Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
US customers of Kaspersky antivirus find UltraAV, an entirely different AV suite, remotely installed on their PCs, after a Kaspersky deal with UltraAV’s owner — Customers of Kaspersky antivirus in the United States found out in the last few days that their cybersecurity software …
Microsoft releases a progress report on its efforts to make security its top priority, which began in November 2023 after a scathing report from the US CSRB (Tom Warren/The Verge)
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft releases a progress report on its efforts to make security its top priority, which began in November 2023 after a scathing report from the US CSRB — Microsoft made security its No. 1 priority for every employee earlier this year, following years of security issues and a scathing report from the US Cyber Safety Review Board.
Researchers find a new version of Necro malware in Google Play apps with 11M+ total installs; Necro malware in 2019 was found in Play apps with 100M+ installs (Ionut Arghire/SecurityWeek)
Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek:
Researchers find a new version of Necro malware in Google Play apps with 11M+ total installs; Necro malware in 2019 was found in Play apps with 100M+ installs — The Necro trojan was found in two Android applications in Google Play with a combined downloads count of over 11 million.
Telegram will provide users’ IP addresses and phone numbers to authorities after valid legal requests, changing its terms of service to deter criminal activity (Jeff Stone/Bloomberg)
Jeff Stone / Bloomberg:
Telegram will provide users’ IP addresses and phone numbers to authorities after valid legal requests, changing its terms of service to deter criminal activity — – Telegram to provide user data in response to legal requests — Durov faces charges in France for crimes committed on his app
Israel Innovation Authority: since October 7, Israeli tech companies have raised $9B, third behind Silicon Valley and NYC; tech is 16% of Israel’s employment (Steven Scheer/Reuters)
Steven Scheer / Reuters:
Israel Innovation Authority: since October 7, Israeli tech companies have raised $9B, third behind Silicon Valley and NYC; tech is 16% of Israel’s employment — Israel’s tech sector has remained resilient during a year-long war with Palestinian Islamist group Hamas but as it relies …
Sonos staff and report: technical debt was partly responsible for the app debacle, and Sonos lacked urgency in fixing it; sources: a reorganization caused chaos (Dave Lee/Bloomberg)
Dave Lee / Bloomberg:
Sonos staff and report: technical debt was partly responsible for the app debacle, and Sonos lacked urgency in fixing it; sources: a reorganization caused chaos — Ignoring “tech debt,” disregarding employee warnings and cutting costs combined to create a crisis that the high-end audio company is still struggling to recover from.
TikTok rolls out its redesigned Subscription feature, which lets creators offer three tiers, to eligible creators in select regions, including the UK and the US (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
TikTok rolls out its redesigned Subscription feature, which lets creators offer three tiers, to eligible creators in select regions, including the UK and the US — TikTok announced on Monday that its redesigned “Subscription” monetization offering is rolling out to eligible creators in select regions …
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg calls WP Engine a “cancer to WordPress” and says it profits off confusion between the WordPress project and commercial services (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg calls WP Engine a “cancer to WordPress” and says it profits off confusion between the WordPress project and commercial services — Automattic CEO and WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg unleashed a scathing attack on a rival firm this week, calling WP Engine a “cancer to WordPress.”
Cloudflare rolls out Bot Management, a suite of free AI auditing tools, to all of its customers to help monitor and selectively block AI data-scraping bots (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
Kate Knibbs / Wired:
Cloudflare rolls out Bot Management, a suite of free AI auditing tools, to all of its customers to help monitor and selectively block AI data-scraping bots — “The path we’re on isn’t sustainable,” Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince tells WIRED, in reference to rampant AI scraping. Here’s his plan to course-correct.
Google TV Streamer review: excellent UI, Google Assistant, fast controls, smart home hub, and handy Find My feature, but not a huge speed bump and only Wi-Fi 5 (The Verge)
The Verge:
Google TV Streamer review: excellent UI, Google Assistant, fast controls, smart home hub, and handy Find My feature, but not a huge speed bump and only Wi-Fi 5 — With more storage, a (slightly) faster processor, and some proper smart home chops, Google’s new take on the Chromecast is its best attempt at a streaming device yet.
