|
December 14, 2020, 6:40 AM
|
| Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: Treasury's hackers used a flaw in a SolarWinds product; SolarWinds, which touts 300K+ customers, says the flaw was the result of a “supply chain attack” — Russia's foreign intelligence service is suspected of being behind effort to breach government networks| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
Sources: state-backed Russian hacking group APT29, or Cozy Bear, is behind the hacks of US Treasury, NTIA, and FireEye — The Russian government hackers who breached a top cybersecurity firm are behind a global espionage campaign that also compromised the Treasury and Commerce departments … | Christopher Bing / Reuters: |
Sources: state sponsored hackers monitored internal emails at US Treasury and broke into National Telecommunications and Information Administration's Office 365 — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A sophisticated hacking group backed by a foreign government stole information from the U.S. Treasury Department … | Ben Smith / New York Times: |
Sources: Apple TV+ was making Scraper, a show about Gawker Media, with several episodes written, then Tim Cook sent an email about it and the project was killed — Big tech companies now exert huge influence over what stories get told. The message is clear: Be careful who you offend.| Upvoted: |
Reddit announces it has acquired short-form video app and TikTok rival Dubsmash — Reddit is where passionate communities come together for authentic exchanges about the topics that matter to them. Video is increasingly core to how people want to connect, and as we continue to grow our community … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Facebook fears cracking down on Hindu extremist groups in India because of the likelihood that it could lead to violence toward its staff — Social media giant's security team cites possible attacks if extremist Hindu groups are kicked off platform| Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
Internal memo: Google now plans to have employees return to office in September 2021 and is testing a flexible model of three days in office, two days WFH — The Silicon Valley company now plans to have employees return to the office in September. It will be different when they get there.| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
EA says it has agreed to buy British racing game developer Codemasters for $1.2B, outbidding Take-Two, which had agreed on a $971M acquisition last month — - The deal upstaged a previous transaction agreed between rival publisher Take-Two Interactive and Codemasters.| GlobeNewswire: |
Stargate in DataStax Astra — A new API stack for modern data apps is here! Learn how developers can use the APIs they want (Schemaless JSON, GraphQL, and REST APIs) to build fast apps at scale.| Washington Post: |
Marketing materials on a Huawei website detailed surveillance tech to detect people's ethnicity and help suppress protests, co-created with partners like Megvii — Facing international outcry over its testing of a “Uighur alarm” system, Huawei said it is committed to human rights “at the highest level.”| Alden Wicker / Wired: |
Poshmark's product design choices around social sharing, like encouraging sellers to reshare their listings daily, wastes sellers' time and reduces their profit — The social shopping app Poshmark promises women the chance to spin gold out of secondhand threads. The reality is a lot of spinning, and little gold.| Tatiana Walk-Morris / Vanity Fair: |
A look at the murky world of moderation on Clubhouse, which has become a haven for the powerful to flirt with misogyny and racism — The invite-only app, which has drawn attention for anti-Semitic speech and harassment issues, says it's focused on making users feel safe.
You don't have to be Google to have your own AI lab — Find out how Tribe's community of top engineers can build core machine learning technology for your company.
Stargate in DataStax Astra — A new API stack for modern data apps is here! Learn how developers can use the APIs they want (Schemaless JSON, GraphQL, and REST APIs) to build fast apps at scale.
How SpiceJet improved HR management with Zoho People — SpiceJet, one of India's leading airlines, was looking for an HR solution that could provide a straightforward working experience to their employees … 
It's OK to Disconnect Sometimes. — How to Prevent Mental Fatigue & Information Overload.
AI is not a one-size-fits-all computing challenge — Cloud providers are using Intel Xeon's built-in AI performance for AI inference workloads and now developers can use Habana Gaudi to reduce their AI training costs.| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
| Rakesh Prakash / Times of India: |
Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirch
