Anish Athalye:
Researcher shows how ML models can create low-resolution images from PhotoDNA hashes, used to identify CSAM, despite Microsoft's claim they can't be reversed — Microsoft PhotoDNA creates a “unique digital signature” of an image which can be matched against a database containing...
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The well-known medical doctor spoke to FOX news about the mainstream COVID narrative and the proposed Immunization Infrastructure Modernization Act
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Ezra Fieser / Bloomberg:
Bogota-based buy now, pay later service Addi raises $80M in equity and $125M in debt at a $700M valuation and says it is used by 1,000 retailers — - Buy now, pay later startup Addi valued at more than $700m — GIC leads series C round that raises fresh equity and debt
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Spotify, Meta, and Netflix find Gen Z elusive in a way TikTok never has; Spotify says its Blend playlist feature is mostly used by Gen Z — Good afternoon from Puerto Rico. Hope you all are staying safe out there. Hollywood is celebrating the good news of a...
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Cars 24, an India-based marketplace for used cars, raises a $400M Series G, including $100M debt and $300M equity, led by Alpha Wave Global at a $3.3B valuation — With supply chains in the automotive industry continuing to be disrupted due to Covid-19, demand has...
A security researcher says an internet gateway, used by hundreds of hotels to offer and manage their guest Wi-Fi networks, has vulnerabilities that could put the personal information of their guests at risk.
Etizaz Mohsin told TechCrunch that the Airangel HSMX Gateway contains hardcoded...
Tanya Basu / MIT Technology Review:
Meta says a woman was groped on its Horizon Worlds platform on November 26; an internal review says she should have used its “Safe Zone” tool — Last week, Meta (the umbrella company formerly known as Facebook) opened up access to its virtual-reality social...
Gillian Tan / Bloomberg:
Stocktwits, a social network used by traders and investors, raises $30M, source says at a $210M valuation, led by Alameda Research and says it has 1M MAUs — Stocktwits, a social-media platform used by day traders and other retail investors, raised $30 million in a...
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Tel Aviv-based Guardio, which offers a cybersecurity browser extension used by 1M+, raises $47M led by Tiger Global — Some say that antivirus software that you install on your PC may have run its course when it comes to the next generation of computing in the cloud.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
LogMeIn says it will spin out password management tool LastPass; LogMeIn acquired LastPass, used by 30M people and 85K businesses, for $125M in 2015 — LastPass has more than 30 million users — LogMeIn plans to spin out password management tool LastPass as a standalone...
Jan-Henrik Foerster / Bloomberg:
German company Software AG, which offers tools to manage data used by 50% of the Fortune 500, raises €344M from Silver Lake — Silver Lake has agreed to invest 344 million euros ($388 million) in Germany's Software AG, in what the company says is the first...
PMID: Respir Physiol Neurobiol. 2021 Oct 12 ;296:103802. Epub 2021 Oct 12. PMID: 34653662 Abstract Title: Anti-fibrotic effect of pycnogenol® in a polyhexamethylene guanidine-treated mouse model. Abstract: Pulmonary fibrosis (PF) is a respiratory disease that causes serious respiratory...
Reuters:
Symbotic, a warehouse robotics and automation company used in over 1,400 stores, will go public via SPAC at a $5.5B valuation — Walmart Inc-backed (WMT.N) Symbotic said on Monday it would go public through a merger with a SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) blank-check firm in a deal offering …
Financial Times:
How Syrian human rights group Mnemonic used AI trained on synthetic data to analyze videos for evidence that “cluster” weapon RBK-250 was used against civilians — Technique used to teach Tesla cars and Amazon Alexa has gathered evidence of weapons used against civilians
Bloomberg:
A look at the proliferation of “dark stores”, mini-warehouses in urban retail spaces used by fast grocery delivery companies, and their impact on community life — Mini-warehouses dubbed “dark stores” are quietly taking over urban retail space.
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Researchers discover 27 vulnerabilities in the Eltima SDK, a library used by numerous cloud providers including AWS to remotely mount a local USB device — Researchers have discovered 27 vulnerabilities in Eltima SDK, a library used by numerous cloud providers to...
Kaya Yurieff / The Information:
Universe, a mobile-based website builder, raises a $30M Series B led by Addition, and says over 500,000 creators and SMBs have used its app — Creators are making custom websites in vogue again. — After years of watching social networks abruptly tweak their...
Catalin Cimpanu / The Record:
Microsoft seizes 42 domains allegedly used by a Chinese cyber espionage group that targeted organizations in the US and 28 other countries — Microsoft said today that its legal team has successfully obtained a court warrant that allowed it to seize 42 domains used...
Microsoft has seized control of a number of websites that were being used by a Chinese-government backed hacking group to target organizations in 29 countries, including the U.S.
Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCI) said on Monday that a federal court in Virginia had granted an order allowing...