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| Josh Horwitz / Reuters: |
China passes a data privacy law mandating that data collection has a reasonable purpose, user consent, and limited to “minimum scope”, taking effect November 1 — China's National People's Congress on Friday passed a law designed to protect online user data privacy and will implement …
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| Noel Titheradge / BBC: |
Internal documents show OnlyFans moderators can give multiple warnings to successful accounts posting illegal content before closing them — Internal documents, leaked to BBC News, reveal that OnlyFans allows moderators to give multiple warnings to accounts that post illegal content … | Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
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| Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: |
Binance tightens its KYC/AML procedures, requiring customers to supply a government-issued ID and pass facial verification to trade, deposit, and withdraw funds — New customers will have to supply government ID and pass facial verification to meet Binance's “Intermediate” verification.
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| Washington Post: |
Researchers who built an Apple-like system to identify CSAM in e2e encrypted online services, say they abandoned it due to numerous abuse and misuse concerns — Jonathan Mayer is an assistant professor of computer science and public affairs at Princeton University.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Internal memo: Apple is delaying its return to corporate offices from October until January at the earliest because of surging COVID-19 cases and new variants — - Company pushes back return from October, encourages vaccines — Apple doesn't plan to close stores, offices on rising cases
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple launches Siri Speech Study, an iOS app that lets invited participants share their voice requests and other feedback with Apple — Apple recently began a research study designed to collect speech data from study participants. Earlier this month, the company launched a new iOS app called … | Mike Peterson / AppleInsider: |
Report: Google is dismantling its Health division, formed in 2018, and scattering its units across the company — Google is reportedly dismantling its health technology initiative and splitting its projects across other teams as the chief of the division departs the company.
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| Emily Birnbaum / Politico: |
A deep dive into the aggressive lobbying tactics that Apple is using to fight app store bills in Georgia, Arizona, North Dakota, Louisiana, and other US states — Poorly resourced state governments are no match for the lobbying firepower of Apple, the most valuable company in the world.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Cloudflare says it mitigated a 17.2M rps DDoS attack last month, ~3x larger than any previous DDoS attack, targeting a customer in the financial industry — Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare disclosed today that it mitigated the largest volumetric distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that was recorded to date.
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| Kate Beioley / Financial Times: |
UK's CMA recommends an in-depth investigation into Nvidia's planned $40B acquisition of Arm, saying there are “serious competition concerns” about the deal — CMA recommends in-depth investigation into planned $40bn takeover of British chip designer
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
AT&T says it did not suffer a data breach after a threat actor started selling a database purportedly containing the personal info of 70M AT&T customers — AT&T says that they did not suffer a data breach after a well-known threat actor claimed to be selling a database containing … | Eric Newcomer / Newcomer: |
Chris Sacca on his move to climate investing, Jack Dorsey's inability to confront big questions, and Travis Kalanick's weakness in managing company culture — A conversation with Chris Sacca about climate investing — and Travis Kalanick. — Chris Sacca apologized for joining our Zoom call a few minutes late.
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| April Glaser / NBC News: |
Facebook rolls out new security features for people in Afghanistan, including a one-click tool to quickly lock accounts and limit account discoverability — Facebook said Thursday it is rolling out new user controls for people in Afghanistan who are rushing to delete their digital footprints …
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| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
Elon Musk says Tesla is working on a humanoid robot that will handle “tasks that are unsafe, repetitive or boring”, with a prototype “sometime next year” — A prototype is supposedly coming ‘sometime next year’ — Tesla CEO Elon Musk says his company is working …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Court docs: Google's “Premier Device Program” gave Android OEMs a greater share of Search revenue for not preinstalling third-party app stores on their devices — Android OEMs couldn't preload apps that could install other apps — Newly unredacted sections of Epic's antitrust complaint …
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