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Amazon plans to acquire Roomba maker iRobot in a $1.7B all-cash deal; Colin Angle will remain as iRobot's 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 asked suppliers to ensure that Taiwan shipments to China are labeled “Taiwan, China” or “Chinese Taipei”, after Pelosi's visit stokes trade fears — Stepped up scrutiny of import documents raises disruption fears for iPhone maker| Nikkei Asia: |
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| The Verge: |
After criticism, DuckDuckGo says its browser will now block Microsoft tracking scripts on third-party websites, formerly exempt due to a search syndication deal — After an uproar over an exception, DuckDuckGo is promising transparency. — After a revelation in May that DuckDuckGo's …
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| Omer Benjakob / Haaretz: |
A prototype of NSO's Pegasus for Israeli police in 2014 reveals the UI and features, including real-time wiretapping, reading texts, 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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| Nicola Kelly / The Guardian: |
The UK government plans to require migrants convicted of a crime to scan their faces up to five times per day using smartwatches; 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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Twitter confirms that a now-patched bug was used to link phone numbers and emails to user accounts; a threat actor offered to sell 5.4M records in December 2021 — Twitter has confirmed a recent data breach was caused by a now-patched zero-day vulnerability used to link email addresses … | 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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| 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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How crypto developer Ian Macalinao posed as 11 independent developers and faked a web of DeFi protocols to temporarily inflate 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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CryptoSlate, Web3 is going just great, The Coin Crunch, and CoinGape
Tweets: @notbunjil, @amyhoy, @wublockchain, @carnage4life, @chainyoda, @0x7d54, @raganwald, @jwweatherman_, and @chainlinkgod
| 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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| 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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The Block, Gizmodo, Cointelegraph, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com, CryptoSlate, Cybernews.com, and CNBC
Tweets: @slope_finance, @solanastatus, @phantom, @chainalysis, @helpedhope, @osec_io, and @0xfoobar
| 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 … | 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
| Sensor Tower: |
US mobile gaming revenue fell 9.6% YoY to $11.4B in H1 2022 and downloads declined 2.5% YoY to 2.4B; only the arcade game genre saw notable revenue growth — Arcade and Tabletop were the only categories to see revenue increase during the first half of the year, Sensor Tower data shows.
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