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An investigation into the rise of NSO's Pegasus shows its widespread use by the CIA, UAE, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and others; the FBI bought but didn't use it — A Times investigation reveals how Israel reaped diplomatic gains around the world from NSO's Pegasus spyware — a tool America itself purchased but is now trying to ban.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
DeFi service Qubit Finance says a hacker stole ~$80M in Binance coins on January 27 and offers them a bug bounty in exchange for returning the cryptocurrency — A threat actor has used an exploit to steal approximately $80 million from Qubit Finance, a decentralized finance (DeFi) …
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Qubit Finance, CertiK, The Verge, Decrypt, Bloomberg, Crypto Briefing, Cointelegraph, CoinQuora, Bitcoin News, ZDNet, and Cryptopolitan
Tweets: @mintroyale, @campuscodi, @counternotions, @campuscodi, @adam_k_levin, @timmaughan, @timmaughan, @fbajak, @campuscodi, @sinistarr_313, @qubitfin, @rdrv3, and @peckshield
| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
After a customer backlash, Google says legacy free G Suite accounts will be able to migrate their data to free, consumer accounts before the July 2022 shutdown — Last week, Google essentially told free G Suite users “pay up or lose your account.” — There is hope for users of Google's “legacy” free G Suite accounts.
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TechCrunch, MobileSyrup, ZDNet, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Phandroid
Tweets: @ronamadeo, @ow, and @laurenweinstein
| Corinne Reichert / CNET: |
Counterpoint and IDC: smartphone shipments grew about 5% to 1.35B+ units in 2021; Samsung took the top spot with 270M+ units, followed by Apple with 235M+ — Companies shipped 1.35 billion smartphones in 2021, a 5.7% increase over the previous year, market researcher IDC said Thursday.
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Counterpoint Research, IDC, TechCrunch, Cult of Mac, ZDNet, NDTV Gadgets 360, TechCircle, SamMobile, Android Central, The Indian Express, and Slashdot
Tweets: @hsinghwalia, @idc, @ryanreith, @nabilapopal, @neiltwitz, @neiltwitz, @neiltwitz, @chawlaarushi, @neiltwitz, and @neiltwitz
| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Will Cathcart says WhatsApp has no plans to support RCS, as Meta launches its first marketing push for WhatsApp in the US, touting its privacy compared to SMS — The Meta-owned messaging app wants to be as popular in the US as it is everywhere else — will a big marketing push work?
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The Verge, YouTube, Bloomberg, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, PhoneArena, Android Police, Fast Company, Adweek, iPhone in Canada Blog, Adweek, and Protocol
Tweets: @saranbyte, @alexeheath, @kurtwagner8, @pranavdixit, @gartenberg, and @shiraovide
| Niraj Chokshi / New York Times: |
The FAA says it has reached a deal to let Verizon and AT&T expand their 5G cellular service near airports while allowing more aircraft to land safely — The federal agency said an agreement with Verizon and AT&T would enable the wireless providers to expand their networks while allowing aircraft to land safely.
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The Verge, CNN, Engadget, CRN, CNET, AppleInsider, XDA Developers, Associated Press, PhoneArena, TechRadar, 9to5Mac, Tech Xplore, Cult of Mac, and New York Post. Tweets: @b_fung
| Jordan Pearson / VICE: |
OpenSea says 80%+ of NFTs minted for free on its service are plagiarized works, fake collections, and spam, but reverses its decision to limit free NFT creation — After reversing course on a limit to the amount of free NFTs a user can create, OpenSea said the decision was due to the amount of fraud and spam.
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Tweets: @carnage4life, @counternotions, and @chrismessina
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple deprecates Python 2.7 in macOS 12.3 and points developers to alternative languages like Python 3; Python ended support for version 2 on January 1, 2020 — Apple will no longer bundle Python 2.7 with macOS 12.3, according to developer release notes for the upcoming software update.
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Tweets: @mikeymikey, @film_girl, @thomasareed, @film_girl, @dabeaz, @obra, @eevee, @dnsmichi, @drdrang, and @fuzzychef
| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Microsoft, the DOJ, and 35 US states led by Utah support Epic Games against Apple through amicus briefs filed with the Ninth Circuit appeals court — [Update] The Biden Administration is also supporting Epic. [/Update] — Apple just reported record numbers.
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Tweets: @elkmovie, @markrein, @keleftheriou, @keleftheriou, @carnage4life, @macton93, @macton93, @macton93, and @macton93. Thanks:@fosspatents
| Jonathan Browning / Bloomberg: |
Autonomy founder Mike Lynch loses $5B court battle with HP over false accounting; the UK government will now decide whether to extradite him to the US — Mike Lynch, the Autonomy Corp. founder lost his acrimonious court battle with Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. over false accounting.
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| Alexandra S. Levine / Politico: |
AI-driven suicide chat service Crisis Text Line shares anonymized data with for-profit spinoff Loris.ai, which uses it to market its customer service software — Crisis Text Line is one of the world's most prominent mental health support lines, a tech-driven nonprofit that uses big data …
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Protocol. Tweets: @ali_lev, @andy_sellars, @profcarroll, @extantcmw, @pt, @hypervisible, @ericgeller, @hypervisible, @danielleiat, @jason_kint, @bkingdc, @abhinemani, @aahaworth, @amp6, @kensweet, @kimzetter, and @jjvincent
| Russ Mitchell / Los Angeles Times: |
Waymo sues the California DMV to hide its safety details, such as descriptions of driverless car crashes, and says the data should be designated a trade secret — Waymo, the driverless car company operating an autonomous taxi fleet in San Francisco, is suing the California Department of Motor Vehicles.| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple adds unlisted app distribution to the App Store, letting developers publish an app that can only be installed via a direct link and not found via search — Apple has deployed an interesting new App Store feature called ‘unlisted app distribution’. This means a developer can now publish … | Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Internal messages detail Spotify's brief health content policies, as staff are told multiple Joe Rogan podcast episodes “didn't meet the threshold for removal” — Leaked messages reveal the company has reviewed every Rogan episode and none ‘meet the threshold for removal’| Chris Stead / Finder: |
Interview with two Ubisoft executives, who say NFTs are a paradigm shift in gaming and gamers “don't get what a digital secondary market can bring to them” — We talk to Nicolas Pouard, VP at Ubisoft's Strategic Innovations Lab, about the launch of Ubisoft Quartz and the Digits NFTs.
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Video Games Chronicle, PCMag, Windows Central, Eurogamer.net, SlashGear, IGN, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Cointelegraph, MSPoweruser, purexbox.com, Hit Points, Forbes, Gameranx, Engadget, TechRadar, PC Gamer, Destructoid, Game Rant, Polygon, Dexerto, Bitcoinist.com, GameSpot, and TechSpot
Tweets: @bdsams, @quinnypig, @kylebrussell, @vgc_news, @ejwoodgates, @longearedfox, @tomfromtheweb, @scully1888, and @skillupyt
| Microsoft Azure Blog: |
Microsoft mitigated a 3.47 Tbps DDoS attack on an Azure customer in Asia in November; DDoS attacks in India rose from 2% of all attacks in H1 2021 to 23% in H2 — This blog post was co-authored by Anupam Vij, Principal PM Manager, and Syed Pasha, Principal Network Engineer, Azure Networking
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Ars Technica, The Hacker News, The Mac Observer, Digital Trends, SlashGear, Windows Report, TechRadar, Neowin, HackRead, Petri IT Knowledgebase, and Windows Central. Tweets: @azure
| James Hale / Tubefilter: |
YouTuber Hank Green unfavorably compares TikTok's creator fund, where a creator's revenue falls as more join, to YouTube, which pays a percentage of ad revenue — In 2020, TikTok established a creator fund that distributes $200 million annually to creators based in the U.S.
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Platformer. Tweets: @kris10parisi, @mvzelenks, @shiraovide, @martinsfp, @carnage4life, and @caseynewton
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
FTC: US consumers lost $770M to social media scams in 2021, about 25% of all fraud losses for the year and up 18x from the $42M in losses reported in 2017 — A growing number of U.S. consumers are getting scammed on social media according to a new report by the Federal Trade Commission …
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Protocol, HotHardware.com News, TechRadar, 9to5Mac, KnowTechie, Security Boulevard, TechSpot, and ZDNet. Tweets: @matt_homer
| Saheli Roy Choudhury / CNBC: |
SoftBank confirms COO Marcelo Claure, who was also SoftBank Group International's CEO, is leaving after nine years; Michel Combes will be the new CEO — - Japanese conglomerate SoftBank Group confirmed Friday that its Chief Operating Officer Marcelo Claure is leaving the company following a nine-year tenure.
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Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times
Tweets: @lizrhoffman, @refsrc, @eliotwb, @rwhelanwsj, @gearoidreidy, and @litcapital
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
iOS 15.4 beta adds Face ID use with a mask for iPhone 12 and newer, without needing Apple Watch authentication, by recognizing “unique features around the eye” — The iOS 15.4 beta that was introduced today added a new feature designed to allow Face ID to be used with a mask and without an Apple Watch for authentication.
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The Verge, 9to5Mac, 9to5Mac, The Verge, Laptop Mag, XDA Developers, Redmond Pie, iDownloadBlog.com, GameSpot, iMore, SlashGear, Liliputing, Appleosophy, Livemint, Engadget, Mashable, and MacRumors
Tweets: @brandonbutch, @viticci, @sdw, @viticci, @bzamayo, @brandonbutch, @nikostratis, @reneritchie, @markgurman, and @stephenrobles
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
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Macworld, YouTube, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, Macworld, iMore, MacDailyNews, Apple Must, Digital Trends, AppleInsider, KnowTechie, and ZDNet
Tweets: @viticci, @tailosivetech, @jeffnolan, @iamevltwin, @cocoaphony, @gregotto, @samifathi_, @gizmodo, @film_girl, @scriptingosx, and @gtinari
| Daren Fonda / Barron's Online: |
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