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Amnesty International researchers published a toolkit to help anyone scan their iPhone and Android devices for evidence of compromise by NSO's Pegasus spyware — Over the weekend, an international consortium of news outlets reported that several authoritarian governments — including Mexico …
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| The Guardian: |
Snowden calls for spyware trade ban amid NSO news, saying the industry should not exist and “they don't make vaccines—the only thing they sell is the virus” — NSA whistleblower warns of world in which no phone is safe from state-sponsored hackers if no action taken
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| Washington Post: |
Of the 67 phones Amnesty's Security Lab probed, 34 were iPhones, of which 23 showed signs of a successful Pegasus infection and the others showed attempts — The text delivered last month to the iPhone 11 of Claude Mangin, the French wife of a political activist jailed in Morocco, made no sound.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
DOJ unseals charges against four Chinese nationals, believed to be part of China-backed APT 40 hacking group; charging docs focus on activity from 2011 to 2018 — The US Department of Justice has indicted four Chinese nationals today for hacking companies, government agencies …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
US, EU, UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, and NATO blame China for cyberattacks, including the massive attack on Microsoft's Exchange Servers in March — The U.S., NATO and other allies are collectively calling out China for malicious cyberattacks, including a March attack that exploited a flaw in Microsoft's Exchange Server.| Sheera Frenkel / New York Times: |
Sources: a group of Facebook data scientists asked for resources to measure COVID misinfo on Facebook at the start of the pandemic, but execs denied the request — The company doesn't know some specifics about how falsehoods about Covid-19 and vaccines for the virus spread on its social network.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is delaying return to office deadline by at least a month to October amid rising COVID cases, will give employees a month's notice before return — - The iPhone maker is now eyeing an October return for workers — Covid-19 variants continue to spread across many countries
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| Angel Au-Yeung / Forbes: |
Andreessen Horowitz hires former Intel CEO Bob Swan as Growth Operating Partner; Bob Swan stepped down from Intel in February — On Monday, venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz announced that Bob Swan, former CEO of semiconductor giant Intel Corp., would join the firm as an operating partner for its early-stage growth fund.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
YouTube acquires India-based social commerce startup Simsim, sources say for over $70M; Simsim had raised $17M till date and was last valued at $50.1M — YouTube has acquired social commerce startup Simsim, the Google-owned firm said on Tuesday. Neither of the firms disclosed the terms of the deal … | Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Uber expands grocery delivery service to more than 400 US cities and towns, including SF, NYC, and DC, partly fueled by a partnership with Albertsons Companies — announced the first major expansion of its — grocery delivery service in the US. The company is more than doubling the number … | Forbes: |
BlockFi CEO confirms it received an order from the New Jersey Bureau of Securities to stop accepting new Interest Accounts; existing users won't be impacted — I write about how digital assets are going to change the world — According to a draft press release from the New Jersey Office …
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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
CIRP: Android and iOS each accounted for 50% of smartphone activations in the US in Q2, the same as Q2 2020, after iOS' share climbed steadily from 31% in 2017 — Activations of iOS and Android devices are now evenly split in the United States, with little sign of movement toward either platform dominating …
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Dish Network signs a deal to pay AT&T at least $5B over the next 10 years to use AT&T's 4G and 5G networks for its MVNOs — Dish Network has a new network operator partner for its MVNO brands: AT&T. The companies have signed a network services agreement (NSA) that will see Dish pay … Sponsor Posts
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