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- Facebook users’ phone numbers are for sale through a Telegram bot
- Rejoice! Amazon’s new app icon isn’t just a logo in a white box
- Warning Signal: the messaging app’s new features are causing internal turmoil
- Grindr fined $11.7 million for illegally sharing private user information with advertisers
- Facebook’s News tab comes to UK in first launch outside of the US
- Amnesty International calls for a ban on facial recognition in New York City
- Apple has a new head of hardware engineering in latest executive shuffle
- Biden wants to replace government fleet with electric vehicles
- Amazon’s Alexa can now act on its own hunches to turn off lights and more
- Nerf’s new blasters curve their shots a la Angelina Jolie in Wanted
| Facebook users’ phone numbers are for sale through a Telegram bot Posted: 25 Jan 2021 06:06 PM PST  Someone has gotten their hands on a database full of Facebook users' phone numbers, and is now selling that data using a Telegram bot, according to a report by Motherboard. The security researcher who found this vulnerability, Alon Gal, says that the person who runs the bot claims to have the information of 533 million users, which came from a Facebook vulnerability that was patched in 2019. With many databases, some amount of technical skill is required to find any useful data. And there often has to be an interaction between the person with the database and the person trying to get information out of it, as the database's "owner" isn't going to just give someone else all that valuable data. Making a Telegram bot, however, solves both... |
| Rejoice! Amazon’s new app icon isn’t just a logo in a white box Posted: 25 Jan 2021 05:39 PM PST  It looks like Amazon is rolling a new app icon on iOS, and unlike countless other recent app redesigns, it isn't just a logo dropped inside a white background! Rejoice! The new icon cleverly takes cues from perhaps Amazon's most recognizable "product" — its shipping boxes and their bright blue tape. Here it is — in the app's listing on Apple's UK App Store. (There are a few other reports of others seeing the icon on their devices as well.) Whoever worked on this new app design, which will be instantly recognizable on your home screen, deserves a raise. Correction: We've updated the headline to clarify that the new design is an icon, not a logo. |
| Warning Signal: the messaging app’s new features are causing internal turmoil Posted: 25 Jan 2021 05:00 PM PST  The fast-growing encrypted messaging app is making itself increasingly vulnerable to abuse. Current and former employees are sounding the alarm. |
| Grindr fined $11.7 million for illegally sharing private user information with advertisers Posted: 25 Jan 2021 04:57 PM PST  Grindr will be fined 100 million Norwegian kroner, or about $11.7 million, by the Norwegian Data Protection Authority for illegally sharing private information about Grindr users to advertisers, according to The New York Times. Last January, the Norwegian Consumer Council filed three complaints against Grindr for sharing personal information, including users' locations and information about the device they were using, with advertisers. (One of those advertisers was MoPub, Twitter's mobile ads company.) Associating that information with an individual could potentially indicate that person's sexual orientation without their consent, and now, the Norwegian Data Protection Authority is taking action against Grindr for the practice. Grindr... |
| Facebook’s News tab comes to UK in first launch outside of the US Posted: 25 Jan 2021 04:01 PM PST  Facebook's News tab will go live in the UK on January 26th in its first launch outside the US. The company says the section will offer a mix of curated and personalized news stories, but for select publishers the bigger news is that it will see Facebook paying them to license their content. Although Facebook declined to give information on the amount it expects to pay publishers, a spokesperson said the company plans to invest "substantial" amounts over a number of years. These payments are expected to mainly go to publishers whose content isn't already on Facebook — for instance, like content that's normally paywalled. The Guardian previously reported that some publishers expect these payments to be worth millions of pounds a year. A... |
| Amnesty International calls for a ban on facial recognition in New York City Posted: 25 Jan 2021 04:01 PM PST  Amnesty International has launched a new campaign against facial recognition titled Ban The Scan — and is launching with a demand for New York City to halt police and government use of the technology. Amnesty argues facial recognition is incompatible with basic privacy rights, and will exacerbate structural racism in policing tactics. "New Yorkers should be able to go out about their daily lives without being tracked by facial recognition," said Matt Mahmoudi, an AI and human rights researcher with Amnesty. "Other major cities across the US have already banned facial recognition, and New York must do the same." Amnesty is joined in the New York portion of... |
| Apple has a new head of hardware engineering in latest executive shuffle Posted: 25 Jan 2021 02:32 PM PST  Apple's hardware team is getting its biggest shakeup in nearly a decade, as Dan Riccio — who served as the company's senior vice president of hardware engineering since 2012 — transitions to "a new role" at the company. He'll be replaced as Apple's head hardware engineer by John Ternus, who led the hardware team designing the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro, in addition to working on Apple's M1 chips. Ternus has been vice president of hardware engineering at Apple since 2013. The role of senior vice president of hardware engineering at Apple is a key one: the position reports directly to CEO Tim Cook and is responsible for leading the Mac, iPhone, iPad, and iPod engineering teams. Ternus' new role will put him in charge of the company's hardware... |
| Biden wants to replace government fleet with electric vehicles Posted: 25 Jan 2021 02:19 PM PST  President Joe Biden will start the process of phasing out the federal government's use of gas-powered vehicles and replacing them with ones that run on electricity. The announcement is the fulfillment of a promise Biden made on the campaign trail to swap government fleet vehicles with American-made EVs. "The federal government also owns an enormous fleet of vehicles, which we're going to replace with clean electric vehicles made right here in America, by American workers," Biden said during a briefing Monday announcing his "Buy American" executive order.
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| Amazon’s Alexa can now act on its own hunches to turn off lights and more Posted: 25 Jan 2021 02:10 PM PST  Amazon is enabling a new feature today that allows Alexa to proactively complete tasks around the house, such as turning off lights, based on your habits and frequent requests. Alexa has been able to sense these habits and ask about them since 2018 — the company calls them "hunches" — but before this update, Alexa would ask permission before acting on something like lowering the thermostat before you went to bed. If the new proactive hunches are enabled, though, Alexa will skip asking for permission for a task and just do it. While proactive hunches seem like they could make Alexa a lot more useful, having granular controls over what Alexa can automatically act on will be important. An Amazon support article seems to suggest you can... |
| Nerf’s new blasters curve their shots a la Angelina Jolie in Wanted Posted: 25 Jan 2021 02:01 PM PST  Nerf's got a new trick up its sleeve: Hasbro's latest foam-flinging sidearms can curve their shots, possibly letting you hit targets you can't even see. (Think Angelina Jolie or James McAvoy in Wanted but with bouncy balls instead of bullets.) That's because each of Nerf's three new Rival Curve blasters has an adjustable barrel you can twist to change the angle of your shot: left or right to shoot around corners, up to shoot straight, or down to lob balls over cover. Feeling skeptical? I would also be looking at this CG, especially considering MythBusters all but proved you can't bend a real-life bullet over a decade ago. But you actually can curve toy projectiles like these foam balls. In fact, companies like Hasbro have... |
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