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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
How Microsoft's 10-year-old Digital Crime Unit uses unique legal tactics and the company's technical reach to disrupt global cybercrime and state-backed actors — Ten years in, Microsoft's DCU has honed its strategy of using both unique legal tactics and the company's technical reach … | Forbes: |
Google says it will no longer respond to geofence warrants after making changes to how Google Maps stores and accesses users' opt-in Location History — “Geofence warrants,” which allow law enforcement to get location data across a wide area, have become commonplace in recent years.
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| David Gilbert / Wired: |
Researchers: Microsoft Copilot answers some political queries in the US and other countries with conspiracies, misinformation, and out-of-date or incorrect info — Research shared exclusively with WIRED shows that Copilot, Microsoft's AI chatbot, often responds to questions about elections with lies and conspiracy theories.
More: Washington Post, AlgorithmWatch, Mashable, Neowin, TNW, and Cointelegraph
| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
Cox Media Group claims it can listen to consumers' conversations through microphones in smartphones, smart TVs, and other devices and use the data to target ads — A marketing team within media giant Cox Media Group (CMG) claims it has the capability to listen to ambient conversations …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: DocuSign is working with advisers to explore a sale; DocuSign went public in 2018 and now has a market cap of $11B; DOCU jumps 13%+ — Suitors for the $11 billion company could include private equity and technology firms — E-signature company DocuSign is working with advisers to explore a sale … | Stacy Elliott / Decrypt: |
Crypto wallet maker Ledger updates Connect Kit to remove some malicious code, live for five hours, after a former employee “fell victim to a phishing attack” — Crypto wallet manufacturer Ledger has confirmed an exploit that led it to warn users to “stop using dapps” …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Elon Musk verbally guaranteed some US banks that they would not lose money on the Twitter deal; banks face serious losses on the “uninvestable” debt — Banks are facing serious losses on the debt as social media platform's business deteriorates
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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
YouTube creators MrBeast and Chucky Appleby launch ViewStats, which uses the YouTube API to unveil detailed stats about channels for creators and fans, in beta — The top YouTuber in the U.S., MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson) co-founded the new analytics platform ViewStats, which is now available in beta.| Glenn Fleishman / Retool: |
A look back at Yahoo Pipes, which from 2007 to 2015 let users drag and drop elements in a browser to make data feeds, influencing a generation of UI designers — Want to know whether the latest logged earthquakes were near you? Aggregate 100 top news sites, but only see items that mention cats?
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| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: Apple plans to use advanced OLED screens in high-end iPads in 2024 and in a MacBook model in H2 2025, and is also considering making foldable tablets — Display industry in for disruption as investment pours into newer technology — Apple is the leader in the global tablet computer market thanks to its popular iPad lineup.
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| Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: |
China proposes a four-tier, color-coded system for data security incidents; for red and orange warnings, companies must notify the government within 10 minutes — China on Friday proposed a four-tier classification to help it respond to data security incidents, highlighting Beijing's concern … | Ash Parrish / The Verge: |
Days after updating its content policy to permit certain kinds of sexual content, Twitch rescinds the “artistic nudity” portion, citing “community concern” — Mere days after Twitch updated its content policy to permit certain kinds of sexual content …
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| Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / ZDNet: |
In iOS 17.2, Apple has closed off Flipper Zero devices' ability to carry out DoS attacks on iPhones by continuously sending Bluetooth pairing requests — Apple has finally closed off the ability of the Flipper Zero pen-testing tool to flood iPhones with so many popups that the handset would lock up and require a reboot.
More: 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, and Supercharged
| Nicholas Sutrich / Android Central: |
Microsoft launches its basic Office suite on the Meta Quest store for free, letting all Quests run Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in a mixed reality environment — Now you can tweak spreadsheets while playing Xbox, all in VR. — What you need to know — Meta Quest users can now use Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in VR.
More: Thurrott, The Verge, MSPoweruser, WinBuzzer, Neowin, Windows Central, and Nick Sutrich on YouTube
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Some publishers estimate that Google's Search Generative Experience could cut referral traffic by 20% to 40% if the final version resembles recent iterations — Tech giant's AI-powered search product is being tested on roughly 10 million users; publishers rely on Google for traffic and see a gathering storm
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| Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: |
Toy startup Curio launches three AI-powered plush toys, including a $99 one called Grok, that use OpenAI's tech to converse with kids and are voiced by Grimes — Grok is the first in a line of toys from start-up Curio intended to allow kids to converse with an AI chatbot
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| Jordan Pearson / VICE: |
Some X users report seeing ads for apps that use AI to “undress” women in photos; TikTok and Meta blocked certain search terms related to such “nudify” apps — A week after TikTok and Meta blocked certain search terms related to so-called “nudify” apps, X has not taken the same measures, Motherboard found.
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