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After a week as slow as molasses in the middle of winter, we’re back in our office chairs gloomy with hot coffee.
During Black History Month, we are in awe of the story of American abolitionist and women’s rights activist Sojourner Truth. Born a slave, she fled with her young daughter, and in 1828 she became the first black woman to sue for her family’s freedom. To find out more about her Ted-Ed’s mini-documentary is a great place to startif you want to go deeper, don’t miss moving biography By Patricia and Frederick McKissack.
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- Game Start: Amazon is in talks to buy Indian video streaming giant MX Player from Times Internet. mannish report. The video app “has been popular for supporting a wide range of video formats and reliability on his low-cost Android smartphones, and has expanded in recent years to include original his content, with over 300 million users worldwide.” earned,” he wrote.
- eliminate phishing: Reddit has confirmed hackers accessed internal data in what it called a “sophisticated phishing attack” targeting employees. curly I am writing. The company said the attack gave hackers access to documents and source code.
- And as soon as it came, it left: Five days ago, India banned over 90 apps related to lending. Some of them are related to China. today, mannish wrote that this ban has been lifted for apps such as PayU’s LazyPay, Kissht, KreditBee and Indiabulls’ Home Loans.
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Today was a pretty slow day in terms of news — I think everyone has a case for Friday today.
How to manage costly and compelling third-party cybersecurity risks
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All early-stage startups rely on third-party vendors to handle some of their operations. No one wants to build a shopping cart, credit card processing, or identity verification app from scratch.
But with third-party data breaches becoming a regular occurrence, teams need to make managing that risk a part of their day-to-day operations, says co-founder and chief product officer of LogicGate. Jon Siegler writes.
“No matter how well it is cleaned up, reputational damage to an organization will continue to result in lost business,” he wrote.
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Connected car company Otonomo was acquired by Argently in a reverse merger. Ingrid report. Otonomo went public with his 2021 SPAC, at which he was valued at $1.4 billion at the time, but has since plummeted to $70 million. Ingrid writes: Otonomo is probably the latest victim in that pile, but it may not be the last.
If you’re into classic games, one of the popular articles from late yesterday was Sarais about the remastered free trial version of Myst coming to iOS.
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