Axios

Workers are being tricked into giving up their digital credentials through their most trusted device — their cellphones.

Why it matters: Companies are now more vulnerable than ever for large scale hacks as employees work from home and use their personal devices.

Google is launching a pilot program to keep emails from political campaigns from going to users' spam folders this week, the company told Axios.

Why it matters: Gmail users may start seeing a lot more political emails in their inboxes, partly a result of Google bowing to pressure from conservatives who claimed the company marked Republican emails as spam more often than others.

The Treasury and Justice departments intend to act as nail and hammer to the dark side of the crypto industry — one working to identify cyber criminals and their exploits and the other, prosecuting and bringing those baddies to account.

Driving the news: Friday's slate of reports from the Biden administration on a framework for digital assets development home in on matters that threaten national security and the U.S. financial ecosystem, listing priorities and making recommendations per the president's March imperative.

The PayPal Mafia has had a good run, but it may be time to shift focus to alumni of a less fashionable Internet pioneer: LinkedIn.

Driving the news: Dylan Field was a data analytics intern at LinkedIn in 2010. He later founded Figma, which last week agreed to sell to Adobe for $20 billion.

Officials at Rockstar Games expressed disappointment today that in-development footage of their next Grand Theft Auto leaked Sunday but said it will not derail the game.

Why it matters: The unprecedented leak spilled 90 videos of the expected blockbuster online, with the apparent leaker threatening to also release the game's source code.

The Last Mile, which teaches coding skills to incarcerated people, is expanding a program that provides them with Chromebooks so they can continue their learning outside of specialized prison classrooms.

Why it matters: Incarcerated people often have limited access to technology and pay exorbitant rates for even basic communication tools, like phones.

Cities in Sweden and Norway are aiming to recycle the heat given off by data centers, in an innovative effort to repurpose what's usually treated as a useless byproduct of computer servers' constant number-crunching.

Why it matters: Data centers account for about 1% of global electricity use annually, and emit enormous amounts of heat that generally goes unused.

A new report out Monday from New York University faults Meta, TikTok, Twitter and YouTube for amplifying false claims about U.S. election fraud and urges the platforms to be more transparent and consistent in their content policies.

Why it matters: "Big lie" claims online have contributed to a lack of trust in U.S. elections and increased support for new voting laws that disproportionately impact people of color, the report says.

Ninety videos of in-development footage of Rockstar Games’ secretive next Grand Theft Auto game were leaked online Sunday morning in one of the most shocking data breaches in gaming history.

Why it matters: The footage confirmed reported details about Rockstar’s next game but, more gravely, appeared to be part of a plan by the leaker to extract money from the game maker.