Apple details its CSAM detection system, says it expects to set a match threshold of 30 known CSAM images before an iCloud account is flagged for manual review
Apple today shared a document that provides a more detailed overview of the child safety features that it first announced last week …
Craig Federighi says introducing two similar features at the same time, iMessage protections for children and CSAM scanning of iCloud photos, caused confusion
Facing criticism about eroding privacy on the iPhone, Apple's Craig Federighi says new tools aimed at best ensuring privacy while fighting illegal images
Facebook rolls out end-to-end encrypted voice and video calls on Messenger, and says it will begin testing opt-in e2e encryption for Instagram DMs
rolling out a host of features for Messenger users who switch on — end-to-end encryption (E2EE). You can now call Messenger contacts using voice or video Source: Messenger News .
In a preliminary ruling, ITC judge finds Google infringed on five patents owned by Sonos; full commission will make a final ruling in December
In a preliminary finding by the United States International Trade Commission, a judge ruled that the internet company infringed on speaker-technology patents.
Memo: Apple warns staff to be ready for questions about CSAM scanning, says it will address privacy concerns by having an independent auditor review the system
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Twitter pauses rolling out access to apply for verification, after admitting that several fake accounts, reportedly part of a botnet, were wrongly verified
It wants to improve the application and review process — Twitter is halting the expansion of its verification program …
HBO Max plans to roll out a new app in the next four or five months for connected TVs, built from the ground up, after complaints of glitches in its current app
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Report: 55 of the top 100 banks by assets under management have invested in crypto or a blockchain company; Barclays and Citigroup are the most active investors
Over half of the 100 largest banks by assets under management are reportedly investors in major crypto and blockchain technology-based companies and projects.
Report: companies like Huawei and ZTE have driven the demand for surveillance tech in Latin America by offering local governments free or discounted equipment
From Brazil to Argentina, companies like Huawei and Dahua are disseminating high-tech cameras.Source:Access NowandAccess NowTweets:@iethicsand@leomschwartzSource:Access Now:Surveillance Tech in Latin ...
Interview with Niantic CEO John Hanke about Niantic's vision for the metaverse and how the metaverse could become a dystopian nightmare
The metaverse, the concept of an alternative, shared digital world that originated in sci-fi, has bubbled up to the surface of tech chatter during the later days of the pandemic.
Poly Network offers a $500K “bug bounty” to the hacker who returned $340M+ in assets and placed the rest in a wallet jointly controlled by the hacker and Poly
but there's a catch Finextra : Hacker behind $610m crypto heist in line for reward for returning assets Brian Fung / CNN : An anonymous hacker stole $600 million in cryptocurrency, then gave it back R...
Researchers at Berlin-based AlgorithmWatch say they abandoned their research project monitoring the Instagram algorithm after legal threats from Facebook
run by @LauraEdelson2 and Damon McCoy—even though the work involves only limited and anonymous information about advertisements. https://knightcolumbia.org/... Deb Raji / @rajiinio : Horrible - the wa...
Equifax to buy Appriss Insights, a unit of Appriss that provides data used in public safety and law enforcement, for ~$1.8B from Clearlake and Insight Partners
Santa Monica-based Clearlake Capital Group and New York private equity firm Insight Partners have agreed to sell … Source: Appriss Insights and PR Newswire .
Nvidia says part of its April keynote was led by a virtual replica of CEO Jensen Huang, created by scanning Huang and then training an AI to mimic his gestures
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New book details Android's acquisition by Google, and how Android pitched its OS to Samsung, HTC, and East Coast VC firms before meeting with Larry Page
Enjoy a sneak peek from Androids: The team that built the Android operating system. … By mid-2005, Android was acquired and the future looked bright.
Apple is ordered by East Texas jury to pay $300M in royalties to Optis after losing a patent dispute retrial over LTE technology in iPhones and other products
Bloomberg :
A half-dozen white-collar workers in industries like tech and banking say they are stealthily holding multiple remote, full-time jobs
the team never did video calls—while he was teaching a coding class at his secret second job.” What a story https://www.wsj.com/... @editorialiste : “Looks like you've been missing a lot of work latel...
Germany-based WorkMotion, an HR software startup that helps companies onboard and manage staff abroad, raises ~$24M Series A led by Activant Capital and XAnge
According to Statista, there will be a shortage of about two million skilled workers in Germany by 2030, which will force companies to look for personnel abroad.
Neobank Chime raises $750M led by Sequoia at a valuation of about $25B, as a source says it could go public in H1 2022
Wall Street Journal :
Netherlands-based Betty Blocks, which offers low-code application development tools to organizations, raises $33M led by SmartFin Capital
Maija Ehlinger / Hypepotamus : Source: Betty Blocks Blog .
Analysis: VC-backed companies in the gaming space have raised $5.9B so far in 2021, already surpassing the total raised in 2020 and 2019
A global pandemic, ripe market conditions, and more private capital availability have led to an increase in funding for gaming startups, and some notable exits over the past year or so. Tweets: @crunc...
Kiddom, which offers a digital curriculum that fits the core standards required by US states, raises $35M Series C led by Altos Ventures
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Ethereum scaling project Polygon, formerly Matic Network, to acquire Hermez Network, developer of ZK-Rollups-based Ethereum scaling tech, in a deal worth $250M
Code42 analysis: there were ~65M attempts by staff to steal source code from their companies in Q2, up from about 20M in each of the previous three quarters
Hannah Murphy / Financial Times :
Equity management software company Carta raises $500M Series G led by Silver Lake at a valuation of $7.4B
Sources: Discord is raising money at a valuation of around $15B, in a funding round that would at least double its valuation of $7B in 2020
Eric Newcomer / Newcomer : Tweets: @ericnewcomer , @freedmanae , @pkafka , @ericnewcomer , and @stevekovach Tweets: Eric Newcomer / @ericnewcomer : SOURCES: Discord Raising at Roughly $15 Billion Val...
Reddit says it is rolling out a TikTok-like video feed on its iOS app
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