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Investigation finds that Facebook has been paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN to gather data on phone use habits on Android and iOS — Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” …
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Source: Apple has shut down Facebook's ability to distribute internal iOS apps, blocking early releases of Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger — Facebook's internal iOS apps simply don't launch anymore — Apple has shut down Facebook's ability to distribute internal iOS apps …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Apple says it banned Facebook's Research app yesterday, before Facebook could voluntarily shut it down, and condemns “clear breach of their agreement” — In the wake of TechCrunch's investigation yesterday, Apple blocked Facebook's Research VPN app before the social network could voluntarily shut it down.
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Sources detail UAE's Project Raven, a group of 12+ ex-US intel operatives that help surveil governments, militants, and critics, sometimes using NSA tactics — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two weeks after leaving her position as an intelligence analyst for the U.S. National Security Agency in 2014 …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: UAE hacked iPhones of activists, diplomats, and rival foreign leaders using a spying tool called Karma, which exploited an iMessage vulnerability — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A team of former U.S. government intelligence operatives working for the United Arab Emirates hacked …
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| Apple: |
Apple Q1: revenue from iPhone declined 15% YoY, but total revenue from all other products and services grew 19%; services revenue hit an all-time high of $10.9B — Services, Mac and Wearables Set New All-Time Revenue Records EPS Reaches All-Time High at $4.18 Cupertino, California …
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp hires EFF counsel Nate Cardozo and Facebook hires Open Technology Institute counsel Robyn Green, both as privacy policy managers — In an effort to bolster its public credibility in the wake of a very rough year, Facebook is bringing a fierce former critic into the fold.
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| Tom Bissell / New York Times: |
Zucked, a book by early Facebook investor Roger McNamee, details Facebook's damage to society, the dystopia it created, and advocates breaking up its monopoly — ZUCKED — Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe — The dystopia George Orwell conjured up in “1984” wasn't a prediction.
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| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
Spam monitoring service Hiya: Americans received 26.3B robocalls in 2018, up 46% from '17; FCC said it got 52,000 complaints regarding Caller ID spoofing in '18 — Americans are now getting so many robo-calls on a regular basis that many are simply choosing not to answer the phone altogether.| Apple: |
Apple Music subscribers can stream music without paying for Wi-Fi on domestic American Airlines flights in the US starting February 1 — Apple Music Subscribers can Stream Over 50 Million Songs, Playlists and Music Videos on US Flights — Starting Friday, Apple Music subscribers can enjoy …
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| Business Wire: |
Alibaba Q3: revenue up 41% YoY, its weakest pace in three years, to ~$17B, driven by cloud computing revenue, up 84% YoY at $962M; net income up 33% to $4.5B — HANGZHOU, China—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE: BABA) today announced its financial results for the quarter ended December 31, 2018.
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| Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: |
A mother reported FaceTime bug to Apple over a week ago after her 14-year-old son discovered the flaw; Apple asked her to send report via developer account — SAN FRANCISCO — On Jan. 19, Grant Thompson, a 14-year-old in Arizona, made an unexpected discovery: Using FaceTime …
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| Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss / Reuters: |
CipherTrace: the amount of cryptocurrencies stolen from exchanges and scammed from investors surged 400%+ in 2018 to $1.7B — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cryptocurrencies stolen from exchanges and scammed from investors surged more than 400 percent in 2018 to around $1.7 billion …
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| Reuters: |
Foxconn is reconsidering plans for its $10B Wisconsin plant, says it plans to hire engineers and researchers instead of manufacturing workforce promised earlier — (Reuters) - Foxconn Technology Group is reconsidering plans to make advanced liquid crystal display panels at a $10 billion Wisconsin campus …
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
IBM releases its Diversity in Faces (DiF) image set, comprised of 1M faces taken from a 100M image data set, to help reduce bias in AI — Encoding biases into machine learning models, and in general into the constructs we refer to as AI, is nearly inescapable — but we can sure do better than we have in past years.| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Health insurance firm Clover Health, which uses health and behavioral data to lower costs, raises $500M led by Greenoaks Capital, bringing total raised to $925M — Despite a number of well-publicized hiccups, venture capitalists are betting another $500 million on health insurance provider Clover Health, TechCrunch has learned.
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| Tal Shahaf / Globes Online: |
Israeli startup Pliops, which develops cloud storage processors, raises $30M Series B led by Softbank Ventures Asia — Pliops will use the funds to accelerate development of its storage processor technology for cloud storage and database applications. — Israeli cloud storage solutions …
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