple will let existing Fortnite players on iOS continue to use Sign in with Apple, after receiving an “indefinite extension”
Sign in with Apple for Fortnite lives on. — Update, September 10 (9:00 pm ET): Apple says that it never planned to remove support for Sign in with Apple for Fortnite.
Investigation finds more than 70 AmazonBasics products have been reviewed as dangerous, with many still for sale; Amazon says it's investigating
(CNN)When firefighters arrived at Austin Parra's home on January 12, 2017, they could see smoke and the charred remnants of an office chair outside.
Trump says “there will be no extension of the TikTok deadline”, as sources say ByteDance will likely miss the WH deadline to sell TikTok's US operations
- China's regulators plan to review technical details of deal — Microsoft and Oracle have not been dissuaded by China move
Experts discuss worst case scenarios for election night, from coordinated social media disinfo campaigns to ransomware targeting voter registration systems
We asked security experts to tell us what keeps them up at night — and what to do about it. — Election night, by now …
Twitter expands election misinfo policies, prohibiting misleading claims about results, “inciting unlawful conduct” to prevent peaceful transfer of power, more
Washington (CNN Business)Twitter announced Thursday that it is expanding its policies against election-related misinformation …
Apple Music's 3.4.0 beta APK contains a reference to Apple One, likely the name of the rumored Apple subscription bundle
Back in June, our colleagues at 9to5Mac discovered in the iOS 13.5 beta that Apple was planning to bundle their services into a single subscription.
The latest update to Google Chrome, now available on the App Store, gives it the ability to be set up as a default browser on iOS 14
iOS 14 allows for third-party web browsers and email clients to become the default, so if you really don't like Safari and Apple Mail, you now have other options.
Some US states are increasingly calling on National Guard's cybersecurity experts to help election officials in short staffed rural areas or small jurisdictions
NBC News : Tweets: @nbcpolitics Tweets: @nbcpolitics : With foreign governments eyeing ways to disrupt the November election, smaller counties have brought on cybersecurity experts from the National ...
Sources: Opendoor, which directly buys and sells homes online, is in talks to go public via merger with Social Capital II, valuing the combined company at ~$5B
- Transaction could be valued at around $5 billion, people said — Blank-check company is led by chairman Chamath Palihapitiya
Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri says the company needs to “make our case as strongly as we can” against Apple's planned changes to IDFA tracking in iOS 14
- Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri said the company will push back on a planned change to Apple's iPhone operating system that would impact …
Facebook sues the Irish data protection watchdog in a bid to stop the proposed order that could stop trans-Atlantic transfers of EU users' data
- Move follows Irish threat to halt Facebook's data transfers — Legal wrangling comes after EU court toppled EU-U.S pact
Profile of the note-taking startup Roam Research, which has raised $9M at $200M valuation from Patrick and John Collison, True Ventures, Lux Capital, others
The shift to remote work has buoyed the valuations of several startups making productivity tools. Tweets: @caseynewton , @roamhacker , @alex , @alex , @kateclarktweets , @sumanthr , @mg , @amir , @jgu...
Facebook is piloting Campus, a section specifically designed for college students to interact with peers at their school, at 30 universities around the US
Facebook unveiled a new product today called Facebook Campus … Daniel Golightly / Android Headlines : Campus Returns Facebook To Its College Roots, Sort Of David Cohen / Adweek : It's Back to School f...
Microsoft Surface Duo review: has thin, beautiful hardware, good battery life, and runs two apps at once well, but software is too buggy and the camera is bad
or at least I tried to when it was working correctly. My review, of this very not ready, though still very exciting device: https://www.wsj.com/... Harry McCracken / @harrymccracken : Rare to see this...
Oracle reports Q1 revenue of $9.37B, rising 2% YoY and beating analyst estimates of $9.19B, with cloud services division revenue of $6.95B
Jordan Novet / CNBC :
Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, who left Twitch for an exclusive deal with Mixer in August 2019, is back on Twitch, exclusively, in a multiyear deal with the site
for real this time Nathan Grayson / Kotaku : Ninja Is Back Exclusively On Twitch Tweets: Eric Feng / @efeng : I can't help but wonder why didn't @Ninja just launch https://ninja.gg/ and go direct to h...
Google unveils Android 11 Go Edition, which supports phones with 2GB of RAM, up from 1.5GB before, and says it can launch apps 20% faster than Android Go 10
Steve Dent / Engadget :
EverC, which provides banks and payment processors support to detect and prevent online money laundering, raises $35M Series B led by Red Dot Capital Partners
Shoshanna Solomon / The Times of Israel :
Google says it will remove any Autocomplete suggestions that endorse or oppose a candidate or a party, or make a claim about voting or the electoral process
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch :
Report finds ransomware incidents accounted for 41% of cyber insurance claims filed in H1 2020, with the average ransom demand increasing 47%
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
Square announces Cryptocurrency Open Patent Alliance, a non-profit which invites crypto companies to pool and share their patents
Paddy Baker / CoinDesk :
Sources: the White House is considering Nathan Simington, an NTIA advisor who is said to have helped draft Trump's social media EO, as the next FCC commissioner
Trump's next FCC pick is far more eager to regulate the internet than most conservative telecom policy people have been comfortable with in the past https://www.theverge.com/... Lindsey Barrett / @lam...
A month after the launch of TikTok's $200M fund, some creators are complaining about the low payouts and lack of transparency in how payouts are calculated
Users say the platform's new Creator Fund is opaque and riddled with problems. The company says it's listening. Tweets: @wired , @taylorlorenz , @mattnavarra , @cecianasta , @lmatsakis , and @taylorl...
India's Times Internet reports 67B page views, up from 47B last year, says it has 557M MAUs and 111M+ DAUs, with MX Player at 200M+ MAUs and Gaana at 185M MAUs
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Coin Metrics: Coinbase-backed stablecoin USDC's supply has grown more than 250% this year to reach $1.8B, while Binance's BUSD offerings grew 725% to $255M
Alexander Behrens / Decrypt :
Replicant, a customer service platform that uses text-based chatbots and AI assistants to help human reps, raises $27M Series A led by Norwest Venture Partners
Kenrick Cai / Forbes : Tweets: @alexrkonrad . Thanks: @chest Tweets: Alex Konrad / @alexrkonrad : AI company Replicant is interesting on its own, but I'm here for the dramatic termsheet signing photo...
Sources: to allocate shares in its public listing, Unity is considering using a process similar to the Dutch auction Google used during its IPO
Miles Kruppa / Financial Times :
SEC filing: former NSA director Keith Alexander is joining Amazon's board of directors
When Amazon announced the addition to its board of directors … Tweets: Jason Del Rey / @delrey : Amazon says it has added retired four-star Army general Keith Alexander to its board of directors. Alex...
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
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