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Telegram will provide users' IP addresses and phone numbers to authorities after valid legal requests, changing its terms of service to deter criminal activity — An Outsider Critiqued Meta's Smart Glasses. Now She's in Charge of Them — Microsoft CEO to Cyber Team: Don't Tell Me How Great Everything Is| Financial Times: |
The US Commerce Department proposes banning Chinese and Russian software and hardware in internet connected vehicles in US; the software ban would begin in 2027 — Move prompted by fears Beijing could collect data on American drivers and hack internet-connected cars
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
US customers of Kaspersky antivirus find UltraAV, an entirely different AV suite, remotely installed on their PCs, after a Kaspersky deal with UltraAV's owner — Customers of Kaspersky antivirus in the United States found out in the last few days that their cybersecurity software …
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Google TV Streamer review: excellent UI, Google Assistant, fast controls, smart home hub, and handy Find My feature, but not a huge speed bump and only Wi-Fi 5 — With more storage, a (slightly) faster processor, and some proper smart home chops, Google's new take on the Chromecast is its best attempt at a streaming device yet.
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| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg calls WP Engine a “cancer to WordPress” and says it profits off confusion between the WordPress project and commercial services — Automattic CEO and WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg unleashed a scathing attack on a rival firm this week, calling WP Engine a “cancer to WordPress.”
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
TikTok rolls out its redesigned Subscription feature, which lets creators offer three tiers, to eligible creators in select regions, including the UK and the US — TikTok announced on Monday that its redesigned “Subscription” monetization offering is rolling out to eligible creators in select regions … | Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek: |
Researchers find a new version of Necro malware in Google Play apps with 11M+ total installs; Necro malware in 2019 was found in Play apps with 100M+ installs — The Necro trojan was found in two Android applications in Google Play with a combined downloads count of over 11 million.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft releases a progress report on its efforts to make security its top priority, which began in November 2023 after a scathing report from the US CSRB — Microsoft made security its No. 1 priority for every employee earlier this year, following years of security issues and a scathing report from the US Cyber Safety Review Board.| Dave Lee / Bloomberg: |
Sonos staff and report: technical debt was partly responsible for the app debacle, and Sonos lacked urgency in fixing it; sources: a reorganization caused chaos — Ignoring “tech debt,” disregarding employee warnings and cutting costs combined to create a crisis that the high-end audio company is still struggling to recover from.| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
The FBI arrests and charges two people in Miami over a conspiracy to steal and launder 4,100+ BTC, worth $230M+; ZachXBT says they targeted a Genesis creditor — Two suspects were arrested in Miami this week and charged with conspiracy to steal and launder over $230 million in cryptocurrency using crypto exchanges and mixing services.
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| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
Cloudflare rolls out Bot Management, a suite of free AI auditing tools, to all of its customers to help monitor and selectively block AI data-scraping bots — “The path we're on isn't sustainable,” Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince tells WIRED, in reference to rampant AI scraping. Here's his plan to course-correct.| Jemima Kelly / Financial Times: |
Similarweb: daily X users in the UK fell from 8M in May 2023 to 5.6M now, with 33%+ of the fall coming after the summer riots; US DAUs fell by ~20% in that time — The great migration from Elon Musk's X has seen users, especially progressives, retreat into one particular silo
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