Thursday, April 8, 2021
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Samsung launches app that turns iPhones into Galaxy devices
Microsoft to users: Reasons you should dump Apple iPad
Investigation finds Google uses a secret blocklist to stop advertisers from making YouTube ad campaigns for hate terms; it worked less than a third of the time (The Markup)
Investigation finds Google uses a secret blocklist to stop advertisers from making YouTube ad campaigns for hate terms; it worked less than a third of the time — Many well-known White supremacist and White nationalist terms and slogans were not blocked — First of two parts.
Alyce, which uses AI to analyze users' relationships with their colleagues and provide gift recommendations, raises $30M Series B led by General Catalyst (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
Alyce, which uses AI to analyze users' relationships with their colleagues and provide gift recommendations, raises $30M Series B led by General Catalyst — Swag has a long and patchy history in the world of business. For every hip pair of plaid socks, there are five t-shirts you may never wear …
Robinhood says 9.5 million customers traded crypto on its platform in Q1 2021 compared to 1.7 million in Q4 2020, an increase of 458% (Will Gottsegen/Decrypt)
Robinhood says 9.5 million customers traded crypto on its platform in Q1 2021 compared to 1.7 million in Q4 2020, an increase of 458% — That's up 458% from just 1.7 million in Q4 of 2020. — In brief — Brokerage app Robinhood said 9.5 million of its customers traded crypto in Q1 of 2021.
A senior Apple engineer compared App Store's defenses against malicious actors to "bringing a plastic butter knife to a gunfight", according to legal documents (Patrick McGee/Financial Times)
A senior Apple engineer compared App Store's defenses against malicious actors to “bringing a plastic butter knife to a gunfight”, according to legal documents — Revelation part of legal documents released by Epic Games ahead of antitrust trial
Report: collaboration tools like Slack and Discord are increasingly being used to spread malware, often using the tool's own CDNs and APIs to evade detection (Becky Bracken/Threatpost)
Report: collaboration tools like Slack and Discord are increasingly being used to spread malware, often using the tool's own CDNs and APIs to evade detection — Workflow and collaboration tools like Slack and Discord have been infiltrated by threat actors, who are abusing their legitimate functions …
Wednesday, April 7, 2021
New Cruella Trailer Finds Emma Stone Relishing Her Cruella Side
Facebook, Google, More Tech Giants to Be Kept in Check by New UK Watchdog
Realme GT 5G Expected to Launch in India Next Month
Apple to Pay $3.4 Million Over Programmed iPhone Obsolescence in Chile
Indian social media startup ShareChat raises $502M from investors including Tiger Global, Snap, and Twitter, at a valuation of $2.1B, and says it has 160M MAUs (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)
Indian social media startup ShareChat raises $502M from investors including Tiger Global, Snap, and Twitter, at a valuation of $2.1B, and says it has 160M MAUs — Indian social media company raised $500m for short-video app Moj — Indian social media firm ShareChat has raised more than half …
An ex-Google engineer says she endured harassment for over a year and that Google's positive external image led her to delay reporting it (Emi Nietfeld/New York Times)
An ex-Google engineer says she endured harassment for over a year and that Google's positive external image led her to delay reporting it — I learned the hard way that no publicly traded company is a family. — Ms. Nietfeld is a software engineer. She worked at Google from 2015 to 2019.
A look at Chinese hackers' attacks on US infrastructure and telecoms; sources: Charter, Consolidated Communications, and Windstream networks were also breached (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal : A look at Chinese hackers' attacks on US infrastructure and telecoms; sources: Charter, Consolidated Communicat...
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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 ...
