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Sources: the SEC is poised to let the first Bitcoin futures ETFs, from Proshares and Invesco, trade in the US as early as next week — - Cutoff for action on ProShares, Invesco filings is next week — Tacit approval is seen after an almost decade-long push
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| Kellen Browning / New York Times: |
Security researchers say plans by Apple and EU to monitor phones for illicit material are ineffective and could embolden government surveillance — A group of researchers said the “dangerous technology” was invasive and not effective at detecting images of child sexual abuse.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp starts rolling out e2e encryption for chat history backups in iCloud and Google Drive — WhatsApp is beginning to roll out a new feature that will provide its two billion users the option to encrypt their chat history backup in iCloud or Google Drive, patching a major loophole …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Google Threat Analysis Group says it tracks 270+ state-backed threat actors, and sent 50K+ alerts for email phishing attacks to Gmail users in 2021, up ~33% YoY — The Google Threat Analysis Group said today that its security researchers are currently tracking more than 270 different …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft is shuttering the Chinese version of LinkedIn and replacing it with a job board; sources say China told LinkedIn in March to better regulate content — LinkedIn cites challenging operating environment, as retreat marks the biggest departure from China by a major tech company in years
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| James Clayton / BBC: |
Apple confirms it has taken down a popular Koran app in China after a request from officials, who say it hosts illegal religious texts — Apple has taken down one of the world's most popular Koran apps in China, after a request from officials, the company has confirmed to the BBC.| Ax Sharma / Ars Technica: |
A US hacker says he built a network of “news” sites and Facebook Groups in 2015 to push bogus stories after a company hired him to “stop Hillary Clinton” — He was hired to build a fake news op but now wants to put things right. — This is the story of the mastermind behind … | Reed Albergotti / Washington Post: |
Profile of Cher Scarlett, an Apple employee leading the #AppleToo campaign highlighting racism, retaliation, sexual and other forms of workplace harassment — Cher Scarlett is willing to risk a dream job at Apple to blow the whistle on alleged labor violations at the iPhone maker.| Reuters: |
Banking industry body UK Finance says Britain has become a global epicenter for scams, with £754M stolen in H1 2021, up 30% YoY — It was an email offering a discount on an electric toothbrush that began the sequence of events that ruined Anna's life.
Tweets: @reuters, @reuters, and @briankrebs
| Wall Street Journal: |
Coinbase asks Congress to regulate digital assets outside of the existing financial system and to create a special regulator for digital asset markets — Crypto trading platform asks Congress to create an oversight regime separate from existing market regulators
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| Haje Jan Kamps / TechCrunch: |
Reliable Robotics, which wants to retrofit commercial cargo planes with autonomous systems, raises a $100M Series C led by Coatue Management — When flying cargo from one part of the world to another, you typically need a pilot for two parts: The take-off and the landing.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google rolls out continuous scrolling for English-language mobile search results in the US — Google announced today it's changing the way search works on mobile devices, initially in the U.S. Now, when you reach the bottom of a set of search results on your phone, you won't have to tap to go to the next page.
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| Tiernan Ray / ZDNet: |
Enterprise search company Elastic to acquire Optimyze, whose continuous profiling platform Prodfiler can detect the CPU efficiency of fleets of machines — Elastic intends to join the computer profiling function of Optimyze to the enterprise observability functions of metrics, logs and traces.
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| Wilson Walker / CBS San Francisco: |
Residents of a quiet San Francisco street say Waymo's self-driving cars are flocking to the neighborhood throughout the day, seemingly confused by a dead end — SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — A normally quiet neighborhood in San Francisco is buzzing about a sudden explosion of traffic.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple has hired Afrooz Family, its former employee and a co-founder of speaker startup Syng, to lead HomePod software efforts — - Apple's smart-speaker efforts have struggled since 2018 debut — Afrooz Family takes job after co-founding Syng speaker startup
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iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, iMore, The Verge, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, iClarified, and Cult of Mac. Tweets: @markgurman
| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
In a letter to Zuckerberg, 14 US state AGs demand details on vaccine misinformation per Haugen's leaked docs and Facebook's XCheck, which shields VIP users — Led by Connecticut, more than a dozen state attorneys general are asking Facebook for information related to Frances Haugen's leaked documents.| Miles Kruppa / Financial Times: |
PitchBook: tech investors and employees have netted $582.5B from US IPOs and sales in the year to September, with 93 listings between July and September — IPO and Spac booms have delivered a record windfall for venture capitalists in 2021 — A wave of US public listings and sales …
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
FTC notifies 700+ companies, including Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft, that they could face penalties of up to $43,792 per violation for using deceptive reviews — The FTC sent a notice to hundreds of companies, including AT&T, Dunkin' Donuts, Hulu, and Macy's.
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