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US officials say ToTok, a chat app gaining popularity around the world, is a spying tool by the government of UAE; Google and Apple have now removed the app — ToTok, an Emirati messaging app that has been downloaded to millions of phones, is the latest escalation of a digital arms race.
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| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Twitter blocks animated PNGs, saying a bug had allowed them, and that they did not respect autoplay settings so could be used to harm people sensitive to motion — Twitter will no longer animate PNG files after trolls hijacked the Epilepsy Foundation's handle and hashtags last month …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Dish increases price of both Sling TV packages, Orange and Blue, by $5 to $30/month, gives all users 10 hours of cloud-based DVR storage and additional channels — The cheap days of Sling TV are over — The cheap days of Sling TV are over. Dish's internet TV service is raising the price …
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Sources: Bytedance is considering setting up a global headquarters for TikTok outside of China, as part of its effort to shake off its Chinese image — Singapore, London and Dublin are among cities being considered; no U.S. city made shortlist — Bytedance Inc. is considering setting …
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| CNBC: |
Mike Bloomberg created a tech company called Hawkfish that's helping his 2020 campaign and employs ex-Facebook CMO Gary Briggs and ex-Foursquare CEO Jeff Glueck — - A technology company called Hawkfish, with former executives from Facebook and Foursquare, is helping Bloomberg's 2020 presidential bid.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers: unpatched flaws in Citrix products leave 80,000+ businesses potentially vulnerable to unauthorized network access; Cisco shares steps to mitigate — A newly discovered vulnerability impacting the Citrix Application Delivery Controller (NetScaler ADC) and the Citrix Gateway …
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| ProPublica: |
Sources show how Amazon repeatedly delayed or scrapped investments in common industry practices like onroad safety training, as it built out its driver network — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.
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| Max Rivlin-Nadler / The Intercept: |
Emails show how ICE uses datasets from data brokers like Thomson Reuters alongside social media sleuthing to track down suspected illegal immigrants — Emails sent by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials expose how ICE used social media and information gleaned by for-profit data brokers …
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| The Verge: |
The 84 biggest flops, fails, and dead dreams of the 2010s, from the Fire phone and Google Glass to the undoing of net neutrality in the US — A decade of failures — The world never changes quite the way you expect. But at The Verge, we've had a front-row seat while technology …
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| Wired: |
San Francisco's surveillance law, which banned city agencies from using facial recognition in May, has been amended to allow for Face ID on city-issued iPhones — San Francisco quietly amends its municipal surveillance law to allow for Apple's Face ID, though the ban on facial recognition still applies.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
DraftKings to go public via a reverse merger with a special purpose acquisition company and SBTech sports betting tech platform, targeting a $3.3B valuation — DraftKings on Monday announced that it will go public via a reverse merger with a blank-check acquisition company called Diamond Eagle …
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| New York Times: |
Simply carrying a smartphone to a political rally could tie its owner to the event in commercial datasets, thanks to the realtime tracking tech in mundane apps — IN FOOTAGE FROM DRONES hovering above, the nighttime streets of Hong Kong look almost incandescent, a constellation of tens …
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