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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple tests Face ID and Touch ID sign-in for iCloud․com on iOS 13 and macOS Catalina betas — For iOS 13, iPadOS 13, and macOS Catalina beta testers, Apple is trying out a new sign-in process for iCloud on the web. When you head to beta.icloud.com on a device running the betas …
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| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
FBI and ICE have access to 641M photos including driver's license photos from 21 states for facial recognition searches, internal docs and GAO report show — A cache of records shared with The Washington Post reveals that agents are scanning millions of Americans' faces without their knowledge or consent.
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New York Times, TechSpot, Telecoms.com, Firstpost Tech, SiliconANGLE, The Hill, and Engadget
Tweets: @nytimes, @spytalker, @annamerlan, @virtuallybeth, @raicestexas, @burritojustice, @someday_deane, @alvarombedoya, and @timkmak
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UK's ICO fines British Airways a record £183M fine for the data breach in 2018 that affected ~500K customers — British Airways is facing a record fine of £183m for last year's breach of its security systems. — The airline, owned by IAG, says it is “surprised and disappointed” …
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ICO, The Verge, VentureBeat, CNET, TechCrunch, Inquirer, Engadget, The Next Web, The Register, PhocusWire, Silicon Republic, Panda Security Mediacenter, and The Hacker News
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Mozilla says it has no plans to enable DNS-over-HTTPS by default in Firefox in the UK, after ISPs and the UK government criticize its support of the protocol — But there's nothing stopping users from enabling the DNS-over-HTTPS feature in Firefox on their own, though.
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TechCrunch and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @zackwhittaker, @maxtemkin, @firefox, @leonardjfrench, @campuscodi, and @liampomfret
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
7-Eleven Japan shut down its 7Pay mobile payment app two days after launch after hackers reset passwords for ~900 accounts and made ~$500K in illegal charges — Hackers exploit 7-Eleven's poorly designed password reset function to make unwanted charges on 900 customers' accounts.| Leticia Miranda / BuzzFeed News: |
A list of Amazon's known businesses, subsidiaries, and brands, including some that have been discontinued or absorbed into other services — Everything about Amazon in 2019 is inconceivably big: Amazon will make up an estimated 38% of the US e-commerce market this year … | Ruby Prosser Scully / New Scientist: |
Researchers say they have been able to store the digital data of thumbnail-sized images on molecules smaller than DNA and retrieve it with ~99% accuracy — DNA isn't the only molecule we could use for digital storage. It turns out that solutions containing sugars, amino acids and other small molecules could replace hard drives too.
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Geek.com, IT PRO, Engadget, Brown University, Scientific American, Slashdot, and CNET
Tweets: @khlopomanstvo, @brownuresearch, @synbiobeta, and @brownuresearch
| Amanda Hess / New York Times: |
A look at the rise of the ambivalent conspiracy theorists, popular YouTubers using irony and nonchalance to refurbish old conspiracies for new audiences — Conspiracy theories were once deadly serious. On the internet, skepticism about the moon landing shows how the mood has shifted.
Tweets: @crackedscience, @mkonnikova, @notjessewalker, @nytimes, @skeptinquirer, @nytscience, and @robinhanson
| Andy / TorrentFreak: |
A member of The Scene, an infamous piracy group, details how content from streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon is pirated — In recent weeks, TF was able to speak to a member of The Scene, the shadowy network of individuals and groups sitting right at the apex of the so-called ‘piracy pyramid’.
Tweets: @manan
| Matt Apuzzo / New York Times: |
EU's Rapid Alert System to combat election interference has become hamstrung by disagreements, produced no alerts, and is at the risk of becoming defunct — BRUSSELS — The European Union launched an ambitious effort earlier this year to combat election interference: an early-warning system … | Emma Cosgrove / Supply Chain Dive: |
TradeLens, Maersk and IBM's blockchain-based platform, now has five of the world's top six carriers, responsible for 50%+ of all container shipping, on board — Dive Brief: — Hapag-Lloyd and Ocean Network Express (ONE) — the world's fifth and sixth largest ocean carriers, respectively … | Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Podimo, which says it is building Europe's “Netflix for podcasts,” raises €6M in seed funding, ahead of a planned launch in Germany and Denmark later this year — Podimo, a Copenhagen-based startup building what it hopes will become Europe's “Netflix for podcasts,” …
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