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Johns Hopkins researchers find an iMessage bug that allows attackers to decrypt photos and videos on older iOS versions — Johns Hopkins researchers poke a hole in Apple's encryption — Apple's growing arsenal of encryption techniques — shielding data on devices as well as real …
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Tweets: @secparam, @csoghoian, @glennf and @kennwhite
Thanks:@cauchon| Annalee Newitz / Ars Technica: |
Facebook “multicultural affinity” ad targeting guesses user's race based on behavior, used to serve different Straight Outta Compton film trailers — Facebook's ad platform now guesses at your race based on your behavior — Company profiles users so Facebook can sell against their “ethnic affinity.”
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How the White House, initially receptive to Apple's arguments for strong encryption, came to support the FBI — The Behind-the-Scenes Fight Between Apple and the FBI — On June 2, 2014, Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook took the stage at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference … | Adrian Lee / Maclean's: |
Geoffrey Hinton, the “godfather of neural networks” on the importance of AlphaGo's use of intuition, why humans shouldn't fear AI, and what AI can take on next — The meaning of AlphaGo, the AI program that beat a Go champ — In the right circles, it had all the buzz … | Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed: |
How hackers and pirates worked together to locate and steal millions of dollars in diamonds from cargo ships — How Pirates And Hackers Worked Together To Steal Millions Of Dollars In Diamonds — A tanker travels through the Singapore Strait July 7, 2014.| Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
How 21-year-old Opera sold for $1.2B and why CEO Lars Boilesen and CTO Håkon Wium Lie are ambivalent about it — Opera's $1.2B sale: Shocking underdog victory or cruel twist of fate 21 years in the making? — The news that Norway's Opera Software accepted a $1.2 billion buyout offer … | Michael Weissenstein / Associated Press: |
Airbnb in Cuba now available to all, not just US-based travelers, after special authorization from the Obama administration — Online Lodging Service Airbnb Opens Cuba Listings To World — HAVANA (AP) — Online lodging service Airbnb is allowing travelers from around the world to book stays …
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The Verge, Engadget, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Financial Times, Fortune, New York Times and Travel Weekly
Tweets: @airbnb and @mweissenstein
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
GoDaddy launches AWS-style servers and apps to build, test and scale cloud services — GoDaddy, the web hosting and domain registration company that went public last year, is adding new cloud services to grow the revenues it makes from the 14 million small businesses that make up the majority of its customer base.
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| Lee Gomes / IEEE Spectrum: |
Google's Chris Urmson envisions decades-long incremental rollout of self-driving cars, beginning in locations with good weather and easy driving conditions — Google Self-Driving Car Will Be Ready Soon for Some, in Decades for Others — If you're one of the millions of people pining …
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ResearchBuzz, YouTube and The Next Web
| John Callaham / Windows Central: |
Microsoft plans to offer tool to port Chrome extensions to Edge browser — Windows Insider members can try out a few extensions in Microsoft Edge on the PC version of Windows 10, with more promised in the future. However, a lot more could find their way to Edge if Microsoft sticks to a plan …
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Tech Times, Fone Arena, Engadget, Softpedia News, Modern Readers, Ubergizmo, BetaNews, Digital Trends, WinBeta and eWeek
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Mattermark announces $7.3M Series B at a $42M valuation, led by Foundry Group, which also led their Series A; company now emphasizing sales intelligence service — Sales research startup Mattermark raises $7.3 million, now valued at $42 million — Mattermark, which has evolved rapidly … | Reuters: |
US Supreme Court agrees to hear Samsung's appeal in Apple patent case — U.S. top court agrees to hear Samsung-Apple patent fight — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday stepped into the high-profile patent fight between the world's two fiercest smartphone rivals, Apple and Samsung …
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