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Instagram is working on a version of the service suitable for kids under 13; source: the work will be led by Pavni Diwanji, a VP who joined Facebook in December — Executives at Instagram are planning to build a version of the popular photo-sharing app that can be used by children under the age of 13 …
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Mark Zuckerberg on Clubhouse says Facebook may be in a “stronger position” after Apple's IDFA changes and that Facebook Shops has 1M+ monthly active businesses — - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday said he is confident the social media company “will be able to manage through” Apple's upcoming privacy changes.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says it is testing a way for its iOS users to watch YouTube videos in their timelines, in the US, Japan, Canada, and Saudi Arabia — Shortly after Twitter announced it would begin testing a better way to display images on its app, it's now doing the same for YouTube videos.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
A Russian who flew to the US to try to bribe a Tesla employee to plant malware on the carmaker's network takes plea deal, could face 4-10 month prison sentence — A Russian national who traveled to the US in order to recruit a Tesla employee for a scheme to plant malware …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Project Zero: the same hackers that used 4 Windows and Android zero-days in Feb. 2020 have since used 7 more zero-days to target iOS, Windows, and Android — The breadth and abundance of exploits for unknown vulnerabilities sets group apart. — A team of advanced hackers exploited no fewer … | Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
A look at the origins of Clearview AI, which far-right activist Charles Johnson says he co-founded, as it is besieged by lawsuits and investigations — In May 2019, an agent at the Department of Homeland Security received a trove of unsettling images. Found by Yahoo in a Syrian user's account …
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NFL finalizes an 11-year media rights deal, with Amazon Prime Video as exclusive partner for Thursday Night Football; sources: Amazon is paying about $1B/year — - The new agreement runs through 2033 and will feature two Super Bowls returning to Disney's ABC network channel.
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| Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News: |
Facebook is working on a neural wristband that reads signals from brain to hands, to go along with its AR glasses; Bosworth insists it can't “read your brain” — Facebook is working on a new neural wristband that can read the electrical signals sent to your hands and send them to an augmented reality interface.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
In letter to FCC, Mozilla calls for a return to net neutrality, joined by Dropbox, Eventbrite, Reddit, Vimeo, and Wikimedia — - Firefox-maker Mozilla is leading a push for the Federal Communications Commission to swiftly reinstate net neutrality rules stripped away under the Trump administration.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Kuo: Apple's upcoming mixed reality headset will feature an advanced eye tracking system and potentially an iris recognition feature — Apple's upcoming mixed reality headset will be equipped with an advanced eye tracking system, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said this evening in a note to investors that was seen by MacRumors.| Financial Times: |
Sources: Apple sends cease and desist emails to Chinese apps testing CAID, which is designed to track users in spite of Apple's upcoming IDFA privacy changes — Chinese apps test multiple workarounds to keep tracking iPhones without prompting for consent — A cat-and-mouse game …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detail XcodeSpy, a custom version of open source backdoor EggShell that aims to spy on the Macs of iOS and other Apple OS developers — XcodeSpy uses malicious Xcode project to install the EggShell backdoor. — Researchers said they've found a trojanized code library in the wild …
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Facebook, which supported security keys on desktop since 2017, expands support to iOS and Android users — Facebook has supported security keys on desktop since 2017 and will now enable iOS and Android users to log in to their account via the physical key.
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| Robert Hackett / Fortune: |
OpenSea, a marketplace for NFTs, raises $23M Series A led by a16z Crypto, says $95M in digital merchandise was sold on the service in Feb., up from $8M in Jan. — When CryptoKitties roared onto the scene in 2017, most people regarded the collectible digital cats, which were tied to and encapsulated …
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| Reuters: |
Chinese autonomous driving startup Momenta raises $500M from SAIC Motor, Toyota Motor, Bosch, and others — BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese autonomous driving startup Momenta said on Friday it has received $500 million from SAIC Motor, Toyota Motor and auto parts supplier Bosch, as the global auto industry pursues the autonomous future.
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| Zeyi Yang / Protocol: |
Pushback in China against facial recognition may be emerging, as a state TV special on invasive practices used by two retail chains sparks backlash — Hundreds of thousands of surveillance cameras throughout China have been hoovering up facial recognition data without notifying the people attached to the faces.| Ryan Faughnder / Los Angeles Times: |
MPAA: global video subscriptions grew to 1.1B, up 26% YoY; global spending on home entertainment grew 23% YoY to $68.8B with digital entertainment making up 76% — The number of streaming service subscriptions passed 1 billion worldwide for the first time in 2020, highlighting massive growth … | Reuters: |
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