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Investigation: how China identifies, tracks, and pressures its critics on Facebook and Twitter, including Chinese living abroad and citizens of other nations — Authorities in China have turned to sophisticated investigative software to track and silence obscure critics on overseas social media.
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A Y2K22 bug in Microsoft's FIP-FS anti-malware scanning engine appears to be stopping Exchange on-premise servers around the world from delivering email — Microsoft Exchange on-premise servers cannot deliver email starting on January 1st, 2022, due to a “Year 2022” bug in the FIP-FS anti-malware scanning engine.| New York Times: |
Several women who believe they were tracked with AirTags say Apple's safeguards against stalking are insufficient — Privacy groups sounded alarms about the coin-sized location-tracking devices when they were introduced. Now people are concerned those fears are being realized.
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Indian antitrust watchdog orders an investigation into Apple's practice of mandating use of its payments system for iPhone apps in the App Store — Indian antitrust watchdog on Friday ordered an investigation into Apple's business practices — in particular, the mandatory use …
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| Amitoj Singh / CoinDesk: |
Sources: tax authorities searched some of India's biggest cryptocurrency exchanges after detecting tax evasion of around $6M at Binance's WazirX — India's tax authorities have conducted searches at some of India's biggest cryptocurrency exchanges including “Coinswitch Kuber, CoinDCX …
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Shiba Inu launches Doggy DAO in beta to let users decide on crypto projects and pairs on the ShibaSwap platform, and how $BONE rewards are distributed — The Dogecoin rival is aiming to provide its users with more control over crypto projects and pairs on the ShibaSwap platform.| Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: |
CES will end a day earlier, on January 7, as an “additional” COVID-19 safety measure, after Google, Microsoft, and other big companies canceled in-person plans — The show now ends on January 7th — CES has dropped the last day of its 2022 tech conference in Las Vegas …
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| Tom Parsons / What Hi-Fi?: |
Interview with Apple's VP of Acoustics and head of AirPods marketing about designing AirPods 3, Spatial Audio, Bluetooth's limitations, and more — First, a qualification: Gary Geaves isn't quite “the man who made the AirPods”, and I'm sure he'd never describe himself as such.
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| The Moscow Times: |
Russia's media regulator adds Netflix to its “audio-visual services” register, requiring it to offer 20 major Russian federal TV channels starting in March 2022 — Russia's state media watchdog will require Netflix to offer state television channels to its Russian customers … | Jennifer Smith / Wall Street Journal: |
PitchBook: supply-chain tech startups raised $24.3B in venture funding in the first three quarters of 2021, 58% more than all of 2020 — A flood of big money is pumping up valuations of logistics startups as global bottlenecks raise the profile of a once-overlooked sector
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| Patrick McGee / Financial Times: |
Experts say the Apple Watch has yet to change patient management and treatment as Apple has failed to make inroads with most doctors — Device touted as ‘future of health’ has yet to change the way patients are treated, say experts — As a researcher at Harvard, Shruthi Mahalingaiah …
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| Brad Linder / Liliputing: |
Devices running BlackBerry 10 or OS 7.1 and earlier will lose key services like calling, texting, data usage, and 911 access starting January 4 — BlackBerry stopped shipping phones and tablets with its own software years ago, switching to Android in 2015 before shifting from a hardware company …
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