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A Garmin employee confirms that the company's servers were hit by WastedLocker, a ransomware variant developed by Russia-based cybercriminal group Evil Corp (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

{$inline_image} Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: A Garmin employee confirms that the company’s servers were hit by WastedLocker, a ransomware variant developed by Russia-based cybercriminal group Evil Corp  —  07/24/20 Update below.  This article was originally published on July 23rd, 2020.  It has been updated to reflect that BleepingComputer … A Garmin employee confirms that the

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    • A vigilante hacker has been sabotaging the Emotet malware botnet, replacing a quarter of daily payloads with animated GIFs, stopping victims from being infected (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

    Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: A vigilante hacker has been sabotaging the Emotet malware botnet, replacing a quarter of daily payloads with animated GIFs, stopping victims from being infected  —  Emotet botnet activity goes down as Emotet admins are wrestling with a vigilante for control over parts of their infrastructure. A vigilante hacker has been sabotaging

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    • StuffThatWorks, a crowdsourcing platform for data-driven treatments for chronic conditions, raises $9M seed funding from Bessemer Venture Partners and others (Oshry Alkeslasi/GeekTime)

    Oshry Alkeslasi / GeekTime: StuffThatWorks, a crowdsourcing platform for data-driven treatments for chronic conditions, raises $9M seed funding from Bessemer Venture Partners and others  —  The company develops a crowdsourcing platform, that provides data-driven insight into the most effective treatments for chronic conditions … StuffThatWorks, a crowdsourcing platform for data-driven treatments for chronic conditions, raises

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    • Sea Machines Robotics, a provider of software and equipment for autonomous boats and ships, raises $15M Series B led by Accomplice (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

    Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Sea Machines Robotics, a provider of software and equipment for autonomous boats and ships, raises $15M Series B led by Accomplice  —  Autonomous vessel software and systems provider Sea Machines Robotics today closed a $15 million funding round to accelerate deployment of its technologies in the unmanned naval boat and ship

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    • NTT Disruption, which acquired Jibo's assets, says the social robot will remain operational for existing owners as it plans to target the enterprise market (Ashley Carman/The Verge)

    Ashley Carman / The Verge: NTT Disruption, which acquired Jibo’s assets, says the social robot will remain operational for existing owners as it plans to target the enterprise market  —  Jibo was supposed to die over a year ago, yet somehow, it’s still alive.  The social, lovable robot went viral on Twitter last March …

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    • Given TikTok's potential future value, ByteDance shouldn't sell its majority stake in it at the reported $25B-$40B valuation, despite the risk of a US ban (Alex Sherman/CNBC)

    Alex Sherman / CNBC: Given TikTok’s potential future value, ByteDance shouldn’t sell its majority stake in it at the reported $25B-$40B valuation, despite the risk of a US ban  —  – ByteDance is evaluating new corporate structures for TikTok, including setting up an independent board and selling a stake in the company … Given TikTok's

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    • After user reports, Instagram says it is "fixing a bug in iOS 14 Beta that mistakenly indicates that some people are using the camera when they aren't" (Kim Lyons/The Verge)

    Kim Lyons / The Verge: After user reports, Instagram says it is “fixing a bug in iOS 14 Beta that mistakenly indicates that some people are using the camera when they aren’t”  —  The company says it’s fixing the issue  —  In the latest instance of iOS 14’s beta mode tattling on unexpected app behavior

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    Is this Amazon review bullshit?

    Rebecca Jones, of London, recently pulled up Amazon.co.uk to search for a phone adapter. She was reading through the reviews for one she was considering buying, when suddenly she started noticing mentions of what a great taco holder the product was. “The taco holder got great reviews, but there wasn’t much for my phone adapter,”

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