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Q&A with Alex Stamos on Apple's proposed child safety features, his reservations about the company's announcement and approach to child safety online — Earlier this month Apple dropped a privacy bombshell. After years of touting its strong commitment to privacy …
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Apple details its CSAM detection system, says it expects to set a match threshold of 30 known CSAM images before an iCloud account is flagged for manual review — Apple today shared a document that provides a more detailed overview of the child safety features that it first announced last week …
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T-Mobile investigates claims that hackers stole data from its servers, including phone numbers, names, SSNs, and driver's license info, related to 100M+ people — Hackers selling the data are claiming it affects 100 million users. — Joseph Cox — T-Mobile says it is investigating …
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| Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: |
Interview with Niantic CEO John Hanke about the company's vision for the metaverse and how it could become a dystopian nightmare — The metaverse, the concept of an alternative, shared digital world that originated in sci-fi, has bubbled up to the surface of tech chatter during the later days of the pandemic.
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Twitter says it is changing the contrast of its new buttons, as users complain about headaches after its redesign that some experts say isn't very accessible — After teasing its new font in January, Twitter made some major changes to its website and app design this week.
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In a new lawsuit, a US-based contractor claims Huawei stole its tech and pressured it to build a “back door” into a sensitive surveillance project in Pakistan — Small U.S. software maker alleges Chinese telecom giant sought live access to data in Pakistan; Huawei denies claim
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Facebook rolls out end-to-end encrypted voice and video calls on Messenger, and says it will begin testing opt-in e2e encryption for Instagram DMs — rolling out a host of features for Messenger users who switch on — end-to-end encryption (E2EE). You can now call Messenger contacts using voice or video
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Cisco confirms it has acquired Epsagon, an Israel-based cloud application monitoring startup; sources say Cisco will be paying $500M — Cisco EVP Liz Centoni: When the acquisition closes, the Epsagon team will join our strategy, incubation and applications group.
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Study of 12.7M tweets shows social media amplifies expressions of moral outrage, as users learn that such language gets rewarded with more “likes” and “shares” — Social media platforms like Twitter amplify expressions of moral outrage over time because users learn …
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Tweets: @heather_hear, @gtinari, @charlesarthur, @privacydigest, @samkya, @stepshep, and @quinnypig
| Reed Albergotti / Washington Post: |
Profile of Philip Agre, a computer scientist turned humanities professor, whose work is considered foundational in studying the effects of technology on society — Philip Agre, a computer scientist turned humanities professor, was prescient about many of the ways technology would impact the world| Joyce Lee / Reuters: |
GS Retail-led consortium to buy South Korean food delivery app Yogiyo for $685M; Delivery Hero sold Yogiyo to meet regulatory requirements for acquiring Woowa — SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's GS Retail Co Ltd said on Friday it had partnered with two private-equity firms …
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Chrono24, an online marketplace for new and pre-owned luxury watches, raises ~$118M Series C led by General Atlantic, bringing its total raised to ~$236M — Digital luxury watch marketplace Chrono24 announced on Wednesday (Aug. 11) that it has raised more than 100 million euro ($118 million) …
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