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The NYT overstated the influence of both Slate Star Codex and the Rationalist community on Silicon Valley, and falsely portrayed the tech industry as right-wing(Noah Smith/Noahpinion)
The NYT overstated the influence of both Slate Star Codex and the Rationalist community on Silicon Valley, and falsely portrayed the tech industry as right-wing — Stereotyping the tech industry as a bunch of secretive right-wingers isn’t correct, and it isn’t helpful… Source
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Profile of Group-IB CEO Ilya Sachkov, who is charged with treason in Russia, sources say for allegedly giving the US info about Fancy Bear’s 2016 operation(Bloomberg)
Profile of Group-IB CEO Ilya Sachkov, who is charged with treason in Russia, sources say for allegedly giving the US info about Fancy Bear’s 2016 operation — Ilya Sachkov, who’s been charged with treason in Russia, is alleged to have given the U.S. information about the “Fancy Bear” … Source
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Q&A: WhatsApp’s Will Cathcart on the Facebook-Apple feud, WhatsApp’s new privacy policy, competing apps, and the debate over message “traceability” in India(Alex Kantrowitz/OneZero )
Q&A: WhatsApp’s Will Cathcart on the Facebook-Apple feud, WhatsApp’s new privacy policy, competing apps, and the debate over message “traceability” in India — ‘If you’re talking about break encryption, it’s really hard for me to imagine being comfortable with it’.. Source
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a16z names Sriram Krishnan as its newest GP, after roles at Facebook, Snap, Twitter; Krishnan has been consulting for nine months on an a16z “community project”(Marc Andreessen/Andreessen Horowitz)
a16z names Sriram Krishnan as its newest GP, after roles at Facebook, Snap, Twitter; Krishnan has been consulting for nine months on an a16z “community project” — Welcome, Sriram Krishnan, our newest general partner, to Andreessen Horowitz! — Sriram is a well-known … Source
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Tel Aviv-based Cider Security, which helps enterprises identify security risks in their DevOps pipelines, announces a $32M Series A led by Tiger Global (Tim Keary/VentureBeat)
Tel Aviv-based Cider Security, which helps enterprises identify security risks in their DevOps pipelines, announces a $32M Series A led by Tiger Global _Through a single solution, Cider Security aims to help users gain transparency over the software development life cycle (SDLC) from code development… Source
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Sensor Tower data on top apps worldwide: Telegram led with 63M downloads in Jan. 2021, as Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger downloads fell from Dec. 2020(Julia Chan/Sensor Tower Blog)
Sensor Tower data on top apps worldwide: Telegram led with 63M downloads in Jan. 2021, as Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger downloads fell from Dec. 2020 — Telegram was the most downloaded non-gaming app worldwide for January 2021 with more than 63 million installs, 3.8 times its downloads in January 2020… Source
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Mark Zuckerberg on Clubhouse says Facebook may be in a “stronger position” after Apple’s IDFA changes and that Facebook Shops has 1M+ monthly active businesses(Salvador Rodriguez/CNBC)
Mark Zuckerberg on Clubhouse says Facebook may be in a “stronger position” after Apple’s IDFA changes and that Facebook Shops has 1M+ monthly active businesses — – Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday said he is confident the social media company “will be able to manage through” Apple’s upcoming privacy changes… Source
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After leaving Meta, CrowdTangle co-founder Brandon Silverman has helped a bipartisan group of US senators craft a bill to boost social networks’ transparency(Ben Smith/New York Times)
After leaving Meta, CrowdTangle co-founder Brandon Silverman has helped a bipartisan group of US senators craft a bill to boost social networks’ transparency — The co-founder of CrowdTangle has been working with Congress on legislation to make tech companies disclose their inner workings… Source
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DeFi lender Rari Capital, which merged with Fei Protocol in December 2021, loses $80M+ in a hack exploiting a reentrancy vulnerability in Rari’s Fuse protocol(CoinDesk)
DeFi lender Rari Capital, which merged with Fei Protocol in December 2021, loses $80M+ in a hack exploiting a reentrancy vulnerability in Rari’s Fuse protocol — Decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms Rari Capital and Fei Protocol suffered a more-than-$80 million hack early Saturday… Source
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Sources: as German car trading service Auto1 plans its IPO, Sequoia and Lone Pine will each buy ~€50M in shares from existing investors and put €50M+ in its IPO (Bloomberg)
Sources: as German car trading service Auto1 plans its IPO, Sequoia and Lone Pine will each buy ~€50M in shares from existing investors and put €50M+ in its IPO — – Lone Pine also purchases stock from early backer DN Capital — Both funds want to buy more shares in Auto1’s planned IPO.. Source
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