Hands-on with iOS 16’s Lockdown Mode, which aims to protect against highly targeted attacks by disabling link previews in messages, limiting FaceTime, and more (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Hands-on with iOS 16’s Lockdown Mode, which aims to protect against highly targeted attacks by disabling link previews in messages, limiting FaceTime, and more — Here’s what the new spyware-busting security feature does,
Meta is testing having DoorDash deliver Facebook Marketplace purchases; sources: the service delivers items that fit in a car trunk and are up to 15 miles away (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal: Meta is testing having DoorDash deliver Facebook Marketplace purchases; sources: the service delivers items that fit in a car trunk and are up to 15 miles away — The service will pick up and
The decentralization of crypto services like Tornado Cash leaves authorities without an enforcement target, making them difficult if not impossible to shut down (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal: The decentralization of crypto services like Tornado Cash leaves authorities without an enforcement target, making them difficult if not impossible to shut down — Decentralization leaves authorities without target for enforcement; ‘difficult, if not
Sources detail Meta’s challenges in building encrypted messaging products, including users’ apathy toward encryption, which could change with Roe overturned (Casey Newton/Platformer)
Casey Newton / Platformer: Sources detail Meta’s challenges in building encrypted messaging products, including users’ apathy toward encryption, which could change with Roe overturned — The company is moving quickly to make Messenger more secure — but
Sources: before ATT, Apple and Meta discussed revenue-sharing deals, such as Apple taking a cut of “boosted posts” via IAP and an ad-free Facebook subscription (Salvador Rodriguez/Wall Street Journal)
Salvador Rodriguez / Wall Street Journal: Sources: before ATT, Apple and Meta discussed revenue-sharing deals, such as Apple taking a cut of “boosted posts” via IAP and an ad-free Facebook subscription — The two tech giants discussed
US federal prosecutors charge a former Qualcomm VP and three others over allegedly duping the company into paying $150M to acquire tech that it already owned (Mike Freeman/Los Angeles Times)
Mike Freeman / Los Angeles Times: US federal prosecutors charge a former Qualcomm VP and three others over allegedly duping the company into paying $150M to acquire tech that it already owned — Federal prosecutors unveiled fraud
India freezes assets worth $46.4M owned by crypto exchange Vauld’s local entity for allegedly facilitating “crime-derived” proceeds from predatory lending firms (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
Manish Singh / TechCrunch: India freezes assets worth $46.4M owned by crypto exchange Vauld’s local entity for allegedly facilitating “crime-derived” proceeds from predatory lending firms — India’s anti-money laundering agency has frozen assets worth $46.4 million from
Memo: meditation app Calm laid off 20% of its staff; sources say Calm employed ~400 people and approximately 90 were laid off; Calm had a $2B valuation in 2020 (Patrick Coffee/Wall Street Journal)
Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal: Memo: meditation app Calm laid off 20% of its staff; sources say Calm employed ~400 people and approximately 90 were laid off; Calm had a $2B valuation in 2020 — Cuts
Singapore-based Merkle Science, a predictive crypto intelligence service with threat detection, risk mitigation, and compliance tools, raised a $24M+ Series A (Brandy Betz/CoinDesk)
Brandy Betz / CoinDesk: Singapore-based Merkle Science, a predictive crypto intelligence service with threat detection, risk mitigation, and compliance tools, raised a $24M+ Series A — The threat detection company added funding to its Series A round,
Huawei reports H1 revenue down 5.9% YoY to ~$44.73B and net profit down 52% YoY to ~$2.2B, due to a weak economy, COVID-19 disruptions, and supply chain issues (David Kirton/Reuters)
David Kirton / Reuters: Huawei reports H1 revenue down 5.9% YoY to ~$44.73B and net profit down 52% YoY to ~$2.2B, due to a weak economy, COVID-19 disruptions, and supply chain issues — Huawei Technologies (HWT.UL) said
Sources: Apple tells its assemblers to make 90M of its newest iPhones, on par with 2021; IDC expects the smartphone market to shrink 3.5% in 2022 (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
Debby Wu / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple tells its assemblers to make 90M of its newest iPhones, on par with 2021; IDC expects the smartphone market to shrink 3.5% in 2022 — Apple Inc. has asked suppliers to
Dutch authorities arrest a developer in Amsterdam suspected to be involved with Tornado Cash, two days after the US sanctioned the crypto mixing service (Andrew Rummer/The Block)
Andrew Rummer / The Block: Dutch authorities arrest a developer in Amsterdam suspected to be involved with Tornado Cash, two days after the US sanctioned the crypto mixing service — – Dutch authorities arrested a developer suspected
A California bill targeting social media companies for features that could addict minors dies in legislature, after Meta, Twitter, and Snap lobbied against it (Sarah Donaldson/Wall Street Journal)
Sarah Donaldson / Wall Street Journal: A California bill targeting social media companies for features that could addict minors dies in legislature, after Meta, Twitter, and Snap lobbied against it — Measure, which would have allowed lawsuits
Samsung’s Jay Y. Lee, who spent 18 months in prison for bribery, wins a pardon from South Korea’s President, letting him regain his company leadership role (Bloomberg)
Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee, who spent 18 months in prison for bribery, wins a pardon from South Korea’s President, letting him regain his company leadership role — Samsung Electronics Co. Lee won a presidential pardon from
Sources: SK Hynix plans to pick a US site for its chip packaging plant that would qualify for CHIPS Act funding by Q1 2023 and hit mass production by 2025-2026 (Alexandra Alper/Reuters)
site for its advanced chip packaging plant and break ground there around the first quarter … Alexandra Alper / Reuters: Sources: SK Hynix plans to pick a US site for its chip packaging plant that would qualify