June 4, 20210CommentsMozilla report found more than a dozen TikTok influencers who had undisclosed paid relationships to post political messages; TikTok banned political ads in 2019 (Cat Zakrzewski/Washington Post)
June 4, 20210CommentsInvestigator says hackers breached Colonial Pipeline through a VPN account whose password has since been discovered inside a batch of leaks on the dark web (Bloomberg)
June 4, 20210CommentsSnowflake CEO says diversity shouldn’t “override” merit in hiring decisions, claiming other CEOs feel the same way but are reluctant to say so publicly (Bloomberg)
June 4, 20210CommentsExtra Crunch roundup: Guest posts wanted, ‘mango’ seed rounds, Expensify’s tech stack
June 4, 20210CommentsAutonomous vehicle startup Aurora in final talks to merge with Reid Hoffman’s newest SPAC
June 4, 20210CommentsDirector of FBI says it is investigating ~100 types of ransomware, many tracing back to Russia, and compares the challenge of this wave of cyberattacks to 9/11 (Wall Street Journal)
June 4, 20210CommentsTeams behind Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge unveil a development forum at W3C to standardize and build a unified, more secure foundation for extensions (Stephen Shankland/CNET)
June 4, 20210CommentsMicrosoft’s Bing is not displaying image results for “tank man” when connecting from US IP addresses, on the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre (Joseph Cox/VICE)
June 4, 20210CommentsFacebook’s two-year Trump timeout, ending just before an election season, feels like punishment in name only, out of sync with claims of fomenting civil unrest (Charlie Warzel/Galaxy Brain)
