Robinhood says it didn't proactively sell shares of GameStop, AMC, or any other buzzworthy stocks without traders' permission, denying claims made by some users (Jacob Kastrenakes/The Verge)
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January 29, 2021
Rating: 5
Epic says its Games Store has 160M+ PC users, up from 108M in 2019, with DAUs up 192% YoY to 31.3M; gamers spent $700M+ in 2020, with $265M on 3rd-party games (Cameron Faulkner/The Verge)
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January 29, 2021
Rating: 5
Henry Moniz, ViacomCBS' top compliance official, will become Facebook's first chief compliance officer, amid heavy regulatory scrutiny (Kanishka Singh/Reuters)
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January 29, 2021
Rating: 5
A PR error by Google is drawing criticism from digital rights activists after it implied its new cloud region in Saudi Arabia would store private Snap user data (Issie Lapowsky/Protocol)
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January 29, 2021
Rating: 5
Facebook took down the "Robinhood Stock Traders" group with 157K users; a notification said the group violated polices on "adult sexual exploitation" (Paresh Dave/Reuters)
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January 29, 2021
Rating: 5
Microsoft reports it has "high confidence" the hacking campaign targeting infosec researchers is linked to ZINC, a DPRK-affiliated and state-sponsored group (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
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January 29, 2021
Rating: 5
Google Project Zero researcher discovers and details new security system on iOS 14 named BlastDoor, which provides an improved sandbox system for iMessage data (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)
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January 29, 2021
Rating: 5
At an all-hands, Microsoft Education VP told staff 100M+ students use Teams, up 30M since Sep; said Chromebooks are often faster, cheaper than PCs for remote ed (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)
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January 29, 2021
Rating: 5
Google updates its Play Store policy to allow gambling and betting apps in 15 additional countries, including the US, Australia, Canada, Japan, and Mexico (Abner Li/9to5Google)
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January 29, 2021
Rating: 5
US and Bulgarian authorities seize a dark web site used to publish data stolen from victims of NetWalker, which has among the most rapacious ransomware strains (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)
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January 28, 2021
Rating: 5
Europol, the FBI, and other law enforcement agencies worldwide have seized control of malware botnet Emotet's infrastructure and disrupted it from the inside (Danny Palmer/ZDNet)
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January 28, 2021
Rating: 5
SAP to acquire Signavio, a Berlin-based business process automation company, reportedly for $1.2B (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)
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January 28, 2021
Rating: 5
