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A Koran app developer says Apple took down their app in China over “content that is illegal”; another developer removed their Bible app in China this week — Apple has taken down one of the world's most popular Koran apps in China, after a request from officials, the company has confirmed to the BBC.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the SEC is poised to let the first Bitcoin futures ETFs, from Proshares and Invesco, trade in the US as early as next week — - Cutoff for action on ProShares, Invesco filings is next week — Tacit approval is seen after an almost decade-long push
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CNBC, The Block, NewsBTC, Coinspeaker, RTÉ, Finbold, CoinJournal, New York Post, cryptodaily.co.uk, InsideBitcoins.com, Crypto Briefing, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, CryptoSlate, cryptonews.com, howardlindzon.com, CoinDesk, and Slashdot. Tweets: @jeffjohnroberts
| Aislinn Keely / The Block: |
CFTC files and settles charges against Tether and Bitfinex, ordering them to pay a total of $42.5M for making “untrue or misleading statements” about USDT — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) simultaneously filed and settled charges against Tether and Bitfinex today …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Twitch downplays last week's hack, saying it had minimal impact and user login credentials, full credit card numbers, and bank information were not exposed — In an update regarding this month's security incident, Twitch downplayed the breach saying that it had minimal impact and only affected a small number of users.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple hired Afrooz Family, its former employee and a co-founder of speaker startup Syng, to lead HomePod software efforts — - Apple's smart-speaker efforts have struggled since 2018 debut — Afrooz Family takes job after co-founding Syng speaker startup
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| Bloomberg: |
Chinese government finds hundreds of banned crypto miners siphoning power from public institutions, with some 260,000 kWh electricity stolen every day — - Two provinces discover miners using SOE, university resources — Government broadened ban on crypto transactions last month| Fred Lambert / Electrek: |
Tesla starts offering insurance in Texas using drivers' “real-time driving behavior” and a “safety score” — Tesla has now officially launched its insurance product using “real-time driving behavior.” — The product is only available in Texas for now.
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Valve quietly updates Steam's rules to ban games that use blockchain technology or let users exchange NFTs or cryptocurrencies — Your move, Epic Games Store — Games that use blockchain technology or let users exchange NFTs or cryptocurrencies won't be allowed on Steam …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Google Threat Analysis Group says it tracks 270+ state-backed threat actors, and sent 50K+ alerts for email phishing attacks to Gmail users in 2021, up ~33% YoY — The Google Threat Analysis Group said today that its security researchers are currently tracking more than 270 different …
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| David Uberti / Wall Street Journal: |
At the White House's ransomware summit, 32 countries pledged to share cyberattack info, push firms to improve security, and disrupt hackers' financial tools — Officials from 31 countries and the EU say uneven enforcement allows hackers to cash in — Officials from 32 governments …
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| Kellen Browning / New York Times: |
Janneke Parrish, a leader of the #AppleToo movement, says she was fired for deleting files off her work devices before handing them over for an investigation — A leader of an activist movement within Apple said she was fired by the company on Thursday. — Janneke Parrish …
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| Reed Albergotti / Washington Post: |
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| William Turton / Bloomberg: |
US Treasury says there was $590M in suspicious ransomware activity in H1 2021, exceeding the entire amount in 2020, when $416M was reported — Suspicious activity reports related to ransomware jumped significantly in 2021, according to the U.S. Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
White House details its plan for the federal government to adopt phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication methods, such as using hardware security keys — An Office of Management and Budget official explained the large scale plan to move the federal government to phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication.
Tweets: @lorenzofb, @josephfcox, @bradmossesq, @joebgrech, @josephfcox, and @jasonabbruzzese
| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
In a letter to Zuckerberg, 14 US state AGs demand details on vaccine misinformation per Haugen's leaked docs and Facebook's XCheck, which shields VIP users — Led by Connecticut, more than a dozen state attorneys general are asking Facebook for information related to Frances Haugen's leaked documents.| Kellen Browning / New York Times: |
Security researchers say Apple and EU plans to monitor phones for illicit material are ineffective and could embolden government surveillance — A group of researchers said the “dangerous technology” was invasive and not effective at detecting images of child sexual abuse.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft is shuttering the Chinese version of LinkedIn and replacing it with a job board; sources say China told LinkedIn in March to better regulate content — LinkedIn cites challenging operating environment, as retreat marks the biggest departure from China by a major tech company in years
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp starts rolling out e2e encryption for chat history backups in iCloud and Google Drive — WhatsApp is beginning to roll out a new feature that will provide its two billion users the option to encrypt their chat history backup in iCloud or Google Drive, patching a major loophole …
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