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Researchers jailbreak a Tesla, the FCC fines robocallers and WeWork finds itself in trouble (again)

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Also featured are stories about WeWork’s perennial struggles, Google’s Messages app fully embracing RCS, and spyware maker LetMeSpy shutting down after a massive data breach. If you haven’t already, sign up here to get WiR in your inbox every Saturday. Now, on with the recap.

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Daily Crunch: Thousands of Google Play users download Android banking trojan

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But first, some programming notes: Our city spotlight series is back, and TechCrunch is heading to Austin. We also have notes today on the latest and greatest in VR fitness products. TechCrunch+ is our membership program, which helps founders and startup teams get ahead. You can follow her on Twitter here. Big Tech Inc.

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Radar trends to watch: August 2021

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To succeed, VR will have to get beyond ultra geeky goggles. Programming. Amnesty International has released an open source tool for checking whether a phone has been compromised by Pegasus, the spyware sold by the NSO group to many governments, and used (among other things) to track journalists. AI and Data. shake hands”).

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Radar Trends to Watch: December 2022

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Programming. Github is looking at voice-to-code : programming without a keyboard. These companies are involved in activities like planting spyware on web sites to collect users’ personal data. When is VR too connected to the real world? Semi-supervised learning is a partially automated process for labeling large datasets.

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Daily Crunch: How to remove common consumer-grade spyware from your Android phone

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(TechCrunch+ is our membership program, which helps founders and startup teams get ahead. Not a future in which one company owns the VR hardware market. So, it’s good that Sony has a new VR headset to gawk at – if only Meta makes VR gear, we are going to have live in a Facebook walled garden, which sounds a bit lame.

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