Dating apps like Tinder and Bumble are banning users identified in photos from the Capitol riot, and some users are relaying incriminating evidence to the FBI
Bumble, Tinder and others are freezing out rioters with help from law enforcement — and, in some cases, their own photos.
Analytics firm Zignal Labs: online misinformation about election fraud dropped 73% in the week after several social media sites suspended Trump and key allies
Zignal Labs charts 73 percent decline on Twitter and beyond following historic action against the president
More than 20 current and former CD Projekt staff say development of Cyberpunk 2077 was marred by unchecked ambition, poor planning, and technical shortcomings
CD Projekt SA Chief Executive Officer Marcin Iwiński made a public mea culpa this week about the disastrous rollout of the video game Cyberpunk 2077 in December.
WhatsApp to delay new privacy policy by three months following widespread confusion over whether the policy would mandate data sharing with Facebook
but what's the point? Yash Wate / TechPP : WhatsApp delays new privacy policy update after user backlash Tweets: @whatsapp : Thank you to everyone who's reached out. We're still working to counter any...
DuckDuckGo surpassed 100M daily search queries for the first time on Jan. 11; since August 2020, the search engine began seeing over 2B search queries per month
DuckDuckGo reaches historic milestone in a week when both Signal and Telegram saw a huge influx of new users.
How a group of Dorsey's lieutenants overcame his reluctance to ban Trump's account when it became clear Trump was using his Twitter presence to incite violence
the essence of democracy—but they seem to be neglecting the duties of government officials not to violate human rights and their power to do great harm. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twi...
Interviews with more than two dozen tech execs and workers who have left San Francisco for other parts of the US over the last year amid a rise in remote work
money that will go plenty further somewhere else.” Great piece by @NellieBowles https://www.nytimes.com/... JP Mangalindan / @jpmanga : Ironically, that's my old SF apartment building in the photo. ht...
Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson calls out tech leaders for bailing on SF and being rude about it as they leave, says he is staying and working to make the city better
There are plenty of ways to leave a party. — You can quietly say your thanks and goodbyes and be on your way. You can stay a while to help clean up.
Miami PD says it is using facial recognition tech from Clearview AI to identify Capitol rioters, raising concerns among civil liberty and privacy advocates
a photo, or a name or a social media identity — and subpoena Facebook or Twitter. They'll ask for additional data, like that person's online persona, their posts, friends list, associated phone number...
Facebook says it is temporarily banning ads for gun accessories and military gear through next week's inauguration “out of an abundance of caution”
remove them permanently, conduct an independent investigation into how @Facebook enabled the insurrectionists and add an expert on countering extremism/domestic terrorism to your Board of Dir. https:/...
The attack on the Capitol sparked a tense debate among online extremism researchers about crowdsourced efforts to identify the rioters and “ethical doxxing”
Joan Donovan has a panic button in her office, just in case one of the online extremists she spends her days fighting tries to fight back. Tweets: @walterolson , @josephpatrice , @issielapowsky , @bos...
Deliveroo says it has raised $180M in new funding from existing investors led by Durable Capital Partners and Fidelity Management at a $7B+ valuation
Private financing boost for food delivery app ahead of long-awaited stock market debut — Deliveroo's valuation shot up to more than $7bn …
Researchers working on Twitter's bluesky effort discuss how its open decentralized standard for social media could hinder efforts to stop online radicalization
The platform's vision of a sweeping open standard could also be the far-right's internet endgame
A critique of Canada's tech startup ecosystem, whose growth is being held back by the mindset of angel investors, the government's SR&ED tax credits, and more
Toronto is not the next great startup scene. Neither is Waterloo, or Vancouver, or anywhere in Canada. — I'm sorry that I have to write this. Tweets: @prashanth_krish Tweets: Prashanth / @prashanth...
Iran blames legal and illegal crypto mining for massive blackouts in the country, shuts down a large, licensed Chinese-Iranian mining operation
Massive blackouts and smog have hit cities across Iran. It's a toxic mix as the country, already under economic duress and suffocating U.S. sanctions … Tweets: @caleb_scharf Tweets: Caleb Scharf / @c...
Trend Micro: 32% of 500 IT leaders believe AI will replace all cybersecurity roles by 2030; 19% say attackers using AI will be commonplace by 2025
In 2021 Trend Micro predicts that cybercriminals will look to home networks as a critical launch pad to compromising corporate IT and IoT networks. Tweets: @cubicleapril Tweets: April King / @cubiclea...
CES 2021 demonstrated that the smart home industry is at a pause after moving a little too rapidly for several years without understanding what consumers want
Although the Consumer Electronics Show 2021 event is technically only half over, most of the big news typically lands in the first half of the week.
Discord says over the past six months it took steps to make the service safer for kids, including more proactive policing and limiting what minors can access
Chat platform popular with gamers tries to shed anything-goes image; safety expert says, ‘I would give them a B+’ Tweets: @wsj Tweets: @wsj : Discord, the chat app popular with gamers, is doing more t...
Yidu Tech, which offers AI software to the health care industry, saw its shares jump 148% in its Hong Kong debut on Friday after raising ~$531M in its IPO
Chloe Lo / Bloomberg :
Sources: investors, including BlackRock, GIC, and Silver Lake, who invested $10.3B in Ant's 2018 pre-IPO round are left with illiquid stakes after canceled IPO
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.