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Sources: a number of recently disclosed malicious websites used to hack into iPhones over a two-year period were designed to target Uyghur Muslims in China — A number of malicious websites used to hack into iPhones over a two-year period were targeting Uyghur Muslims, TechCrunch has learned.| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Sources: Android and Windows have also been targeted by the websites that sought to infect iPhones of Uighur ethnic minority in China — The unprecedented attack on Apple iPhones revealed by Google this week was broader than first thought. Multiple sources with knowledge of the situation … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook confirms it is considering testing removal of Like counts — Facebook could soon start hiding the Like counter on News Feed posts to protect users' from envy and dissuade them from self-censorship. Instagram is already testing this in 7 countries including Canada and Brazil …
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Viral Chinese deepfake app Zao, which lets users put themselves in pre-selected scenes from popular movies and soap operas, sparks privacy concerns — The launch of deepfake-style face swap app ZAO has seen it leap up the download charts in China, but it's also raising a host of privacy concerns
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| Gregory Barber / Wired: |
Profile of Lambda School, an online coding program that is free in exchange for a share of post-graduation income, has 2,700 students, and is growing 10%/month — Early this summer, the tech entrepreneur Austen Allred was on Reddit, as he often is, when he noticed something suspicious.
Tweets: @gregoryjbarber, @austen, and @nathanmart
| Jason Perlow / ZDNet: |
IBM's move to open source key tech in its Power processor could benefit IoT device makers, Apple, and Microsoft, while Intel, Qualcomm, ARM, and AMD could lose — It's a heck of an announcement by Big Blue, and this is a heck of a list. — At the Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit in San Diego …
Tweets: @jperlow
| Gregor Hohpe / Martin Fowler: |
A closer look at software architecture lock-in, which many developers consider their archenemy, in its many forms like vendor lock-in, product lock-in, and more — A significant share of architectural energy is spent on reducing or avoiding lock-in. That's a rather noble objective … | Tarun Pathak / Counterpoint Research: |
Analysis: Nokia leads in facilitating Android updates, with 96% of smartphones sold since Q3 running Android Pie, followed by Samsung's 89% and Xiaomi's 84% — - Key brands had fewer than a third of their sub-US$200 smartphones updated to the latest Android version.
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| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Inside Foxconn's manufacturing facilities in India, where it operates two plants and has plans for two more as it looks to diversify its operations beyond China — On a steamy summer morning, dozens of buses pull up outside a cluster of low-slung, blue buildings in the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.| Guilherme Rambo / 9to5Mac: |
Sources reveal sleep tracking features coming to Apple Watch: sleep quality monitoring, option to auto-disable alarms if user wakes up before they sound, more — There's been a lot of speculation about Apple Watch sleep tracking, especially after Apple acquired Beddit …
Tweets: @theaadithyan and @apollozac
| Bloomberg: |
The US starts imposing 15% tariffs on certain tech products made in China like the Apple Watch; 15% tariffs on laptops and cellphones go into effect on Dec. 15 — The Trump administration slapped tariffs on roughly $110 billion in Chinese imports on Sunday, marking the latest escalation …
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Tom's Hardware, CNET, New York Times, 9to5Mac, MSPoweruser, Digital Trends, and Reuters
Tweets: @bronwynflores, @ericgarland, @business, and @selinawangtv
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
French police, with help from Avast, hijack and neutralize a cryptocurrency mining botnet that controlled ~850,000 infected Windows PCs with Retadup malware — In a rare feat, French police have hijacked and neutralized a massive cryptocurrency mining botnet controlling close to a million infected computers.
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