Facebook says the leaked 533M records are a different data set that attackers created by abusing a flaw in a Facebook contacts import feature, not by hacking
The company's explanations have been confusing and inconsistent, but there are finally some answers.
Jeff Bezos says Amazon supports a rise in the corporate tax rate and making bold investments in US infrastructure, but stops short of supporting Biden's plan
- Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Tuesday voiced support for raising the corporate tax rate but stopped short of saying he supports President Joe Biden's plan for the increase. Source: About Amazon .
Ahead of its April 14 direct listing, Coinbase reports a record quarter, with estimated profits of $730M-$800M in Q1 on revenue of ~$1.8B and 56M verified users
Coinbase announced its 2021 first quarter earnings on Tuesday, revealing that the crypto giant made a profit of between $730 million …
A first person narrative on the persistence of digital memories and how social media and photo apps that surface old photos make painful memories hard to forget
In 2019, I made a painful decision. But to the algorithms that drive Facebook, Pinterest, and a million other apps, I'm forever getting married.
Data of EU privacy chief Didier Reynders, Luxembourg PM Xavier Bettel, and dozens of EU officials found among Facebook's leaked data set of 533M records
Didier Reynders, Luxembourg PM Xavier Bettel among European leaders whose data was leaked online. — EU Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders …
Max Schrems' non-profit Noyb files a complaint with the French privacy watchdog, claims Google's Android Advertising Identifier violates EU's ePrivacy Directive
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T-Mobile launches its 5G home internet service, costing $60-$65/month with no data caps, hardware rental fees, or annual contracts
Once again putting Sprint's mid-band spectrum to work — After a long pilot period, T-Mobile is making its 5G home internet service a reality.
Patreon raises $155M Series F led by Tiger Global Management at a $4B valuation, up from $1.2B in September, bringing its total raised to $411M
Online company raises $155 million in latest round, led by new investor Tiger Global Management — Patreon Inc., an online platform …
Alienware announces M15 R5, starting at $2,230, with AMD Ryzen 5000 H-series CPUs, the first Alienware laptop since 2007 to use AMD processors
Expect big performance boosts — Alienware has announced the latest revision to its flagship gaming laptop lineup, the 15-inch Alienware M15 R5.
Apple details two ad measurements technologies that advertisers can use without tracking users, ahead of imminent rollout of App Tracking Transparency feature
Starting with iOS 14.5, iPadOS 14.5, and tvOS 14.5, Apple will be requiring apps to receive a user's permission to track …
Sonos Roam review: portable and rugged design, sound quality is good but bass is limited by form factor, charges wirelessly but battery life is not great
The tiny, lightweight speaker has a ton of functionality, but don't expect sound quality miracles — The Sonos Roam is the most focused, calculated product from Sonos yet.
Apple podcast data indicates that there are 2M podcasts, but of those, 26% only have one episode, 44% have three or fewer, and only 36% have 10+ episodes
Today's post breaks down the numbers of how many podcasts you're actually up against. — It seems everyone has a podcast. Or do they?
eMarketer says that Amazon's share of the US digital ad market grew to 10.3% in 2020 from 7.8% in 2019 and estimates that revenue grew to $15.73B, up 52.5% YoY
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Plaid, which helps connect users' bank accounts with fintech apps, raises $425M Series D led by Altimeter Capital, sources say at a valuation of ~$13.4B
Plaid, a unicorn that helps connect consumers' bank accounts to financial applications, has raised a $425 million Series D, it announced this morning.
Google announces the Android Open Source Project now supports Rust for developing the OS itself, providing more memory safety guarantees than C and C++
Android as a complete OS solution involves a lot of moving parts. Very broadly speaking, these parts are the app ecosystem and then the OS itself.
UK launches the Digital Markets Unit, a watchdog with limited powers, initially tasked with stopping big tech companies from exploiting market dominance
Digital Markets Unit to police how largest global technology firms wield their market power — LONDON—The U.K. launched …
Sources: Grab is set to go public in the US through a SPAC merger that will value it at ~$35B, as soon as this week
Deal with Altimeter Capital's blank-cheque vehicle will value technology start-up at $35bn — Grab, south-east Asia's most valuable start-up, is set for the largest merger between …
Signal says it has added support for privacy-focused cryptocurrency MobileCoin to let users send and receive money, starting in the UK on iOS and Android
Testing your first payment — Sending your first payment Bruce Schneier / Schneier on Security : Signal Adds Cryptocurrency Support Stephen Diehl : Et tu, Signal? Liam Tung / ZDNet : Signal messaging...
Interview with researcher Luke Stark on the promises and pitfalls of emotion-sensing AI, and social media's attempt to translate emotive expression into data
A conversation with the professor who just turned down a $60,000 grant from Google — Emotion A.I., affective computing …
Bryter, which offers a no-code service to build enterprise apps, raises $66M Series B led by Tiger Global to expand in the US
No-code startups continue to see a lot of traction among enterprises, where employees — strictly speaking, non-technical, but still using software every day …
Report: employees at 1,803 public agencies in the US used Clearview AI for ~340K facial recognition searches without informing the public or their departments
Report: digital ad spending grew 12.2% YoY in 2020 to $139.8B, as H2 political ad spending offset the H1 falloff; top 10 companies held 78.1% share of revenues
- Despite an initial falloff due to the Covid pandemic, digital advertising spending grew 12.2% year over year in 2020 …
Interviews with three women working at NSA and Cyber Command highlight the progress made in gender equality in recent years and the work that still remains
WIRED spoke with three women working in cybersecurity in the US intelligence committee about the progress of recent years and the work that remains. Tweets: @lilyhnewman , @k8em0 , @zackwhittaker , @t...
India-based Groww, which lets users invest in mutual funds, gold, stocks, and more, raises $83M Series D led by Tiger Global, at a valuation of $1B+
More than 200 million people in India transact money digitally, but fewer than 30 million invest in mutual funds and stocks.
YouTube says that 18 out of every 10K views in Q4 2020 were of videos that violate its policies, down from 72 out of every 10K views in Q4 2017
sort of Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today : YouTube Provides New Data on its Efforts to Limit User Exposure to Rule Violating Content Todd Spangler / Variety : YouTube Claims Less Than 0.2% of To...
Apple launches an app for enterprises to test devices that work with Apple's Find My network, ahead of its expected launch of its own new AirTags accessory
New software update for the Google Pixel lineup reportedly dramatically boosts Pixel 5's GPU performance, which had been poor for a Snapdragon 765G-based phone
April 2021 James Rogerson / TechRadar : Google Pixel 5 just got a big performance boost Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica : Pixel 5 sees dramatically improved GPU performance after April patch Marco Lancaster...
Gadget trade-in site Gazelle says it changed its mind and will continue to offer its online trade-in program, after briefly ending its program in February
Review of Intel's Ice Lake Xeon Scalable CPUs, its first server chip design using a 10nm process, which sees large increases in performance for many workloads
Crunchbase data: global venture funding reached $125B in Q1, up 94% YoY, with an average of nearly two unicorns created every working day
In the first quarter of 2021, global venture investments reached $125 billion, a 50 percent increase quarter over quarter and a whopping 94 percent increase year over year, Crunchbase data shows. Twee...
Rhett Lindsey, a former Facebook recruiter, and other Black employees involved in hiring, describe a problematic hiring process that hinders diversity goals
BitMEX cofounder Arthur Hayes turns himself in to US authorities six months after BitMEX was accused of trying to avoid implementing money laundering controls
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Sources: Clubhouse is in talks to raise funding from investors in a round valuing the business at about $4B, following its reported valuation of ~$1B in January
quadruple what it was allegedly worth just three months ago: https://www.bloomberg.com/... Mark Bergen / @mhbergen : Perhaps now this scrappy, penurious startup can afford an android engineer. https:/...
Facebook and Google's commitment to protecting human rights and the public interest is hamstrung by their ad-based profit models and absolute focus on growth
Facebook and Google have made broad-based commitments to protect human rights and the public interest, but only to the extent … Tweets: @justinhendrix , @rankingrights , @ellerybiddle , @rankingrights...
Google open sources Lyra in beta, an audio codec that uses ML to create high-quality voice calls for low-bandwidth networks or archiving large amounts of speech
A look at #DeclineNow, a group of DoorDash drivers trying to game DoorDash's algorithm by rejecting low paying deliveries in order to get higher rates
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Internal memo: Huawei is closing its core cloud and AI business after only 14 months, splitting the group into two
Change mirrors struggle to transition from hardware maker to service provider — Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies is closing its core cloud and artificial …
Australian online design service Canva has raised $71M, valuing the company at $15B, up from its $6B valuation last June
API Holdings, the parent company of Indian online pharmacy Pharmeasy, raises $350M; sources say the deal gives Pharmeasy a post-money valuation of $1.5B
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EU says a number of institutions, including the European Commission, were hit by a significant cyberattack last week, although no data breach has been detected
E3 will take place as a free virtual conference on June 12-15 and organizers say an in-person event will happen in LA in 2022
Tel Aviv-based WhiteSource, which helps enterprises secure their open source software components, raises $75M Series D, bringing its total raised to $121.2M
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Prosimo, which offers a service for simplifying application delivery across multi-cloud environments, emerges from stealth with $25M in seed and Series A
Redis Labs, maker of an in-memory open source database of the same name, raises $110M Series G led by Tiger Global, at a valuation of $2B+
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Swyft, which runs a marketplace for shipping carriers and develops APIs to let smaller retailers offer same-day delivery, raises $17.5M Series A
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Pinterest says it is starting a Creator Fund, which will pay $500K in cash and media to small groups of influencers throughout 2021
Pathlight, which provides a range of tools to visualize team and individual performance, raises $25M led by Insight Partners, bringing its total raised to $35M
The longer we continue to work with either all or part of our teams in remote, out-of-physical-office environments …
CaptivateIQ, a no-code service for creating sales commission plans, raises $46M Series B led by Accel, bringing its total raised to $63M
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Singapore-based Trax, which helps retail stores manage inventory, merchandising, and operations, raises $640M Series E, bringing its total raised to ~$1B
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Blue dot, which helps companies manage their tax accounting, raises $32M led by Ibex Investors and Lutetia Technology Partners
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Fyllo, a provider of software to help cannabis companies with marketing, analytics, and compliance, raises $30M Series B, bringing its total funding to $60M
both in clients and investors https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... Aristotle Loumis / @aloumis : Fyllo, the tech leader in digital and compliance solutions for highly regulated industries has closed a...
Upsolver, which offers low-code SQL tools for cloud data analytics, raises $25M Series B, adds free tools for smaller workloads and says revenue tripled in 2020
OneStream Software, which offers tools to enterprises to help them run financial operations, raises $200M led by D1 Capital Partners, at a $6B valuation
Philadelphia-based recruiting and HR software developer Phenom raises $100M at a $1.3B valuation led by B Capital Group
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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.