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After a week-long outage, Fidelity National Financial confirms cyberattack is now ‘contained’

November 30, 2023

Fidelity National Financial, or FNF, one of the largest real estate services companies in the United States, said it “contained” a recent cyberattack that engulfed its many subsidiaries and customers in a state of chaos for more than a week. In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, FNF said the incident was […]

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WhatsApp’s new ‘secret codes’ add an extra layer of privacy for your locked chats

November 30, 2023

WhatsApp is rolling out a new “secret codes” feature that adds another layer of privacy to your locked conversations on the messaging platform. The app launched locked chats earlier this year to help people hide sensitive conversations, and is now adding a way to further protect those chats and make them harder to find if […]

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Again Bio’s bacteria eats exhaust and spits vinegar (for the climate)

November 30, 2023

Again Bio says its modified bacteria currently eats about a ton of CO2 per day. Spun out by researchers at the Technical University of Denmark, Again Bio sics its hungry microbes on flue gas from a wastewater treatment plant in Copenhagen. The startup is 2.5 years old, and it quietly raised a $10 million seed […]

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TikTok launches dedicated account tags for artists and new promotional tools

November 30, 2023

TikTok announced today the “Artist Account” or “shop window” for followers to see musicians’ songs, learn about upcoming releases and get an inside look into their creative process. The video-sharing app is launching a suite of new tools to enable artists to further promote their music and increase discoverability, such as a new artist tag, […]

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This small French company wants to build the open alternative to Kindle and Kobo

November 30, 2023

For the past decade, three companies have been building full-fledged ebook ecosystems with devices, apps and digital bookstores all working perfectly together — Amazon, Rakuten and a tiny company called Vivlio. While Amazon’s Kindle is the clear leader and Rakuten’s Kobo the obvious challenger, Vivlio has been building an open European alternative to these two tech […]

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Nucleos puts secure, tablet-powered education in the hands of inmates

November 30, 2023

Inmates in correctional facilities around the country have wildly varying levels of opportunity to prepare for life after release. Nucleos is a startup that hopes to make the kind of e-learning tools we tend to take for granted available to inmates with an all-in-one service that’s free for them to use. There are numerous barriers […]

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