Google researchers found a watering hole attack in August exploiting a macOS zero-day and targeting Hong Kong pro-democracy sites; Apple patched on September 23
“The nature of the activity and targeting is consistent with a government backed actor,” the Google researchers say. Source: The Keyword .
Discord CEO Jason Citron says the service has no plans to add crypto and NFT tools, following a backlash to an internal concept he shared on Twitter
Discord founder and CEO Jason Citron sought to reassure users Wednesday that the company doesn't have impending plans to shift its business toward NFTs. Source: @jasoncitron .
Spotify acquires audiobook distributor Findaway and says it expects the deal to close in Q4 2021
In an effort to expand beyond music, Spotify has been investing hundreds of millions to build out its podcasts business. Now the company has set its sights on another form of audio … Source: Spotify ...
Alibaba's annual Singles Day event sees slowest ever sales growth of 8.5% YoY since it was launched in 2009, but customer spending still hit a record $84.5B
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba's Singles Day is known for being the world's biggest online shopping extravaganza.
Instagram is testing paying $10,000+ in bonuses to select creators posting Reels, as part of a bonus program announced in July
Instagram really wants you to post Reels — they'll even pay you up to $10,000 for one, if you're lucky. — As TikTok surpasses the 1 billion monthly active users mark … Source: Instagram .
Ethereum Name Service's ENS token hits $1B market cap, just two days after its airdrop in which users received the token for free in their crypto wallets
ENS, the governance token of Ethereum Name Service, hit a market capitalization of $1.1B in early morning trading Eastern Standard Time.
Meta made over 21 acquisitions in the past three years, per PitchBook, including at least four VR startups in 2021; sources say it paid $500M+ for Within
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Amazon will let Prime users on iOS share video clips up to 30 seconds long for some of its content
You can now help Amazon with its marketing if you have iOS — Amazon has announced that it'll let you easily share video clips showing up to 30 seconds of some of its Prime Video content, right from ...
A look at the relationship between Frances Haugen and anti-tech lobbying group Reset, which has guided her EU tour
As soon as Frances Haugen landed in Europe, she was given the VIP treatment. She met senior officials in Paris, Berlin and London. She testified to lawmakers in Brussels. Tweets: @markscott82 , @web...
Survey: 16% of US adults, including 43% of men aged 18 to 29, say they have invested in, traded, or used a cryptocurrency
The vast majority of U.S. adults have heard at least a little about cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin or Ether, and 16% say they personally have invested in …
Something Awful administrator says founder Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka has died at 45; founded in 1999, SA's influence over the contemporary web has been huge
monumentally important. Photoshop Friday spawned a million memes https://twitter.com/... Josh von Milton Bradley / @jesawyer : not sure what to say about lowtax (according to frags) dying. wow. https:...
Under shareholder pressure, Toshiba says it will split into three companies, focusing on infrastructure, tech devices, and memory chips
- Plans 100 billion yen for shareholder returns over two years — Company has endured years of scandals and controversy
A look at Elon Musk's preplanned moves for Tesla stock, after it fell 12%+ following his weekend Twitter poll where users voted he should sell 10% of his shares
1. THE TRANSACTIONS REPORTED ON THIS FORM 4 WERE AUTOMATICALLY … Martin Young / Cointelegraph : Elon Musk offloads $1.1B in Tesla stock Tyler Sonnemaker / Insider : Elon Musk just sold $1.1 billion in...
YouTube starts hiding public dislike counts on videos to keep smaller creators from being targeted by dislike attacks, following a test in March
In internal memo, Andrew Bosworth says he wants the metaverse to have “almost Disney levels of safety” but that moderation at scale “is practically impossible”
Internal memo from Andrew Bosworth lays out the scale of the challenge Tweets: @mshannahmurphy , @matthewfederman , @peterwsinger , @somebadideas , @minimaxir , @alexweprin , @karlbode , @counternotio...
US joins a global cybersecurity partnership launched in 2018 with 80 countries and companies like Google and Microsoft, after declining to sign up under Trump
Rebecca Falconer / Axios : Source: The White House .
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez says the city will give residents a bitcoin yield from staking MiamiCoin
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Universal Music Group says it is creating a “band” called Kingship out of four Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs and plans to feature them in video games, VR, and more
https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... AdamDraper.crypto / @adamdraper : #NFTs will turn every hit band into the Gorillaz. https://twitter.com/... @cozomomedici : This is big. For the first t...
Instagram appears to be working on a feature that lets Live creators add moderators to their streams
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Foxconn beats estimates as Q3 net profit rose 20% YoY to $1.33B and warns its smartphone business revenue could slide more than 15% in Q4
US contract lawyers say remote work surveillance programs, which utilize facial recognition, have become widespread in the industry
The attorneys worry that if law firms, traditionally the defenders of workers' rights, are turning to the programs, why wouldn't every other business? Tweets: @drewharwell , @washingtonpost , and @jjv...
Biden signs the Secure Equipment Act of 2021, denying FCC licenses to national security threats, effectively banning Huawei and ZTE network equipment in the US
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Turkish delivery startup Getir, which promises 10-minute grocery deliveries, launches in Chicago, and plans to roll out in NYC and Boston by the end of 2021
Autonomous driving startup Embark Trucks closes at $8.80 per share in its Nasdaq debut, down 11.4%, after going public via a SPAC merger that valued it at $5.2B
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Profile of CryptoPunks, an NFT project founded by two Canadian developers in 2017, which has reached $1.5B in lifetime sales as NFTs explode in popularity
unique digital assets—on the blockchain long before NFT became a household term...Two months later, a Canadian venture firm...used elements of the CryptoPunks smart contract to launch its own line of ...
Streamers are seeking out unscripted TV, including documentaries and reality TV, as a cheaper and popular alternative to the prestige shows they first produced
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg : Tweets: @lucas_shaw and @squirealright See also Mediagazer Tweets: Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw : After years of focusing on scripted shows, all the big streaming services are ru...
Google creates a new Labs team under Clay Bavor, comprising its Area 120 incubator, AR and VR efforts, and Project Starline holographic video booth
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A look at Binance, which sources say could be worth $300B if it goes public, as its unfettered, unregulated growth comes to an end amid global scrutiny
absent headquarters, offices and licenses. Now governments are asserting control. https://www.wsj.com/... Patricia Kowsmann / @kowsmann : This is the story of Binance. In 2017 it started offering trad...
Patreon CEO Jack Conte says the service is building native video hosting, which would reduce creators' reliance on YouTube
CoreWeave, which offers a specialized cloud service for GPU-based workloads, raises $50M led by Magnetar Capital
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Chile-based Houm, which uses AI to help users find the optimal rental or sale price of a property based on similar properties nearby, raises a $35M Series A
Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch : Tweets: @ycombinator , @levynews , and @bayareawriter Tweets: Y Combinator / @ycombinator : Santiago-based startup @HoumLatam (W21), helps homeowners rent and sell pro...
Physical trading cards marketplace and custody service Alt raises a $75M Series B at a $325M+ valuation, says $70M+ worth of cards are stored in its vault
Weave Communications, which offers cloud tools for small business communications, drops 21.7% in its NYSE debut, after raising $120M in its IPO
Emily Bary / MarketWatch :
Atomic, which provides an API for fintech companies and banks to launch investment products, raises a $25M Series A co-led by QED Investors and Anthemis
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.
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
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