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Amazon plans to acquire Roomba maker iRobot in a $1.7B all-cash deal; Colin Angle will remain as iRobot's CEO — Amazon this morning announced plans to acquire Roomba maker iRobot for an all-cash deal valued at $1.7 billion. — “Since we started iRobot, our team has been on a mission …
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Sources: Apple asked suppliers to ensure that Taiwan shipments to China are labeled “Taiwan, China” or “Chinese Taipei”, after Pelosi's visit stokes trade fears — Stepped up scrutiny of import documents raises disruption fears for iPhone maker| Nikkei Asia: |
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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 …
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After criticism, DuckDuckGo says its browser will now block Microsoft tracking scripts on third-party websites, formerly exempt due to a search syndication deal — After an uproar over an exception, DuckDuckGo is promising transparency. — After a revelation in May that DuckDuckGo's …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Meta AI creates and releases BlenderBot 3, letting users engage in general chitchat and ask BlenderBot questions to collect feedback on its capabilities — What could possibly go wrong? — Meta's AI research labs have created a new state-of-the-art chatbot and are letting members …
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| Elena Schneider / Politico: |
A look at FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried's range of US political contributions, including $10M+ to back Biden in 2020, and uncertainty about his goals and leanings — NASSAU, Bahamas — One of the biggest donors in Democratic politics this year isn't sure if he really wants to be a Democratic megadonor — at least not on the party's terms.| Omer Benjakob / Haaretz: |
A prototype of NSO's Pegasus for Israeli police in 2014 reveals the UI and features, including real-time wiretapping, reading texts, and remote camera control — Israel Police planned to present cabinet with the system eight years ago. It was intended to be capable of turning the infected phone …
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| Nupur Anand / Reuters: |
India's Enforcement Directorate freezes the assets, worth ~$8.16M, of Binance-linked crypto exchange WazirX, citing suspected foreign exchange rule violations — India's financial crime-fighting agency said on Friday that it has frozen the assets of WazirX, owned by the world's largest … | New York Times: |
A look at Japan's efforts to counter chip supply chain disruptions, including investing in domestic production and seeking a coalition with the US and the EU — As it reckons with supply chain vulnerabilities, the country is spending billions to revitalize domestic production and seeking to form a coalition with “like-minded” nations.| Nicola Kelly / The Guardian: |
The UK government plans to require migrants convicted of a crime to scan their faces up to five times per day using smartwatches; locations will be tracked 24/7 — Home Office and MoJ plans will require migrants convicted of crimes to take photos up to five times a day
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Sources: former TikTok content moderators working for a third-party company say they were trained using CSAM from a shared document widely accessible to staff — A largely unsecured cache of pictures of children being sexually exploited has been made available to third-party TikTok content moderators … | Joanna Ossinger / Bloomberg: |
Crypto bridge Nomad says anyone returning at least 90% of stolen tokens will be viewed as a white-hat hacker and the remaining 10% would become the reward — Cryptocurrency company Nomad is offering a bounty to recoup funds spirited away in a $190 million hack that again highlighted security vulnerabilities …
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