Wed. 05/12 – Xiaomi Gets Out Of The Dog House

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🗓️ 12 May 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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The US lets Xiaomi out of the blacklist. GitHub ads security key support and wants to move on from the password era. eBay wants in on the NFT action. WhatsApp is gonna turn the screws until you agree to their terms. And speaking of, Brian Krebs outlines how that group suspected to be behind the pipeline hack has sophisticated ways of getting you to pay up. Sponsors: NordVPN.com/ride coupon code: ride LinkedIN.com/ride Links: US agrees to drop Xiaomi from blacklist after lawsuit (Bloomberg) Amazon updates the Echo Show 8 and 5 with better cameras (The Verge) GitHub shifts away from passwords with security key support for SSH Git operations (ZDNet) EBay officially opens its platform to NFT sales (The Block) WhatsApp will gradually stop you calling or messaging contacts if you don't agree to its new privacy policy (Insider) E-scooter company Bird will go public via SPAC (Axios) SoftBank joins corporate heavyweights with $37 bln Vision Fund profit (Reuters) A Closer Look at the DarkSide Ransomware Gang (Krebs on Security) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Wednesday, May 12th, 2021.
0:07.0	I'm Brian McCullough. Today, the U.S. let's showme off the blacklist.
0:13.0	Get-Hub, add security key support and wants to move on from the whole password era.
0:17.8	eBay wants in on the NFT action.
0:20.7	What's app is going to turn the screws until you agree to their terms.
0:24.0	And speaking of, Brian Krebs outlines how that group suspected to be behind the pipeline hack
0:29.4	has sophisticated ways of getting you to pay up.
0:32.0	Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.
0:37.4	The US has agreed to remove Jowme from the blacklist that could have restricted American investment in
0:45.0	Jowmey following Jowme's lawsuit earlier this year quoting Bloomberg.
0:50.0	The Chinese smartphone giant had sued the government earlier this year after the US
0:54.5	defense department under former president Donald Trump issued an order
0:58.1	designating the firm as a communist Chinese military company which would have led to a delisting from US exchanges
1:04.9	and deletion from global benchmark indexes. The US Defense Department has
1:09.8	now agreed that a final order vacating the designation quote would be appropriate
1:14.3	according to a filing to the US courts Tuesday.
1:17.1	Jowme which makes robot vacuum cleaners, electric bikes, and wearable devices
1:21.7	alongside smartphones had been an unexpected target for the
1:25.8	Trump administration, co-founded by billionaire entrepreneur Lee June more than 10 years ago with
1:32.4	U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm as one of the earliest
1:35.8	investors the company has insisted it's not owned or controlled by the
1:39.8	Chinese military. A US court in March cited with Jaami in the lawsuit and placed a temporary halt on the ban.
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