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| Zeynep Tufekci / technosociology: |
Open letter signed by ~70 security experts calls for The Guardian to retract story about alleged WhatsApp backdoor vulnerability — You recently published a story with the alarming headline “WhatsApp backdoor allows snooping on encrypted messages.” This story included the phrasing “security loophole”.
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| Anita Balakrishnan / CNBC: |
Apple sues Qualcomm for ~$1B, says Qualcomm charged royalties for tech the chip giant didn't invent, retaliated for Apple's cooperation in Korean antitrust case — Apple is suing Qualcomm for roughly $1 billion, saying Qualcomm has been “charging royalties for technologies they have nothing to do with.”
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| Qualcomm: |
Qualcomm comments on Apple complaint, says “Apple has been actively encouraging regulatory attacks” on Qualcomm in various jurisdictions around the world — “While we are still in the process of reviewing the complaint in detail, it is quite clear that Apple's claims are baseless.
| Rhett Jones / Gizmodo: |
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey apologizes for errors migrating @POTUS followers, says the issues, which affected about 560K people, have been fixed — People are a bit on edge at the moment when it comes to being forced to do things by now-President Donald Trump.
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| Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review: |
Researchers at Google, OpenAI, MIT, and other organizations say they are making progress on automating the development of AI software using AI software — Progress in artificial intelligence causes some people to worry that software will take jobs such as driving trucks away from humans.
Tweets: @dtunkelang, @techreview, and @onurakpolat
| Kim Zetter / The Intercept: |
Lavabit email service, which shut down in 2013 to avoid court order connected to Snowden investigation, relaunches with features to thwart surveillance — In 2013, Ladar Levison, founder of the encrypted email service Lavabit, took the defiant step of shutting down the company's service rather …
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| Katie Roof / TechCrunch: |
Casual dating app Down, formerly Bang With Friends, acquired by Singapore-based dating startup Paktor — Remember “Bang With Friends?” The controversial app, which later rebranded as Down, was acquired by Singapore-based dating startup Paktor (they're, um... hooking up).| Logan Booker / Gizmodo Australia: |
ASUS launches $73 Tinker Board, a Raspberry Pi competitor with 4K video, gigabit Ethernet, quad-core processor, and more, available in Europe and UK — It doesn't matter if you want a computer the size of a card, a thumb drive or dice box — there's a manufacturer out there that has you covered.
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Hackaday, TrustedReviews, LinuxGizmos.com, HotHardware, Liliputing, and The Tech Report
| Corbin Davenport / Android Police: |
Weekly builds of CyanogenMod fork Lineage OS, supporting 80+ Android 6 and 7 devices, begin this weekend; Lineage OS to offer CyanogenMod data migration tools — CyanogenMod has long been the most popular custom ROM, covering a wide array of devices from numerous manufacturers.
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Lineage OS, BetaNews, Android Authority, Neowin, Android Beat, and Liliputing
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Cyprus-based Outfit7, owner of Talking Tom franchise that had 5.6B app downloads since 2010 and amassed 10.3B video views, bought for $1B by Chinese consortium — United Luck Consortium has purchased Outfit7, the maker of the wildly popular Talking Tom mobile app, for $1 billion.
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| Politico: |
Sources: President Trump will tap sitting GOP FCC commissioner Ajit Pai, a fierce critic of net neutrality, to lead the agency — President Donald Trump will tap Ajit Pai to lead the FCC in the new administration, elevating the sitting GOP commissioner to the top spot overseeing …
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Digital Trends, CircleID, VentureBeat, The Verge, DSLreports, Ars Technica, Axios, Consequence of Sound, Techdirt, Motherboard, Engadget, Business Insider, International Business Times, Light Reading, Recode, Ars Technica, GeekWire, Fortune, Seeking Alpha, LJ INFOdocket, and Deadline. See also Mediagazer
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Uber hires former Google search chief Amit Singhal as SVP of Engineering — Uber's latest hire has a storied and accomplished history in Silicon Valley - Amit Singhal, former Senior Vice President of Search and employee number 176 at Google, has joined the ride-hailing company as SVP of Engineering.
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