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Researchers uncover BrakTooth, 16 flaws in Bluetooth firmware in SoC boards used in billions of devices from 11 top vendors that can allow remote code execution (Catalin Cimpanu/The Record)
Researchers uncover BrakTooth, 16 flaws in Bluetooth firmware in SoC boards used in billions of devices from 11 top vendors that can allow remote code execution — A team of security researchers has published details this week about a suite of 16 vulnerabilities that impact the Bluetooth software stack …
Food sharing app OLIO raises $43M Series B led by VNV Global, as the startup tries to tackle food waste, with Tesco adding 2.7K stores to the service in 2020 (Mike Butcher/TechCrunch)
Food sharing app OLIO raises $43M Series B led by VNV Global, as the startup tries to tackle food waste, with Tesco adding 2.7K stores to the service in 2020 — It was curious enough that OLIO, a UK startup with an app that lets users post a photo of unwanted food and share it with the local neighborhood …
Harvard study details how automated hiring systems, now used by 99% of Fortune 500 companies, exclude 10M+ qualified workers in the US from hiring discussions (Kathryn Dill/Wall Street Journal)
Harvard study details how automated hiring systems, now used by 99% of Fortune 500 companies, exclude 10M+ qualified workers in the US from hiring discussions — Automated-hiring systems are excluding many people from job discussions at a time when additional employees are desperately needed
A look at the evolution of App Store rules from 2009, when FCC investigated Apple's refusal to approve Google Voice, to the recent antitrust-related changes (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
A look at the evolution of App Store rules from 2009, when FCC investigated Apple's refusal to approve Google Voice, to the recent antitrust-related changes — - In the past few weeks, Apple has made several changes to its App Store rules, allowing a larger number of companies to access …
Sources: Apple Watch Series 7 will be announced alongside the new iPhone, but production issues may cause the new models to ship late or in limited quantities (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Sources: Apple Watch Series 7 will be announced alongside the new iPhone, but production issues may cause the new models to ship late or in limited quantities — This is the free version of Power On. If you like it, consider subscribing to Bloomberg.com — you'll receive …
Tokyo ready to back Western Digital-Kioxia deal if key tech stays in Japan: Sources
Profile of BlockFi, which says it has $10B+ in assets, 450K+ clients, licenses in 28 states, and uses digital assets as collateral to provide loans in minutes (New York Times)
Profile of BlockFi, which says it has $10B+ in assets, 450K+ clients, licenses in 28 states, and uses digital assets as collateral to provide loans in minutes — The boom in companies offering cryptocurrency loans and high-yield deposit accounts is disrupting the banking industry and leaving regulators scrambling to catch up.
Online real estate "iBuyers" like Opendoor, Zillow, and Offerpad have increased their home purchases in Q2, as virtual showings speed up the home buying process (Laura Forman/Wall Street Journal)
Online real estate “iBuyers” like Opendoor, Zillow, and Offerpad have increased their home purchases in Q2, as virtual showings speed up the home buying process — IBuyer investors must ask whether scalability and sustainability are mutually exclusive—and, if so, which is more important
Saturday, September 4, 2021
A look at the mechanics behind Community DAOs, including Flamingo and Fingerprints, which collect blue chip NFTs to raise funds via NFT "drops" (Patrick Rivera/Crypto x Creator Economy)
A look at the mechanics behind Community DAOs, including Flamingo and Fingerprints, which collect blue chip NFTs to raise funds via NFT “drops” — In crypto land, 2020 was all about DeFi. So far, 2021 has been about NFTs (hot jpeg summer anyone?) — 2022 will be all about Community DAOs.
Vietnamese startup KiotViet, which provides cloud-based POS software for SMBs, raises $45M Series B led by KKR, after raising a $6M Series A in 2019 (Quynh Nguyen/DealStreetAsia)
Vietnamese startup KiotViet, which provides cloud-based POS software for SMBs, raises $45M Series B led by KKR, after raising a $6M Series A in 2019 — Vietnamese B2B startup KiotViet, a merchant platform for micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), has raised $45 million …
The US NLRB rules that Amazon must negotiate with the Amazon Labor Union, which represents ~5K workers at its Staten Island warehouse; Amazon plans to appeal (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)
Greg Bensinger / Reuters : The US NLRB rules that Amazon must negotiate with the Amazon Labor Union, which represents ~5K workers at its ...
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The first project we remember working on together was drawing scenes from the picture books that our mom brought with her when she immigrate...
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Sohee Kim / Bloomberg : South Korean authorities are investigating a data leak at e-commerce giant Coupang that exposed ~33.7M accounts; ...
