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A FaceTime bug had allowed iPhone users to eavesdrop on some calls before they're answered. Plus why humans are less violent than apes, getting white Christians to address race, and more
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What We’re Following

Today in Silicon Valley: privacy glitches and starvation optimization. A rogue bug with the video-calling app FaceTime can lead iPhone users to . Apple is quickly patching up the glitch, but it validates festering paranoia that technology can’t be trusted. The trend in Silicon Valley is extreme dieting that can supposedly hone productivity, but it could ultimately reinforce the potentially dangerous idea that all

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