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Apple details its CSAM detection system, says it expects to set a match threshold of 30 known CSAM images before an iCloud account is flagged for manual review — Apple today shared a document that provides a more detailed overview of the child safety features that it first announced last week …
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Craig Federighi says introducing two similar features at the same time, iMessage protections for children and CSAM scanning of iCloud photos, caused confusion — Facing criticism about eroding privacy on the iPhone, Apple's Craig Federighi says new tools aimed at best ensuring privacy while fighting illegal images
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| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Facebook rolls out end-to-end encrypted voice and video calls on Messenger, and says it will begin testing opt-in e2e encryption for Instagram DMs — rolling out a host of features for Messenger users who switch on — end-to-end encryption (E2EE). You can now call Messenger contacts using voice or video
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| Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
In a preliminary ruling, ITC judge finds Google infringed on five patents owned by Sonos; full commission will make a final ruling in December — In a preliminary finding by the United States International Trade Commission, a judge ruled that the internet company infringed on speaker-technology patents.
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Twitter pauses rolling out access to apply for verification, after admitting that several fake accounts, reportedly part of a botnet, were wrongly verified — It wants to improve the application and review process — Twitter is halting the expansion of its verification program …
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| Rachel Feintzeig / Wall Street Journal: |
A half-dozen white-collar workers in industries like tech and banking say they are stealthily holding multiple remote, full-time jobs — When the pandemic freed employees from having to report to the office, some saw an opportunity to double their salary on the sly.| Osato Avan-Nomayo / Cointelegraph: |
Report: 55 of the top 100 banks by assets under management have invested in crypto or a blockchain company; Barclays and Citigroup are the most active investors — Over half of the 100 largest banks by assets under management are reportedly investors in major crypto and blockchain technology-based companies and projects.| Wall Street Journal: |
Neobank Chime raises $750M led by Sequoia at a valuation of about $25B, as a source says it could go public in H1 2022 — Move sets company up for IPO as early as next year — Chime Financial Inc. raised $750 million in its latest funding round, in a move that values the financial-technology startup …
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| Bloomberg: |
Apple is ordered by East Texas jury to pay $300M in royalties to Optis after losing a patent dispute retrial over LTE technology in iPhones and other products — - Trial in Texas focused only on damages in Optis patent dispute — Case hinged on ‘fair’ rate for industry's cellular standard| Eric Newcomer / Newcomer: |
Sources: Discord is raising money at a valuation of around $15B, in a funding round that would at least double its valuation of $7B in 2020 — The funding round would at least double Discord's valuation, from $7 billion in 2020.
Tweets: @ericnewcomer, @stevekovach, @ericnewcomer, @freedmanae, and @pkafka
| Reuters: |
Poly Network offers a $500K “bug bounty” to the hacker who returned $340M+ in assets and placed the rest in a wallet jointly controlled by the hacker and Poly — Poly Network, the cryptocurrency platform which lost $610 million in a hack earlier this week, confirmed on Friday …
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Tweets: @polynetwork2, @tomrobin, @jon_bottarini, @eamonjavers, @alexhern, @alexhern, and @weldpond
| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Researchers at Berlin-based AlgorithmWatch say they abandoned their research project monitoring the Instagram algorithm after legal threats from Facebook — A chilling echo of NYU ad observatory issues — Researchers at AlgorithmWatch say they were forced to abandon their research project monitoring …
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