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by Despegar 7y ago
It seems you did miss all the press coverage of this event. Here's one: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mbmgqp/this-is-worst-year...
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>ZDI's Wednesday post said researchers notified Google of the vulnerability in mid-March and that by the end of June, the company had confirmed that the flaw would be fixed. When ZDI asked Google for an update last month, Google res
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by Despegar 7y ago
>Is this new information or did we already know this? It's confirming this report by Techcrunch that the Uyghurs were targeted. https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/31/china-google-iphone-uyghur...
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by Despegar 7y ago
There were subtle jabs at Apple in the original post.
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"iOS security is unmatched because we take end-to-end responsibility for the security of our hardware and software." Good stuff
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This isn't even a question to me: it's obvious it was to take out competition in social networking. Facebook has network effects but their organic attempts at starting new apps constantly fail. Acquiring the ones that take off is
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Antitrust isn't regulation
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by Despegar 7y ago
>Instagram could be considered a defensive acquisition. They should argue that the motive behind the acquisition was to expand their presence into mobile/imagery, which is different than defending social networking. I mean there&#x2
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Germany’s Obsession with Fiscal Prudence Needs to Go(bloomberg.com)
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The answer is: RTB is illegal and we're just waiting for the courts to decide on it.
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It's probably a PITA for Apple (and developers) to design UIs that look and work good across such a wide gamut of sizes.
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The entire top comment and the replies are on an off-topic tangent.
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CCPA is already a mediocre privacy law compared to GDPR. It's basically DNT, an opt-out system. But at least it's an improvement from the status quo. Anyone that competes with the ad-tech giants should be putting their lobbying ef
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Google emerges as target of a new state attorneys general antitrust probe(washingtonpost.com)
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This is the physical world version of internet companies wiping their hands clean of any negative externalities they create by hiding behind Section 230.
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Silicon Valley is trying to rewrite California's consumer privacy law(washingtonpost.com)
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I'd love to see a Truth and Reconciliation of the techno-utopian ideology that has been at the center of the tech industry for decades. John Perry Barlow is dead but other principals are still alive.
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by Despegar 7y ago
This comment is veering into John Perry Barlow's "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" territory. The only thing that's become eminently obvious in recent years is what an intellectually bankrupt ideology it
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Germany’s Small Steps into Stimulus Are Unlikely to Meet Economists’ Hopes(wsj.com)
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iPhone Hackers Caught by Google Also Targeted Android and Microsoft Windows(forbes.com)
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It's always CCP regime survival.
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It's telling that Google wasn't willing to name China publicly and that someone (most likely someone at Project Zero) had to leak it to this reporter off-the-record. Maybe they still have some hope of re-entering China?
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Is Germany Going Soft on China?(atlanticcouncil.org)
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There's no difference.
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>Apple doesn’t certify third party repair shops That's exactly what the AASP program is.
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I don't think that's realistic. You're getting genuine parts from Apple, not parts that fell off a truck in China. If you want the same margin, raise your prices.
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A Conservative Senator’s Crusade Against Big Tech(washingtonpost.com)
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>but not under this notion that we are somehow in the same bucket as China I didn't say India was the same as China. >and that only the west is holy in the world. If you're a minority of any kind, you're better off livi
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>Among other things it would also make sure that East Asian disdain for darker skinned people India is no panacea on this front. Modi is a Hindu nationalist and if you're expecting India to be a democracy in the vein of Western libe
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by Despegar 7y ago
Greenpeace was also responsible for getting Apple to remove harmful chemicals/materials from their products and supply chain. This slide in every keynote is thanks to Greenpeace's pressure: https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/

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