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Investigation: State Dept. and some local police have bought $15K+ GrayKey tools to unlock up-to-date iPhones; Secret Service and DEA also interested in GrayKey — A Motherboard investigation has found that law enforcement agencies across the country have purchased GrayKey …
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Facebook marketing exec says users generally haven't changed settings amid the recent privacy scandals and that it doesn't expect any revenue impact — Company marketing executive says users generally haven't changed privacy settings amid recent concerns — LONDON— Facebook Inc. FB -1.47% … | Don Thompson / Associated Press: |
Backpage.com CEO pleads guilty to federal and state charges of conspiracy and money laundering; Texas AG says the company pleaded guilty to human trafficking — SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The chief executive of a website that authorities have dubbed a lucrative nationwide “online brothel” … | Manish Singh / The Outline: |
Sources: secure messaging app Telegram is being used to distribute pirated movies, TV, music, apps, and even stolen credentials for online services like Netflix — Law-abiding citizens: Please do NOT download. Thank you. — Since its launch in 2013, the instant messaging platform Telegram … | Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
AMD unveils 4 new 2nd gen Ryzen CPUs with Wraith coolers available on April 19; 8-core CPUs cost $329 and $299 while the 6-core CPUs cost $229 and $199 — Today marks the initial start of AMD's pre-sale of 2nd Generation Ryzen processors. The full launch is set for April 19th … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter has replaced its gun emoji with a water gun, thus removing one of the means with which online abusers troll their victims — Twitter has now followed Apple's lead in changing its pistol emoji to a harmless, bright green water gun. And in doing so, the company that has struggled … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook is adding AR drawing to Facebook Camera in the coming weeks and rolling out Instagram's Boomerang loops to it now — You'll soon be able to draw on the world around you and shoot back-and-forth Instagram Boomerang GIFs with the Facebook Camera. Bringing additional creative tools … | Paul Miller / The Verge: |
A look at upcoming technologies like Progressive Web Apps, WebAssembly, and Houdini that have the potential to dramatically improve web apps — Slack is a web app. Trello is a web app. Google Docs. Gmail. Even Twitter. — The web started out as a collection of hyperlinked documents.
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A look at competition for a DoD cloud contract worth potentially $10B over 10 years; sources say some inside Google likely will object to participation — A fierce internal debate may undermine the company's bid for the JEDI program. — Last August, U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis …
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Bitcoins worth $3.3M stolen from Indian cryptocurrency exchange Coinsecure, in what is said to be India's first big crypto theft; CEO accuses its CSO — The CEO of Coinsecure, an India-based cryptocurrency exchange, has accused his CSO of stealing 438 Bitcoin —around $3.3 million at today's exchange rate … | ecns: |
Report: Chinese police say they have arrested a fugitive after facial recognition technology helped identify him out of ~60K people attending a concert — Police nabbed a crime suspect at a concert in Nanchang, Jiangxi province, thanks to a facial recognition system.
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Tesla removed from NTSB investigation into fatal Autopilot crash after releasing info “before it was vetted and confirmed” by the agency; Tesla says it withdrew — The NTSB says Tesla is oversharing; Tesla says it just wants to be transparent — Tesla has been removed …
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