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Bitcoin Pulls Back From Record as Prices Give Up Weekend Gains. Bitcoin gave up all its gains from weekend trading as analysts questioned whether the cryptocurrency is overheated. Prices dropped as much as 6.6% during the European session, falling back to around $55,000. (Anchalee Worrachate via Bloomberg)
Texas's Power Grid Makes It Unfree. How could this have happened? For four days, millions of people in Texas—the so-called energy capital of the world—shivered in the dark, unable to turn the lights on or run their heaters during some of the coldest days in decades. (Robinson Meyer via The Atlantic)
30,000 Macs infected with new Silver Sparrow malware. Named Silver Sparrow, the malware was discovered by security researchers from Red Canary and analyzed together with researchers from Malwarebytes and VMWare Carbon Black. (Catalin Cimpanu via ZDNet)
Fauci cautions against complacency as Covid infections decrease, warns daily case level remains high. Dr. Anthony Fauci on Sunday warned Americans to steel themselves against a sense of Covid-19 complacency even as coronavirus infections plummet and some scientists predict that herd immunity is just around the corner. (Tucker Higgins via CNBC)
Twitter explored buying India's ShareChat and turning Moj into a global TikTok rival. Twitter recently held talks to acquire Indian social media startup ShareChat as the company explored ways to expand its presence in the world’s second largest internet market and build a global rival to TikTok. (Manish Singh via TechCrunch)
Dominion sues MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell over election fraud claim. Dominion Voting Systems sued both pillow company MyPillow and its CEO Mike Lindell on Monday, after he spread baseless claims that Dominion's voting machines helped rig the 2020 US presidential election. (Grace Dean via Business Insider)
Jay-Z and LVMH Pop the Cork in Champagne Tie-Up. Jay-Z and LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE are joining forces in the Champagne business, further cementing the alliance between the world of hip-hop and luxury as the Covid-19 pandemic saps sales of the festive wine world-wide. (Matthew Dalton via Wall Street Journal)
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