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Leaked FTI Consulting report: investigators found a suspicious encrypted file on Jeff Bezos' iPhone, causing data transfers to jump by ~29,000%, but no malware — A report investigating the potential hack of Jeff Bezos' iPhone indicates that forensic investigators found a suspicious file but no evidence of any malware on the phone.
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| Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian: |
UN special rapporteurs say they are “gravely concerned” about the alleged hacking of Jeff Bezos' phone by Saudi's MbS, calling for further investigations — ‘Grave concern’ expressed at evidence of possible ‘effort to silence Washington Post’ — UN experts are demanding …
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| Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian: |
Sources: analysis shows a message from Saudi Crown Prince MbS' WhatsApp account to Jeff Bezos in 2018 included file “highly” likely to have hacked Bezos' phone — Exclusive: investigation suggests Washington Post owner was targeted five months before murder of Jamal Khashoggi
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
UN experts say Saudis likely used mobile spyware, such as NSO Group's Pegasus, to hack Jeff Bezos' phone in May 2018 — United Nations experts are calling for an investigation after a forensic report said Saudi officials “most likely” used a mobile hacking tool built by mobile spyware maker …
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| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
Google says it found five separate flaws in Apple's Intelligent Tracking Prevention tool for Safari that lets users' browsing behavior be tracked — Google researchers have exposed details of multiple security flaws in its rival Apple's Safari web browser that allowed users' browsing behaviour …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
GM's Cruise unveils Origin, its first driverless vehicle with no steering wheel or pedals, says it will share more info about its production plans in the future — The Origin is the GM subsidiary's first attempt to build an fully autonomous car from the ground up
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Source: the new low-cost iPhone, which looks like iPhone 8 and has a 4.7" screen, will enter production in February and may be announced as early as March — - New model will look similar to 2017's iPhone 8 with Touch ID — Apple expected to launch the 4.7-inch phone as early as March
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Microsoft will forcibly install the Bing extension in Chrome for Office 365 ProPlus users starting mid-February, to change the default search engine to Bing — Microsoft will change the default search engine in Chrome from Google to Bing for its Office 365 ProPlus customers starting mid-February.
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CNET, The Verge, Windows Central, BleepingComputer, Thurrott, GitHub, AskWoody, WinBuzzer, OnMSFT.com, Neowin, and MSPoweruser
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| Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: |
Amazon says Amazon Music has 55M users across six different price tiers, including a free tier, “nearly all” of which are paying subscribers — Amazon's music streaming service has eclipsed 55m users, making the ecommerce group a serious contender in the market that has been historically dominated by Spotify and Apple.
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The Amazon Blog, The Verge, Reuters, Yahoo Finance, Thurrott, PYMNTS.com, RAIN News, Android Central, Input, and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @stevekopack
| Miles Parks / NPR: |
In a first for the US, a district encompassing Greater Seattle will let 1.2M voters cast votes on smartphones in a February 11 election — Toggle more options — A district encompassing Greater Seattle is set to become the first in which every voter can cast a ballot using a smartphone — a historic moment for American democracy.| Michael Hayes / OneZero: |
FOIA docs: law enforcement in over 11 states, including CA, FL, and NY, spent $4M+ over the past decade on software and devices that can break into smartphones — While the FBI requests ‘backdoor’ iPhone access, documents indicate law enforcement already has easy access to encrypted devices| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Email collaboration startup Front raises $59M Series C led by a group of CEOs from Atlassian, Okta, Qualtrics, and Zoom, following its $66M Series B in 2018 — Front, an email collaboration startup, announced this morning it has closed on a $59 million Series C that quadruples its valuation.
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TechCrunch, Forbes, VentureBeat, Tech.eu, and Axios
Tweets: @alexrkonrad, @jeff, and @lucasmtny
| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
UK government proposes sweeping changes to privacy protections for those under 18, requiring platforms turn on heightened privacy settings by default and more — New rules will require online services to overhaul how they treat the personal details of children in the country.
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TechCrunch, ico.org.uk, The Hill, Engadget, and BBC
Tweets: @natashanyt, @iconews, @natashanyt, @annelongfield, and @katrina_hrm
| Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter: |
Disney sold its FoxNext video game unit, which it acquired with 21st Century Fox's entertainment assets, to Scopely, a Culver City-based mobile game developer — The company is selling the FoxNext video game development studio to the Culver City-based mobile game developer.| Netflix IR: |
Netflix Q4 revenue grew 31% YoY to $5.467B and net income rose to $587M, surpassing 100M paid memberships outside the US; global paid net additions totaled 8.8M — Fellow shareholders, We had a strong finish to 2019, with Q4 revenue growing 31% year over year, bringing full year 2019 revenue …
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