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T-Mobile investigates claims that hackers stole data from its servers, including phone numbers, names, SSNs, and driver's license info, related to 100M+ people — Hackers selling the data are claiming it affects 100 million users. — Joseph Cox — T-Mobile says it is investigating …
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Q&A with Alex Stamos on Apple's proposed child safety features, his reservations about the company's announcement and approach to child safety online, and more — Earlier this month Apple dropped a privacy bombshell. After years of touting its strong commitment to privacy …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
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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In a new lawsuit, a US-based contractor claims Huawei stole its tech and pressured it to build a “back door” into a sensitive surveillance project in Pakistan — Small U.S. software maker alleges Chinese telecom giant sought live access to data in Pakistan; Huawei denies claim
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| Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: |
Google and Facebook say they will participate in a new subsea cable system for 2024 linking Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Guam, the Philippines, and Indonesia — Alphabet Inc.'s Google and Facebook Inc. announced their participation in a new subsea cable system for 2024 set to improve internet connectivity across the Asia-Pacific region.
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Facebook Engineering, PCMag, Insider, Financial Times, Gizchina, and Cloud Blog. Tweets: @politicalbrown9
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A look at chipmakers' race to capitalize on a wave of subsidies, as the US and other western countries reassess their industrial policies to slow China's rise — U.S. semiconductor maker's appeal for subsidies plays on national security fears during chip shortage; ‘Never let a good crisis go to waste’
Tweets: @live_news_nick, @bobdavis187, @jordannovet, and @aspi_icpc
| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says it is changing the contrast of its new buttons, as users complain about headaches after its redesign that some experts say isn't very accessible — After teasing its new font in January, Twitter made some major changes to its website and app design this week.
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Mashable, iPhone in Canada Blog, Engadget, Gizmodo, ScreenRant, The Verge, MobileSyrup, PCMag, and iThinkDifferent
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Cisco confirms it has acquired Epsagon, an Israel-based cloud application monitoring startup; sources say Cisco will be paying $500M — Cisco EVP Liz Centoni: When the acquisition closes, the Epsagon team will join our strategy, incubation and applications group.
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Tweets: @editortargett, @lizcentoni, @chuckrobbins, and @cisco
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Interview with Niantic CEO John Hanke about the company's vision for the metaverse and how it could become a dystopian nightmare — The metaverse, the concept of an alternative, shared digital world that originated in sci-fi, has bubbled up to the surface of tech chatter during the later days of the pandemic.
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Niantic, Protocol, Game World Observer, NME, Wired, IGN, Eurogamer.net, Comic Book, Dot Esports, Game Rant, Techonomy, and New World Notes
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Rapido, an Indian bike taxi operator available in about 100 cities, raises $52M Series C, bringing its total raised to $130M+ — Rapido, a bike taxi aggregator in India, said on Monday it has raised $52 million in a new financing round as the six-year-old startup looks to find space … | Kyle Chayka / New Yorker: |
Profile of @images_ai, a Twitter account launched by a music student in June, that uses neural networks, including OpenAI's CLIP, to generate surreal art — The Twitter account @images_ai has gained a following for its feed of surreal, glitchy, sometimes beautiful images created through machine learning.
Tweets: @newyorker, @renois, @newyorker, @chaykak, @chaykak, and @chaykak
| Bill Hathaway / YaleNews: |
Study of 12.7M tweets shows social media amplifies expressions of moral outrage, as users learn that such language gets rewarded with more “likes” and “shares” — Social media platforms like Twitter amplify expressions of moral outrage over time because users learn …
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Neville Hobson, The Overspill, Science, UPI, Popular Science, Telegraph, CTVNews, Tech Times, Axios, Silicon Republic, SlashGear, and Fast Company
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