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Amazon plans to acquire Roomba maker iRobot for $1.7B in an all-cash deal; Colin Angle will remain as iRobot CEO — Amazon this morning announced plans to acquire Roomba maker iRobot for an all-cash deal valued at $1.7 billion. — “Since we started iRobot, our team has been on a mission …
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Sources: Apple asks suppliers to ensure shipments from Taiwan to China are labeled as “Taiwan, China” or “Chinese Taipei”, after Pelosi's visit stirs tensions — Stepped up scrutiny of import documents raises disruption fears for iPhone maker| Nikkei Asia: |
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After criticism, DuckDuckGo says its browser will now block Microsoft tracking scripts on third-party websites; Microsoft was exempt due to a search agreement — After an uproar over an exception, DuckDuckGo is promising transparency. — After a revelation in May that DuckDuckGo's (DDG) …
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| Joanna Ossinger / Bloomberg: |
Crypto bridge Nomad says anyone returning at least 90% of stolen tokens will be viewed as a white-hat hacker and the remaining 10% will become the reward — Cryptocurrency company Nomad is offering a bounty to recoup funds spirited away in a $190 million hack that again highlighted security vulnerabilities in the digital-token sector.
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| CoinDesk: |
How crypto developer Ian Macalinao posed as 11 independent devs and created a web of DeFi protocols that temporarily inflated the total value locked on Solana — The Macalinao brothers used a web of bogus identities to create the illusion of a dev community, juicing value on the Saber protocol and Solana blockchain.
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Tweets: @notbunjil, @amyhoy, @wublockchain, @carnage4life, @chainyoda, @0x7d54, @raganwald, @jwweatherman_, and @chainlinkgod
| Nicola Kelly / The Guardian: |
The UK government plans to require that migrants convicted of a crime scan their faces up to five times per day on a smartwatch; locations will be tracked 24/7 — Home Office and MoJ plans will require migrants convicted of crimes to take photos up to five times a day
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| Omer Benjakob / Haaretz: |
A prototype of NSO's Pegasus for Israeli police in 2014 shows the UI and features, including real-time wiretapping, reading messages, and remote camera control — Israel Police planned to present cabinet with the system eight years ago. It was intended to be capable of turning the infected phone …
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| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google updates search results for queries with quotes to show where the phrase appears in the results snippet instead of an overall description of the page — Google has updated how search result snippet in Google Search for queries that contain quotes. Now, Google will show …
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The Keyword, ZDNet, KnowTechie, Neowin, Search Engine Roundtable, Beyond Search, and Laptop Mag
Tweets: @searchliaison, @dannysullivan, @pedrodias, @aleyda, @aarontay, and @montsecano
| Nupur Anand / Reuters: |
India's Enforcement Directorate freezes assets worth ~$8.16M of Binance-owned crypto exchange WazirX, citing suspected foreign exchange rule violations — India's financial crime-fighting agency said on Friday that it has frozen the assets of WazirX, owned by the world's largest digital …
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Tweets: @cz_binance, @silvermanjacob, and @cz_binance
| Soma Biswas / Wall Street Journal: |
A New York judge allows Voyager Digital to return $270M in customer cash deposits, settling one of the company's larger issues after filing for bankruptcy — Crypto broker got bankruptcy court approval to return cash deposits — Cryptocurrency brokerage firm Voyager Digital Holdings Inc. secured approval …
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Tweets: @ahcastor, @aarondbennett, @web3isgreat, and @newsasset
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Meta releases its BlenderBot 3 chatbot, which searches the web to answer questions, to US users on the web in order to collect feedback — What could possibly go wrong? — Meta's AI research labs have created a new state-of-the-art chatbot and are letting members of the public talk …
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Engadget, SiliconANGLE, TechRadar, UPROXX, and Meta
Tweets: @pranavdixit, @pranavdixit, @tomwarren, @samsheffer, and @news_by_nick
| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Filing: Twitter says Elon Musk's counterclaims “are factually inaccurate, legally insufficient, and commercially irrelevant” and don't justify ending the deal — We still don't have Elon Musk's response to Twitter's lawsuit over his efforts to back out of his $44 billion acquisition … | Bloomberg: |
As SoftBank Vision Fund managing partners Yanni Pipilis and Munish Varma leave, the fund has lost 10+ top execs since 2020, putting pressure on Masayoshi Son — Masayoshi Son is losing a growing number of top executives at SoftBank Group Corp., putting more responsibility on the founder's shoulders …
Tweets: @caixin, @pelstrom, and @athomson6
| Andrew Romero / 9to5Google: |
YouTube tests pinch to zoom with its Premium subscribers, letting them zoom into a video, even in landscape mode — YouTube has a program that allows Premium subscribers to access brand new features that aren't quite fully baked. Today, YouTube dropped a new one called “pinch to zoom” …
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Thurrott, HotHardware, MacRumors, Silicon Republic, MSPoweruser, The Shortcut, Livemint, and The Verge
Tweets: @khaleejtimes and @nerdy_addict
| Alexandra S. Levine / Forbes: |
Sources: former TikTok content moderators working for a third-party company say they were trained using CSAM from a shared document with wide internal access — A largely unsecured cache of pictures of children being sexually exploited has been made available to third-party TikTok content moderators …
Tweets: @forbestech and @ali_lev
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Twitter confirms that a now-patched bug allowed to link phone numbers and emails to some user accounts; threat actor offered 5.4M records for sale in December — Twitter has confirmed a recent data breach was caused by a now-patched zero-day vulnerability used to link email addresses …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Microsoft tests a Game Pass widget on Windows 11, showing games that have been recently added, are leaving soon, come from certain categories, and more — Microsoft's first new Windows 11 widget — Microsoft's first new Windows 11 widget should make it even easier to find out which games are coming to PC Game Pass.
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Windows Blog, Tech Advisor, ExtremeTech, Club386, TechSpot, and OnMSFT.com
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