Twitter lifts restrictions from the NY Post's Twitter account, updating its practice of “not retroactively overturning prior enforcement”
Social-media company reverses policy that previously required newspaper to delete old tweets before being able to tweet again
The Internet Archive starts adding banners on some Wayback Machine pages with links that provide contextual information from fact-checking organizations
Fact checking organizations and origin websites sometimes have information about pages archived in the Wayback Machine.
Profile of Google Cloud's Kelsey Hightower, a respected figure in cloud computing and one of the few prominent Black men in enterprise infrastructure tech
Peter Idah had met Kelsey Hightower before. But this time, he brought his son. — It was March 2016, and the Kubernetes jamboree … Tweets: @kelseyhightower , @jbeda , @apbhatnagar , @marktechson , @...
A profile of Discord, which lies at the center of the gaming world with 100M+ MAUs, as it pushes to turn into a communication tool for everyone, not just gamers
Most longtime Discord users have a similar origin story. They liked playing video games, and liked playing with their friends … Tweets: @kevinctofel , @panzer , @postimusmaximus , @aweary , @drorpole...
Researchers have developed a deep learning technique that can significantly decrease the computational capacity required to solve partial differential equations
Unless you're a physicist or an engineer, there really isn't much reason for you to know about partial differential equations. I know.
DriveWealth raises $56.7M Series C for its digital brokerage services that help broker-dealers and its global online partners access the US securities market
DriveWealth, LLC, a Chatam, N.J.-based global digital trading technology company, raised $56.7m in Series C funding.
Google's Project Zero discloses a zero-day sandbox exploit on Windows 7 and 10; Microsoft says it has no evidence of the flaw being widely exploited
New Hacker Attack Confirmed By Google, Microsoft project-zero : Issue 2104: Windows Kernel cng.sys pool-based buffer overflow in IOCTL 0x390400 Nathan Ord / HotHardware.com News : Google Project Zero ...
Intel launches new Iris Xe Max discrete GPU, with first laptops now available from Acer, Dell, and Asus
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A look at the key social media feedback loops that help Trump, where his high-profile influencers and rank-and-file followers push messages both to and from him
Researchers say the online feedback loop between Trump, high-profile influencers and rank-and-file followers is more dangerous than Russian disinformation. Tweets: @lizzadwoskin , @tripgabriel , @alfo...
Apple seeds iOS 14.2 “Release Candidate” to developers, which adds optimized battery charging for AirPods and MagSafe leather case support
CISA, FBI say an Iran-linked APT targeted unsecured state election websites to harvest US voter info used to send threatening emails to some Democratic voters
Iranian Advanced Persistent Threat Actor Identified Obtaining Voter Registration Data Raphael Satter / Reuters : U.S. says Iranian hackers behind threatening emails accessed voter data Alex Turner-Coh...
US judge issues temporary injunction blocking Trump's TikTok ban in TikTok creators lawsuit, saying ban exceeds gov't authority, causes users “irreparable harm”
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Cloud video surveillance company Eagle Eye Networks raises $40M Series E from Accel to invest in new AI projects such as license plate recognition
Eagle Eye Networks, a cloud video surveillance company, raised $40 million in Series E funding from Accel to advance its platform.
Forty-six top US companies including Apple, Google, and Twitter have filed an amicus brief supporting a legal challenge to block Trump admin's H-1B visa changes
- The move comes in the wake of the US administration's proposal to scrap the computerized lottery system to grant H-1B work visas …
Apple rejects an app designed to verify a person's ballot status in PA, says the app violates its guideline which forbids compiling user data without consent
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StackHawk, whose tech helps developers find application security vulnerabilities before they get into production, raises $10M Series A led by Sapphire Ventures
With a successful beta at its back and paying customers onboard, Denver application security startup StackHawk announced Tuesday …
Misinformation on social media, alongside Trump's lies, is overwhelming local election officials across the US as they shoot down rumors via phone and email
Wise, a fintech startup that partners with other companies so that they can offer business bank accounts to their own customers, raises $12M Series A
Fintech startup Wise has raised a $12 million Series A round. The company offers business bank accounts with an interesting go-to-market strategy.
Skan, which helps enterprises automate repetitive business processes by combining data engineering with computer vision, raises $14M Series A
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Profile of Shield AI, which raised money from a16z and others to develop autonomous military drones that scan buildings to help soldiers clear them
On the battlefield, any doorway can be a death trap. A special ops vet, and his businessman brother, have built an AI to solve that problem.
Odaseva, a France-based data protection services provider for large-scale Salesforce customers, raises $25M Series B led by Eight Roads Ventures
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How Trump's presidency has changed the internet, from fueling conspiracy theories to forcing social media platforms to reexamine their content policies
from the way we joke, to the way we process reality, writes @kait_tiffany: https://on.theatln.tc/eid9sPY
Interview with Petra Wikström, director of public policy at Schibsted, on joining the Coalition for App Fairness to pressure app store owners to change rules
StrongDM, which grants and mediates user access to enterprise backend infrastructure and logs user actions in video replay, raises $17M Series A led by Sequoia
Igor Bosilkovski / Forbes : Tweets: @forbestech Tweets: @forbestech : Sequoia just led A $17 million Series A in this woman-led software firm https://on.forbes.com/... By @IgorBosilkovski https://twi...
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.