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Apple says it will begin scanning iCloud Photos for child abuse images. Later this year, Apple will roll out a technology that will allow the company to detect and report known child sexual abuse material to law enforcement in a way it says will preserve user privacy. (Zack Whittaker via TechCrunch)
U.S. taps Amazon, Google, Microsoft, others to help fight Ransomware, cyber threats. The U.S. government is enlisting the help of tech companies, including Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Google, to bolster the country's critical infrastructure defenses against cyber threats after a string of high-profile attacks. (Robert McMillan via Wall Street Journal)
Messaging apps have an eavesdropping problem. In early 2019, an eavesdropping bug in group FaceTime calls would have let attackers activate the microphone, and even the camera, of the iPhone they were calling and eavesdrop before the recipient did anything at all. (Lily Hay Newman via WIRED)
Open-source intelligence challenges state monopolies on information. IN 1960 JOHN KENNEDY, the Democratic candidate for the American presidency, accused the incumbent Republican administration of having allowed a “missile gap” to open up between America and the Soviet Union. (The Economist)
Didi Weighs Giving Up Data Control to Appease Beijing. It's considering various ways to appease the internet watchdog Data is central to both Didi's business and China's economy Didi Global Inc. is weighing giving up control of its most valuable data as part of efforts to resolve a Chinese regulatory… (Bloomberg)
Amazon postpones return to office until January 2022. Amazon said Thursday it's postponing a return to the office for its corporate employees to January of 2022. Previously, Amazon had said it expected most of its employees to begin returning regularly to the office the week of Sept. 7 of this year. (Annie Palmer via CNBC)
Tucker Carlson's Self-Loathing International Tourism. Tucker Carlson is spending a week in Budapest in order to annoy Americans and everybody else who believes in the ideals of America: the rule of law, a free press, free elections, the conviction that democracy is preferable to autocracy. (Anne Applebaum via The Atlantic)
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