Microsoft says SolarWinds hackers were able to view some of its source code by hacking into an employee account but were unable to modify code or access emails
The hackers gained more access than the company previously revealed, though the attackers were unable to modify code or access emails.
[Thread] As a promised replacement for Flash, HTML5/JS is still in the stone age as a newbie-friendly animation/graphics-first authoring toolset
To this day, I am super mad at all the people who put for the codswallop that HTML5 was this perfect replacement for Flash. It's been 10 years since “Thoughts on Flash” was published and HTML5 STILL d...
Adobe ends support for Flash and will start blocking Flash content from January 12; major browsers will block Flash content from Jan. 1
Flash had to die. It had too many knocks … Caleb Chen / Privacy News Online … : Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: January 1, 2021 Jenn Gidman / Newser : Adobe Flash Is Officially No More Kevin Col...
NYSE says it will delist three Chinese companies, China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom, on January 7 to comply with a US EO imposing restrictions
The New York Stock Exchange said it will delist three Chinese companies to comply with a U.S. executive order that imposed restrictions …
Huawei removes and then reinstates Tencent games on its app store after a dispute over revenue sharing; source: Huawei insisted on receiving a 50% cut
HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) - Tencent's online games were removed and then reinstated on Huawei's app store on Friday in a dispute over revenue sharing by the Chinese companies.
Developer of Amphetamine, which has been on the Mac App Store since 2014 and has 400K+ downloads, says Apple is threatening to remove the app due to its name
Amphetamine is a free app that helps keep your Mac awake. Amphetamine has been on the Mac App Store since 2014 and it's been downloaded over 432,800 times.
Criticism of Facebook must move beyond content moderation issues; the effort to invent and invest in public cultural institutions should be our focus instead
Every day, a Twitter account run by Kevin Roose, a technology reporter for The New York Times, posts a list of the top 10 sources …
Rob Leathern, Facebook's chief of advertising integrity who handled ad products around sensitive subjects, says he left the company on December 30
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc's chief of advertising integrity, who handled the company's ad products around sensitive subjects such as politics …
Sources: investigators are checking if SolarWinds was hacked via its offices in Czechia, Poland, and Belarus, where the company moved much of its engineering
Those behind the widespread intrusion into government and corporate networks exploited seams in U.S. defenses and gave away nothing to American monitoring of their systems.
Obituary of FarmVille, which closed on Thursday but lives on in its growth-hacking techniques that are being imitated by everything from Instagram to QAnon
yes, there are people still playing it — is shutting down. An obituary: https://www.nytimes.com/... Daniel Victor / @bydanielvictor : RIP to FarmVille, shutting down today more than a decade after it ...
Top nine streaming services to end 2020 with combined US subscribers up 50%+ YoY; US households now subscribe to 3.1 services on average, up from 2.7 in 2019
From Hulu to Disney+, largest streaming services are expected to end the year with 50% more U.S. subscribers
Bitcoin crosses $30K to reach an all-time high, after growing almost 50% in December
Bitcoin, the world's largest cryptocurrency, topped $30,000 for the first time, just weeks after passing another major milestone. — The currency gained almost 6% on Saturday to reach nearly $31,000 ...
A new Golang-based worm has been actively dropping XMRig cryptocurrency malware on Windows and Linux servers since early December, mining Monero
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer :
Source: Amazon's acquisition of Wondery values the podcasting company, which began in 2016, at roughly $300M
A look at the tech companies and people that helped with issues from COVID-19 to wildfires to Black Lives Matter in 2020
This year, technology firms big and small stepped up to help with the Covid-19 pandemic and other thorny challenges. — Some years, I have to dig deep to come … Tweets: @mastersofscale , @cbarlerin ,...
Report: 10 ex-members of Apple's supplier responsibility team say it avoids or delays removing suppliers guilty of labor violations when doing so hurts business
Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac : Source: The Information .
China's Zhejiang province, home to companies like Alibaba and NetEase, has approved the country's first regional law focusing on public data and digital economy
The legislation was hailed by tech leaders as a milestone for the ‘governing the digital industry according to the law’ Zhejiang's …
Alphabet's Wing says new FAA drone rules mandating radio-frequency broadcasts for remote identification will erode privacy, suggests internet-based tracking
shocked — that a company being investigated for antitrust concerns over abusing its power on the internet would recommend the FAA ditch its newest radio-frequency ID program for internet-based trackin...
Despite protests against racial inequality, VC promises to do better, and special funds for minorities, Black founders are still sidelined in Silicon Valley
Arielle Pardes / Wired :
Flexiv, a Chinese startup that makes general-purpose adaptive robots powered by computer vision and AI, raises $100M+ Series B from investors including Meituan
Rita Liao / TechCrunch :
35 tech executives, investors, and experts offer their forecasts on tech trends in 2021, from increased investments in remote work to new data governance models
Mark Sullivan / Fast Company :
A YouTube channel run from Germany by exiled Turkish journalists was shut down due to copyright claims from Turkey; one expert blames YouTube's Turkey office
Gebru's firing reveals tech's ability to co-opt and minimize criticism of its AI systems, highlighting the need for tech unions, research protection, regulation
and offer some suggestions for how to begin fixing it. https://www.wired.com/... @techwontsaveus : “The handful of people who are benefiting from AI's proliferation are shaping the academic and public...
Search traffic to piracy sites dropped roughly a third from December 2019 to November 2020, coinciding with updates to Google's algorithm in January and May
Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak :
7 most valuable US tech companies added a combined $3.4T in market cap in 2020: Apple gained ~$1T, Amazon $710B, Microsoft $480B, Alphabet $268B, Facebook $193B
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.