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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: |
After Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, sources say shipments to Pegatron's factory, used by Microsoft, Tesla, and others, were being held by Chinese customs — Suppliers spooked as Beijing wields rule against ‘Taiwan’ label on goods — TAIPEI — Shipments to iPhone assembler Pegatron's factory …
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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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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 …
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Meta's AI research lab releases its BlenderBot 3 chatbot, which searches the internet to answer questions, available to US users on the web, 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 …
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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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| Elena Schneider / Politico: |
A look at FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried's range of US political contributions, including $10M+ to back Biden in 2020, and uncertainty about his goals and leanings — NASSAU, Bahamas — One of the biggest donors in Democratic politics this year isn't sure if he really wants to be a Democratic megadonor — at least not on the party's terms.| 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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India's Enforcement Directorate freezes the 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 … | Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google updates the search results page for queries with quotes to show, in the result snippet, where the phrase appears, instead of an overall page description — Google has updated how search result snippet in Google Search for queries that contain quotes.
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| 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 widely accessible to staff — A largely unsecured cache of pictures of children being sexually exploited has been made available to third-party TikTok content moderators … | 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 double-digit 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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SoftBank Vision Fund managing partners Yanni Pipilis and Munish Varma leave; the fund has lost 10+ top execs since March 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 …
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