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Signal received federal subpoena with gag order earlier this year, demanding IP addresses, browsing histories, cookies, and more, but could hand over little — SAN FRANCISCO — It has been six months since the Justice Department backed off on demands that Apple help the F.B.I. break the security of a locked iPhone.| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Twitter board consulting advisers on how to deal with internal disagreement over possible sale, with Ev Williams in favor of and Dorsey against it — A few days before Twitter's Sept. 8 board meeting, as the company's finance team readied a presentation, it received conflicting directions on a crucial question.
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Johnson & Johnson warns of vulnerability in 114K insulin pumps across USA and Canada that could cause overdose if exploited — Johnson & Johnson is telling patients that it has learned of a security vulnerability in one of its insulin pumps that a hacker could exploit to overdose diabetic patients … | Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
Government directive to Yahoo likely asked for warrantless scanning of all domestic comms; EFF lawyer says 4th Amendment implications are staggering — There's no good reason to have a Yahoo account these days. But after Tuesday's bombshell report by Reuters, indicating the enormous …
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Sources: Yahoo built system in 2015 to scan users' emails for specific string for US intel, which led to Alex Stamos resigning and noting privacy flaw in system — Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers' incoming emails for specific information provided …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Facebook Messenger has finished rolling out “Secret Conversations” to all 900M+ users for opt-in end-to-end encryption, available in its latest update — Last spring WhatsApp pushed out code adding a new layer of security to a billion users' apps, creating the largest end-to-end encrypted messaging network in history.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Scratch testing suggests iPhone camera lens exterior may not be as hard as pure sapphire, which is claimed by Apple — Apple has been using sapphire on its iPhone camera lenses for a few years now since the launch of the iPhone 5S, but it might not be as scratch resistant as you'd expect.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon rolls out Prime Reading, giving Prime members free access to more than 1,000 books and magazines — Amazon has unveiled the latest perk for Prime members in the U.S.: access to “over a thousand” Kindle books, comics, magazines, and more. — With Prime Reading, those paying …
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| David Cardinal / DxOMark: |
DxOMark gives the Google Pixel's camera a score of 89, the highest ever and three points above the iPhone 7 — Mobile Review — Overview — With an overall DxOMark Mobile score of 89, pixel, the latest Google smartphone, is the highest-rated smartphone camera we have ever tested.
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Google says it has “no plans” for more Nexus-branded products — With the announcement of Google's new Pixel and Pixel XL today, there has been the question of what's happening to the long-running Nexus hardware program, which started in 2010 with the Nexus One and has been comprised …
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Google unveils $129 Google Wi-Fi modular router, with packs of three available for $299; pre-orders open in November, will ship in December — At a press event in San Francisco today, Google announced a completely new product, the Google Wifi router. The introduction comes a few weeks …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Akamai buys Soha Systems, which had just raised $10M from a16z, Menlo Ventures, others, to add more security to its cloud networking business — Consolidation continues to work its way through the world of enterprise startups. Today Akamai announced that it has acquired Soha Systems in an all-cash deal.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google debuts Home, their Echo competitor, with free 6-mo. YouTube Red subscription, Assistant and Cast integration; ships Nov. 4 for $129, pre-orders open now — Google Home, the company's answer to Amazon's Echo, made its official debut at the Google I/O developer conference earlier this year.| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Hands-on: Daydream View has perfect image focusing, a controller that senses its position well-enough, and great ergonomics with a comfy cloth exterior — It's more high-tech than it looks — When Google revealed its Cardboard virtual reality platform back in 2014, it launched an endless series …
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Sources: Amazon in talks with EU regulators to settle antitrust probe into e-book contracts with publishers — Bloomberg Anywhere Remote LoginBloomberg Anywhere Login — Settlement talks with Amazon and publishers at an early stage — EU concerned that Amazon contracts may harm rival retailers
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