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Source: US-UK treaty, to be signed soon, will compel US-based platforms like Facebook and WhatsApp to share users' encrypted messages with British police — - Information will be shared in serious criminal investigations — Social media firms to provide data under U.S. treaty with U.K.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researcher claims he found “a permanent unpatchable bootrom exploit” for iOS devices with A5 to A11 chips, enabling jailbreaks for iPhone 4S to X, releases code — New jailbreak will work on iPhones 4S up to iPhone 8 and X. — A security researcher has released today …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Checkm8 creator says his iPhone exploit requires physical device access and lacks persistence after reboot, but will make jailbreaking more accessible and safer — Unpatchable vulnerability is a game-changer that even Apple will be unable to stop. — Often, when new iOS jailbreaks become public, the event is bitter-sweet.| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
AI research increasingly requires datacenter-scale computation, raising concerns that only a few big tech companies will dominate advances in the field — Each big step of progress in computing — from mainframe to personal computer to internet to smartphone — has opened opportunities … | Vikas SN / The Economic Times: |
Netflix is experimenting in India with making the first episode of its latest Indian original series available to non-subscribers, amid growing competition — Netflix is making available the first episode of its latest India original series ‘Bard Of Blood’ to non-members in the country for a limited time …
Tweets: @refsrc, @sub8u, @shukla_tarun, and @tsuvik
| Wall Street Journal: |
Influencer marketing ad spend on Instagram reportedly grew to $265M in North America in Q1 2019, up 62% YoY, threatening the platform's originality and appeal — The draw of 1 billion monthly users has spawned an aggressive behind-the-scenes advertising economy that threatens the site's originality and appeal
Tweets: @mdudas, @wsj, @_danielsinclair, @sub8u, and @mattnavarra
| Natalie Wolchover / Quanta Magazine: |
Q&A with computer scientist Stephanie Wehner, who is leading the Quantum Internet Alliance, an EU effort to build a network for transmitting quantum information — The first data ever transmitted over Arpanet, the precursor of the internet, blipped from a computer at the University of California …
Tweets: @yale_qi, @quantamagazine, @nattyover, and @sustainhistory
| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
Ring cameras, while helping to reduce crimes, also normalize constant property monitoring, and make people fearful of living in their own communities — Consumer surveillance cameras are everywhere now, and they're capturing moments we otherwise would never know have happened.| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
2019 Defcon Voting Village findings reveal detailed vulnerabilities related to six models of voting machines, most of which are still in use — The results of the 2019 Defcon Voting Village are in—and they paint an ugly picture for voting machine security.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says that YouTube Music will be preinstalled on all new Android 9 and Android 10 devices, replacing Google Play Music — Behind-the-scenes, Google requires hardware manufacturers to preinstall certain apps to get access to other first-party services.
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UK-based digital wealth management company Moneyfarm raises £36M Series C, says its assets under management grew 80%+ YoY to £734M in 2018 — Moneyfarm, a Milan, Italy and London, UK-based digital wealth management company, raised £36M in Series C funding.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Audius, a SoundCloud alternative built on the blockchain, has launched its music streaming service with songs hosted on independent operators to avoid takedowns — Launching today — “It was SoundCloud's opportunity to lose and now it's ours,” says Audius CEO Roneil Rumburg.
Tweets: @joshelman
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