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The US Treasury sanctions crypto mixing service Tornado Cash and 44 related ETH and USDC wallets, citing their use in high-profile hacks, such as by North Korea — - The Treasury is sanctioning DeFi mixing service, Tornado Cash. — The move is the agency's second sanction of a mixing service.
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WhatsApp rolls out privacy features to let users leave Groups silently, choose who can see when they are online, and block screenshots of View Once messages — Like Love Haha Wow Sad Angry — WhatsApp is building new ways to increase user privacy and security in order to improve their experience while using the app.
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WhatsApp now lets users delete a private or group chat message up to two days and 12 hours after sending it; before, users had 1 hour, 8 minutes, and 16 seconds — While iMessage is getting the option to “unsend” messages for the first time with iOS 16 beta, WhatsApp already provides a similar feature.
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| Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert / Insider: |
Meta's BlenderBot 3 chatbot, released in the US on August 5, repeats antisemitic stereotypes, claims Donald Trump is the current US president, and more — - Meta's new machine-learning chatbot, BlenderBot 3, is the company's most advanced AI chatbot to date.
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Oppo and OnePlus halt sales in Germany after a court found in July 2022 the two companies used 5G technology without paying for the appropriate Nokia patents — Oppo - an OEM that has a far-reaching consumer base - has officially withdrawn from selling devices in Germany.| Bloomberg: |
ByteDance acquired Amcare Healthcare, one of China's largest private hospital chains, source says for about $1.5B, deepening its foray into health care — ByteDance Ltd. has acquired one of China's largest private hospital chains for about $1.5 billion, deepening a foray into health care via …
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Snapchat rolls out parental controls through a new Family Center feature, letting parents see who teens are talking to, but not view the content of the messages — Snapchat today is rolling out its first set of parental controls, after announcing last October it was developing tools …
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Report: Samsung plans to make an additional $3.3B investment in Vietnam in 2022 to produce semiconductor components by July 2023 and open an R&D center in Hanoi — Samsung Electronics plans to make an additional US$3.3 billion investment in Vietnam this year, enabling the South Korean technology giant … | Brad Stone / Bloomberg: |
Amazon's planned acquisitions of iRobot and One Medical are emblematic of Andy Jassy's hunt for a so-called fourth “pillar”, beyond AWS, Prime, and Marketplace — Amazon has snapped up robotic vacuum maker iRobot, undaunted by antitrust concerns. But first:| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
GitHub partners with code-signing service Sigstore to add support for signing npm software packages, helping improve the security of open source projects — The popular Microsoft-owned code repository plans to roll out code signing, which will help beef up the security of open source projects.| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 16 beta 5 adds an option to show the battery percentage in the status bar on some iPhones, after Apple removed it for notched models at the iPhone X's debut — The battery percentage has finally been added back to the status bar with today's release of iOS 16 beta 5.
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South Korea's telecoms regulator plans an investigation into Apple, Google, and One Store over suspected violations of the country's in-app payment law — South Korea's telecommunications regulator on Tuesday said it plans to launch an investigation into app store operators such as Apple Inc …
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