Democrats' Sec. 230 bill is a dumpster fire of cluelessness that effectively wipes out protections for the entire internet while pretending it's a minor change
For the past few months we've been seeing a ton of terrible/ridiculous/awful/unconstitutio nal bills coming from mostly Republicans …
Sources: while Trump was in office, the Trump Org negotiated a 40% stake in Parler in exchange for making it his main social network; the deal never finalized
Documents seen by BuzzFeed News show that Parler offered Trump 40% of the company if he posted exclusively to the platform.
Microsoft suspends contributions for the rest of the 2022 election cycle to all members of Congress who voted to object to the presidential election results
Microsoft announced Friday it will suspend contributions for the rest of the 2022 election cycle to all members of Congress who voted …
Draft bill in Nevada to establish “Innovation Zones” would let tech companies with large areas of land form governments with the same authority as counties
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Planned legislation to establish new business areas in Nevada would allow technology companies … Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal .
Leaked cellphone data from the siege at the Capitol demonstrates how advertising IDs can be used to identify and track the movement of specific individuals
Times Opinion was able to identify individuals from a trove of leaked smartphone location data. — Mr. Warzel and Mr. Thompson are writers in Opinion.
Democratic senators' SAFE TECH Act will strip Section 230 immunity for any ads or posts violating civil rights, antitrust, cyberstalking, human rights laws
Not Help — the Internet Tweets: Mark Warner / @markwarner : The SAFE TECH Act doesn't interfere with free speech - it's about allowing these platforms to finally be held accountable for harmful, often...
Myanmar's new military government orders local telecom operators and ISPs to block Twitter and Instagram, days after imposing a similar blackout on Facebook
Updated at 1.46AM PT February 6: Telenor says Myanmar Ministry of Transport and Communications (MoTC) has directed all mobile operators …
Medical records “in the tens of thousands” from two U.S. hospitals have been published on the dark web, including diagnoses and other personal identifying info
Hackers have published extensive patient information from two U.S. hospital chains in an apparent attempt to extort them for money.
Google has patched an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability in its Chrome 88 update
update now Ryan Naraine / SecurityWeek : Google Chrome, Microsoft IE Zero-Days in Crosshairs Gareth Corfield / The Register : Chrome zero-day bug that is actively being abused by bad folks affects Edg...
Google says it paid $6.7M in 2020, up from $6.5M in 2019, to 662 researchers from 62 countries as part of its bug bounty program
Sum is up from the $6.5 million the company paid security researchers a year before, in 2019. — Google said today it paid more than $6.7 million … Source: Google Online Security Blog .
Research finds most Zoom-bombing incidents, especially in high schools and colleges, originate with participants who post the link publicly to invite trolls in
Researchers have found that most calls to disrupt videoconferences originate with the participants, especially in high schools and colleges.
A skeptical look at Clubhouse, where most conversations are boring and whose audio-centric, synchronous content may be far less compelling after the pandemic
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills! … Share Medialyte — Clubhouse in the dog house — On Sunday night … Tweets: @rafat , @elenistefanou , @mathowie , @mathowie , @martinfehrensen , @niviachanta , @...
Mark Zuckerberg made a surprise appearance on Clubhouse on Thursday, discussing VR, AR, Facebook's Reality Labs group, and remote work
The hot new social app has found success by replicating … Financial Times : Can viral app Clubhouse break into the mainstream? Jason Murdock / Newsweek : Mark Zuckerberg Appears on Clubhouse App Days ...
The Central Bank of Nigeria has ordered all banks to close accounts belonging to crypto exchanges or businesses transacting in cryptocurrencies in the country
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Study finds that the CCPA needs stronger enforcement but “authorized agents” like DoNotPay can make it much easier for consumers to opt out of data collection
A CR study reveals progress, along with problems, when Calif. consumers use “authorized agents” to stop their data from being sold Tweets: @cradvocacy , @mxmahoney5 , @cradvocacy , @pennywriter , @jbr...
Graphcore, which designs chips for AI applications, asks UK regulator to block Nvidia's acquisition of Arm on the grounds that it is anti-competitive
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PayPal says it will wind down its domestic payment operations in India by April 1 and focus on its existing cross-border trade business
PayPal will wind down its payment operations in India this year. Instead, it will scale up its existing cross-border trade business for small enterprises to gain a significant share of the inward remi...
0x Labs, the startup behind the 0x exchange protocol and a provider of decentralized exchange infrastructure, raises $15M Series A led by Pantera Capital
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Shares of Kuaishou jumped 161% in its Hong Kong debut, valuing the company at $159B, after the main rival of ByteDance in China raised $5.4B in an IPO
Hello and welcome to Pipeline! This week: how to open up venture investing … Arjun Kharpal / CNBC : Tiktok rival Kuaishou surges 160% in $5.3 billion Hong Kong debut Pdraig Belton / Light Reading : K...
Filing: CFPB probes Venmo's debt-collection tactics; Venmo actions like threatening to send debt collectors after users who are scam victims are under scrutiny
including threatening to send debt collectors after customers who are scam victims—have previously come under scrutiny https://www.wsj.com/... Charles Forelle / @charlesforelle : And now Venmo is bein...
Hawkfish, the Mike Bloomberg-funded tech company that first helped his and later Joe Biden's 2020 election campaigns, is shutting down in May
It's the latest retrenchment from major Democratic donors in the aftermath of the 2020 election. — SHARE All sharing options Tweets: @teddyschleifer Tweets: Teddy Schleifer / @teddyschleifer : With ...
DTC health insurance service Oscar Health files S-1 for its IPO, reports 2020 revenue of $1.67B, up from $1.04B in 2019; David Plouffe joins board
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India is restoring 4G internet services in Jammu and Kashmir, 18 months after imposing a sweeping communications blackout in the Muslim-majority region
A look at surveillance data fusion, which happens when thousands of disparate devices and tools become one all-seeing surveillance platform
Arthur Holland Michel / Wired : Tweets: @torproject , @wired , @gadgetlab , @wired , and @hypervisible Tweets: @torproject : “We're rarely not in the crosshairs of some spying device... The fact that...
FCC filing shows Starlink plans to offer a VoIP phone service with an optional battery backup, and discounted service via the FCC's low-income Lifeline program
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Sources: SoundCloud is preparing to introduce a new payment system that would allow users to pay artists directly
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Ad tech company Magnite, formerly Rubicon Project, to acquire SpotX, a platform for connected TV and video advertising, from RTL Group for $1.17B
Google starts rolling out Google News Showcase in Australia, paying local and regional publishers, amid an ongoing dispute over Australia's proposed media rules
Metalenz, a Boston-based Harvard spinout developing meta-optic lens chips, raises $10M Series A from 3M Ventures, Intel Capital, and others
Class, formerly ClassEDU, which makes a video-conferencing product for schools called Class for Zoom, raises $30M Series A, bringing its total raised to $46M
Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch : Tweets: @jagwanivibhav and @nmasc_ Tweets: Vibhav Jagwani / @jagwanivibhav : 46 M prelaunch?? im expecting zoom integrations + a spaceship. also i always read @nmas...
Huuuge raises $445M in its IPO, valuing the developer of mobile casino games at $1.1B and making it the second-biggest studio listed in Warsaw after CD Projekt
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.