Thursday, November 17, 2022

A survey of US teens on social media: 80% feel closer to friends and 71% like showing creativity; 59% are neutral on its overall impact; girls report more drama (Pew Research Center)

Pew Research Center:
A survey of US teens on social media: 80% feel closer to friends and 71% like showing creativity; 59% are neutral on its overall impact; girls report more drama  —  Majorities of teens credit social media with strengthening their friendships and providing support while also noting the emotionally charged side of these platforms



Congress, slow to move on regulating crypto, becomes transfixed by FTX's collapse, as lawmakers wonder if the crisis could have been prevented (Tony Romm/Washington Post)

Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Congress, slow to move on regulating crypto, becomes transfixed by FTX's collapse, as lawmakers wonder if the crisis could have been prevented  —  The stunning collapse of the world's third-largest exchange has forced lawmakers to reckon with the costs of legislative inaction



Meta appoints Sandhya Devanathan to lead its India business, starting January 1, following several high-profile departures; Devanathan joined Meta in 2016 (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Meta appoints Sandhya Devanathan to lead its India business, starting January 1, following several high-profile departures; Devanathan joined Meta in 2016  —  Meta has appointed Sandhya Devanathan as the new head of its India business following several high-profile departures in the key overseas market.



Financial cybercrime group the Disneyland Team is spoofing bank domains using Punycode, a standard that lets browsers render domains with non-Latin alphabets (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Financial cybercrime group the Disneyland Team is spoofing bank domains using Punycode, a standard that lets browsers render domains with non-Latin alphabets  —  A financial cybercrime group calling itself the Disneyland Team has been making liberal use of visually confusing phishing domains …



Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo is pursuing an urgent IPO via a SPAC merger at a valuation of less than $500M; it was last valued at $1.2B in 2024 (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Meir Orbach / CTech : Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo is pursuing an urgent IPO via a SPAC merger at a valuation of less than $500M; ...