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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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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Twitter is rolling out a pop-up feature that lets users add an emoji reaction to a Direct Message, similar to a feature in iMessage — Twitter is taking a page out of Apple's playbook with its latest messaging feature. The social network announced today that it is rolling out support …
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| Paul Kiel / ProPublica: |
Inside the IRS's 8-year audit into Microsoft after the company sold its IP to a factory it owns in Puerto Rico to reduce tax rate on US profits from ~35% to ~2% — For years, the company has moved billions in profits to Puerto Rico to avoid taxes. When the IRS pushed it to pay, Microsoft protested that the agency wasn't being nice.
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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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Tweets: @lukolejnik, @robinberjon, @errorinn, @ndnajnz, @patrickmcgee_, @financialtimes, @salzano, and @financialtimes
| 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
| 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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Computerworld, Engadget, 9to5Google, TechSpot, Thurrott, The Verge, GitHub, AskWoody, SiliconANGLE, CNET, LaptopMag, PCWorld, Windows Central, WinBuzzer, OnMSFT.com, BleepingComputer, Neowin, and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @campuscodi, @maryjofoley, @jukkan, @jonhoneyball, and @whatthebit
| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Epic Systems, a leading provider of digital medical records, calls on large hospitals to oppose proposed US rules that would open up access to patient records — - Epic Systems is urging its health system customers to take a stand against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' proposed rules …
Tweets: @chrissyfarr, @erictopol, @thepatientsside, @claudiawilliams, @benmoscovitch, @rajratwani, @dpatil, @onceupona, @rakeshlobster, @arjunsethi, @xamat, @jschuurmd, @timihealth, @kentbottles, @andreyostrovsky, and @dvlamoen. Thanks:@mattrosoff
| Politico: |
Interview with David Cicilline, the chairman of the House subcommittee on antitrust, on his approach to investigation of Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon — Practically everybody in Washington is mad at Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google. David Cicilline might actually do something about it.
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BIG by Matt Stoller. Tweets: @politico, @danmcgowan, @johndepetroshow, @_andyboardman, @politicopress, @creativefuture, @hleveyfriedman, and @matthewstoller
| Miles Parks / NPR: |
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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The Seattle Times, Axios, Wired, Telecoms.com, SiliconANGLE, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, The Verge, VICE, CNET, TechSpot, and Yahoo Finance
Tweets: @bradleytusk, @seanrobinson1e4, @godwinmeter, @davidcmurphy, @dansolomon, @willoremus, and @npr
| 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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Tweets: @nongaap, @kurtwagner8, @niubi, @taylorlorenz, @kurtwagner8, @joshconstine, and @kurtwagner8
| Mike Minotti / VentureBeat: |
Game studio Playful Studios, which raised $23M from a host of individual investors in August, says it is laying off a significant portion of its full-time staff — Playful Corp. announced today that it is laying off a significant portion of its full-time staff today.
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Playful Studios, GameSpot, GamesIndustry.biz, and Gamasutra
Tweets: @videogamelayoff, @playfulthor, @victor_lucas, @klobrille, and @kynanpearson
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