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    • Pastebin adds two new features, Burn After Read and Password Protected Pastes, that experts say will make it easier to disguise malware operations (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

    Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Pastebin adds two new features, Burn After Read and Password Protected Pastes, that experts say will make it easier to disguise malware operations  —  The two new features will make it easier to disguise malware operations.  —  Pastebin, the most popular website where users can share small snippets … Pastebin adds

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    • Elon Musk voiced his discontent on Twitter that OpenAI is exclusively licensing GPT-3 to Microsoft saying "OpenAI is essentially captured by Microsoft" (Isobel Asher Hamilton/BusinessInsider)

    Isobel Asher Hamilton / BusinessInsider: Elon Musk voiced his discontent on Twitter that OpenAI is exclusively licensing GPT-3 to Microsoft saying “OpenAI is essentially captured by Microsoft”  —  – Elon Musk voiced his discontent on Twitter that OpenAI — the AI research firm he helped found — is exclusively licensing … Elon Musk voiced his

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    • Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin discloses hack that emptied its hot wallets, with the minimum loss currently estimated at $150M (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

    Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin discloses hack that emptied its hot wallets, with the minimum loss currently estimated at $150M  —  KuCoin said an intruder drained all its hot wallets today.  —  Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin disclosed today a mega hack. Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin discloses hack that emptied its hot wallets,

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    • Poshmark, an online clothes resale marketplace, says it has confidentially filed its draft S-1 with the SEC for an IPO (Michael Hytha/Bloomberg)

    Michael Hytha / Bloomberg: Poshmark, an online clothes resale marketplace, says it has confidentially filed its draft S-1 with the SEC for an IPO  —  Poshmark Inc., an online resale marketplace for second-hand clothing, said it has filed confidentially for an initial public offering. Poshmark, an online clothes resale marketplace, says it has confidentially filed

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    • Interview with Visa's Terry Angelos and Cuy Sheffield on the future of blockchain networks, partnering with crypto payment firms, and the Libra Association (Forbes)

    Forbes: Interview with Visa’s Terry Angelos and Cuy Sheffield on the future of blockchain networks, partnering with crypto payment firms, and the Libra Association  —  Bitcoin was invented to disrupt existing monetary systems that many felt were too expensive and exclusionary. Interview with Visa's Terry Angelos and Cuy Sheffield on the future of blockchain networks,

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    • Fitbit says its OS 5.0 has been developed exclusively for the new Versa 3 and Sense smartwatches, and older devices, including last year's Versa 2, won't get it (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

    Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Fitbit says its OS 5.0 has been developed exclusively for the new Versa 3 and Sense smartwatches, and older devices, including last year’s Versa 2, won’t get it  —  Fitbit Sense and Versa 3 start shipping today to customers, and as promised, they’re arriving with a new software experience on board.

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    • US tightens trade restrictions on Chinese chipmaker SMIC

    Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The US Commerce Department has added China’s largest chipmaker, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), to its entity list, after it determined there an “unacceptable risk” that equipment SMIC received could be used for military purposes, Reuters reported. The move blocks US computer chip companies from exporting technology to

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