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Security experts voice privacy concerns over Apple's new plan to scan users' devices for child abuse images, saying governments will likely increase its scope — Security researchers raise alarm over potential surveillance of personal devices — Apple intends to install software …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Apple says in the next couple of months it will begin scanning photos on iOS 15 and macOS Monterey devices in the US for known child abuse images — The feature lands later this year, but already faces resistance from security and privacy experts — Later this year, Apple will roll …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
In addition to scanning for known child abuse photos, Apple will also begin using on-device ML to warn parents and kids of sexually explicit photos in Messages — Apple later this year will roll out new tools that will warn children and parents if the child sends or receives sexually explicit photos through the Messages app.
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Tweets: @jsrailton, @matthew_d_green, and @missingkids
| Cristiano Lima / Washington Post: |
In a letter to Zuckerberg, the FTC called Facebook's initial claim it cut off NYU researchers' access to comply with an FTC privacy agreement as “inaccurate” — The Federal Trade Commission has dismissed as “inaccurate” Facebook's claim that it cut off a group of researchers' access …
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| Gilad Edelman / Wired: |
Mozilla's analysis says Facebook's justifications for cutting off access to researchers running NYU's Ad Observatory project “simply do not hold water” — The company says privacy concerns forced it to block access for a team of academics. Whose privacy, exactly?
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon delays its return to offices from September 3 to January 3, 2022 — Amazon told employees Thursday that it will delay its timeline for returning to regular work in the office until early next year. — The new date: Jan. 3, 2022. Previously, Amazon had expected employees …
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The Seattle Times, CNBC, PCMag, The Hill, Newser, The Verge, CRN, ZDNet, Input, CNET, Protocol, iPhone in Canada Blog, Washington Post, and Insider
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Scammers are abusing Instagram's protections against self-harm and impersonation to purposefully target and ban Instagram accounts, some charging $60 per ban — An underground industry is abusing Instagram's mechanisms for removing self-injury and impersonating content to censor and harass people.
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The Verge. Tweets: @josephfcox, @drskyskull, @mistressmatisse, @cfiesler, @josephfcox, @mikeolson, @wiczipedia, @josephfcox, @josephfcox, @josephfcox, @bigblackjacobin, @3r1ng, @blackamazon, @db, @lorenzofb, @josephfcox, @mikestabile, and @audreyjcarleton
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Yelp will let businesses list their vaccination policies, including if customers must show proof of vaccination, wear masks, or if all staff are vaccinated — Including details on staff and customer vaccinations — Yelp will let businesses share their policies on COVID-19 vaccinations, the company announced today.
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Yelp Blog, AppleInsider, The Hill, TechRadar, CNET, Reuters, PCMag, TechCrunch, and Axios
Tweets: @yelp, @yelp, @lutherlowe, @grimmelm, @manan, @sheeraf, @jasonkeath, @evandubs, and @portiamcgonagal
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Google refreshes its Nest lineup, including its video doorbell and indoor-only camera, with a unified design language and lower prices — A whole new lineup of cameras for Nest smart homes — Google has announced a new line of home security cameras and a video doorbell under its Nest brand.| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Microsoft announces “Super Duper Secure Mode” for its Edge desktop browser, which disables V8's JIT, allowing for security features like Arbitrary Code Guard — Microsoft said today it plans to run an experiment in its Edge web browser where it will intentionally disable …
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Tweets: @jermolene, @never_released, and @rich_harris
| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Nintendo misses in Q1 with $1.09B operating profit, down 17.3% YoY, on $2.94B revenue, down 9.9% YoY, as Switch sales decline by 21.7% YoY to 4.45M units — It was not exactly a normal quarter this time in 2020 — Nintendo has released its earnings for the April-June quarter …
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| Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
DHS unveils the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative to combat ransomware and cyberattacks, in partnership with Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and others — Creation of the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative follows high-profile cyberattacks on critical U.S. infrastructure
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VentureBeat, CNET, CISA, ZDNet, CyberScoop, PCMag, CyberScoop, The Hill, Windows Central, CNN, CNN, Federal News Network, FedScoop, CNBC, Nextgov, TechSpot, and The Record
Tweets: @panwgovpolicy, @googlecloud, and @aprilfdoss
| Khari Johnson / Wired: |
New study says encouraging consensus among data labelers from diverse backgrounds can lead to better AI for detecting misogyny and harassment on social media — Misogyny on the internet too often slips through the filters of content moderators. A new method hopes to inject more nuance into the process.
Tweets: @onlinesosorg, @gadgetlab, @willknight, and @equalitynow
| Varun Mishra / Counterpoint Research: |
Xiaomi was the top brand in global smartphone sales volume in June, although its lead could fade once Samsung's production recovers from Vietnam's COVID-19 wave — • This is the first time ever, in June 2021, Xiaomi has become the number one brand in global monthly smartphone sales (sell-through) volumes
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Pocketnow, Android Authority, Wccftech, phonearena.com, Digital Trends, Neowin, Android Central, and SlashGear
| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Dropbox beats in Q2 with revenue of $530.6M vs estimates of $524.06M, up 13.5% YoY, 16.14M paying users up from 14.96M YoY, and ARR of $2.17B, up 12.2% YoY — The cloud-based file-sharing company saw its revenue grow 13.5 percent year-over-year — Dropbox on Thursday reported better …
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Ethereum's “London” hard fork has been activated, with changes to how transaction fees are calculated to decrease volatility, among other fixes — - Ethereum's “London” hard fork has just activated, and it's a major change. — One of the changes alters the way transaction fees …
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CNBC, CoinDesk, ethereum.org, The Block, Tom's Hardware, Crypto Briefing, Coinspeaker, The Daily Hodl, and MUO
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Zynga agrees to acquire Chinese game developer StarLark, and Betta Games' mobile golf game Golf Rival, for $525M in cash and stock — All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. — Zynga has agreed to acquire StarLark, a Chinese game developer … | John Timmer / Ars Technica: |
Researchers studying 300,000 YouTube viewers from 2016-2019 suggest that radicalization via algorithm is not widespread; most stick to their ideological corners — Tracking user behavior shows that most people don't go down radical rabbit holes. — We've all seen it happen … | Michael del Castillo / Forbes: |
Cryptocurrency analytics firm Messari raises $21M Series A led by Point72 Ventures with Kraken Ventures, Gemini Frontier Fund, and Coinbase among investors — Point72 Ventures,, the venture capital firm of billionaire Steve Cohen, whose unconventional style helped inspire the hit television show Billions …
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Tweets: @delrayman, @twobitidiot, @forbescrypto, and @kidkrypt0
| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Qualcomm offers to buy Veoneer, which develops advanced driver-assistance systems for autonomous vehicles, for $4.6B, topping Magna's $3.8B bid from last month — - Veoneer would give Qualcomm lift in driver-assistance tech — Magna unlikely to try to top Qualcomm bid, analysts say
| Anna Kramer / Protocol: |
Mapbox workers voted against a union 123-81, after the company forced a formal vote on whether workers wanted to form a union allied with CWA — Union organizers at software company Mapbox lost their union election by 123 “no” votes to 81 in favor, marking the end of the formal process to seek recognition from the company.| Ben Gilbert / Insider: |
Uber CEO says Uber won't require drivers or passengers to be vaccinated, though will require corporate employees to be vaccinated before returning to the office — - Uber employees at the company's US offices are required to get vaccines before return to work.| Zoe Schiffer / The Verge: |
Apple places female engineering program manager on administrative leave after she tweeted about sexism in the office — Ashley Gjøvik says the employee relations team implied she should stay off Slack pending an ongoing investigation — Apple has placed senior engineering program …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TikTok says it is testing TikTok Stories; source says Stories are available in a handful of markets outside the US — Twitter may have shut down its Stories features known as Fleets, but the Stories format will continue to invade other social platforms. TikTok today confirmed it's piloting …
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Variety, KnowTechie, dexerto.com, iDownloadBlog.com, and Tubefilter
Tweets: @mattnavarra and @mattnavarra
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Twitch COO Sara Clemens, who took over for cofounder Kevin Lin in 2018, told staffers she is leaving Twitch to focus on consulting and serving on company boards — Twitch is losing of its most senior execs: Chief operating officer Sara Clemens today announced internally that she will be leaving … Sponsor Posts
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