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Court docs detail Google's user location data collection, efforts to hide an off toggle deep in Android settings, pressure on partners like LG to do the same — - Google made it nearly impossible for users to keep their location private, according to newly unredacted court documents.
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| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
How online criminals are turning to unlicensed crypto exchanges and over-the-counter crypto brokers to cash out profits and how crypto forensic firms track them — Criminals are locked in battle with Forensics firms tracking how Treasure Men, privacy wallets and gift cards are used to turn virtual hauls into hard cash
Tweets: @mshannahmurphy, @dimartinobooth, and @paulkrugman
| New York Times: |
Microsoft: hackers behind SolarWinds recently breached State Dept. aid agency to send emails with malicious code to 150 orgs, including NGOs critical of Putin — Microsoft reported that it had detected the intrusion and that the same hackers behind the earlier SolarWinds attack were responsible.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
In an email to podcasters, Apple says it is delaying the launch of its Podcasts Subscriptions and channels until June and plans improvements to its Podcasts app — Apple has announced in an email to podcasters today that it is delaying the launch of Apple Podcasts Subscriptions.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
WhatsApp reverses course and says it won't limit functionality for users who don't accept its new privacy policy — The new policy went into effect on May 15th — Earlier this month, Facebook-owned WhatsApp said that users would lose functionality over time if they didn't accept its new privacy policy by May 15th.
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| Doc Searls Weblog: |
Apple's claims about respecting privacy aren't fully serious, as the iPhone default doesn't disallow apps from tracking users, instead expecting users to do so — If you haven't seen it yet, watch Apple's Privacy on iPhone | tracked ad. In it a guy named Felix (that's him, above) …
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Google researchers detail “Half-Double”, a new Rowhammer attack technique they say will be difficult to mitigate as future generations of DRAM chips get smaller — A full fix for the “Half-Double” technique will require rethinking how memory semiconductors are designed.| Faris Mokhtar / Bloomberg: |
Tech companies took up 22% of new office space in Singapore between 2015-2020, up from 8% between 2004-2014, led by Amazon, as financial firms reduced workspace — In the financial mecca of Singapore, a new crowd is flocking to its offices: technology companies.
Tweets: @business
| Nora Caplan-Bricker / New Yorker: |
Despite a wave of complaints, pushback from top universities, lawsuits, and accusations of bias, Proctorio's client list grew over 500% from 2019 to 2021 — Despite students' complaints and the coming return to in-person learning, Proctorio and its rivals are betting on a lucrative future.| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic, a new startup from former GPT-3 researchers that aims to build large-scale, general AI systems, raises $124M Series A led by Skype's Jaan Tallinn — As AI has grown from a menagerie of research projects to include a handful of titanic, industry-powering models like GPT-3 …
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Financial Times. Tweets: @danielaamodei, @marietjeschaake, @enricocoiera, @mark_riedl, @paulnemitz, @xamat, @danielaamodei, @timfinin, @martijnrasser, and @rao2z
| Packy McCormick / Not Boring: |
A bull case for Ethereum, which is the backbone and a settlement layer of a decentralized internet that continues to grow as DeFi and NFTs explode in popularity — A Bull Case for Ethereum … Today's Not Boring is brought to you by ... the Alto CryptoIRA … Set Up Your CryptoIRA
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| Jim Dallke / Chicago Business Journal: |
Relativity, which helps law firms analyze large datasets, acquires Text IQ, an AI startup that helps businesses identify sensitive data, reportedly for $100M+ — The deal is reportedly worth more than $100 million — Two months after landing an investment from Silver Lake at a $3.6 billion valuation …
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