Microsoft patches the Follina Windows zero-day, which let hackers execute malicious PowerShell commands and had been exploited by state-backed actors
Microsoft has released security updates with the June 2022 cumulative Windows Updates to address a critical Windows zero-day vulnerability known …
Internal Kraken comms and interviews with five workers: some staff accuse CEO Jesse Powell of fostering a hateful workplace and dozens are considering quitting
Jesse Powell, who leads the crypto exchange Kraken, has challenged the use of preferred pronouns, debated who can use racial slurs and called American women “brainwashed.”
Investigation: 294+ US crisis pregnancy centers, which try to dissuade people from abortions, share website visitor info with Meta via Facebook's tracking pixel
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The EU toughens its disinformation Code of Practice, covering deepfakes, bots, fake accounts, and more; Meta, Google, TikTok, Twitter, and others have signed up
Katie Collins — Katie a UK-based news reporter and features writer. Officially, she is CNET's European correspondent …
Japan passes an amendment making “online insults” punishable by up to a year in prison, after the suicide of a reality TV star who had faced social media abuse
Tokyo (CNN)Japan's parliament on Monday passed legislation making “online insults” punishable by imprisonment amid …
Samsung merges its Pay and Pass apps to create Wallet, letting users organize ID cards, keys, and crypto, rolling out now
Bringing Samsung Pay and Pass under one roof — First, there was Samsung Wallet. Then it became Samsung Pay. Now, because time is a flat circle …
[Thread] A look at Kraken's announcement of a culture overhaul, eschewing “stereotypical team diversity measurements”, as the crypto exchange touts hiring plans
for the simple reason that no one (including the owner) would be permitted to make political statements or gestures of any kind on the job. It would be a place to work, and not an extension of the cul...
Activision Blizzard says its internal review found that there is “no widespread harassment, or systemic harassment” at the company
Following a series of lawsuits, and claims of misconduct, an internal investigation by Activision concludes there is “no widespead harassment” - at Activision
Orca Security: Microsoft took several months and three patches to fix a critical RCE vulnerability in Azure; critics say the slow response put customers at risk
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Some Ethereum miners express reservations about the planned shift to a proof-of-stake model, arguing it makes expensive mining equipment useless
The Ethereum mining community is a diverse bunch, geographically and demographically. There's a 28-year-old translator in Ukraine …
In occupied Ukraine, Russia is forcing multiple ISPs to reroute connections through Russian infrastructure, subjecting traffic to censorship and surveillance
In occupied Ukraine, people's internet is being routed to Russia—and subjected to its powerful censorship and surveillance machine.
Analysis: 33 of the top 100 US hospitals used the Meta Pixel tracker, sending data back to Facebook, including details about prescriptions and conditions
Experts say some hospitals' use of an ad tracking tool may violate a federal law protecting health information
A look at Twitter's research into its offensive content tweet pop-ups, resulting in a positive change in long-term behavior even though 69% still sent the tweet
This Is What Friction Looks Like — Twitter released some really interesting research last week regarding that sort …
A summary of the apps that Apple “Sherlocked” at WWDC 2022, like Camo with Continuity Camera, Klarna with Apple Pay Later, and Pillbox with medication tracking
Apple introduced some amazing updates across iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and macOS at the worldwide developer conference (WWDC) last week.
Researchers find a link between Indian police and hackers who planted evidence in 2018 on the PCs of human rights activists jailed on terrorism charges
New details connect police in India to a plot to plant evidence on victims' computers that led to their arrest.
A lawsuit and interviews show that up to 12 members and relatives of religious sect Fellowship of Friends worked at Google Developer Studio, which makes videos
A video producer claims he was fired after he complained that an obscure group based in the Sierra foothills dominated a business unit at Google.
Sources: crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital faces an uncertain future after a $400M+ liquidation; CEO Su Zhu: we are “fully committed to working this out”
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NHTSA data from July 1, 2021, to May 15, 2022: six people died in 392 incidents involving driver-assistance tech; Teslas were in 273 crashes and five were fatal
A look at Andy Jassy's first year as Amazon CEO, as he seeks to reverse some of Jeff Bezos' aggressive pandemic investments, close physical stores, and more
Amid one of the worst stretches for financial performance in Amazon's history, the new CEO is working to cut back the excesses … Tweets: @shiraovide , @paulpage , @danamattioli , @conorsen , @danamatt...
Discord announces the widespread availability of its built-in autonomous moderation tool AutoMod, and expands Premium Memberships to more servers in the US
AutoMod is getting a widespread rollout — Today, Discord is announcing widespread availability of AutoMod …
Internal memo: Meta plans to make Facebook more like TikTok, including bringing Messenger back into the app and recommending posts from “unconnected” sources
a big departure from how it currently works. That and more changes here: https://www.theverge.com/... Sameer Singh / @sameer_singh17 : Leaving even more room for new startups to re-build the social gr...
eBay will launch eBay Live, an interactive live shopping service, in beta this month, starting with a livestream offering a selection of rare trading cards
eBay announced today that it's launching eBay Live, a dedicated shopping platform that gives users a way to purchase products in a live and interactive environment.
TikTok is less transparent than US platforms about how long it keeps content deleted by users, as US law enforcement agencies increasingly seek to get such data
New! Follow this author to improve your content experience. Got it! … The FBI said it used cell-tower data earlier … Tweets: @profwoodward , @elizabeth_joh , and @iblametom Tweets: Alan Woodward / @...
Analysis: 50%+ of the areas covered by the FCC's Rural Digital Opportunity Fund had been fully or partially covered by at least one prior US broadband program
Flaws in government programs have left some residents behind — The U.S. government has spent billions of dollars on several rounds … Tweets: @karlbode , @dannydougherty , @ryanjtracy , @will_flannig...
Carl Pei reveals Nothing phone (1) ahead of its July 12 launch event, saying “leaks are harder to contain nowadays”; details likely to come over the next month
AirSlate, which provides no-code tools for automating business processes, has raised $51.5M at a $1B+ valuation, bringing its total funding to $185.3M
Proving that workflow automation is a robust sector, AirSlate, which provides no-code tools for automating business processes …
Japanese businesses and government agencies are panicking as Microsoft retires Internet Explorer; March 2022 survey shows 49% of organizations use IE for work
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DataStax, which develops a cloud-native noSQL database built on Apache Cassandra, raised $115M at a $1.6B valuation; DataStax had an $830M valuation in 2014
the company raised a $115 million round at a $1.6 billion valuation today, @ron_miller reports: https://techcrunch.com/... Matt Asay / @mjasay : DataStax proves it's still possible to raise nine-figur...
Able, which lets banks and other lenders speed up the processing of documents and data required for commercial loans, comes out of stealth with a $20M Series A
Large banks are stepping up their game when it comes to new services and the technology that underpins them …
Sources: the US increased its funding into VPN companies nthLink, Psiphon, and Lantern by about 50% since February to support the surge in their Russian users
After Pakistan banned dating apps Tinder, Grindr, and Skout in September 2020, Facebook matchmaking groups for Pakistanis gained tens of thousands of members
that these Facebook dating groups are an absolute revolution in a society like Pakistan: https://restofworld.org/... @restofworld : Facebook groups are a “hybrid version” of matchmaking for Pakistani ...
China's tech crackdown, combined with a macroeconomic slowdown, has led to mass job cuts at its tech giants and record youth unemployment
Becky Sun has submitted her CV to 80 companies since being dismissed from a midsized Beijing internet group at the start of the year. Tweets: @rwmcmorrow and @adam_tooze Tweets: Ryan McMorrow / @rwmcm...
Berlin-based Upvest, which offers banking-as-a-service APIs, announces a $42M Series B led by Bessemer and says it has secured securities and crypto licenses
Amy O'Brien / Sifted :
A US judge sentences BitMEX co-founder Benjamin Delo to 30 months probation without home confinement after he pled guilty to violating the US Bank Secrecy Act
Aislinn Keely / The Block :
Researchers say Big Tech's political ad bans are a charade and likely had minimal impact on curbing misinformation while hurting smaller advocacy groups
they actively advantage corporations over advocacy groups and unions. Platforms either need to fix this or drop the bans entirely. More of my 🌶️ takes in this 🧠 piece by @issielapowsky: https://www.pr...
Alaskan, Finnish, and Japanese companies, alongside the Russian government, are planning Arctic undersea cables, made possible by shrinking ice coverage
Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal :
A look at hacking group Cyber Partisans, which seeks to overthrow Belarus' government and has disrupted Russia's supply lines in Belarus for the war in Ukraine
Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg : Tweets: @business , @rj_gallagher , @chafkin , and @rj_gallagher Tweets: @business : Belarusian hackers and dissidents determined to overthrow President Alexander Lukashe...
California-based Performio, whose cloud-based sales performance management service lets companies automate incentive compensation, raised $75M led by JMI Equity
Kristin Snyder / dot.LA :
Analysis: SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 invested $9.9B across 52 deals in Q1 2022, compared to $9.9B across 49 deals in Q4 2021 and $22.8B across 65 deals in Q3 2021
Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News :
Lightning AI, which develops the open-source PyTorch Lightning framework, has raised a $40M Series B led by Coatue
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Austin-based DealHub, whose configure, price, and quote software helps businesses quote complex and configurable products, raised $60M led by Alpha Wave Global
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
The NLRB files a complaint against Mapbox, whose leadership allegedly threatened jobs for union organizing and fired organizers after a failed August 2021 vote
Spotify CEO tells staff the company plans to slow hiring by 25%; Spotify added 2,000+ staff from 2019 to 2021, bringing its headcount to 6,617
Meta's reported investigation into Sheryl Sandberg's expenses feels odd given the company spends extreme sums of money to burnish its executives' reputations
Cardano, Solana, and Dogecoin gained 4.5% to 11% after the Federal Reserve's interest rate hike; bitcoin rose as much as 6.1% and ether gained as much as 6.6%
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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.
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.