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Leaked FTI Consulting report: investigators found a suspicious encrypted file on Jeff Bezos' iPhone, causing data transfers to jump by ~29,000%, but no malware — A report investigating the potential hack of Jeff Bezos' iPhone indicates that forensic investigators found a suspicious file but no evidence of any malware on the phone.
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UN special rapporteurs say they are “gravely concerned” about the alleged hacking of Jeff Bezos' phone by Saudi's MbS, calling for further investigations — ‘Grave concern’ expressed at evidence of possible ‘effort to silence Washington Post’ — UN experts are demanding …
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| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
Google says it found five separate flaws in Apple's Intelligent Tracking Prevention tool for Safari that lets users' browsing behavior be tracked — Google researchers have exposed details of multiple security flaws in its rival Apple's Safari web browser that allowed users' browsing behaviour …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Microsoft to forcibly install the Bing extension in Chrome for Office 365 ProPlus enterprise customers from mid-February, to change the default search to Bing — Microsoft will change the default search engine in Chrome from Google to Bing for its Office 365 ProPlus customers starting mid-February.
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| Shaun Raviv / Wired: |
An in-depth look at the long history of facial recognition, focusing on Woody Bledsoe, a University of Texas professor working in the 1960s backed by the CIA — Sixty years ago, a sharecropper's son invented a technology to identify faces. Then the record of his role all but vanished.
Tweets: @katecrawford and @dgolumbia
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In a first for the US, a district encompassing Greater Seattle will let ~1.2M voters cast ballots via smartphones for an upcoming board of supervisors election — Toggle more options — A district encompassing Greater Seattle is set to become the first in which every voter can cast …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: ByteDance is seeking a US-based CEO for TikTok and has interviewed candidates; current head Alex Zhu may still manage product and engineering in China — - Video app has come under fire in U.S. as security threat — Chinese internet giant ByteDance Inc. is seeking …
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| Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: |
Amazon says Amazon Music has 55M users across six different price tiers, including a free tier, “nearly all” of which are paying subscribers — Amazon's music streaming service has eclipsed 55m users, making the ecommerce group a serious contender in the market that has been historically dominated by Spotify and Apple.
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Email collaboration startup Front raises $59M Series C led by a group of CEOs from Atlassian, Okta, Qualtrics, and Zoom, following its $66M Series B in 2018 — Front, an email collaboration startup, announced this morning it has closed on a $59 million Series C that quadruples its valuation.
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Tweets: @firstround, @lucasmtny, @teddyschleifer, @alexrkonrad, @ycombinator, and @jeff
| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
UK government proposes sweeping changes to privacy protections for those under 18, requiring platforms turn on heightened privacy settings by default and more — New rules will require online services to overhaul how they treat the personal details of children in the country.
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ico.org.uk, TechCrunch, Financial Times, The Hill, Engadget, and BBC
Tweets: @natashanyt, @iconews, @annelongfield, @natashanyt, @privacymatters, and @katrina_hrm
| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Federal filings: Google spent ~$150M on lobbying over the past decade in the US, followed by Facebook with ~$81M, and Amazon at nearly $80M — Federal disclosures filed late Tuesday reveal Amazon and Facebook each spent roughly $17 million to battle back Washington in 2019.
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The Seattle Times, Boing Boing, CNET, and CNBC
Tweets: @joshsternberg, @gtp_updates, @hawleymo, @cnbc, and @tonyromm
| Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter: |
Disney sold its FoxNext video game unit, which it acquired with 21st Century Fox's entertainment assets, to Scopely, a Culver City-based mobile game developer — The company is selling the FoxNext video game development studio to the Culver City-based mobile game developer.
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