Archive for July 4th, 2007
links for 2007-07-03
Posted by: amygdala on July 4, 2007
- Bithumb, one of South Korea's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, suspends asset deposit and withdrawal services after ~$31M hack, promises full reimbursement (Wolfie Zhao/CoinDesk)
- Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says new US border policy to separate immigrant children from parents is abhorrent and "simply cruel and abusive" (Satya Nadella/LinkedIn)
- VirusTotal launches Monitor aimed at helping developers mitigate false positives by letting them upload and scan new code against their 70+ antivirus partners (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
- Medium and GitHub scrub posts and database containing ICE employee LinkedIn data citing rules against doxxing; Twitter suspends bot tweeting info from database (Caroline O'Donovan/BuzzFeed)
- After Senator Wyden's probe into whom the US carriers sell real-time location data to, Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint say they are reexamining the practice (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
- Privacy-focused Brave browser is testing its own tech for ads that will eventually pay users with its Basic Attention Tokens for viewing or interacting with ads (Stephen Shankland/CNET)
- Tech CEOs from Apple, Facebook, Google, Airbnb, Twitter, and others have spoken out against the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" immigration policy (BuzzFeed)
- In internal open letter to CEO Satya Nadella, more than 100 Microsoft employees protest the firm's work with ICE and ask that it stop working with the agency (Sheera Frenkel/New York Times)
- Many Microsoft Azure services in northern Europe have been down for hours; Microsoft says it has identified the cause and is working to mitigate (Chris Williams/The Register)
- Google Cloud and Unity to build managed services and tools for creating connected games; Unity moving infrastructure for its current services to Google Cloud (Abner Li/9to5Google)
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