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Apple shuts down Facebook's ability to distribute internal iOS apps, blocking staff transportation apps and early releases of Facebook, Instagram, Messenger — Facebook's internal iOS apps simply don't launch anymore — Apple has shut down Facebook's ability to distribute internal iOS apps …
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TechCrunch, Engadget, AppleInsider, Daring Fireball, ExtremeTech, Redmond Pie, and Business Insider
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Investigation finds that Facebook has been paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN to gather data on phone use habits on Android and iOS — Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” …
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| Rob Price / Business Insider: |
Memo: Facebook confirms Apple disabled access to internal iOS apps and says it's “working closely” to reinstate “our most critical internal apps immediately” — - Facebook employees are furious after Apple temporarily crippled the company by revoking its developer certificate.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Apple says it revoked Facebook's Enterprise Certificate yesterday used to distribute the Research app outside of App Store, before Facebook could shut it down — In the wake of TechCrunch's investigation yesterday, Apple blocked Facebook's Research VPN app before the social network could voluntarily shut it down.
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| Reuters: |
Sources detail UAE's Project Raven, a group of 12+ ex-US intel operatives that help surveil governments, militants, and critics, sometimes using NSA tactics — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two weeks after leaving her position as an intelligence analyst for the U.S. National Security Agency in 2014 …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: UAE hacked iPhones of activists, diplomats, and rival foreign leaders using a spying tool called Karma, which exploited an iMessage vulnerability — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A team of former U.S. government intelligence operatives working for the United Arab Emirates hacked …
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Engadget, Axios, Cult of Mac, Patently Apple, Mashable, Fortune, and 9to5Mac
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| Michael Bott / NBC Bay Area: |
Unsealed court documents: FBI arrests second Chinese Apple employee for allegedly trying to steal trade secrets related to Apple's autonomous vehicles — For the second time in six months, an Apple engineer is accused of stealing intellectual property in order to benefit a China-based competitor
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The Verge, VentureBeat, Cult of Mac, AppleInsider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Bloomberg, CNBC, Patently Apple, iPhone in Canada Blog, and iPhone Hacks. Tweets: @niharifan
| TechCrunch: |
Google's Screenwise Meter app has coaxed users with rewards into sharing info since 2012, in a similar way to Facebook's Research app but with better disclosure — It looks like Facebook is not the only one abusing Apple's system for distributing employee-only apps to sidestep the App Store and collect extensive data on users.
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Engadget, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, iPhone Hacks, The Mac Observer, Cult of Mac, MSPoweruser, and Android Central
| Tom Bissell / New York Times: |
Zucked, a book by early Facebook investor Roger McNamee, details Facebook's damage to society, the dystopia it created, and advocates breaking up its monopoly — ZUCKED — Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe — The dystopia George Orwell conjured up in “1984” wasn't a prediction.
Tweets: @nytimes and @robinwauters
| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
Spam monitoring service Hiya: Americans received 26.3B robocalls in 2018, up 46% from '17; FCC said it got 52,000 complaints regarding Caller ID spoofing in '18 — Americans are now getting so many robo-calls on a regular basis that many are simply choosing not to answer the phone altogether.| Apple: |
Apple Music subscribers can stream music without paying for Wi-Fi on domestic American Airlines flights in the US starting February 1 — Apple Music Subscribers can Stream Over 50 Million Songs, Playlists and Music Videos on US Flights — Starting Friday, Apple Music subscribers can enjoy …
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Digital Trends, AppleInsider, Macworld, CNET, Patently Apple, Neowin, TechCrunch, The Verge, Engadget, Thurrott, MacRumors, The Mac Observer, iPhone Hacks, MacDailyNews, MSPoweruser, and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @reneritchie
| Business Wire: |
Alibaba Q3: revenue up 41% YoY, its weakest pace in three years, to ~$17B, driven by cloud computing revenue, up 84% YoY at $962M; net income up 33% to $4.5B — HANGZHOU, China—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE: BABA) today announced its financial results for the quarter ended December 31, 2018.
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South China Morning Post, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Business Insider, ZDNet, Wall Street Journal, and New York Times
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
IBM releases its Diversity in Faces (DiF) image set, comprised of 1M faces taken from a 100M image data set, to help reduce bias in AI — Encoding biases into machine learning models, and in general into the constructs we refer to as AI, is nearly inescapable — but we can sure do better than we have in past years.| FinSMEs: |
Fortanix, which provides security by encrypting applications and data at runtime, raises $23M Series B led by Intel Capital — Fortanix, Inc., a Mountain View, CA-based runtime encryption technology company, closed a $23m Series B round of funding. — The round, which brings total funding to $31m …
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VentureBeat, Business Wire, SiliconANGLE, and CyberScoop
| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp hires EFF counsel Nate Cardozo and Facebook hires Open Technology Institute counsel Robyn Green, both as privacy policy managers — In an effort to bolster its public credibility in the wake of a very rough year, Facebook is bringing a fierce former critic into the fold.
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The Information, Mashable, Forbes, Small Business Trends, and Business Insider
Tweets: @alecmuffett, @hoofnagle, @robyn_greene, @matthewstoller, @ericgeller, @erratarob, and @rcalo
| Reuters: |
Foxconn is reconsidering plans for its $10B Wisconsin plant, says it plans to hire engineers and researchers instead of manufacturing workforce promised earlier — (Reuters) - Foxconn Technology Group is reconsidering plans to make advanced liquid crystal display panels at a $10 billion Wisconsin campus …
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Bloomberg, Axios, CNN, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Bloomberg, The Hill, Hit & Run, Engadget, The Verge, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, Boing Boing, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @tomgara, @reckless, @swingleft, @gregpak, @evanperez, and @tombuerkle
| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Apple says revenue from services reached $10.8B, in line with estimates, and that it now has 360M subscribers to both its own and to third-party services — (Reuters) - Apple Inc on Tuesday reported sharp growth in its services business and Chief Executive Tim Cook said trade tensions between …
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Macworld, MacRumors, Mashable, CNBC, Recode, Investor's Business Daily, Android Authority, Financial Times, and Softpedia News
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Quartz, The Verge, Quartz, Android Authority, The Next Web, Investor's Business Daily, CNBC, Pocketnow, Firstpost, ZDNet, Lowyat.NET, iDownloadBlog.com, Inquirer, Softpedia News, Gizchina, Computerworld, PYMNTS.com, RAIN News, and Neowin
Tweets: @cnbcnow, @markgurman, and @shiraovide
| Jack Nicas / New York Times: |
An attempt to work out how many fake accounts are on Facebook, as the company ramps up efforts to remove them and provides confusing estimates — The social network has disclosed an estimate for years, but a closer look raises lots of questions. — Facebook sells advertisers on its access …
Tweets: @jacknicas, @jacknicas, @jacknicas, @jacknicas, and @jacknicas
| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Health insurance firm Clover Health, which uses health and behavioral data to lower costs, raises $500M led by Greenoaks Capital, bringing total raised to $925M — Despite a number of well-publicized hiccups, venture capitalists are betting another $500 million on health insurance provider Clover Health, TechCrunch has learned.
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