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US AG and officials from UK and Australia call on Facebook to stop plans for end-to-end encryption across its messaging apps, citing public safety risks — Attorney General Bill Barr, along with officials from the United Kingdom and Australia, is set to publish an open letter …
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Report: attackers are exploiting an Android zero-day vulnerability, giving them control of ~18 phone models, including four Pixel models, via a malicious app — Vulnerable phones include 4 Pixel models, devices from Samsung, Motorola, and others. — Attackers are exploiting a zero … | Financial Times: |
US and UK sign the first-ever bilateral data access agreement, enabled by the Cloud Act, to speed up court-approved data exchanges for criminal investigations — Police and intelligence agencies are to be given expedited access to electronic communications sent by terrorists …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram launches Threads, a Close Friends-only messaging app with auto-status based on location, accelerometer, and battery level, globally on iOS and Android — What if Instagram could automatically tell you're Close Friends you're 🏠 (home), 🤓 (working), 🚗 …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TikTok says it is banning political ads because they don't fit with its “positive, refreshing environment” — Already under fire for advancing Chinese foreign policy by censoring topics like Hong Kong's protests and pro-LGBT content, the Beijing-based video app TikTok …
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Sources: Italian prosecutors probe Netflix for not filing a tax return, claim the company has a physical presence in the country due to its cables and servers — - Country has been cracking down on multinationals over tax — Southern Europe is key to U.S. streaming giant's growth
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| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Bird raises $275M Series D led by CDPQ and Sequoia Capital, sources say, at a $2.5B pre-money valuation — Bird has closed a $275 million Series D round led by CDPQ and Sequoia Capital, Bird CEO Travis VanderZanden announced at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco today.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Source and regulatory filings indicate that Apple may have acquired IKinema, a UK-based startup developing motion capture animation tech used in games and VR — Apple may have recently acquired UK-based motion capture company IKinema, based on evidence from company filings and information shared by a MacRumors reader.
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| Nico Grant / Bloomberg: |
HP Inc. says it plans to cut 7,000 to 9,000 positions, or as much as 16% of its workforce, as it prepares for a CEO transition in November — - Fiscal 2020 adjusted profit to be $2.22 to $2.32 per share — PC giant boosts share buybacks by $5 billion, dividend by 10%
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Judges accepted the rationale that offering DNS and caching makes broadband an information service, allowing the FCC to reclassify it from telecommunications — Judges reluctantly accepted claim that broadband isn't “telecommunications.” — The Federal Communications Commission … | Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple to launch the iPhone SE 2 in Q1 2020 with an iPhone 8-like design and an A13 chip — Apple is set to launch the next version of the iPhone SE 2 in the first quarter of 2020, according to renowned Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The new phone will be more affordable …
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| Judd Legum / Popular Information: |
Facebook now only prohibits ads whose misinfo is fact-checked, but won't pass political ads to fact-checkers for review, effectively allowing lies in those ads — This is the online version of the Popular Information newsletter. You can get independent accountability journalism in your inbox every week.
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