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Fed Tech News Roundup

CTOvision

The relevant text is contained in the 2016 intelligence. All three executives will now have greater responsibility over the technological development. TWD & Associates Promotes Three to Leadership Team: Larry Scherer, Woody Hume and Tom Ladimir Washington Exec (Today) - Last month, TWD & Associates, Inc.

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NSO’s Pegasus spyware: here’s what we know

The Verge

Throughout the past week, we’ve seen story after story about a company called NSO Group, and a piece of spyware called Pegasus. Amnesty International ran detailed forensics on 67 smartphones to look for evidence that they were targeted by Pegasus spyware — and 37 of those phones tested positive. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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How much control should Apple have over your iPhone?

Vox

Now, lawmakers, regulators, developers, and consumers are questioning the extent and effects of that power — including if and how it should be reined in. Outside developers have to follow Apple’s approval process and abide by its rules to get into the App Store. Chris Delmas/AFP via Getty Images. The Apple App Store icon.

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The vibe shift in Silicon Valley

The Verge

How does it develop content policy? The fact that NSO Group belongs to a legal and thriving spyware industry is a daily scandal. Publications should hire spyware reporters and demand to know what Apple and Google are doing to thwart NSO Group and its rivals. (Without Googling, can you name TikTok’s current CEO ?) We’re all ears.

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Antitrust investigations aren’t the biggest threat to Facebook’s future

The Verge

Today let’s check in on how the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust case is developing. The first thing to say is that the case is developing slower than expected. But it’s also taking the FTC longer than expected to develop a theory of the case about Facebook, Margaret Harding McGill and Ashley Gold report at Axios.