Daily Archives: November 16, 2021

Todd Spangler / Variety: Netflix expands its Top 10 lists to display the most-viewed shows and movies, for both English and non-English titles, ranked by aggregate viewing hours  —  Netflix says it’s heard the complaints about how it “cherry picks” the self-reported data it releases about content viewed on its […]

Mitchell Clark / The Verge: Brave now has a built-in cryptocurrency wallet, sidestepping the need for extension-based wallets like MetaMask  —  Why use an extension when it’s a built-in tool?  —  Brave has announced that its web browser now includes a native cryptocurrency wallet, replacing the previous one that was […]

Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: Cybersecurity firm Mandiant says it has “high confidence” that Belarus is partially responsible for Ghostwriter, a hack-and-leak operation in some EU states  —  Mandiant says the government is likely to blame for anti-NATO campaigns, and more.  —  The Belarusian government …

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: Israeli spyware vendor Candiru, recently blacklisted by the US, waged “watering hole” attacks on UK and Middle East websites critical of Saudi Arabia and others  —  Cybersecurity researchers tracked a hacking campaign spanning more than a year that hit around 20 websites.

Enlarge / The Amazon Prime Video app for macOS. (credit: Samuel Axon) Amazon has released a Prime Video app that runs natively on the Mac. The app offers many of the same features as the mobile app but is available in the Mac App Store. The app is free to […]

Enlarge (credit: IBM) IBM has announced it has cleared a major hurdle in its effort to make quantum computing useful: it now has a quantum processor, called Eagle, with 127 functional qubits. This makes it the first company to clear the 100-qubit mark, a milestone that’s interesting because the interactions […]

Enlarge / Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick. (credit: Flickr / Bobby Kotick) A group of Activision Blizzard employees staged a walkout and demanded the resignation of CEO Bobby Kotick Tuesday, in response to a bombshell Wall Street Journal report alleging Kotick failed to act decisively or inform his board of […]

Enlarge / Squid Game is currently the most popular non-English-language television show on Netflix. (credit: Netflix) Netflix will begin regularly reporting viewership numbers for its top programs and films, a major shift in strategy for the streaming company that has carefully guarded its data over the past decade. The company […]

Kif Leswing / CNBC: Qualcomm expects to grow its entire chip business 12%+ by 2024, with IoT sales of $9B, up from $5B; automotive to grow to $8B in 10 years; stock closes up 7.89%  —  – Qualcomm stock rose as much as 7% on Tuesday after it issued bullish […]

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: Upgrade, a digital bank focused on personal loans and credit cards, raises a $280M Series F at a $6B pre-money valuation, up from a $3.3B valuation in August  —  Fintech company Upgrade has raised a Series F round just four months after raising its previous round.