Dr. Tom Robinson / Elliptic Blog: The founder of Joker’s Stash, one of the most popular marketplaces for stolen credit card and identity data, has allegedly retired...
Mobility-as-a-service startup Hip, an app that connects commuters with third-party bus and shuttle operators, says it has raised $12M and added B2B offerings — Nearly a...
Profile of Alondra Nelson, Biden’s first deputy director for science and society, a role meant to examine the sociological effects of emerging technologies — Alondra Nelson...
Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: Report: VC funding in the US reached a record high of $130B in 2020, up 14% YoY, but the total number of deals...
Sources: Snapchat will permanently ban Trump’s account on January 20 in the interest of public safety and based on repeated violations of Snapchat’s guidelines — Snapchat...
Examining the links between the Rationalist community, with Slate Star Codex blog as its epicenter, and influential leaders in tech, including OpenAI’s founders — Slate Star...
Wearable device shipments for 2020 grew 28.4% to 444.7M units globally, led by Apple which grew 27.2% in Q4 and has 36.2% marketshare, followed by Xiaomi...
Replicated, which sells tools that help software makers create and deploy on-premises versions of their applications, raises $50M Series C led by Owl Rock (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)...
Sources: investigators are checking if SolarWinds was hacked via its offices in Czechia, Poland, and Belarus, where the company moved much of its engineering — Those...
A new Golang-based worm has been actively dropping XMRig cryptocurrency malware on Windows and Linux servers since early December, mining Monero — A newly discovered and...