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Seattle NFT startup Niftmint joins Andreessen Horowitz accelerator program

GeekWire

(Niftmint Photo) Seattle startup Niftmint is joining Andreessen Horowitz’s Talent x Opportunity ( TxO ) accelerator program, part of nine companies in the venture firm’s fall 2023 batch in San Francisco. He said the startup’s acceptance into the program serves as “resounding validation” for the company.

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Google adding Advanced Protection for Nest devices

The Verge

Google is adding its Advanced Protection Program to Nest devices, the company announced in a blog post Monday, giving added security to its smart home devices. We want as many users as possible to benefit from the additional levels of security that the Program provides.”. Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge.

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Ada Developers Academy: A no-cost career program that aims to diversify IT

CIO Business Intelligence

After connecting with a former Adie — the nickname for students in the program — and confirming the program was indeed real, Burrows says she “couldn’t wait to apply.”. Beatrice Tohni found out about the program when a friend texted her a link to Ada Developers Academy saying, “This sounds like the perfect program for you.”

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Signal launches in-app sustainer program to accept donations from users

The Verge

Users can choose to make monthly donations, or one-off contributions within the app using Apple Pay or Google Pay, and their payment information won’t be associated with a user’s Signal account, according to the blog post, as the company will use the same anonymous credential scheme it uses for private Signal groups: Clients make payments and then (..)

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Bad Actor Using New Method to Avert Detection, Google Discovers

SecureWorld News

Google recently landed on one of these techniques while tracking hackers in this ongoing game of cat-and-mouse. In a blog post, Neel Mehta, Information Security lead for Google, explains how a hacker has managed to break certificate code parsing to invade email inboxes and infect users with malware. 509 certificate.”.

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Google will review web apps that want access to its users' data

Network World

In response to recent attacks where hackers abused Google's OAuth services to gain access to Gmail accounts, the company will review new web applications that request Google users' data. Google is an identity provider, which means other web apps can use Google as the authentication mechanism for users accessing the app.

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Rackspace’s Brian Lillie on the importance of leadership principles

CIO Business Intelligence

These thoughtful and reflective experiences allowed me to develop a statement of purpose about the life that I’d like to live, namely, to live a full and authentic life by personally and continually striving, learning, and growing, and by helping others flourish,” he says. The first message he gave to the class: “IT operations is job one.