Daily Archives: December 14, 2021

Financial Times: Sources: the US will ban eight Chinese companies, including DJI, for their alleged involvement in the surveillance of Uyghur Muslims  —  American investors will be banned from groups accused of involvement in Xinjiang abuses  —  The Biden administration will place eight Chinese companies including DJI …

Jennifer Elias / CNBC: Leaked memo: Google tells employees they must comply with vaccine policies by January 18 or lose pay and eventually be fired  —  – In a memo circulated by leadership, Google told employees that they must comply with vaccine policies or they face losing pay and then […]

Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: Sweep, a France-based software startup helping companies monitor their carbon footprints, raises a $22M Series A led by Balderton Capital  —  Carbon management platform Sweep has raised $22 million in a series A round of funding, as it sets out to enable large companies to lower […]

Martin Matishak / The Record: The US Department of Homeland Security launches “Hack DHS”, a bug bounty program that will pay hackers $500 to $5,000 for finding vulnerabilities in its systems  —  The Homeland Security Department has launched a bug bounty program that will allow hackers to report vulnerabilities …

Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: Course Hero, an online class study materials provider that acquired CliffsNotes and QuillBot in August, raises a $380M Series C at a $3.6B valuation  —  Course Hero, a Silicon Valley provider of online class study materials, has raised $380 million in Series C funding at a […]

Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss / Reuters: Anchorage Digital, which offers institutions digital asset services for secure crypto custody, trading, and more, raises $350M led by KKR at a $3B valuation  —  Anchorage Digital, a digital asset financial platform, said on Wednesday it raised $350 million in its latest funding round led by […]

Emily Birnbaum / Politico: Sources: the Internet Association plans to announce it’s dissolving as soon as Wednesday, amid financial struggles  —  The Internet Association, once branded as Silicon Valley’s most important trade group in Washington, plans to announce it is dissolving as soon as tomorrow, two people familiar with the […]

Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: CISA orders US federal civilian agencies to patch systems affected by the Log4j vulnerability by December 24  —  The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has told federal civilian agencies to patch systems affected by the Log4Shell vulnerability by Christmas Eve.

John Timmer / Ars Technica: Cosmic rays and radioactivity may present a challenge for scalable quantum computing, as researchers find they interfere with error correction  —  For quantum chips, the problems they cause are too big for error correction.  —  Recently, when researchers were testing error correction …

Enlarge / Porsche’s newest electric car variant is the $133,300 Taycan GTS Sport Turismo. (credit: Jonathan Gitlin) Porsche provided flights to Los Angeles and two nights in a hotel so we could drive the Taycan GTS Sport Turismo and the sedan that we wrote about two weeks ago. Ars does […]