NYC says the MOVEit flaw exposed ~45K students' data, following March 2022's breach of ~820K students' data via the Illuminate Education grading software hack
Jessica Gould / Gothamist :
Match Group plans to launch gay dating app Archer in NYC, LA, and DC in the coming months, the company's first gay-specific app for men
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Google launches Immersive View for Maps in London, LA, NYC, San Francisco, and Tokyo and plans to release “glanceable directions” globally in the coming months
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Uber rebrands Uber Pool, paused in March 2020, as UberX Share and relaunches the service in NYC, LA, Chicago, San Francisco, and five other US cities
Uber suspended its shared rides service — Uber Pool — in the early months of the pandemic as a safety measure.
NYC mayor-elect Eric Adams says he plans to take his first three paychecks in bitcoin and the city is going to be the “center of the cryptocurrency industry”
Report Benjamin Pimentel / Protocol : Where is the capital of crypto? — Fintech! This Friday: New York versus Miami in a crypto showdown … The Daily Hodl : NYC Mayor-Elect Pledges To Take First Thr...
DoorDash rolls out SafeDash, an in-app security toolkit for its delivery drivers, in NYC, Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, San Francisco, and Los Angeles
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Google will let users with ARCore-compatible Android phones submit Street View imagery, starting in Toronto, NYC, Austin, Nigeria, Indonesia, and Costa Rica
maps can work better where you live — but it still strikes me as weird that Google can benefit from all this free labor. https://blog.google/...
The challenge of closing the digital divide for students has proved daunting in N. Carolina, which has a large rural population lacking reliable internet access
https://www.nytimes.com/... James Young / @jdyubergeek : Broadband Access was a big part of @jennawadsworth's platform, and it is still a crisis now that the election is over. Almost a century ago, th...
Critics say UN is validating Chinese state surveillance by using Tencent Meeting to hold global discussions in celebration of UN's 75th anniversary
at some points unencrypted, and so visible to Tencent — through a country known for its invasive line on privacy.” https://www.ft.com/... #china Thorsten Benner / @thorstenbenner : “This isn't just ma...
Critics say UN is validating Chinese state surveillance by using Tencent Meeting to hold global discussions in celebration of UN's 75th anniversary
The United Nations' decision to host global discussions via Chinese tech giant's video service has raised concerns over privacy Tweets: @kennedycsis , @lokmantsui , and @yuanfenyang Tweets: Scott Kenn...