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Facebook shelved its content transparency report in Q1 fearing public criticism, as the most-viewed link suggested a doctor died due to a COVID-19 vaccine — The company praised itself this week for being “the most transparent platform on the internet.” — When Facebook this week released …
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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.| 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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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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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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| 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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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 — When Apple wanted to kill off two bills in Georgia this year, it rushed lobbyists to the state legislature …
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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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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 … | 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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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 …
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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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