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Apple says it will replace AirPods Pros manufactured before October 2020 that have crackling sounds, static, and active noise cancellation issues — - Apple said on Friday that it will replace AirPods Pro headphones that have sound issues. — These issues include a static or crackling sound …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
CISA, FBI say an Iran-linked APT targeted unsecured state election websites to harvest US voter info used to send threatening emails to some Democratic voters — DHS CISA and the FBI today shared more info on how an Iranian state-sponsored hacking group was able to harvest voter registration info …
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| Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter lifts restrictions from the NY Post's Twitter account, updating its practice of “not retroactively overturning prior enforcement” — Social-media company reverses policy that previously required newspaper to delete old tweets before being able to tweet again
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| David Yaffe-Bellany / Bloomberg: |
US judge issues temporary injunction blocking Trump's TikTok ban in TikTok creators lawsuit, saying ban exceeds gov't authority, causes users “irreparable harm” — - Pennsylvania jurist says U.S. probably exceeded its authority — Administration calls Chinese apps a national security threat
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Filipino activists and journalists want Facebook to tackle deadly disinformation coming from the government, resulting in enemies being “red-tagged” and killed — Targeted by government misinformation, activists are asking Facebook to do more to tackle a deadly epidemic of “red-tagging.”
Tweets: @cengizyar, @restofworld, @momblogger, @peterguest, @niemanlab, @markhurst, and @fboversight
| Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: |
How Trump's presidency has changed the internet, from fueling conspiracy theories to forcing social media platforms to reexamine their content policies — How the president changed life online—for better and for worse — Being online has changed Donald Trump.| Lara O'Reilly / Digiday: |
Interview with Petra Wikström, director of public policy at Schibsted, on joining the Coalition for App Fairness to pressure app store owners to change rules — Nordic publishing giant Schibsted became one of 20 new members of the recently formed Coalition for App Fairness earlier this month.
Tweets: @larakiara and @appfairness
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Google's Project Zero discloses a zero-day sandbox exploit on Windows 7 and 10; Microsoft says it has no evidence of the flaw being widely exploited — Security flaw lets attackers escape sandboxes designed to contain malicious code. — Google's project zero says that hackers …
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| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Intel launches new Iris Xe Max discrete GPU, with first laptops now available from Acer, Dell, and Asus — Try out Intel's new discrete GPU — Earlier this month, the public got its first glimpse of Iris Xe Max, Intel's new discrete GPU for thin-and-light laptops, at an Acer press event.
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| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Apple rejects an app designed to verify a person's ballot status in PA, says the app violates its guideline which forbids compiling user data without consent — Apple on Friday rejected an app designed to ensure ballots are being correctly counted in Pennsylvania, saying the software violates App Store privacy guidelines.| Bloomberg: |
Texas jury rules that Apple must pay VirnetX $502.8M for patent infringement, the lastest verdict in a 10-year ongoing legal battle; Apple says it will appeal — - Verdict is part of 10-year fight over secure communications — Jury asked to determine damages on patent infringement
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| New York Times: |
Misinformation on social media, alongside Trump's lies, is overwhelming local election officials across the US as they shoot down rumors via phone and email — From Philadelphia to Sonoma County, Calif., election officials said they were working marathon hours to fight a flood of falsehoods.
Tweets: @zittrain, @daveyalba, @nicoleperlroth, @nytimesbusiness, and @wiczipedia
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