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Sources: Zuckerberg told staff Facebook won't change policies because of “threat to a small percent of our revenue”, expects advertisers to return “soon enough” — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees he was reluctant to bow to the threats of a growing ad boycott …
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| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Rep. David Cicilline says Tim Cook will testify in front of the House Judiciary Committee in late July, alongside Facebook, Amazon, and Google CEOs — Apple CEO Tim Cook, the last chief executive of four big tech companies targeted in a U.S. House Judiciary Committee antitrust probe …
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Police infiltrated an encrypted phone network used by organized crime and read millions of messages in real time for months, leading to international arrests — Police monitored a hundred million encrypted messages sent through Encrochat, a network used by career criminals to discuss drug deals, murders, and extortion plots.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says it is shutting down Lasso, its TikTok clone launched a year and a half ago, on July 10 — Facebook is no longer betting on Lasso, an app it launched a year and a half ago, to take on TikTok . The social juggernaut's TikTok clone is shutting down on July 10, Facebook said.
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| Daniel Kuhn / CoinDesk: |
Researchers expose a flaw in at least three major crypto wallets, Ledger Live, Edge, and Breadwallet, which could be exploited for double spending users' funds — A standard way to transact Bitcoin could be vulnerable to double-spending, new research has found.| David Ruddock / Android Police: |
Google says it has discontinued the Pixel 3a and 3a XL, with remaining stock only available through 3rd parties; Google has yet to announce a rumored successor — In a statement provided to Android Police, Google has confirmed that its Pixel 3a and 3a XL smartphones are now discontinued.
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| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
As part of UK antitrust investigation of Google, the CMA says Safari's use of Google as its default search engine is “a significant barrier to entry” for rivals — (Reuters) - The payments by Alphabet Inc's Google to Apple Inc to be the default search engine on Apple's Safari web browser create …
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Sources: India's additional scrutiny of imports from China is causing delays in operations at plants owned by Foxconn and impacting other companies like Dell — Aditya Kalra, Sankalp Phartiyal — NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's additional scrutiny of imports from China has disrupted operations …
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Twitter removed a picture from a Trump tweet after receiving a DMCA complaint from the NYT, which owns the rights to the photo taken in 2015 — Twitter has removed a picture from a tweet by President Trump on Tuesday after it received a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) …
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| Joseph Tsidulko / CRN: |
VMware to acquire Datrium, which provides disaster recovery services for hybrid cloud environments, for an undisclosed sum; Datrium had previously raised $170M — The deal for the hyper-converged infrastructure startup looks to advance VMware's hybrid cloud standing with a cost-optimized solution for backing up data in the cloud.| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
A look at Prison TikTok, a subgenre where inmates use contraband cellphones to share dance videos, funny skits, and broadcast info about their living conditions — The lives of incarcerated people are usually hidden from society. On prison TikTok, they're going viral.
Tweets: @lmatsakis, @wired, @godfatherrach, @vtitunik, and @lmatsakis
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
COVID-19 is amplifying the cybersecurity risks for schools as they move to distance learning; they were already at risk due to a lack of dedicated funding — A lack of dedicated funding and resources made it hard to keep data secure—and that was before classes moved almost entirely online.
Tweets: @wired and @lilyhnewman
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Analysis of 1B+ leaked credentials: “123456” accounts for one out of every 142 passwords, making it the most commonly reused password over the last five years — The ‘123456’ password was spotted 7 million times across a data trove of one billion leaked credentials …
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