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Researchers bypass Apple's Activation Lock on iPhone and iPad running the latest version of iOS — Researchers have found a bug that can be used to bypass Apple's Activation Lock feature and gain access to the homescreen of locked iPhones and iPads running the latest version of iOS.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
AirDroid, a remote management app with 10M+ Play Store downloads, uses a static and easily detectable encryption key leaving users vulnerable to MITM attacks — For six months, the remote management app has opened users to code-execution attacks. — For at least the past six months … | Alex Heath / Business Insider: |
Sources: Facebook is working on Collections, a feature to showcase lists of curated content from publishers directly in the News Feed — Facebook is working on a new feature that will showcase lists of curated content from publishers directly in the News Feed, according to two people familiar …
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FCC reaches preliminary conclusion that AT&T is violating net neutrality with DirecTV data cap exemption — Verizon also in trouble with FCC over charging competitors for zero-rating. — The Federal Communications Commission has reached a preliminary conclusion that AT&T …
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| Geoffrey Smith / Fortune: |
Airbnb will limit entire home rentals to 60 days a year in Amsterdam and 90 days in London, unless hosts have a license to rent for longer — Home-sharing firm Airbnb said it will for the first time impose fixed limits on the number of nights a year that hosts can rent out their homes through its site in Amsterdam and London.
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Wall Street Journal, london.airbnbcitizen.com, TheStreet.com, Amsterdam.nl, GeekWire, CNET, Associated Press, Morning Consult, City A.M., London Evening Standard, BelfastTelegraph.co.uk, amsterdam.airbnbcitizen.com, The Hill, GeekWire, BBC, Bloomberg, Mashable, Engadget, and Business Insider
Tweets: @nealkwatra and @kfrenken
| David Ruddock / Android Police: |
Steve Kondik leaves Cyanogen Inc., blames co-founder and CEO Kirt McMaster for company's troubles, ponders what's next for CyanogenMod — Steve Kondik has left a statement about the rather troubling news coming out of Cyanogen Inc. this week on the [private] official CyanogenMod developer Google+ community …
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cyngn.com, AndroidGuys, Inquirer, Droid Life, PhoneArena, Android Beat, and Gear. Tweets: @cyanogen
| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Avalanche, a 7-year-old botnet used for malware and phishing attacks, dismantled in global cyber operation; officials sinkhole 800K domains, seize 50 servers — At one point, Avalanche network was responsible for two-thirds of all phishing attacks. — [Update, 3:00 PM EDT …
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Tweets: @zcobb, @europol, @arstechnicauk, @josephfcox, and @nca_uk
| Kim Zetter / The Intercept: |
Internet Archive and EFF fend off FBI national security letter that demanded records of an Internet Archive user, and came with an everlasting gag order — A decade ago, the FBI sent Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, a now-infamous type of subpoena known as a National Security Letter …
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| Hamza Shaban / BuzzFeed: |
Secure messaging app Signal's downloads increase 400% after Trump's win, amid anxiety over the future of US surveillance — “I think there's a lot of fear, given Trump's alarming statements about surveillance and his penchant for revenge, that he will attempt to use surveillance to crush dissent."| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: key executive for Apple health initiatives, Yoky Matsuoka, has left the company after joining in May — Yoky Matsuoka joined Apple in May to help lead health projects — Previously co-founded Google X, ran technology at Nest Labs — Yoky Matsuoka, who joined Apple Inc … | Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Survey of 700+ startup founders: 31% don't intend to IPO, 67% now say VCs have more negotiating power — First Round Capital just published its second-ever State of Startups report, and it's chock full of interesting sentiments from a survey of more than 700 founders …
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First Round Capltal, Christian News …, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, and Recode
Tweets: @joshk, @barkowconsult, @chrismaddern, @rezendi, @jberiker, and @sean_a_rose
| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Plex adds support for Google Drive, OneDrive, and DropBox to its paid Plex Cloud service while acknowledging problems with Amazon Cloud Drive integration — Plex has added support for Google Drive, OneDrive and DropBox to its Plex Cloud service. The original idea with the service …
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