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US officials say ToTok, a chat app gaining popularity around the world, is a spying tool by the government of UAE; Google and Apple have now removed the app — ToTok, an Emirati messaging app that has been downloaded to millions of phones, is the latest escalation of a digital arms race.
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Sources: Bytedance is considering setting up a global headquarters for TikTok outside of China, as part of its effort to shake off its Chinese image — Singapore, London and Dublin are among cities being considered; no U.S. city made shortlist — Bytedance Inc. is considering setting … | Reuters: |
US Navy bans TikTok from government-issued mobile devices citing a cybersecurity threat, will block devices with the app from the Navy Marine Corps Intranet — (Reuters) - Earlier this week the United States Navy banned the social media app TikTok from government-issued mobile devices …
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| The Verge: |
The 84 biggest flops, fails, and dead dreams of the 2010s, from the Fire phone and Google Glass to the undoing of net neutrality in the US — A decade of failures — The world never changes quite the way you expect. But at The Verge, we've had a front-row seat while technology …
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| Wired: |
San Francisco's surveillance law, which banned city agencies from using facial recognition in May, has been amended to allow for Face ID on city-issued iPhones — San Francisco quietly amends its municipal surveillance law to allow for Apple's Face ID, though the ban on facial recognition still applies.
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| Max Rivlin-Nadler / The Intercept: |
Emails show how ICE uses datasets from data brokers like Thomson Reuters alongside social media sleuthing to track down suspected illegal immigrants — Emails sent by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials expose how ICE used social media and information gleaned by for-profit data brokers … | Gabriel J.X. Dance / New York Times: |
Inside the seven-year-long fight by a number of non-profits that took down three websites hosting child exploitation images — Several websites popular with sexual predators were thwarted last month after a determined campaign by groups dedicated to eliminating the content. It was a rare victory in an unending war.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
DraftKings to go public via a reverse merger with a special purpose acquisition company and SBTech sports betting tech platform, targeting a $3.3B valuation — DraftKings on Monday announced that it will go public via a reverse merger with a blank-check acquisition company called Diamond Eagle …
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In Argentina, delivery apps Glovo and Rappi, which allow users to send and receive all kinds of packages, have been found to deliver drugs in ~10 cases so far — There, they can be hired to transport anything — including illegal drugs — and poorly enforced laws leave them responsible
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| Jack Wellborn / Worms and Viruses: |
iOS and macOS are so fundamentally different that the whole notion of getting a cohesive UX with minimal effort by using Catalyst to port an iPad app is absurd — If there is one word I would use to describe what makes an Apple-like experience, it's “cohesion”.
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| Biswarup Gooptu / The Economic Times: |
Applied AI and big data startup Quantiphi raises $20M from private equity firm Multiples Alternate Asset Management — Renuka Ramnath-led private equity firm says scouting for more deep-technology bets — Multiples Alternate Asset Management has invested $20 million (about Rs 142 crore) …
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| Kit Chellel / Bloomberg: |
The story of Daniel Kaye, aka Spdrman, who was one of the most wanted hackers when he took down Liberia's internet in 2016 and will soon be released from prison — Daniel Kaye, also known as Spdrman, found regular jobs tough but corporate espionage easy. He's about to get out of prison.Sponsor Posts
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