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Police infiltrated Encrochat, an encrypted phone network used by organized crime, and read millions of messages for months, leading to international arrests — Police monitored a hundred million encrypted messages sent through Encrochat, a network used by career criminals to discuss drug deals, murders, and extortion plots.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Facebook says it continued sharing data of inactive users with around 5,000 developers even after their apps' 90-day cut-off date expired; issue is now fixed — A Facebook privacy mechanism blocks apps from receiving user data if users didn't use an app for 90 days.
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| Daniel Kuhn / CoinDesk: |
Researchers expose a flaw in at least three major crypto wallets, Ledger Live, Edge, and Breadwallet, which could be exploited for double-spending users' funds — A standard way to transact Bitcoin could be vulnerable to double-spending, new research has found.
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| Nick Miroff / Washington Post: |
CBP awards Anduril, founded by Palantir veterans and Palmer Luckey, a five-year contract to build a “virtual border wall” using mobile surveillance towers — The Trump administration has awarded a major border security contract to a California technology start …
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| Carrie Mihalcik / CNET: |
Report: Amazon is moving Prime Day again to October, after first moving it to September, amid concerns over how coronavirus spikes may impact the supply chain — Amazon's annual Prime Day sale is being delayed to October amid concerns over how coronavirus spikes may impact the supply chain …
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| Alex Heath / The Information: |
Sources: Zuckerberg told staff Facebook won't change policies because of “threat to a small percent of our revenue”, expects advertisers to return “soon enough” — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees he was reluctant to bow to the threats of a growing ad boycott …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says it is shutting down Lasso, its TikTok clone launched a year and a half ago, on July 10 — Facebook is no longer betting on Lasso, an app it launched a year and a half ago, to take on TikTok . The social juggernaut's TikTok clone is shutting down on July 10, Facebook said.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Microsoft is using ransomware-like tactics to force-feed its new Chromium Edge browser to users through an automatic Windows update — It undermines Microsoft's own argument that automatic updates are critical — If I told you that my entire computer screen just got taken over by a new app … | Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
An African American manager and two job applicants filed a complaint against Facebook with the EEOC, alleging a culture of bias against Black workers — An African American manager at Facebook and two rejected job applicants are suing the company, alleging a culture of bias in promotions, evaluations, hiring and recruiting.| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple launches a new site for Apple Card users to manage their accounts online; previously, all Apple Card interactions took place through iPhone's Wallet app — Apple has today launched an online dashboard for Apple Card users to manage their account online.
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| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
EU is examining whether Google's proposed acquisition of Fitbit will give the company more data to help it entrench its search engine and advertising businesses — Lengthy questionnaires to rivals come as consumer groups warn the deal will extend Google's data empire
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| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
A look at “Prison TikTok”, a subgenre where inmates use contraband cellphones to share dance videos, funny skits, and broadcast their living conditions — The lives of incarcerated people are usually hidden from society. On prison TikTok, they're going viral.
Tweets: @lmatsakis, @wired, @godfatherrach, @vtitunik, @ramulous, and @lmatsakis
| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Facebook says it will add messages to its News Feed and Instagram's feed to encourage people to wear face masks, with links to COVID-19 Info Center and CDC — Soon, you'll see a message at the top of the feed in both apps — Facebook will add messaging to its News Feed and Instagram's feed …
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| Paul Ziobro / Wall Street Journal: |
A mystery shopper who irked online merchants by abandoning thousands of shopping carts carrying only one item was a Google bot scraping pricing information — Merchants have seen a lot of browsing by John Smith, who picks up items, then leaves without buying; ‘it started getting out of hand’
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Tweets: @sbyrnes, @tsimonite, @akumar, @michaelcbender, and @aexm
| Aditya Kalra / Reuters: |
Sources: India's additional scrutiny of imports from China is causing delays in operations at plants owned by Foxconn, affecting its clients like Apple and Dell — Aditya Kalra, Sankalp Phartiyal — NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's additional scrutiny of imports from China has disrupted operations …
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