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| Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian: |
Sources: analysis shows a message from Saudi Crown Prince MbS' WhatsApp account to Jeff Bezos in 2018 included file “highly” likely to have hacked Bezos' phone — Exclusive: investigation suggests Washington Post owner was targeted five months before murder of Jamal Khashoggi
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| VICE: |
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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Business Insider and Vox
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| Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian: |
UN special rapporteurs say they are “gravely concerned” about the alleged hacking of Jeff Bezos' phone by Saudi's MbS, calling for further investigations — Special rapporteurs ‘gravely concerned’ about possible involvement of crown prince in surveillance of Amazon boss
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OHCHR, Wall Street Journal, The Daily Beast, New York Times, Business Insider, CyberScoop, The Hill, The Verge, Reuters, Reuters, Politico, Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, Fortune, and New York Post
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
UN experts say Saudis likely used NSO Group's Pegasus mobile spyware to hack Jeff Bezos' phone in May 2018, six months after the Saudis obtained the spyware — United Nations experts are calling for an investigation after a forensic report said Saudi officials “most likely” …
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Business Insider, Yahoo Finance, and Business Insider
Tweets: @ashleymayer, @beckpeterson, @rj_gallagher, and @alexstamos
| Bloomberg: |
Source: the new low-cost iPhone, which looks like iPhone 8 and has a 4.7" screen, will enter production in February and may be announced as early as March — - New model will look similar to 2017's iPhone 8 with Touch ID — Apple expected to launch the 4.7-inch phone as early as March
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Tweets: @carlquintanilla and @technology
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
GM's Cruise unveils Origin, its first driverless vehicle with no steering wheel or pedals, says it will share more info about its production plans in the future — The Origin is the GM subsidiary's first attempt to build an fully autonomous car from the ground up
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Cruise, Cruise, TechCrunch, TechSpot, Silicon Valley Business …, CNBC, Bloomberg, PYMNTS.com, MIT Technology Review, Axios, Digital Trends, KnowTechie, The Robot Report, Engadget, Financial Times, Associated Press, Mashable, BBC, Jalopnik, Car and Driver, Yahoo Finance, Electrek, TechCrunch, and The Last Driver License Holder
Tweets: @cruise, @soengle, @andyjayhawk, @scobleizer, and @ejwalters
| Miles Parks / NPR: |
In a first for the US, a district encompassing Greater Seattle will let 1.2M voters cast votes on smartphones in a February 11 election — Toggle more options — A district encompassing Greater Seattle is set to become the first in which every voter can cast a ballot using a smartphone — a historic moment for American democracy.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Microsoft will forcibly install the Bing extension in Chrome for Office 365 ProPlus users starting mid-February, to change the default search engine 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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The Verge, Windows Central, BleepingComputer, Thurrott, GitHub, AskWoody, WinBuzzer, OnMSFT.com, Neowin, and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @whatthebit, @maryjofoley, and @campuscodi
| 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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The Amazon Blog, Reuters, Thurrott, Yahoo Finance, Android Central, Input, and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @stevekopack
| Michael Hayes / OneZero: |
FOIA docs: law enforcement in over 11 states, including CA, FL, and NY, spent $4M+ over the past decade on software and devices that can break into smartphones — While the FBI requests ‘backdoor’ iPhone access, documents indicate law enforcement already has easy access to encrypted devices| 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.| 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, The Hill, and BBC
Tweets: @natashanyt, @iconews, @natashanyt, @katrina_hrm, and @annelongfield
| Netflix IR: |
Netflix Q4 revenue grew 31% YoY to $5.467B and net income rose to $587M, surpassing 100M paid memberships outside the US; global paid net additions totaled 8.8M — Fellow shareholders, We had a strong finish to 2019, with Q4 revenue growing 31% year over year, bringing full year 2019 revenue …
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