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WhatsApp will hand over data to Facebook - CNET

Close WhatsApp to share data with Facebook Drag WhatsApp just announced that it updated its terms and conditions to permit the company to opt-in all one billion of its users to share information with Facebook. Facebook will take that information to find friends and also target ads better. WhatsApp is also working on ways for businesses to communicate to users from the app. Subscribe: CNET Update delivers the biggest tech n...

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WhatsApp draws closer to Facebook, makes it easier for businesses to message you - CNET

Your airline will soon be able to tell you when your flight is delayed via WhatsApp. WhatsApp WhatsApp users, get ready for messages from companies looking for your business.That's the upshot from Thursday's update to WhatsApp's terms and conditions. The company outlined in a blog post the kind of interactions it wants to enable, including being notified by your bank about a potentially fraudulent transaction or being wa ed about a delayed flight. These are things we might currently be informed about by a text message or phone call. WhatsApp hopes to enable these notifications too, all while keeping spam and third-party banner ads out.This is the first time WhatsApp has updated its terms in four years, meani...

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Happy 25th birthday to the World Wide Web - CNET

Enlarge ImageThe NeXT computer Tim Be ers-Lee used as the first server for the World Wide Web.CoolcaesarInte auts, today we celebrate this glorious technology that brings us all together! On August 23, 1991 -- 25 years ago today -- the public gained access for the first time to the World Wide Web, designed and deployed by computer scientist Tim Be ers-Lee at CERN in Switzerland.It gave rise to the inte et as we know and use it today.The inte et and the World Wide Web are not interchangeable. The inte et was first connected in 1969, and refers to the network that carries information between nodes. The World Wide Web refers to the space on this network where information, such as web pages and documents, are stored. Think of the World Wide Web as neurons, and the inte et as synapses.In 1980, ...

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WhatsApp messages from a 'prison' island, thousands of miles away - CNET

Close Smuggled phones and a wall of silence: Reporting on Australian detention Drag Smuggled phones and a wall of silence: Reporting on Australian detentionThis is part of our Road Trip 2016 summer series "Life, Disrupted," about how technology is helping with the global refugee crisis -- if at all.I was in the kitchen at my parents' house when my phone vibrated. It was a WhatsApp message from a refugee in a camp in the mid...

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Trump launches web page to recruit 'election observers' - CNET

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageIn the interests of justice? screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET I don't know whether you've heard, but there's no need to vote.The election is apparently going to rigged. At least that's what Republican candidate Donald Trump intimated on the campaign trail this week. It's unclear what evidence Trump has for this worrying assertion. What is clearer is that he's doing something about it.He's using the open and connected power of the web to hire so-called election observers. Well, when I say "hire," I of course mean "recruit as volunteers." It's not as if the property mogul became rich by just giving mon...

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After hack, more data on Democrats hits the web - CNET

The Democrats have been dogged by hacking and leaks during the presidential campaign. This past week was no exception. Erwin Wodicka/Getty Images The Democratic Party's hacking woes continued this week, as personal phone numbers and email addresses of US Congress members wound up on the inte et. A person, or people, using the alias "Guccifer 2.0" dumped the data on a website on Friday and said it had been acquired in a computer breach of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, a group that raises funds for Democratic members of the House of Representatives. That attack was revealed in late July. "It's time for new revelations now," read a statement accompanying Friday's data dump, as reported by Th...

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What's Apple's top-secret Health Band all about? (Apple Byte Extra Crunchy, Ep. 50) - CNET

Subscribe to the Apple Byte PodcastiTunes MP3 | RSS MP3 | FeedBu er MP3SoundCloud | Google Play | TuneIniTunes video | RSS video | FeedBu er videoYouTube | Livestream | Stitcher Extra Crunchy Podcast, Ep. 50 Your browser does not support the audio element. [embedded content]APPLE BYTE EXTRA CRUNCHY SHOW NOTES:MACBOOK PRO NEWS:Apple Said to Plan First Pro Laptop Overhaul in Four YearsApple's Notebook Shipments Rise 30% on Strength of New 12-Inch Retina MacBookAPPLE WATCH NEWS:Faster Apple Watch 2 With GPS, Barometer, Larger Battery, and Same Thickness to Launch Later This YearUpgraded Apple Watch 1 Models Said to Launch Alongside Apple Watch 2 Later This YeariOS 10 Beta 5 Tidbits: New Lock Screen Sound, Widget Tweaks, and MoreiP...

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Investors bolster Brave's plan to rid web of nasty ads - CNET

Brave Software's logo A bold plan to rid the web of obnoxious advertising just came one step closer to reality. Browser maker Brave said Monday that it has raised a seed round of $4.5 million, money that will go toward its browser and its technology for replacing conventional web ads with its own. The investors are Founders Fund, the high-profile venture capitalist firm run by Peter Thiel, as well as Propel Venture Partners, Pantera Capital, Foundation Capital and Digital Currency Group. Brave is trying to make a business by solving a tho y issue on the web: Many sites are supported by advertising, but that advertising slows down computers, drains phone batteries, tracks users and sometimes installs malware on people's machines. People by the millions are installing ad blockers as a resul...

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WhatsApp chats leave a record even after deletion, says security researcher - CNET

Traces of deleted WhatsApp chats can linger on an iPhone, says security researcher Jonathan Zdziarski. Photothek/Getty Images If you're a WhatsApp user with an iPhone, your chats might not be as secure as you think.Despite the popular messaging app's announcement earlier this year that it would encrypt all user data, a security researcher said Friday that the latest version of WhatsApp for Apple's iOS software for iPhones leaves some information vulnerable. The researcher, Jonathan Zdziarski, found traces of deleted chats, which can be pieced together into conversations, he said, and that's even if you've cleared or archived them.Zdziarski wrote in a blog post that such traces can linger "for months." And ...

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WhatsApp chats leave a record even after deletion, says security researcher - CNET

Traces of deleted WhatsApp chats can linger on an iPhone, says security researcher Jonathan Zdziarski. Photothek/Getty Images If you're a WhatsApp user with an iPhone, your chats might not be as secure as you think.Despite the popular messaging app's announcement earlier this year that it would encrypt all user data, a security researcher said Friday that the latest version of WhatsApp for Apple's iOS software for iPhones leaves some information vulnerable. The researcher, Jonathan Zdziarski, found traces of deleted chats, which can be pieced together into conversations, he said, and that's even if you've cleared or archived them.Zdziarski wrote in a blog post that such traces can linger "for months." And ...

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'Save the open internet in Europe' pleads web inventor Tim Berners-Lee - CNET

Inventor of the World Wide Web Sir Tim Be ers-Lee has made an impassioned bid in favour of net neutrality in Europe, calling on European citizens to stop legislation that could see the creation of so called Inte et "fast lanes".In an open letter published by the World Wide Web Foundation, Be ers-Lee, along with law academics Professor Barbara van Schewick and Professor Larry Lessig, wa that "potential loopholes" in EU guidelines -- which are being written following a European Parliament vote on net neutrality in October -- could threaten the open nature of the Inte et. With public consultation on those guidelines due to end on 18 July, the open letter urges EU citizens to have their say on regulators' next steps.Net neutrality proponents argue that all web traffic should be treated equal...

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Prince websites get their own online museum - CNET

An archive of Prince's official and unofficial websites has launched as a free online museum. The Prince Online Museum currently features seventeen of The Purple One's websites, with the oldest dating back to 1994.Easily browsable on a timeline, each site has its own profile page with a brief summary about it. The content of the sites ranged from lyric books for albums and merch stores, to artsy video projects. Some have a short Q&A with the webmasters, designers and other creatives who helped put each website together, and most are fully restored and explorable. While you can visit the websites through the museum, links for purchasing merchandise and music have been taken down. If you're just interested in listening to Prince's music online, you'll have to look elsewhere.Let's block a...

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Brazil court freezes Facebook funds over WhatsApp non-compliance dispute - CNET

WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum Albert Gea/Reuters/Corbis A Brazilian judge has frozen 19.5 million reais ($6.07 million, £2.2 million, $4 million AU) in Facebook funds after the social networking company repeatedly ignored federal orders to release WhatsApp messages related to a drug investigation. The messages could contain evidence linking a cocaine smuggling ring in Brazil to local cohorts in Bolivia, Paraguay and Spain, according to a Reuters report Thursday.Brazilian police have repeatedly asked WhatsApp for the messages, Reuters said. After determining non-compliance, a judge blocked parent company Facebook from accessing money in its Brazilian bank account. The amount is equal to the fines incurred over the l...

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Brexit 'Leave' campaign wipes website amid accusations of false promises - CNET

Gone is the campaign material on the "Vote Leave" website. All that is left is this banner. Screenshot/Vote Leave The successful "Leave" campaign in the UK's EU referendum debate has wiped its website of all vestiges of the material it used to make its pro-Brexit case.The full website has been replaced by a static banner thanking supporters for their hard work and votes, spotted Guardian reporter Alice Ross. An archived version of the site, which features all of the campaign material, can still be seen online. "On 23 June, it's safer to Vote Leave and take back control," the subhead on the website used to say. "We should stop sending £350 million per week to unelected politicians in Brussels, and spend our ...

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Religious hacker defaces escort websites - CNET

The message with which ElSurveillance replaces the homepage of the websites he targets. Screenshot by Michelle Starr/CNET A hacker going by the name ElSurveillance has targeted at least 26 websites in June alone for defacement, most of which offer escort services, although he also managed to scoop up a motorcycle enthusiast and some real estate websites. According to an interview with website Data Breaches in December of last year, he is citing religious reasons. "I have been running an operation under the hashtag #EscortsOffline against the escorts website and agencies, because I strongly believe that our bodies are gifted from Allah (God) to us to look after and not to destroy, and I always hated the idea...

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A painfully telling video about Brexit sweeps the web - CNET

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageNigel Farage, facing a barrage of wonder. GMB/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET I was brought up in the UK in a refugee household. We didn't speak English at home. So, although I have the British accent, my mental accent isn't entirely Brit.Growing up there, Britain seemed to enjoy a psychology of both superiority and insularity, bo perhaps of an empire that crumbled. A more European influence offered some elements of civilization. (The food got better, for one.) My colleague Stephen Shankland alluded to this improved social fabric in his commentary on witnessing Britain's vote to leave the ...

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Google Fiber buys Webpass to speed up broadband deployment in cities - CNET

Google Fiber will soon have a new tool in its toolbox to bring ultra-fast 1Gbps broadband service to millions of people in cities throughout the US. Google On Wednesday Webpass, an inte et service provider that uses point-to-point wireless to deliver high-speed broadband to apartment buildings and businesses, said it was being bought by Google for an undisclosed amount. Neither company has disclosed details of the transaction, but the deal is expected to close this summer after regulatory approval. Webpass uses a combination of rooftop wireless networks connected to high speed fiber connections to deliver broadband connections that it claims can be as fast as 1 gigabit per second. The company is already o...

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Wait, Mark Zuckerberg tapes up his webcam? - CNET

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageDoes he use Zuck tape? Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook Instagram now has 500 million users.This is a time for celebration. At least, for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. After all, his company owns the site where we're desperate to share pictures of our tacos and toenails.Zuckerberg may not be so keen to share images of himself at work. I deduce this from the picture that he posted to accompany his joy. He appears to be sitting at his desk, holding a frame hurriedly provided by his PR people.But, as the deeply observant Chris Olson pointed out on Twitter, his laptop appears to have its webcam taped over. His mic ...

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Verizon may pony up $3 billion for Yahoo's Web business - CNET

Verizon is reportedly wooing Yahoo. Richard Nieva/CNET Verizon could spend $3 billion to acquire Yahoo's Inte et business. The telecom giant planned to submit a proposal before the second round of bidding ended Monday for Yahoo's core online assets, an unnamed source familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Jou al. Private-equity firm TPG was also expected to tender an offer before the deadline, the Jou al reported, but Verizon is currently seen as the leading contender. A major Inte et player in years past, Yahoo has been trying to revive its slumping business fortunes. CEO Marissa Mayer aimed to shake things up by refocusing the company on its mobile sites and services, but those efforts have left ...

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WhatsApp is the world's most popular messaging app on Android, says report - CNET

Aloysius Low If you're a Telegram or Viber user and wondering why there's no one else to message, well the answer could lie in the fact that these apps just aren't as popular on Android compared to WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger. Research from data analytics firm SimilarWeb shows that the Facebook-owned WhatsApp is currently the world leader as the most popular messaging app in 109 countries, while Facebook's own Messenger app is a distant second at 49 countries.That said, these two apps still outshone other messaging apps such as Viber, Line, WeChat or Telegram, though Viber is the only one of the four to claim more than ten countries. Interestingly, apps like KakaoTalk are really only popular in South Ko...

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Hackers find security flaws in 'Mr. Robot' website - CNET

[embedded content] NBC's "Mr Robot", a show about a hacker uncovering corporate corruption, has been praised for its realistic depictions of hacking, but that savvy hasn't quite spilled over into the real world. When the "Who is Mr Robot" website launched in preparation for the second season (you can watch the newly launched trailer above), Forbes reported, a white hat hacker by the name of Zemnmez found a cross-site scripting flaw that could have exposed Facebook users completing a quiz on the website.A second flaw, found by a hacker by the name of corenumb, left the site vulnerable to blind SQL injection, which allows data to be stolen from the website's database. Both hackers notified NBC Universal, which has since patched the flaws.Let's bl...

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Google to block Flash on Chrome, only 10 websites exempt - CNET

Google The slow and inexorable slide to a world without Flash continues, with Google revealing plans to phase out support for Adobe's Flash Player in its Chrome browser for all but a handful of websites. And the company expects the changes to roll out by the fourth quarter of 2016.While it says Flash might have "historically" been a good way to present rich media online, Google is now much more partial to HTML5, thanks to faster load times and lower power use.As a result, Flash will still come bundled with Chrome, but "its presence will not be advertised by default." Where the Flash Player is the only option for viewing content on a site, users will need to actively switch it on for individual sites. Enter...

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Facebook unveils WhatsApp apps for Mac, Windows desktops - CNET

WhatsApp is one of the most popular chat apps for smartphones in use today. But to use it on a desktop, you had to run a Web app through your browser.Now the Facebook-owned app is streamlining the process with the launch of a desktop app that syncs with your mobile device. WhatsApp said the new desktop app, which was released Tuesday, mirrors your mobile device, allowing you to message friends and family while your phone is in your pocket.And because it runs natively on your desktop as opposed to through an app on your browser, the app allows for native notifications and better keyboard shortcuts, WhatsApp said.After downloading the app for either desktops running Windows 8 and above or Mac OS 10.9 and above, open the app and scan the QR code with your phone to sync the devices.Let's block...

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E-books, why so old-fashioned? Here's a Web wakeup call - CNET

Enlarge ImageWeb publishing technology, such as this visual explanation of computer programming by Mike Bostock, could make e-books more interactive. Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET For all the supposed disruption that e-books brought to the publishing industry, the digital versions look still look an awful lot like the paper ones you could have bought a century ago.Nighttime orange text to avoid sleep disturbance is nice, but digital text on a tablet is basically the same as ink text on paper. Comic books and graphic novels go a bit farther. Still, most e-books fall far short of the creativity shown in paper with the "Little Lamb" finger puppet book or Maurice Sendak's "Mommy?" pop-up book.E-books cou...

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WhatsApp back in Brazil as judge lifts suspension - CNET

WhatsApp is back in Brazil.A nationwide three-day blackout of the popular Facebook-owned messaging app was overtu ed on Tuesday by Judge Ricardo Múcio Santana de Abreu Lima, reported The New York Times. A lower court judge ordered the ban after the company failed to comply with a court order to tu over data tied to a criminal investigation. "Thankfully, WhatsApp is now back online," wrote WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum in a Facebook post Tuesday. "We have no intention of compromising people's security and we hope those impacted by this decision join us in making their voices heard in support of an open and secure inte et. The last thing we want is to see WhatsApp blocked again."This may not signal a total victory for WhatsApp. The decision to lift the ban was based on process rather than the meri...

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Judge orders three-day WhatsApp outage in Brazil - CNET

WhatsApp has tangled with authorities in Brazil before. Aloysius Low/CNET WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned texting app, is going dark for a few days in Brazil.A judge ordered the blackout after the company failed to comply with a court order asking WhatsApp to tu over data tied to a criminal investigation. The story was first reported by local newspaper Folha de S.Paulo. This isn't the first time WhatsApp, which Facebook bought in 2014 for $19 billion, has clashed with authorities in Brazil. In December, a judge ordered the shutdown of WhatsApp for the country for two days after not complying with a criminal investigation, but the ruling was overtu ed the next day. In March, a Facebook executive was jailed for...

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These are the websites that might disappoint you on Mother's Day - CNET

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.You could always take mom to a terrible Mother's Day movie instead. Movieclips/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET I was mesmerized recently when the Financial Times explained how much the speed of its website affected its revenue.This led me to thinking about you and your mother.May 8 is Mother's Day in the US. This is the day when you must make at least a gesture toward recognizing that your mom is a better person than you are.Because you're a mode type, you'll likely use the web to buy and send your mother something thoughtful. How patient, though, will be you be if a site isn't loading or performing in ...

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Dating website for 'beautiful people' hacked, customer data leaked - CNET

The sensitive data of 1.1 million users of dating website BeautifulPeople.com has allegedly been leaked online and is being sold, according to a report by Forbes. This data includes names, addresses, sexual preference, relationship status, phone numbers, email addresses and even private messages.The website was hacked in December 2015, and at the time BeautifulPeople.com said the incident occurred on a test server and no user information was compromised. However, Troy Hunt of HaveIBeenPwned.com said that real data was hosted on that server, and is now in the inte et's grubby paws.BeautifulPeople.com has come under fire in the past for booting members for not being attractive enough -- 5,000 in 2010 and 3,000 in 2015. People who wish to join the website must undergo a process whereby their ...

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u200bThe FBI's problems just got worse: WhatsApp is encrypting all its data - CNET

WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum said in a blog post that all users' communications will now be encrypted. © Lino De Vallier/Demotix/Corbis, Lino De Vallier / Demotix WhatsApp has no idea what you're talking about.Why? As of this mo ing, all communications on Facebook-owned WhatsApp are encrypted. That means the messages sent by the service's more than 1 billion users are scrambled up as they travel through WhatsApp's systems and across the Inte et, and only the recipient can see or hear them."The idea is simple: when you send a message, the only person who can read it is the person or group chat that you send that message to," wrote WhatsApp co-founders Jan Koum and Brian Acton in a blog post published Tuesday...

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u200bThe FBI's problems just got worse: WhatsApp is encrypting all its data - CNET

WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum said in a blog post that all users' communications will now be encrypted. © Lino De Vallier/Demotix/Corbis, Lino De Vallier / Demotix WhatsApp has no idea what you're talking about.Why? As of this mo ing, all communications on Facebook-owned WhatsApp are encrypted. That means the messages sent by the service's more than 1 billion users are scrambled up as they travel through WhatsApp's systems and across the Inte et, and only the recipient can see or hear them."The idea is simple: when you send a message, the only person who can read it is the person or group chat that you send that message to," wrote WhatsApp co-founders Jan Koum and Brian Acton in a blog post published Tuesday...

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