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UN special rapporteurs say they are “gravely concerned” about the alleged hacking of Jeff Bezos' phone by Saudi's MbS, calling for further investigations — ‘Grave concern’ expressed at evidence of possible ‘effort to silence Washington Post’ — UN experts are demanding …
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Leaked FTI Consulting report: investigators found a suspicious encrypted file on Jeff Bezos' iPhone, causing data transfers to jump by ~29,000%, but no malware — A report investigating the potential hack of Jeff Bezos' iPhone indicates that forensic investigators found a suspicious file but no evidence of any malware on the phone.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Twitter is rolling out a pop-up feature that lets users add an emoji reaction to a Direct Message, similar to a feature in iMessage — Twitter is taking a page out of Apple's playbook with its latest messaging feature. The social network announced today that it is rolling out support …
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| Shaun Raviv / Wired: |
An in-depth look at the long history of facial recognition, focusing on Woody Bledsoe, a University of Texas professor working in the 1960s backed by the CIA — Sixty years ago, a sharecropper's son invented a technology to identify faces. Then the record of his role all but vanished.
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| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
Google says it found five separate flaws in Apple's Intelligent Tracking Prevention tool for Safari that lets users' browsing behavior be tracked — Google researchers have exposed details of multiple security flaws in its rival Apple's Safari web browser that allowed users' browsing behaviour …
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| Miles Parks / NPR: |
In a first for the US, a district encompassing Greater Seattle will let ~1.2M voters cast ballots via smartphones for an upcoming board of supervisors election — Toggle more options — A district encompassing Greater Seattle is set to become the first in which every voter can cast …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: ByteDance is seeking a US-based CEO for TikTok and has interviewed candidates; current head Alex Zhu may still manage product and engineering in China — - Video app has come under fire in U.S. as security threat — Chinese internet giant ByteDance Inc. is seeking …
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| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Epic Systems, a leading provider of digital medical records, calls on large hospitals to oppose proposed US rules that would open up access to patient records — - Epic Systems is urging its health system customers to take a stand against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' proposed rules …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Microsoft to forcibly install the Bing extension in Chrome for Office 365 ProPlus enterprise customers from mid-February, to change the default search to Bing — Microsoft will change the default search engine in Chrome from Google to Bing for its Office 365 ProPlus customers starting mid-February.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Outlier, which uses machine learning to spot anomalies in business data, raises $22.1M Series B led by Emergence, bringing its total raised to $30M+ — Machine learning algorithms aren't just technological novelties relegated to tasks like picking out faces in crowded places.| Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: |
Amazon says Amazon Music has 55M users across six different price tiers, including a free tier, “nearly all” of which are paying subscribers — Amazon's music streaming service has eclipsed 55m users, making the ecommerce group a serious contender in the market that has been historically dominated by Spotify and Apple.
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| Mike Minotti / VentureBeat: |
Game studio Playful Studios, which raised $23M from a host of individual investors in August, says it is laying off a significant portion of its full-time staff — Playful Corp. announced today that it is laying off a significant portion of its full-time staff today.
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