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An investigation into the rise of NSO's Pegasus shows its widespread use by the CIA, UAE, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and others; the FBI bought but didn't use it — A Times investigation reveals how Israel reaped diplomatic gains around the world from NSO's Pegasus spyware — a tool America itself purchased but is now trying to ban.
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Will Cathcart says WhatsApp has no plans to support RCS, as Meta launches its first marketing push for WhatsApp in the US, touting its privacy compared to SMS — The Meta-owned messaging app wants to be as popular in the US as it is everywhere else — will a big marketing push work?
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The Verge, Messenger News, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Bloomberg, YouTube, Android Police, Protocol, Fast Company, Adweek, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Adweek
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
DeFi service Qubit Finance says a hacker stole ~$80M in Binance coins on January 27 and offers them a bug bounty in exchange for returning the cryptocurrency — A threat actor has used an exploit to steal approximately $80 million from Qubit Finance, a decentralized finance (DeFi) …
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CertiK, Qubit Finance, The Verge, The Block, Bloomberg, Blockworks, ZDNet, Decrypt, Bitcoin News, Crypto Briefing, Cointelegraph, and Cryptopolitan
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
After a customer backlash, Google says legacy free G Suite accounts will be able to migrate their data to free, consumer accounts before the July 2022 shutdown — Last week, Google essentially told free G Suite users “pay up or lose your account.” — There is hope for users of Google's “legacy” free G Suite accounts.
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TechCrunch, MobileSyrup, iPhone in Canada Blog, ZDNet, and Phandroid
Tweets: @ronamadeo, @ow, and @laurenweinstein
| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Microsoft, the DOJ, and 35 US states led by Utah support Epic Games against Apple through amicus briefs filed with the Ninth Circuit appeals court — [Update] The Biden Administration is also supporting Epic. [/Update] — Apple just reported record numbers.
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Bloomberg, Reuters, Ars Technica, CNET, FOSS Patents, Thurrott, KnowTechie, Financial Times, 9to5Mac, Input, PYMNTS.com, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, PhoneArena, The Mac Observer, iMore, and GamesIndustry.biz
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple deprecates Python 2.7 in macOS 12.3 and points developers to alternative languages like Python 3; Python ended support for version 2 on January 1, 2020 — Apple will no longer bundle Python 2.7 with macOS 12.3, according to developer release notes for the upcoming software update.
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| Alexandra S. Levine / Politico: |
AI-driven suicide chat service Crisis Text Line shares anonymized data with for-profit spinoff Loris.ai, which uses it to market its customer service software — Crisis Text Line is one of the world's most prominent mental health support lines, a tech-driven nonprofit that uses big data …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
FTC: US consumers lost $770M to social media scams in 2021, about 25% of all fraud losses for the year and up 18x from the $42M in losses reported in 2017 — A growing number of U.S. consumers are getting scammed on social media according to a new report by the Federal Trade Commission …
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| Niraj Chokshi / New York Times: |
The FAA says it has reached a deal to let Verizon and AT&T expand their 5G cellular service near airports while allowing more aircraft to land safely — The federal agency said an agreement with Verizon and AT&T would enable the wireless providers to expand their networks while allowing aircraft to land safely.
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| Daren Fonda / Barron's Online: |
Source: White House is readying an executive action to task federal agencies with regulating Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as a matter of national security — The Biden administration is preparing to release an executive action that will task federal agencies with regulating digital assets …
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| Jonathan Browning / Bloomberg: |
Autonomy founder Mike Lynch loses $5B court battle with HP over false accounting; the UK government will now decide whether to extradite him to the US — Mike Lynch, the Autonomy Corp. founder lost his acrimonious court battle with Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. over false accounting.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple adds unlisted app distribution to the App Store, letting developers publish an app that can only be installed via a direct link and not found via search — Apple has deployed an interesting new App Store feature called ‘unlisted app distribution’. This means a developer can now publish … | Russ Mitchell / Los Angeles Times: |
Waymo sues the California DMV to hide its safety details, such as descriptions of driverless car crashes, and says the data should be designated a trade secret — Waymo, the driverless car company operating an autonomous taxi fleet in San Francisco, is suing the California Department of Motor Vehicles.| Microsoft Azure Blog: |
Microsoft mitigated a 3.47 Tbps DDoS attack on an Azure customer in Asia in November; DDoS attacks in India rose from 2% of all attacks in H1 2021 to 23% in H2 — This blog post was co-authored by Anupam Vij, Principal PM Manager, and Syed Pasha, Principal Network Engineer, Azure Networking
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Ars Technica, Windows Central, The Hacker News, Windows Report, Petri IT Knowledgebase, SlashGear, Digital Trends, TechRadar, Neowin, and HackRead. Tweets: @azure
| Jordan Pearson / VICE: |
OpenSea says 80%+ of NFTs minted for free on its service are plagiarized works, fake collections, and spam, but reverses its decision to limit free NFT creation — After reversing course on a limit to the amount of free NFTs a user can create, OpenSea said the decision was due to the amount of fraud and spam.
Tweets: @carnage4life and @counternotions
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple reports Q1 Mac revenue of $10.85B, up 25% YoY, iPad revenue of $7.25B, down 14% YoY, and other products revenue, including Watch, of $14.70B, up 13% YoY — - Apple reported its largest single quarter in terms of revenue ever, with sales growing over 11% despite supply challenges and the lingering effects of the pandemic.
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iMore, The Hill, AppleInsider, Silicon Valley Business …, Reuters, and Coinspeaker
Tweets: @arjunkharpal, @levynews, @trengriffin, and @mattrosoff
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Tweets: @shiraovide, @patrickmcgee_, @asymco, @benbajarin, @kirkburgess, @benbajarin, @asymco, @thurrott, @munster_gene, @rsgnl, @munster_gene, @asymco, @divestech, @tolmasky, @thurrott, @shiraovide, @munster_gene, @munster_gene, @trungtphan, @divestech, @asymco, @parrysingh, @markgurman, @asymco, @epro, @asymco, and @asymco
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Alphabet's Google Cloud division forms a group to win blockchain business, hire a slew of blockchain experts, and possibly accept payments in cryptocurrencies — - Alphabet's Google Cloud division is forming a team to win blockchain business after making a concerted effort in retail and other industries.
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Cloud Blog, Cointelegraph, Zash's Newsletter, and Coinspeaker
| P R Sanjai / Bloomberg: |
Google will invest $700M in Bharti Airtel, India's second largest telecom operator, for a 1.28% stake, and an additional $300M over five years for specific tech — Google will invest as much as $1 billion in India's second-largest mobile phone operator, as firms race to offer inexpensive data …
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Bharti Airtel, PYMNTS.com, The Economic Times, Neowin, The Economic Times, Reuters, Engadget, CNN, Android Central, All India Investors, and Entrackr
Tweets: @samidhas, @rameshsrivats, @kiranjeet_ks, @shob2811, and @sub8u
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
iOS 15.4 beta adds Face ID use with a mask for iPhone 12 and newer, without needing Apple Watch authentication, by recognizing “unique features around the eye” — The iOS 15.4 beta that was introduced today added a new feature designed to allow Face ID to be used with a mask and without an Apple Watch for authentication.
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9to5Mac, The Verge, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Appleosophy, Livemint, MacRumors, SlashGear, Liliputing, XDA Developers, Redmond Pie, iDownloadBlog.com, GameSpot, iMore, MacRumors, Mashable, Engadget, and Forbes
Tweets: @brandonbutch, @viticci, @sdw, @viticci, @bzamayo, @brandonbutch, @nikostratis, @jon_prosser, @reneritchie, @rendersbyian, @markgurman, @stephenrobles, @samifathi_, @samifathi_, and @mgsiegler
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
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