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Trump signs an executive order to block all transactions with ByteDance and WeChat starting Sept. 20, just 5 days after Microsoft's deadline to acquire TikTok — Microsoft is currently in talks to acquire the company — President Trump has signed a new executive order …
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| Financial Times: |
As it pursues TikTok, a look at how Microsoft laid roots in China in the 1990s and nurtured China's future tech leaders, including ByteDance's Zhang Yiming — The US tech company hopes its connections will help it navigate storm safely — More than two decades of efforts by Microsoft …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Facebook slams Apple's App Store policies, launches Facebook Gaming on iOS without the app's mini games feature to pass the App Store's strict approval policies — Facebook is not happy with the months of rejections it has faced — Facebook is joining Microsoft in condemning Apple's App Store policies today.
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App Store, New York Times, MacRumors, VentureBeat, Financial Times, Social Media Today, iMore, Financial Times, GamesIndustry.biz, SlashGear, Variety, Digital Trends, Windows Central, Android Authority, iPhone in Canada Blog, Redmond Pie, iPhone Hacks, Neowin, TouchArcade, OnMSFT.com, Mashable, AppleInsider, and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @fdotny, @seekrgg, @facebookgaming, @alexhern, @privacymatters, @joshconstine, @facebookgaming, @larsklint, @dhh, @alexhern, @mikeisaac, @joncomms, @taingysauce, @ryan_browne_, @sandofsky, and @jhthedev
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Tweets: @tomwarren, @gruber, @timsweeneyepic, @macrumors, @maddox, @kmega4, @pierce, @tomwarren, @mrbadbit, @tomwarren, @parkerortolani, and @onejarednewman
| Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal: |
US government contractor Anomaly Six collects and sells location data from hundreds of millions of phones globally via an SDK that is embedded in 500+ apps — Anomaly Six has ties to military, intelligence agencies and draws location data from more than 500 apps with hundreds of millions of users
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Android Authority, Android Headlines, The Mac Observer, and Android Central
Tweets: @willoremus, @mphbox, @profcarroll, @shenaz10, @tombrierjr, @slpng_giants, and @mirandacgreen
| Olivia Solon / NBC News: |
Internal docs: Facebook removed “strikes” so that at least 2 conservative pages, from PragerU and Diamond & Silk, dodged penalties under misinformation policies — Facebook has allowed conservative news outlets and personalities to repeatedly spread false information without facing … | BuzzFeed News: |
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Former staff at therapy-by-text app Talkspace say the company provided burner phones to write fake app reviews and doesn't adequately respect client privacy — The therapy-by-text company made burner phones available for fake reviews and doesn't adequately respect client privacy, former employees say.| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Reddit says it is investigating after hackers deface more than a dozen subreddits, including some with millions of subscribers, to post pro-Trump messages — Hackers took control and defaced several large subreddits to post pro-Trump content. — Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
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Ars Technica, ZDNet, CNET, The Verge, The Daily Dot, and Mashable
Tweets: @jason_koebler and @shanewatch
| Adrianne Jeffries / The Markup: |
Leaked docs: Alphabet trains staff not to use certain terms in writing like “market”, “barriers to entry”, and “network effects”, to avoid antitrust issues — The Markup obtained internal documents that coach new employees to avoid creating “very real legal risks” …
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The Verge, Input, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @gartenberg, @puiwingtam, @lucasmtny, @matthewstoller, @demandprogress, @nongaap, @malcolmmoore, @sharpshoot, @kidkapital, @eringriffith, @dhh, @jeffjarvis, @somospostpc, @nikillinit, @kevinakwok, and @anshelsag. Thanks:@lutherlowe
| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Facebook says it removed one of the largest public QAnon conspiracy groups, with ~200K members, after repeated violations of its hate speech and other policies — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook said on Thursday it had removed one of the largest public groups devoted to the QAnon web …
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Troy Hunt says he will be open sourcing the Have I Been Pwned code base — Let me just cut straight to it: I'm going to open source the Have I Been Pwned code base. The decision has been a while coming and it took a failed M&A process to get here, but the code will be turned over to the public …
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Threatpost, The Verge, Engadget, BetaNews, and TechRadar
Tweets: @snubs, @troyhunt, @stephenpadams, @campuscodi, and @rohit11
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Qualcomm patches 6 security flaws in a Snapdragon DSP used in most Android phones, which allowed attackers to take over a phone without needing user interaction — Several security vulnerabilities found in Qualcomm's Snapdragon chip Digital Signal Processor (DSP) chip could allow attackers …
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Threatpost, SiliconANGLE, iPhone in Canada Blog, Android Headlines, and TechRadar
Tweets: @checkpointsw and @adam_k_levin
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Facebook formally open-sourced Pysa, a static analyzer tool for Python code, which detected 44% of all security bugs in Instagram's server-side code in H1 2020 — In the first half of 2020, Pysa detected 44% of all security bugs in Instagram's server-side Python code.
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