Ukraine says a cyberattack brought down websites of several government agencies for hours but no sensitive data was stolen
Ukraine said a cyberattack brought down the websites of several government agencies for hours. Authorities didn't immediately comment on the source of the outage …
The January 6 House committee subpoenas Meta, Alphabet, Reddit, and Twitter after their “inadequate responses” to requests for information about the riot
The House committee investigating Jan. 6 on Thursday subpoenaed Reddit, Twitter and the parent companies of Google and Facebook after their …
Russia's FSB says it detained and charged members of the REvil ransomware gang at the request of the US; source: Russian citizens won't be handed over to the US
Russia's FSB security service conducted a special operation against ransomware crime group REvil at the request of the United States …
A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduces the TLDR Act, which would require sites and apps to offer easy-to-digest, nutrition label-like summaries of their TOS
Happy Thursday! Below: The FCC proposes new data breach rules for telecom and the White House meets with tech leaders on cyber.
Google will buy London's Central Saint Giles development, which includes 408K sq. ft. of office space, for $1B
Site will have space for 10,000 UK employees who will work under hybrid workplace model — Google has announced a $1bn (£871m) deal to buy the London development Central Saint Giles …
Block says it is building an open-source bitcoin mining system to make mining more “distributed and efficient”, after Jack Dorsey teased the idea in October
The payment services company formerly known as Square is open to building new mining computers and is hiring for a new engineering team.
Q&A with Wordle creator Josh Wardle on the game's origin story, reasons for keeping it simple, app clones, and handling the traffic from its newfound popularity
“People have an appetite for things that transparently don't want anything from you.” — The internet loves …
Sources: Apple is considering delaying the debut of its mixed-reality headset from WWDC due to development challenges related to overheating, cameras, software
Apple Inc. is considering pushing back the debut of its mixed-reality headset by at least a few months, potentially delaying …
Fortnite returns to iOS and Android through a closed beta in Nvidia's GeForce Now game streaming service designed to run in mobile browsers
something Apple has tried to block. https://www.theverge.com/... Sean Hollister / @starfire2258 : The long-awaited Fortnite on iPhone workaround is imminent... by which I mean Nvidia's GeForce Now clo...
Meta faces a $3.1B UK class action suit alleging it abused Facebook's market dominance and set an “unfair price” for 44M UK users' data from 2015 to 2019
A competition legal expert, backed by a powerful litigation fund, is to mount a multibillion-dollar class action suit …
Following the White House's open-source security summit, Google proposes setting up an organization to serve as a marketplace for open source maintenance
to ensure national infrastructure and other important systems can rely on open source projects.” https://blog.google/... Kent Walker / @kent_walker : Open source software is the connective tissue for ...
In court docs, state AGs allege that Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai personally approved a secret 2018 deal that gave Facebook advantages in Google's ad auctions
The states originally filed the suit against Google in December 2020 and updated that with a heavily redacted version of their most recent complaint in November.
Crypto exchange FTX launches a $2B venture fund to invest in crypto startups, to be led by former Lightspeed partner Amy Wu
Quick Take — FTX has launched a new venture unit, FTX Ventures — The exchange operator has set aside $2 billion for the new fund
Amazon patches two AWS flaws discovered by Orca Security that could have exposed information managed by Glue users and leaked sensitive files via CloudFormation
Nathaniel Mott / PCMag :
A look at Android 12's rollout, one of the buggiest launches in the past few years, as Samsung and OnePlus pause their stable Android 12-based updates
and is dragging its feet at fixing the problem. How are owners *still* waiting for the update? Good report from @allisonjo1 here https://twitter.com/...
Crypto exchange FTX launches a $2B venture fund, aiming to invest across startups stages, investing from $100K to hundreds of millions of dollars
FTX Ventures will invest in crypto startups across sectors — Crypto exchange FTX Trading Ltd. has launched a $2 billion venture fund …
Second Life founder Philip Rosedale returns to Linden Research, in which his startup High Fidelity made an investment, to take on the metaverse
Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal :
Microsoft hires a law firm to review its sexual harassment policies and issue a report in the spring about the investigations, including one involving Gates
Jordan Novet / CNBC :
Baby Shark becomes the first YouTube video to cross 10B views, after becoming the most-viewed YouTube video in November 2020
Tether says it froze three Ethereum blockchain addresses containing $160M on a law enforcement request; Bloxy data shows Tether froze 563 addresses since 2017
despite all the value it is providing to people worldwide at the moment in places like Lebanon and Nigeria — is an insufficient solution. https://twitter.com/...
Nigeria will lift its ban on Twitter after suspending it on June 4, 2021; Twitter decided to open an office in Nigeria, among other agreements
Hello there! — Thank you for keeping up the Soft Pallet. — Here's a pro tip; Sarvesh Mathi / MediaNama : What did Twitter do to get its ban revoked in Nigeria? Tweets: @yodifiji : Twitter has been...
State AGs' suit alleges Google misled publishers and advertisers for years about ad pricing by deflating sales for some and increasing prices for buyers
Details show Google employees fretting its ad tech auctions were ‘untruthful’ and based in ‘insider information’ Tweets: @keachhagey , @trippmickle , @jessefelder , @asharma , @mattrosoff , and @casey...
Virtana, which provides AI-driven monitoring software to help manage multiple cloud environments, raises $73M from Atalaya Capital Management and others
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Near Foundation, which develops the proof-of-stake Near blockchain, raises $150M led by Three-Arrows Capital, with a16z and others participating
Aislinn Keely / The Block :
Meta will shut down its video speed dating service Sparked on January 20, after launching it in April 2021 and testing it in select markets
So, what happened this week in the Tech & Startup world? David Lumb / CNET : Meta reportedly shutters video speed-dating service before it exits beta David Cohen / Adweek : Meta NPE Team's Sparked Vid...
TSMC reports Q4 revenue rose 24.1% YoY to $15.74B as net profit reached $6.01B; capital spending will reach between $40B and $44B in 2022, up from $30B in 2021
As newcomers flood to Puerto Rico seeking to build a crypto paradise, attracted by low taxes, locals are skeptical and house prices across San Juan are rising
Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post : Tweets: @drewharwell , @biancajoanie , @teddyschleifer , @vaurorapub , @anthrorican , @verambergen , @nanaisvaxxed , and @kevincollier Tweets: Drew Harwell / @drewhar...
DeFi Alliance, the incubator of Sushi, Olympus DAO, and other Web3 projects, rebrands as Alliance DAO and raises $50M from 300 investors including Jake Paul
Danny Nelson / CoinDesk :
Bolt, which offers a one-click checkout service, raises a $355M Series E led by BlackRock, sources say at an $11B valuation
Christine Hall / TechCrunch :
Privacy advocates criticize police in the German city of Mainz for using data from the Luca COVID-19 contact tracing app for an investigation into a man's death
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
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