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Cloudflare discloses 2013 National Security Letter, joins CREDO and EFF to challenge the constitutionality of the FBI's NSLs and their accompanying gag orders — For more than a decade, CEOs of major tech companies have opened innocuous envelopes to find letters from the FBI inside …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Andy Rubin's new startup, Essential, is working on a suite of consumer hardware products; source says the company aims to launch a smartphone this year — Android's creator is building a high-end smartphone to be the centerpiece of a series of AI-infused consumer gadgets. — by
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Tweets: @markgurman, @charlesarthur, @amir, @charlesarthur, and @greengart
| Moxie Marlinspike / Open Whisper Systems: |
Contrary to Guardian's report, Signal Protocol contains no “backdoor”; WhatsApp's encryption implementation is appropriate given the company's scale — Today, the Guardian published a story falsely claiming that WhatsApp's end to end encryption contains a “backdoor.” — Background
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The Guardian, YouTube, Gizmodo, slashcrypto.org, tobi.rocks, Tech Talks, Security Affairs, TechCrunch, Tech Times, The Hacker News, Ars Technica, Engadget, The Tech Portal, Mashable, Google Online Security Blog, CBS San Francisco, Business Insider, Liliputing, Inquirer, WeLiveSecurity, and reddit
Tweets: @fugueish, @licuende, @fredericjacobs, @fredericjacobs, @filosottile, @zeynep, and @zeynep
| Barb Darrow / Fortune: |
Microsoft buys Maluuba, a Canadian AI startup focused on natural language processing — Microsoft is buying Maluuba, a Canadian startup focused on giving software a better understanding of human language. This natural language processing technology is a key underpinning of artificial intelligence (AI.)
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The Official Microsoft Blog, Maluuba, Tech Times, International Business Times, iPhone in Canada Blog, VentureBeat, eWeek, The Verge, SlashGear, The Register, Xconomy, Petri, SiliconANGLE, The Next Web, GeekWire, ZDNet, Neowin, The Tech Portal, Seeking Alpha, On MSFT, Windows Central, BetaKit, TechCrunch, and MSPoweruser
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Outgoing FCC chair Tom Wheeler uses his final public speech to make a case for maintaining net neutrality — The outgoing head of the Federal Communications Commission, Tom Wheeler, used his final public speech to make a closing argument for maintaining net neutrality, the signature achievement of his time at the agency.
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| Brooks Barnes / New York Times: |
Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton stepping down; he will become chairman of the board of Snap, where he was an early investor — LOS ANGELES — The chief executive of Sony's underperforming entertainment division, Michael Lynton, announced Friday that he would step down to focus … | Ryan Mac / Forbes: |
San Francisco District Attorney sues failed camera drone maker Lily, alleging the company intentionally lied to potential customers with its viral launch video — On Dec. 20, Lily Robotics was up against a wall. It was five days before Christmas, and dozens of eager customers who had spent … | Avery Hartmans / Business Insider: |
Report: Lyft lost $600M in 2016, up from $412M in 2015, as revenue rose to $700M, up from about $200M in 2015 — Lyft lost $600 million in 2016 in its battle with Uber for ride-hailing dominance, according to leaked financial data obtained by The Information's Amir Efrati.
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Tweets: @alex, @theinformation, @theinformation, @theinformation, and @amir
| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Walmart streamlines retail, web teams internal memos show; e-commerce CTO to oversee tech teams at retail stores, US CMO to lead Walmart.com & Jet.com marketing — Can the brick-and-mortar retailer become a tech company? — If Walmart is going to better compete with Amazon …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
After failing to get 10K bitcoins for stolen NSA exploits, Shadow Brokers post farewell message, dump a cache of Windows hacking tools online — With 8 days before inauguration of Donald Trump, leak is sure to inflame US officials. — Shadow Brokers, the mysterious group … | Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Hacker steals 900GB of data from Cellebrite, the Israeli company that makes products for breaking into mobile phones — This is part of an ongoing Motherboard series on the proliferation of phone cracking technology, the people behind it, and who is buying it. Follow along here.
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Vanity Fair, BetaNews, iMore, Cellebrite, The Mac Observer, Techdirt, Socialnomics, BBC, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Next Web, Ars Technica, Security Affairs, Silicon Republic, ZDNet, Inquirer, SecurityWeek, Softpedia News, AppleInsider, International Business Times, BGR, Motherboard, The Register, The Hacker News, and Forbes. Tweets: @riana_crypto
| David Gauvey Herbert / Bloomberg: |
How News Corp.-owned Storyful has emerged as a prominent fact checker by working with news outlets, releasing a Chrome extension to vet video, and more — Storyful is using bots to sic reporters on viral hoaxes. — by — Subscribe Reprints — For seven years, Storyful …
Tweets: @storyful, @ctraywick, @r2000c, and @niemanlab
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