How a government targeted Ahmed Mansoor, an activist in the UAE, with three zero-day exploits meant to infect his iPhone with sophisticated commercial spyware
Ahmed Mansoor is an internationally recognized human rights defender, based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) …
Researchers uncover zero-day iOS flaws used to try to remotely steal data from activists, likely sold by malware vendor NSO; Apple releases patch with iOS 9.3.5
Many people assume their iPhones are secure, but new research sent Apple scrambling to fix vulnerabilities that left users at risk.
WhatsApp to share phone numbers and analytics data of users with Facebook, two years after it said it had no plans to collect data
SAN FRANCISCO — When Facebook bought the start-up WhatsApp in 2014, Jan Koum, one of WhatsApp's founders, declared that the deal would not affect …
Sources: Apple to use Sony's FeliCa chip, a mobile tap-to-pay standard, in new iPhones in Japan to let users pay for transit with their smartphones
Company planning new iPhone model with Sony's FeliCa chip — Apple in talks with financial insitution for mobile payments
Report: Google Fiber chief Craig Barratt was told by Larry Page to halve staff to 500; Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat interceded to defend business model
Another bump in the road for Alphabet. — For the past year, Ruth Porat, the CFO of Google and its parent Alphabet, has told Wall Street …
PE firm Apollo Global taking Rackspace private in $4.3B deal, valuing firm at 38% premium over August 3 closing price when first reports about buyout surfaced
Apollo Global, a private-equity firm, has agreed to buy Rackspace in a $4.3 billion deal that would take the cloud-computing company private.
Dropbox prompting users to reset passwords that haven't been changed since mid-2012, calls it a preventative move, says no evidence accounts improperly accessed
Dropbox is requiring users who have not changed their passwords since mid-2012 to reset their passwords this afternoon.
Sources: Uber lost $1.2B in first half of 2016, including $520M in Q1 and $750M in Q2; net revenue grew 18% from $960M in Q1 to $1.1B in Q2
After touting profitability in the U.S. early this year, the ride-hailing company is said to post second-quarter losses exceeding $100 million.
Sources: Apple developing a Snapchat-like video sharing and editing app and multiple social features for iOS
Company looks to catch up as video sharing gains popularity — Engineers test deeper social ties across iPhone, iPad software — Apple Inc., seeking to capitalize on the popularity …
Facebook open sources three computer vision tools that can identify objects within photos: DeepMask, SharpMask, and MultiPathNet
DeepMask and SharpMask are now open source — Facebook is open sourcing a set of computer vision software tools that can identify both the variety and the shape of objects within photos.
WhatsApp lays groundwork to monetize its service by easing privacy rules and allowing businesses to message users
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Autonomous vehicle software startup nuTonomy begins invite-only testing of six self-driving taxis in Singapore; cars will have driver and researcher on board
SINGAPORE (AP) — The world's first self-driving taxis will be picking up passengers in Singapore starting Thursday.
China Labor Watch accuses iPhone 7 manufacturer Pegatron of illegally forcing overtime, low wages of $2/hour, urges Apple to invest in improving conditions
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Pure Storage beats Q2 expectations as revenues rise almost 93% YoY to $163.2M
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Sources: Twitter is working on an anti-harassment tool to let users filter posts using keywords
Abuse has led to depature of several high-profile users — New solution is similar to Instagram's keyword-based filter — Twitter Inc. is working on a keyword-based tool that will let people filter ...
Nextdoor, a social network for neighbors, debuts a new tool to stem racial profiling on its platform, claims 75% success rate in tests
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Sources: Twitter's Promoted Sticker ad campaigns have a minimum $500K ad spend, while the company has been lowering minimums on other ad products
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Sources: earlier this year, China let some foreign tech companies, including Microsoft and Intel, join a government committee that sets cybersecurity standards
Wall Street Journal :
Analysis of filings finds Twitter's Japanese operation generated 10% of global revenue in Q2, with sales doubling YoY to $61.2M
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