Google announces a $1M sponsorship for Linux Foundation's Secure Open Source, a new pilot program to enhance the security of critical open source projects (Catalin Cimpanu/The Record)

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President Biden to convene a 30-country meeting this month to try to ramp up global efforts to address the ransomware threat (Sean Lyngaas/CNN)

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Global consumer spending on mobile apps reached $33.6B in Q3 2021, up 15.1% YoY, with App Store spending up 13.2% to $21.5B, and Play Store up 18.6% to $12.1B (Stephanie Chan/Sensor Tower Blog)

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Sources: Biden administration is considering ways to impose bank-like regulation on stablecoin issuers, including prodding them to register as banks (Wall Street Journal)

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Coinbase says a threat actor stole cryptocurrency from 6,000 customers between March and May 20 using a vulnerability in its SMS multi-factor authentication (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

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Apple rolls out iOS 15.0.1 and iPadOS 15.0.1, with bug fixes for multiple issues, including Unlock with Apple Watch on iPhone 13 (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

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Interviews with women pioneers of AI ethics teams on whether ethical AI work is possible at Big Tech, and how to set these teams to be successful (Sage Lazzaro/VentureBeat)

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