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Apple accuses Google's Project Zero of stoking fear by creating a “false impression of mass exploitation”, says the sophisticated attack was narrowly focused — Last week, Google published a blog about vulnerabilities that Apple fixed for iOS users in February.
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[Thread] Apple's response to Project Zero downplays exploits against an oppressed minority, discounts the risk of other targets, and ends in unseemly marketese — Apple's response to the worst known iOS attack in history should be graded somewhere between “disappointing” and “disgusting”. First off, disputing Google's correct use of “indiscriminate” when describing a watering hole attack smacks of “it's ok, it didn't hit white people.” https://twitter.com/...
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple to livestream the September 10 iPhone event on YouTube, marking the first time that Apple will live stream one of its keynotes on Google's platform — Over the last several years, Apple has gradually been expanding the ways people can tune into its various keynotes.| Ronan Farrow / New Yorker: |
Leaked documents show MIT Media Lab hid the extent of Jeffrey Epstein's fundraising role, which also involved helping raise $7.5M through donors like Bill Gates — New documents show that the M.I.T. Media Lab was aware of Epstein's status as a convicted sex offender, and that Epstein directed contributions …
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Google confirms it has received a civil-investigative demand from the DOJ, requesting records related to prior antitrust investigations — Google said Friday that the Justice Department has requested records related to its prior antitrust investigations, marking the tech giant's …
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| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Court filing: ICE seeks a warrant to compel Apple and Google to provide info on users of Obsidian 4 gun scope app, which has been downloaded 10K+ times — Own a rifle? Got a scope to go with it? The government might soon know who you are, where you live and how to reach you.
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| Leticia Miranda / BuzzFeed News: |
Orthodox Jews from a community in Brooklyn, many of whom lack formal degrees, are making millions from selling on Amazon, balancing traditions and modernity — A community of Orthodox Jews prospers by selling products on Amazon — and keeping one foot in modernity and one foot out.
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| Will Oremus / OneZero: |
Twitter says the average user with the algorithmic timeline follows 10%-15% more accounts than those who have reverted to the old reverse-chronological timeline — The algorithm hasn't fixed harassment, but it did remedy something else — t's hard to remember now, but there was a time …
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| Justin Sherman / Wired: |
When Cold War analogies are misapplied to emerging technologies like AI, the debate about how such technologies should be regulated gets distorted — Opinion: Politicians and pundits' fixation with flawed Cold War metaphors have produced overly combative policies on emerging tech.
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| Angela Lashbrook / OneZero: |
Amazon has done little to improve Goodreads, which has basically remained a list-making app with design flaws and features that don't help avid readers — Despite Amazon's innovation elsewhere, Goodreads has stagnated for 12 years, and its problems are endless| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Internet Society-supported initiative MANRS has launched Observatory, a web tool for providing insight into how well ISPs comply with routing security standards — MANRS Observatory gives a peek inside security issues of Internet routing. — When my kids were younger … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Metasploit framework, an open source tool used by white hat and black hat hackers, releases an exploit for wormable BlueKeep Windows vulnerability on Github — The Metasploit module isn't as polished as the EternalBlue exploit. Still, it's powerful. — For months, security practitioners … Sponsor Posts
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