Journals

Karissa Bell / Engadget: TikTok details its plans for the 2024 US elections, including a ban on political ads, work with fact-checking organizations, and reports on influence campaigns  —  Its approach hasn’t changed much from 2022.  —  TikTok has shared… Read More »TikTok details its plans for the 2024 US elections, including a ban on political ads, work with fact-checking organizations, and reports on influence campaigns (Karissa Bell/Engadget)

Carly Page / TechCrunch: Google’s TAG says Russia-linked hacking group Cold River is ramping up its activity and using new tactics, like data-stealing malware, to cause more disruption  —  Google researchers say they have evidence that a notorious Russian-linked hacking… Read More »Google’s TAG says Russia-linked hacking group Cold River is ramping up its activity and using new tactics, like data-stealing malware, to cause more disruption (Carly Page/TechCrunch)

Chainalysis: Illicit crypto addresses received $24.2B in 2023, down from $39.6B in 2022, and stablecoins accounted for the majority of the transaction volume, replacing BTC  —  2023 was a year of recovery for cryptocurrency, as the industry rebounded from the… Read More »Illicit crypto addresses received $24.2B in 2023, down from $39.6B in 2022, and stablecoins accounted for the majority of the transaction volume, replacing BTC (Chainalysis)

Politico: A look at the US Data Protection Review Court, authorized in October 2022 to resume US-EU data transfers and which issues secret rulings, raising privacy fears  —  In a deal to let companies keep trading transatlantic data, the White… Read More »A look at the US Data Protection Review Court, authorized in October 2022 to resume US-EU data transfers and which issues secret rulings, raising privacy fears (Politico)

Access Now: Gaza’s internet and telecoms have been fully shut down for seven straight days, the longest time since October 2023; 12 of its ISPs are down since October 2023  —  For seven consecutive days, internet and telecommunications services have… Read More »Gaza’s internet and telecoms have been fully shut down for seven straight days, the longest time since October 2023; 12 of its ISPs are down since October 2023 (Access Now)

Reuters: Sources: Reddit has drawn up detailed IPO plans to launch in March 2024, with a public filing in late February, the first major social media IPO since Pinterest  —  Social media platform Reddit has drawn up detailed plans to… Read More »Sources: Reddit has drawn up detailed IPO plans to launch in March 2024, with a public filing in late February, the first major social media IPO since Pinterest (Reuters)

John Gruber / Daring Fireball: Apple’s seeming sense of entitlement to commissions from third-party iOS apps shows a confrontational stance at odds with seeking to reduce regulatory pressure  —  That take didn’t last long. … Sweeney’s description makes it sound… Read More »Apple’s seeming sense of entitlement to commissions from third-party iOS apps shows a confrontational stance at odds with seeking to reduce regulatory pressure (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)

Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg: StatCounter: Bing ended 2023 with 3.4% global search market share, up less than one percentage point after ChatGPT; Google had 91.6%, Yandex 1.6%, and Yahoo 1%  —  – Search engine has steadily increased usage but remains… Read More »StatCounter: Bing ended 2023 with 3.4% global search market share, up less than one percentage point after ChatGPT; Google had 91.6%, Yandex 1.6%, and Yahoo 1% (Jackie Davalos/Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: TSMC announces another delay to its $40B site in Arizona, saying the second plant will start operations in 2027 or 2028, later than its prior 2026 guidance  —  – The firm’s first fab in Arizona has been pushed back… Read More »TSMC announces another delay to its $40B site in Arizona, saying the second plant will start operations in 2027 or 2028, later than its prior 2026 guidance (Bloomberg)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Vicarius, an autonomous vulnerability remediation service for supply-chain attacks, raised a $30M Series B led by Bright Pixel, taking its total funding to $57M  —  If the pitches reaching my inbox are any indication, one of… Read More »Vicarius, an autonomous vulnerability remediation service for supply-chain attacks, raised a $30M Series B led by Bright Pixel, taking its total funding to $57M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)