Nicole Wetsman / The Verge: According to the Department of Health and Human Services, data breaches in 2021 exposed the health information of 40M+ people in the US, up from 26M in 2020 — Hacks and thefts of health data spiked in 2021 — Over 40 million people in the […]
Daily Archives: December 8, 2021
Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer: Amazon says it will shut down Alexa.com, its global website ranking system, on May 1, 2022, after 25 years of operation — Amazon announced on Wednesday plans to shut down its global website ranking system and competitor analysis tool “Alexa.com”, which has been available for 25 […]
Marietje Schaake / Financial Times: A look at the impact of data centers in Europe, including high electricity and water usage, as Big Tech gets tax breaks, subsidized energy and agricultural land — Meanwhile, companies must be more transparent in their planning applications — The writer is international policy director […]
Andrew Thurman / CoinDesk: SushiSwap CTO Joseph Delong resigns after reports of project infighting and a 50% drop in the token price over the last month — The technical lead for one of DeFi’s most prominent protocols is out after weeks of controversy and a 50% drop in the price […]
Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: DeepMind claims its AI called RETRO matches the performance of neural networks 25 times its size, cutting the time and cost of training large language models — RETRO uses an external memory to look up passages of text on the fly, avoiding some […]
Kollen Post / The Block: At a congressional hearing with six crypto executives, committee members voiced concern about stablecoins and exchanges but showed a warming reception to crypto — Quick Take — Today’s hearing before the House Financial Services Committee confirmed: Congress is warming up to crypto.
Crystal Tse / Bloomberg: HashiCorp raises $1.2B in its IPO after pricing shares at $80 each, up from a marketed range of $68 to $72, giving it a valuation of $14B — – Cloud software firm prices shares above marketed range at $80 — Startup formed by onetime Seattle classmates […]
Ivan Levingston / Bloomberg: Adobe agrees to acquire ContentCal, which helps creators automate social media publishing and reporting tasks, sources say for more than $100M in cash — Adobe Inc. will acquire U.K. social media marketing startup ContentCal in a deal that aims to give users, particularly small businesses …
Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google confirms a bug preventing some Android users from calling 911 if Microsoft Teams is installed but they are not logged in, says a permanent fix is coming — Last week, a user reported that their Pixel 3 was not able to dial 911 (emergency services […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Researchers have found another 17 malicious packages in an open source repository, as the use of such repositories to spread malware continues to flourish. This time, the malicious code was found in NPM, where 11 million developers trade more than 1 million packages among each other. […]