Colonial Pipeline, which carries 45% of fuel consumed on the US East Coast, says it halted operations due to a ransomware attack
Colonial Pipeline carries roughly 45% of gasoline and diesel fuel consumed on the East Coast — The main pipeline carrying gasoline and diesel fuel …
Sources: cybercrime gang DarkSide, which caused Colonial Pipeline to halt operations, stole and encrypted ~100GB of data on Thursday before demanding a ransom
> The hackers who caused Colonial Pipeline to shut down the biggest U.S. gas pipe on Friday began their blitz against the co. a day earlier, stealing a large amount of data before locking computers w ...
A German security researcher claims he was able to break into the microcontroller of Apple's AirTag, allowing him to modify its NFC URL
The Apple AirTag has been released almost ten days ago. Since then, we have seen a user rebuilding an AirTag as a thinner card that fits into wallets …
Sony warns that the PlayStation 5 will remain in short supply through 2022, citing challenges despite a supply boost, with a goal of selling 14.8M units this FY
- CFO said hard to catch up with demand even with supply boost — Sony sees imbalance as indicative of PlayStation's popularity
Dogecoin dropped by about a third during Elon Musk's SNL appearance; Musk conceded during the skit that Dogecoin was merely a “hustle”
Saturday night was the moment it became absolutely undeniable: tech is culture now. — As Elon Musk took the stage on Saturday Night Live …
Memo: California DMV says Tesla is at Level 2 currently after Tesla's head of Autopilot admits that Elon Musk has been exaggerating about “full self-driving”
'Elon's tweet does not match engineering reality' — Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been overstating the capabilities …
Apple awards $45M from its Advanced Manufacturing Fund to Corning, bringing its total investment in the precision glass maker to $495M
Apple today announced it is awarding its longtime iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch glass supplier Corning an additional $45 million from its Advanced Manufacturing Fund …
DarkSide, reportedly behind the pipeline attack, claims it wants to make money, not cause “problems for society”, and it'll add “moderation” to picking targets
- A hacker group called DarkSide is reportedly behind the cyber attack on Colonial Pipeline that shut down a major oil pipeline over the weekend.
The Pentagon says it is reviewing the JEDI cloud computing project, which has been mired in litigation from Amazon after being awarded to Microsoft
With $10 billion contract mired in litigation from Amazon, defense officials are reviewing other options to move forward
Clubhouse launches in beta on Android in the US, after more than a year of iOS exclusivity, but will remain invite-only
The Verge :
Investigation: seven Apple component suppliers are linked to alleged forced labor involving Uyghurs and minorities in China; some received thousands of workers
Advanced-Connectek has made unglamorous but critical computer components for Apple for more than a decade.
Some independent repair experts say the MacBook schematics released by ransomware group REvil are helpful in understanding and fixing devices
Hacked and leaked schematics won't help you make a counterfeit MacBook. They will help repair experts recover lost data, though. — DB
UK's NCSC says it took down 700K+ malicious campaigns in 2020, 15x more than it did in 2019, as scams increased during the pandemic
- Attackers imitated government agencies to exploit pandemic — Fake celebrity endorsements underpinned other popular schemes
Crypto asset manager Babel Finance raises $40M Series A from Zoo Capital, Sequoia Capital China, Tiger Global, and others
Three years after its inception, crypto financial service provider Babel Finance is racking up fundings and partnerships from major institutional investors.
Apple seems to have privately given Zoom access to an iPad OS API allowing camera access in Split View, raising concerns about special treatment for some devs
Ethereum rose ~7% in the past 24 hours to reach a record high of $4,141.99 and now has a $476.3B market cap; bitcoin fell 2%+ in April, while ether rose 40%+
and it's not Bitcoin or Dogecoin
AGs from 44 states urge Facebook to abandon plans to launch a version of Instagram for kids under 13, citing research about the harm social media can cause kids
Issie Lapowsky / Protocol :
A look at Denmark's Heartrunner app, which sends one of 100K+ first responder volunteers to nearby cardiac emergencies, who often arrive before ambulances
Martin Selsoe Sorensen / Washington Post :
Telkomsel, Indonesia's biggest telecom network, invests an additional $300M in ride-hailing giant Gojek, after investing $150M in November 2020
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
During the pandemic, tech job postings remained concentrated in tech hubs, and those in tech hubs were less likely to mention remote work than elsewhere
Jed Kolko / Indeed Hiring Lab : Tweets: @jedkolko , @jedkolko , @jedkolko , and @hotlinejosh Tweets: Jed Kolko / @jedkolko : Tech hubs lagged other metros in retail, childcare, food prep, and other l...
Amsterdam-based StuDocu, which sources and shares student-created class notes, raises $50M Series B, says it reaches 15M university students in 60 countries
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
How ByteDance is competing with Alibaba in social commerce, including roping in influencers like Xiaomi's Lei Jun to livestream on TikTok's Chinese twin Douyin
Bloomberg :
DeepMind researchers are working with the UK's Premier League team Liverpool to explore the application of AI to help teams improve their soccer tactics
Amit Katwala / Wired UK : Tweets: @wireduk , @amitkatwala , @karl_tuyls , @conorjtobin , @deepmind , and @shivon Tweets: @wireduk : Now DeepMind is using AI to transform football https://www.wired.co...
Analysis: 45+ startups received COVID-19 PPP loans and went on to raise hundreds of millions each by going public; PitchBook says $4B went to VC-backed startups
Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal :
Using PayPal for Twitter's Tip Jar could reveal tipper's address to the recipient and possibly recipient's email to the tipper; Twitter says it will add a label
US-based Valmont, which makes irrigation equipment, to buy Israel's Prospera Technologies, maker of AI-based sensors and cameras for monitoring crops, for $300M
Florence Healthcare, which makes software that helps physicians automate and manage clinical research paperwork, raises $80M Series C led by Insight Partners
Q&A with David Trachy, Senior Director of Emerging Markets at storage company Spectra Logic, on the resurgence of tape for archival storage, DNA storage, more
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IDC: companies around the world are on pace to spend $240.6B on edge computing through 2024, at a compound annual growth rate of more than 15%
How publishers are using tech, including AI-generated voices for audiobooks, Google Lens AR, and Amazon's novella app Kindle Vella, to entice young readers
eMarketer: US advertisers will spend $11.36B on streaming TV commercials on services like Hulu, Pluto TV, and Peacock in 2021, up from $8.11B in 2020
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.