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In preliminary findings, the EU says Apple abused its mobile payments dominance by limiting competitors' access to the NFC chip in iPhones, benefiting Apple Pay — EU preliminary findings say US group limits rivals' access to ‘tap and go’ technology — Brussels regulators have charged Apple …
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Sources: millions of Grindr users' location data has been collected from a digital ad network and sold since at least 2017; Grindr says it has cut the data flow — Gay-dating app's user locations were collected and sold since at least 2017; Grindr two years ago curtailed the data it shares with advertising partners
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Spain says the phones of its prime minister and defense minister were infected by NSO's Pegasus spyware in 2021; Spain's highest criminal court will investigate — Minister for presidency says ‘illicit’ targeting will be investigated by Spain's highest criminal court
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Roadmap: Meta plans four VR headsets by 2024; source says high-end MR headset Cambria, once set for 2021, could debut in September before its successor in 2024 — Meta Platforms is planning to release four virtual reality headsets between now and 2024, according to an internal road map viewed by The Information.
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Hacking Russia was once considered off-limits but after invading Ukraine, unprecedented cyberattacks by hacktivists and criminals have wreaked havoc in Russia — Experts anticipated a Moscow-led cyber-assault; instead, unprecedented attacks by hacktivists and criminals have wreaked havoc in Russia
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Google fires AI researcher Satrajit Chatterjee; sources: he was fired after Google refused to publish his paper rebutting a celebrated Google paper in Nature — The researchers are considered a key to the company's future. But they have had a hard time shaking infighting and controversy over a variety of issues.
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Solana's network was down again on Saturday, for seven hours, when bots hit NFT minting tool Candy Machine, leading to ~4M transaction requests per second — It wasn't immediately clear how the bot traffic overcame network safeguards. — Solana stakeholders rushed to right … | Nicole Wetsman / The Verge: |
A Mozilla analysis of 32 mental health and prayer apps finds 29 have poor privacy protections and security practices and collect large amounts of personal data — Prayer apps were also worse than other categories — As a category, mental health apps have worse privacy protections for users …
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Amazon plans to support the popular EPUB ebook format via the Send to Kindle feature in late 2022, and drop support for the MOBI and AZW formats — The Send to Kindle system will automatically convert EPUB files to the Kindle's proprietary ebook format. — Alerts| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
Swedish game publisher Embracer buys Square Enix's three Western game studios, including their game series Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, and Legacy of Kain, for $300M — $300 million deal includes “over 50” classic games' rights, over 1,000 devs. — On Monday, Japanese game publisher Square Enix confirmed …
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Internal FTC survey: overall satisfaction among staff has dropped from 89% in 2020 to 60% in 2021; in an email, Lina Khan pledges to fix sinking staff morale — Under both Republican and Democratic administrations, the Federal Trade Commission has consistently ranked in the top five … | Richard Milne / Financial Times: |
Lego plans to triple the number of software engineers on staff to 1,800 by the end of 2023, including ~400 based in Copenhagen, and increase digital investments — World's largest toymaker has long feared digital world could erode the appeal of its bricks — Lego plans to triple its number … | Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
Facebook plans to stop letting users add podcasts to the service this week, start removing them on June 3, and discontinue Soundbites and its central audio hub — Facebook is pulling out of podcasts and plans to remove them altogether from the social-media service starting June 3.| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
In a lawsuit, Apple alleges SoC startup Rivos stole trade secrets after poaching 40+ of its engineers and that at least two of them took GBs of sensitive info — (Reuters) - Technology startup Rivos Inc allegedly stole Apple Inc's computer-chip trade secrets after poaching its engineers … Sponsor Posts
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