A group of over 200 Google and Alphabet workers have announced their plan to form a union, open to both employees and contractors Source
NFT marketplace Cent halts most transactions, citing users minting NFTs of content they don’t own, selling unauthorized NFT copies, and more Source
Epic expert’s testimony, based on internal Apple docs, estimates that App Store had an operating margin of 77.8% in 2019; Apple says the estimates are wrong Source
Top500: the US’ AMD-powered Frontier is now the world’s fastest supercomputer, topping 1,102 petaflops/second, overtaking Japan’s Fugaku at 442 petaflops/second Source
T-Mobile investigates claims that hackers stole data from its servers, including phone numbers, names, SSNs, and driver’s license info, related to 100M+ people Source
REvil is pushing ransomware via an update for Kaseya’s IT management software, hitting hundreds of managed service providers with thousands of customers Source
GitHub apologizes to the employee it has fired for using the term “Nazis” on Jan. 6 and offers him his job back, says the company’s head of HR has resigned Source
Opinion: Apple has the technical chops to safely open up its NFC chip for third party payments apps, and the main reason it is not doing it is the revenue Source
In a post on the REvil dark web blog, the gang takes credit for the Kaseya attack, claims it infected 1M+ systems, and demands $70M in bitcoin for the decryptor Source
Mark Zuckerberg on Clubhouse says Facebook may be in a “stronger position” after Apple’s IDFA changes and that Facebook Shops has 1M+ monthly active businesses Source