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'I'm totally screwed.' WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted. Western Digital, maker of the popular My Disk external hard drives, is recommending customers unplug My Book Live storage devices from the Internet until further notice while company engineers investigate unexplained compromises that have completely wiped data from devices around the world. (Dan Goodin via Ars Technica)
Microsoft is bringing Android apps to Windows 11. Microsoft is bringing Android apps to Windows 11. The software giant revealed its surprise Windows 11 addition during its special Windows event today. Android apps will run natively on Windows 11 and will be downloadable from Amazon’s Appstore, via the new Windows store that’s included in the operating system. (Tom Warren via The Verge)
App taps unwitting users abroad to gather Open-Source intelligence. A consumer app has assembled a workforce of hundreds of thousands of smartphone users world-wide, some of whom are being unwittingly tasked with basic intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance for the U.S. military. (Byron Tau via Wall Street Journal)
U.S. Unemployment Rescue Left at Least 9 Million Without Help. Barb Ashbrook, who lost her part-time job at a food court in downtown Indianapolis in March 2020, was denied unemployment benefits because she was earning more than $121 a week from a second job at a Dollar Tree store. (Shawn Donnan via Bloomberg)
BuzzFeed announces plans to go public via SPAC, targets $1.5 billion valuation. BuzzFeed, a 15-year-old digital media company, announced Thursday it plans to go public via a merger with a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company. (Jessica Bursztynsky via CNBC)
The New Best Vaccine for COVID-19. At the end of January, reports that yet another COVID-19 vaccine had succeeded in its clinical trials—this one offering about 70 percent protection—were front-page news in the United States, and occasioned push alerts on millions of phones. (Hilda Bastian via The Atlantic)
Visa to acquire open banking platform Tink for more than $2 billion. Visa has announced plans to acquire Tink for €1.8 billion, or $2.15 billion at today's exchange rate. Tink has been a leading fintech startup in Europe focused on open banking application programming interface (API). Today's move comes a few… (Romain Dillet via TechCrunch)
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