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Coinbase reopens app registration in India after an over-two-year pause, letting users make crypto-to-crypto trades, and plans to open up crypto buying in 2026 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/07/coin

Coinbase starts onboarding users again in India, plans for fiat on-ramp next year | TechCrunch
Coinbase is exploring expansion into India with a staggered relaunch and hiring for different roles.

That is a lot of mobile malware.
The nTrust anti-fraud system recorded 62,952 new types of mobile malware discovered in Vietnam in 2025
https://vietnamnet.vn/en/mobile-users-in-vietnam-face-surge-in-new-malware-attacks-2479643.html…

Mobile users in Vietnam face surge in new malware attacks
National cybersecurity authorities reveal a troubling increase in sophisticated mobile threats, with nearly 63,000 new strains recorded.

Smart glasses find purpose among blind users https://tribune.com.pk/story/2585783/smart-glasses-find-purpose-among-blind-users "If it's on your head, it's definitely a lot more intuitive."

Smart glasses find purpose among blind users
The glasses 110 camera captures 50 more reducing head movement says Agiga CEO Wang

hyves: Hyves friendship network (2010)
A network of friendships among users of Hyves, an online social networking site in the Netherlands (comparable to Facebook at the time). Nodes represent users and an edge exists if two users are friends. These data were crawled in December 2010.
This network has 1402673 nodes and 2777419 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Data-hungry #AI company tricks users into uploading more private and intimate data to feed their learning algorithms. There, fixed it for you.
#OpenAI Launches #ChatGPT

Careless Whisper: Exploiting Silent Delivery Receipts to Monitor Users on Mobile Instant Messengers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.11194
Super interesting work 😍
> "an attacker could extract private information such as the online and activity status of a victim, e.g., screen on/off. More…

Careless Whisper: Exploiting Silent Delivery Receipts to Monitor Users on Mobile Instant Messengers
With over 3 billion users globally, mobile instant messaging apps have become indispensable for both personal and professional communication. Besides plain messaging, many services implement additional features such as delivery and read receipts informing a user when a message has successfully reached its target. This paper highlights that delivery receipts can pose significant privacy risks to users. We use specifically crafted messages that trigger delivery receipts allowing any user to be pi…

BBC=Bari’s Blocked Content
I hope MacFarlane still has his job today… @… https://bird.makeup/users/dougfromdc/statuses/200888759131646783…

Spotify changes Developer Mode to require a Premium subscription and reduces the number of test users per app from 25 to 5, to curb AI-aided or automated usage (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/06/spotif…

Spotify changes developer mode API to require premium accounts, limits test users | TechCrunch
Spotify is now limiting each app to only five users, and requires devs to have a Premium subscription. If developers need to make their app available to a wider user base, they will have to apply for extended quota.

GWI: LinkedIn's 2025 revenue rose to $17B from $7B in 2020 as users doubled to 1.3B; 4.7% of US users checked more than once per day in 2025, from 3.9% in 2020 (Stu Woo/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-te…

Spotify rolls out About the Song, swipeable stories in English, summarized from third-party sources to highlight song details, in beta for Premium users (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/06/spotifys-n…

Spotify's new feature lets you explore the story behind the song you're listening to | TechCrunch
The feature displays short story cards that users can swipe through and rate with a thumbs up or down.