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[Thread] Via iRobot, Amazon, one of the most powerful data collection companies on Earth, will get another vast and intrusive set of data about people's homes — 1. Hello. Amazon today announced it would pay $1.7 billion to acquire iRobot, the company behind the Roomba robotic vacuum. It may be the most dangerous, threatening acquisition in the company's history. A thread.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: employees at many Apple stores continue to discuss unionization, Apple started to record September event; opinion: iPadOS delay was probably worth it — Apple made the right call to push back iPadOS 16, but the move could create new issues for users and developers.
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Kuo: Foxconn's production site in India will begin shipping at least one iPhone 14 model “almost simultaneously with China”, a first for a new iPhone — Apple's key partner Foxconn has iPhone production lines in a few other places in the world outside of China, such as Brazil and India.
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Twitter confirms that a now-patched bug was used to link phone numbers and emails to user accounts; a threat actor offered to sell 5.4M records in December 2021 — Twitter has confirmed a recent data breach was caused by a now-patched zero-day vulnerability used to link email addresses … | Russ Mitchell / Los Angeles Times: |
The California DMV accuses Tesla of falsely advertising its Autopilot and FSD features in two July 28 filings with the state's Office of Administrative Hearings — The California Department of Motor Vehicles has accused Tesla of false advertising in its promotion of the company's signature Autopilot and Full Self-Driving technologies.
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| Eric Seufert / @eric_seufert: |
[Thread] How Apple's App Tracking Transparency blew up the digital ad ecosystem, bolstering Apple's ads business while positioning it as a privacy champion — APPLE ROBBED THE MOB'S BANK: How Apple's App Tracking Transparency (ATT) policy blew up the digital advertising ecosystem, bolstering its ads business while positioning itself as a champion of consumer privacy. A masterclass in corporate strategy. (1/X) https://mobiledevmemo.com/...
| Bloomberg: |
Tom Alberg, an early Amazon investor and Madrona Venture Group co-founder, who was a key figure in shaping the Pacific Northwest's tech economy, dies at 82 — Tom Alberg, co-founder of the venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group and an early investor in Amazon.com Inc., has died. He was 82.
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers discover Dark Utilities, a service that provides an inexpensive way for cybercriminals to set up a command-and-control center for their operations — Security researchers found a new service called Dark Utilities that provides an easy and inexpensive way for cybercriminals to set …
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| Zeyi Yang / MIT Technology Review: |
At least four top executives associated with a Chinese state-run semiconductor fund, which has invested $30B in total, have been arrested on corruption charges — The arrests of several top semiconductor fund executives could force the government to rethink how it invests in the sector.| Mark Harris / IEEE Spectrum: |
An examination of data collected by Tesla: what information its vehicles record, how Tesla uses this data to develop Autopilot, and who actually owns the data — Logs and records of its customers' journeys fill out petabytes—and court case dockets — You won't see a single Tesla cruising … | New York Times: |
How Coinbase went from a triumphant IPO to facing challenges with international expansion, global competition, revenue diversification, and staffing adjustments — In just over a year, the United States' largest cryptocurrency exchange went from a triumphant public offering to a “crypto winter” of cost cutting and layoffs.
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
A brief history of AI and why some AI researchers believe the technology they built is sentient or conscious, even though there is no evidence of awareness — Robots can't think or feel, despite what the researchers who build them want to believe. — As the sun set over Maury Island …
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