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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Checkm8 creator says his iPhone exploit requires physical device access and lacks persistence after reboot, but will make jailbreaking more accessible and safer — Unpatchable vulnerability is a game-changer that even Apple will be unable to stop. — Often, when new iOS jailbreaks become public, the event is bitter-sweet.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researcher claims he found “a permanent unpatchable bootrom exploit” for iOS devices with A5 to A11 chips, enabling jailbreaks for iPhone 4S to X, releases code — New jailbreak will work on iPhones 4S up to iPhone 8 and X. — A security researcher has released today …
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| Alex Stamos / @alexstamos: |
[Thread] New UK-US treaty grants UK courts options similar to those of the US for obtaining message content, but won't change the status quo on E2E encryption — It's really early on a Sunday, so while I sip my coffee I'm also going to try to clear up a lot of confusion about the CLOUD Act created by poor reporting by The Times (of London) and Bloomberg. Here is the original, incorrect story: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/...
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| Dina Temple-Raston / NPR: |
How NSA and US Cyber Command undertook the largest and longest offensive cyber operation in US military history to disrupt ISIS's media operations in 2016 — Toggle more options — The crowded room was awaiting one word: “Fire.” — Everyone was in uniform; there were scheduled briefings … | Kim Phillips-Fein / New Republic: |
A look at historian Margaret O'Mara's new book The Code, which traces how our uneasy present deviated from the rosy future the tech industry promised — Tech was meant to help us transcend our most intractable problems. What went wrong? — Add to Pocket
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| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
AI research increasingly requires datacenter-scale computation, raising concerns that only a few big tech companies will dominate advances in the field — Each big step of progress in computing — from mainframe to personal computer to internet to smartphone — has opened opportunities …
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Tweets: @gavinsbaker, @bindureddy, @nytimesbusiness, and @gerrymcgovern
| Matthew Green / A Few Thoughts …: |
Snowden's revelations exposed the breadth and scale of NSA's surveillance and likely contributed to the NSA losing a significant portion of its capabilities — Edward Snowden recently released his memoirs. In some parts of the Internet, this has rekindled an ancient debate: namely, was it all worth it?
Tweets: @shashj
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Venezuela is evaluating if it can count cryptocurrencies, like bitcoin it may have received from oil sales, toward the country's international reserves — - Central bank to decide if crypto can count as foreign reserves — Government hampered by sanctions that limit access to dollars
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CryptoGlobe, CryptoSlate, Inc42 Media, Micky, Blockonomi, Trustnodes, NewsBTC, Bitcoinist.com, BTCMANAGER, and CoinGeek
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| Mimi Billing / Sifted: |
A profile of Denmark-based independent consumer review platform Trustpilot, which has raised €162M and has 65M reviews of businesses worldwide — With 65m reviews, Trustpilot is learning to spot the fakes and fight back with the help of algorithms. — Would you ever book an Airbnb stay without checking the scores of the host?
Tweets: @mimibilling and @mstothard
| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
Ring cameras, while helping to reduce crimes, also normalize constant property monitoring, and make people fearful of living in their own communities — Consumer surveillance cameras are everywhere now, and they're capturing moments we otherwise would never know have happened.| Vikas SN / The Economic Times: |
Netflix is experimenting in India with making the first episode of its latest Indian original series available to non-subscribers, amid growing competition — Netflix is making available the first episode of its latest India original series ‘Bard Of Blood’ to non-members in the country for a limited time …
Tweets: @refsrc, @sub8u, @shukla_tarun, and @tsuvik
| Wall Street Journal: |
Influencer marketing ad spend on Instagram reportedly grew to $265M in North America in Q1 2019, up 62% YoY, threatening the platform's originality and appeal — The draw of 1 billion monthly users has spawned an aggressive behind-the-scenes advertising economy that threatens the site's originality and appeal
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