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In preliminary findings, the EU says Apple abused its mobile payments dominance by limiting competitors' access to the NFC chip in iPhones, benefiting Apple Pay — EU preliminary findings say US group limits rivals' access to ‘tap and go’ technology — Brussels regulators have charged Apple …
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Spain says the phones of its prime minister and defense minister were infected by NSO's Pegasus spyware in 2021; Spain's highest criminal court will investigate — Minister for presidency says ‘illicit’ targeting will be investigated by Spain's highest criminal court
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Sources: millions of Grindr users' location data has been collected from a digital ad network and sold since at least 2017; Grindr says it has cut the data flow — Gay-dating app's user locations were collected and sold via ad networks since at least 2017; Grindr says it has curtailed the data it shares
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Hacking Russian targets was once considered off-limits by some, but after invading Ukraine the country has been hit by an unprecedented wave of cyberattacks — Experts anticipated a Moscow-led cyber-assault; instead, unprecedented attacks by hacktivists and criminals have wreaked havoc in Russia
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Google fires AI researcher Satrajit Chatterjee; sources: he was fired after Google refused to publish his paper rebutting a celebrated Google paper in Nature — The researchers are considered a key to the company's future. But they have had a hard time shaking infighting and controversy over a variety of issues.
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Solana's network suffered another outage on Saturday, lasting seven hours, when NFT minting tool Candy Machine was hit with bots, leading to ~4M requests/second — It wasn't immediately clear how the bot traffic overcame network safeguards. — Solana stakeholders rushed to right … | Nicole Wetsman / The Verge: |
Mozilla analysis of 32 mental health and prayer apps shows 29 have lax privacy and security practices and collect large amounts of data — Prayer apps were also worse than other categories — As a category, mental health apps have worse privacy protections for users than most other types of apps …
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Road map: Meta plans four VR headsets by 2024; source says high-end MR headset Cambria, once slated for 2021, could debut in Sept. before its successor in 2024 — Meta Platforms is planning to release four virtual reality headsets between now and 2024, according to an internal road map viewed by The Information.| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
European game publisher Embracer buys Square Enix's three Western game studios, with many game series including Tomb Raider and Dues Ex, and their IP, for $300M — $300 million deal includes “over 50” classic games' rights, over 1,000 devs. — On Monday, Japanese game publisher Square Enix confirmed …
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Internal FTC survey: overall satisfaction among staff has dropped from 89% in 2020 to 60% in 2021; in an email, Lina Khan pledges to fix sinking staff morale — Under both Republican and Democratic administrations, the Federal Trade Commission has consistently ranked in the top five … | Richard Milne / Financial Times: |
Lego plans to triple the number of software engineers on staff to 1,800 by 2023, with ~400 based in Copenhagen, and increase digital investments — World's largest toymaker has long feared digital world could erode the appeal of its bricks — Lego plans to triple its number of software engineers … | Andrew Liszewski / Gizmodo: |
Amazon says the Send to Kindle feature will support the popular EPUB ebook format in late 2022, while suspending support for MOBI and AZW formats — The Send to Kindle system will automatically convert EPUB files to the Kindle's proprietary ebook format. — Alerts| Bloomberg: |
A look at how central banks are increasingly using Instagram as inflation rises; Bank Indonesia is the most-followed with 699K, followed by Venezuela and Brazil — The world's central banks are mixing it with wellness influencers, makeup experts and amateur chefs on Instagram as they increasingly turn …
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