Friday, January 15, 2021
How to take chat backup on Signal
Signal was down for more than five hours
Investors Push for Social Media Controls Ahead of US Inauguration
Amazon Will Let Companies Build Voice Assistants on Alexa
Walmart's E-Commerce Chief Marc Lore to Step Down After Nearly Five Years
Parler is not down due to a single company but because the market chose not to do business with it because it's toxic, which is the nature of a free market (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
Parler is not down due to a single company but because the market chose not to do business with it because it's toxic, which is the nature of a free market — I've delayed writing deeper thoughts on the total deplatforming of Parler, in part because there was so much else happening …
WhatsApp Delays New Privacy Policy by Three Months Amid Severe Criticism
Biden's COVID-19 relief bill earmarks $9B to beef up the CISA and $200M to hire technology and cyber experts to support the federal CISO and US Digital Service (Emily Birnbaum/Protocol)
Biden's COVID-19 relief bill earmarks $9B to beef up the CISA and $200M to hire technology and cyber experts to support the federal CISO and US Digital Service — He will announce the plan on Thursday night. — President-elect Joe Biden is hoping to push a massive COVID-19 relief bill through Congress …
WhatsApp ‘delays’ update, won’t delete your account for three months
A look at the rise and fall of Xiami, Alibaba's Chinese music streaming service, which only had 22.4M MAUs by Oct. 2020 vs. 450M+ for Tencent's three music apps (South China Morning Post)
A look at the rise and fall of Xiami, Alibaba's Chinese music streaming service, which only had 22.4M MAUs by Oct. 2020 vs. 450M+ for Tencent's three music apps — Once a leader, Xiami saw its monthly active users (MAUs) fall to 22.4 million by October 2020, a tiny fraction of the 450 million …
Read Fitbit CEO James Park's open letter to users
Using Signal vs Telegram vs WhatsApp on laptop/PC: What’s same and what’s not
Profile of New Zealand-based Letterboxd, a social network for reviewing movies, which has grown to 3M member accounts during the pandemic (Calum Marsh/New York Times)
Profile of New Zealand-based Letterboxd, a social network for reviewing movies, which has grown to 3M member accounts during the pandemic — The social media network has finally left the cinephile niche and entered the mainstream. — Early last decade, Matthew Buchanan and Karl von Randow …
A security researcher was able to purchase one of the Democratic Republic of Congo's top-level domains, potentially preventing malicious use by attackers (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
A security researcher was able to purchase one of the Democratic Republic of Congo's top-level domains, potentially preventing malicious use by attackers — Fredrik Almroth thought the authorities would try to save the critical domain name. Nobody ever did.
Disney, Fox, and WBD say they have agreed to discontinue their Venu Sports streaming joint venture and will focus on existing products and distribution channels (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter : Disney, Fox, and WBD say they have agreed to discontinue their Venu Sports streaming joint venture...
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Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist : Since October, the NYPD has deployed a quadruped robot called Spot to a handful of crime scenes and hostage...
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Lorena O'Neil / Rolling Stone : A look at the years of warnings about AI from researchers, including several women of color, who say ...
