Daily Archives: December 10, 2021

Yang Jie / Wall Street Journal: The heavily indebted Chinese chip conglomerate Tsinghua Unigroup says a consortium led by two state-backed VC firms would become its strategic investor  —  Two state-backed venture capital firms will help the heavily indebted company restructure its assets  —  Tsinghua Unigroup Co. …

Zachery Eanes / Raleigh News & Observer: ServiceTrade, which offers SaaS applications to commercial service contractors, raises $85M in a round led by JMI Equity  —  ServiceTrade, a Durham maker of automation software for commercial services businesses, like electricians, plumbers and inspectors, has raised $85 million from investors …

Tory Shepherd / The Guardian: Florida jury finds that Craig Wright doesn’t have to transfer half of his bitcoin to David Kleiman’s family, which would have proven whether Wright was Nakamoto  —  A US court case could have unmasked Australian as cryptocurrency inventor.  But a jury found in his favour […]

Suhauna Hussain / Los Angeles Times: Some trans and nonbinary drivers say Uber banned their accounts after it treated their documents as fraudulent; Uber says it’s working to restore the accounts  —  Adrian Escobedo signed up to drive for Uber Eats to help support his family after his fiancee lost […]

Angelica Mari / ZDNet: Brazil’s Ministry of Health suffers a major ransomware attack, resulting in the unavailability of millions of COVID-19 certificates and the loss of 50TB of data  —  Hackers claimed to have copied and deleted 50 TB worth of data from internal systems.  —  Websites under Brazil’s Ministry […]

Bloomberg: Sources: Binance is in talks to set up a cryptocurrency exchange in Indonesia with PT Bank Central Asia, owned by the Hartonos, Indonesia’s richest family  —  – Bank Central Asia, Telkom Indonesia are in talks with Binance  — Discussions ongoing for a cryptocurrency trading platform

Enlarge / Four vector drawings show the five-slit spiral lock mechanism used by Mary, Queen of Scots; the front and back of a locked letter packet using this method; and an unfolded lock. Sections are numbered 1-20 to show the different areas created by folding. (credit: Unlocking History Research Group) […]

Queenie Wong / CNET: Meta struggles with harassment in VR, where solutions like letting users record everything need to be balanced with privacy and headsets’ storage and power  —  Sydney Smith had dealt with lewd, sexist remarks for more than a month while playing the Echo VR video game.

Enlarge / A minimalist view of the Firefox web browser. (credit: Firefox) Mozilla has released the latest version of Firefox, Firefox 95, for Windows and macOS. It’s available now for all users on both platforms. The Firefox team says the new macOS version reduces CPU usage during event processing and […]

Wall Street Journal: A look at the impact of supercomputers on chess, as world champion Magnus Carlsen, who boasts of being the least influenced by a computer, wins another title  —  Chess engines were supposed to make classical chess more predictable.  Instead, they made the most inventive player of all […]