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Apple plans to launch Advanced Data Protection, offering E2EE on iCloud backups, Notes, Photos, and more, in the US in 2022 and globally including China in 2023 — ‘Advanced Data Protection’ will offer end-to-end encryption on iCloud backups, Notes, Photos and other services—a step that may draw ire from law enforcement
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| Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
A look at the reaction to Apple's E2EE announcements: the FBI says it is “deeply concerning” and “hinders” its work while the EFF and others express support — Apple yesterday announced that end-to-end encryption is coming to even more sensitive types of iCloud data …
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Apple won't launch its CSAM detection tool for iCloud photos, instead focusing its anti-CSAM efforts on the Communication Safety features launched in 2021 — The company plans to expand its Communication Safety features, which aim to disrupt the sharing of child sexual abuse material at the source.| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
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| New York Times: |
Sources: US prosecutors are investigating whether Sam Bankman-Fried manipulated TerraUSD and LUNA markets, triggering the cryptocurrencies' collapse in May — Federal prosecutors are investigating whether Sam Bankman-Fried and his hedge fund orchestrated trades in a way that led to the collapse of two cryptocurrencies in May.
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| Kollen Post / The Block: |
The US Senate Banking Committee calls on SBF to testify on December 14, one day after a similar House hearing; House lawmakers are also weighing a subpoena — - The Senate committee wants Sam Bankman-Fried to testify the day after he's been told to testify in the House of Representatives …
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| Tatum Hunter / Washington Post: |
A look at Prisma Labs' Stable Diffusion-based image generation app Lensa, which costs $36 per year and exploded in popularity after adding “magic avatars” — Social media is celebrating. Artists are protesting. What's the real cost of an AI-generated portrait?
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| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Source: Twitter plans to change Twitter Blue's pricing to $11 per month for iOS users, likely due to Apple's App Store fees, and to $7 per month on the web — Twitter has informed some employees that it plans to change the pricing of its Twitter Blue subscription product to $7 if users pay …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
How tensions grew between Salesforce co-CEOs Marc Benioff and Bret Taylor for months; sources say Benioff was frustrated about how Taylor was spending his time — Exit of Bret Taylor from role he has shared for about a year wasn't long planned — The Tech Sector Is Taking a Beating. Here's Why.
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| Yueqi Yang / Bloomberg: |
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong expects the exchange's 2022 revenue to be “roughly half that or less” than the ~$7B generated in 2021, as crypto prices fall — Coinbase Global Inc. Chief Executive Officer Brian Armstrong said the cryptocurrency exchange's revenue is set to be cut …
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| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Epic launches Cabined Accounts, a new type of account for kids under 13 that needs parental consent, rolling out in Fortnite, Rocket League, and Fall Guys — It says ‘cabined accounts’ offer a ‘new way for kids to join the metaverse.’ — Epic Games is rolling out a new type of account …
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Debunking claims on Twitter's handling of the Hunter Biden laptop story, including that Twitter engaged in election interference or violated the First Amendment — Hello! Someone has referred you to this post because you've said something quite wrong about Twitter and how it handled something to do with Hunter Biden's laptop.| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
The Pentagon awards Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle cloud contracts worth up to $9B in total through 2028 under the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability — - Of the four companies receiving cloud-computing contracts from the Pentagon, all of them had received requests for bids from the U.S. federal agency last year.| Jeremy Hill / Bloomberg: |
A US bankruptcy judge orders Celsius to return ~$50M crypto deposits in non-interest bearing custody accounts, pending a decision on interest-bearing accounts — US Bankruptcy Judge Martin Glenn ordered Celsius Network LLC to return cryptocurrency that never touched the lender's interest-bearing accounts to its customers.
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| Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: |
Google plans to merge Waze's 500+ employees with its Maps group, starting on December 9; Waze will remain a standalone service and its CEO plans to leave — Search giant to keep navigation apps separate, says no layoffs are planned — How Google Remapped the World: The Tech Behind
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| Ezra Reguerra / Cointelegraph: |
Some NFTs minted on FTX are broken, showing only blank images, because metadata points to an FTX.US domain now used for a bankruptcy restructuring website — NFTs hosted on FTX platform were affected by the firm's collapse, showing blank images instead of the original art. — 191 Total views| Semafor: |
Sources: in January 2018, Alameda took loans worth $116M from Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn and philanthropist Luke Ding, both backers of “effective altruism” — The big money behind Alameda Research, the sister trading firm of crypto exchange FTX, came from two influential backers …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Dutch officials plan new controls on exporting chipmaking equipment to China as soon as January, potentially impacting ASML, following US curbs — Dutch officials are planning new controls on exports of chipmaking equipment to China, according to people familiar with the matter …
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Neowin, Fortis Novum Mundum, Firstpost Tech, and Reuters
Tweets: @remkorteweg, @fbermingham, @bonnieglaser, @jendeben, and @pstasiatech
| Elisa Braun / Politico: |
Docs detail cybersurveillance company Altrnativ, started by Eric Leandri, who co-founded search engine Qwant and was lauded as France's digital privacy defender — This story is part of the series Leaked: The Altrnativ world of cybersurveillance. Read the rest.
Tweets: @laukaya, @antoanetaroussi, and @sophieintveld
| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Plaid lays off approximately 260 employees, or 20% of its workforce, citing macroeconomic conditions; the company was valued at ~$13.4B in April 2021 — CEO says the fintech company ‘hired and invested ahead of revenue growth’ — Fintech decacorn Plaid is laying off 260 employees …
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Plaid, MarketWatch, and Payments Dive
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| Andrew Liszewski / Gizmodo: |
Dyson announces the $949 Dyson Zone noise canceling headphones, which also use filters to block unwanted air particles, available for preorder in March 2023 — The company's first audio product promises to eliminate both unwanted noise and unwanted air particles. — Alerts
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Tech Advisor, PCMag, Gizchina, Bloomberg, TechSpot, T3, Pandaily, Engadget, Trusted Reviews, Inverse, Pocket-lint, Tom's Guide, TechRadar, and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @mikeelgan
| Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: |
Pwn2Own Toronto 2022: on the first day, participants earned $400K total for new exploits targeting Samsung Galaxy S22, printers, routers, and NAS devices — On the first day of the Pwn2Own Toronto 2022 hacking competition, participants earned a total of $400,000 for new exploits targeting phones, printers, routers and NAS devices.
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Zero Day Initiative, BleepingComputer, Tenable TechBlog, Android Headlines, Cyber Security News, and Phandroid. Tweets: @thezdi
| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
Indiana's AG sues TikTok for allegedly deceiving users on China's data access and for exposing kids to mature content, the first state lawsuits against TikTok — The lawsuits are the first by an American state against TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, in a sign of mounting legal pressure.| Shawna Chen / Axios: |
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