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Whistleblower complaint: Twitter's ex-head of security Peiter Zatko alleges the company misled the FTC over its security plans, did not protect users, and more — In an explosive whistleblower complaint obtained by The Washington Post, former Twitter security chief Peiter ‘Mudge’ Zatko alleges …
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Source: Elon Musk scheduled a deposition with Peiter Zatko before the complaint became public; Zatko's complaint accuses Twitter of “lying” to Musk about bots — Twitter's former security chief alleges that the company is hiding the ball when it comes to spam and bots
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| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
Democrats and Republicans in Congress are investigating Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko's claims and seeking a meeting for further information — Top Democrats and Republicans say the allegations raise national security and privacy concerns and underscore the need for federal privacy protections
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to begin manufacturing the iPhone 14 in India about two months after its release, shortening the production gap between India and China — Apple Inc. plans to begin manufacturing the iPhone 14 in India about two months after the product's initial release out of China …
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Instagram is internally testing Candid Challenges, a BeReal-like feature that gives users two minutes to take and share a photo at a different time each day — Instagram is testing a new feature called Candid Challenges, which bears a striking resemblance to BeReal, a photo sharing app popular among …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Estonia-based Ready Player Me, which helps build cross-world animated avatars, raised a $56M Series B led by a16z, following a $13M Series A in January 2022 — Last week, Mark Zuckerberg was roundly mocked for the bad graphics in his preview of a new expansion of Horizon Worlds, Meta's metaverse effort.
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Xiaolang Zhang, a former Apple employee accused of stealing Apple's car project trade secrets, pleads guilty and faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250K fine — - Xiaolang Zhang, a former Apple employee who was accused of stealing computer files with trade secrets about Apple's secretive car division …
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| Jane Croft / Financial Times: |
Sony faces a UK class action lawsuit, seeking up to £5B, over claims it breached competition laws by overcharging PlayStation customers, covering 8.9M gamers — Company is being sued over allegations it overcharged millions of customers — Sony PlayStation is being sued …
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| Sergio Goschenko / Bitcoin News: |
Binance's CCO says hackers used an “AI hologram” to impersonate him during video calls to scam crypto projects into believing they would be listed on Binance — A set of hackers managed to impersonate Binance chief communications officer (CCO) Patrick Hillmann in a series …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft is putting more ads in Outlook for iOS and Android for users of its free services; ads appear at the top of inbox and look like real emails — Free users can avoid most of them by using Focused Inbox — Microsoft has started putting more ads in Outlook mobile for iOS and Android in recent months.
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| Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal: |
Intel signs an unusual $30B agreement with Canadian asset manager Brookfield to help fund its factory expansion plans; the companies will split future revenue — Funding arrangement could be first of many such partnerships as U.S. chip giant expands manufacturing, Intel CFO says
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| Ash Parrish / The Verge: |
Twitch lifts its long-standing partner exclusivity requirement, letting partners stream on YouTube, Facebook Live, and other platforms with some conditions — Partners will be able to stream on other platforms but multicasting will be limited to mobile platforms like TikTok| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Meta learned the FTC opposed its Within acquisition via a tweet, highlighting Lina Khan's more adversarial stance; the FTC never sought sworn testimony — Meta Platforms Inc. learned that the US Federal Trade Commission was suing the company over one of its smaller acquisitions via a Twitter post.
Tweets: @rstephens and @leah_nylen
| Monika Plaha / BBC: |
An investigation uncovered a now-deleted subreddit where users were sharing, trading, and selling explicit images and private details of women without consent — Women are facing threats and blackmail from a mob of anonymous strangers after their personal details, intimate photos and videos … Sponsor Posts
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