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Report: court documents, government and industry sources detail decades of Huawei's alleged IP theft, from the science behind 5G to phone accessory designs — As Australians move to flog their Huawei smartphones due to security concerns and the fact that Google has pulled the plug … | Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Trump's claims that Huawei was banned because it is a security threat and that the ban may be lifted as part of a trade deal, are incompatible and make no sense — Over the past week, the US government has taken extreme and unprecedented steps against Huawei, cutting it off from every US partner … | James Vincent / The Verge: |
China supplies around 80% of world's rare earths, crucial elements for electronics, but this monopoly is not an effective tool to retaliate over the Huawei ban — Despite the name, rare earths just aren't that rare — America's trade war with China has been quietly escalating for years … | Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao is taking Sequoia Capital China back to court for allegedly harming his reputation after its case against him was dismissed — Binance founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao is taking a unit of Sequoia Capital back to court after the VC investor's case against him was dismissed.
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World Health Organisation makes gaming disorder a recognized illness; classification to come into effect January 1, 2022 — Classification to come into effect January 1, 2022 — The 194 members of the World Health Organisation have recognised ‘gaming disorder’ as an illness at the 72nd World Health Assembly today.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
The imaginary “race” to 5G has been foisted on us by telecom giants which want something new to sell at high prices, instead of competing to improve service — No one seems to have a good answer to this question — I have a dumb question that no one seems capable of answering directly: Why is 5G a race?
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| New York Times: |
The leaked NSA exploit EternalBlue is being used by hackers to paralyze American cities like Allentown, San Antonio, and most recently Baltimore — For nearly three weeks, Baltimore has struggled with a cyberattack by digital extortionists that has frozen thousands of computers …
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
YouTubers are seeing an increase in aggressive copyright claims from record labels, creating frustration among creators, who believe their work is fair use — Glenn Fricker didn't run into any issues when he uploaded a video about digital music editing to YouTube in 2014.
Tweets: @loudmouthjulia, @georgepoulos_, and @dinomfx
| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Kotaku: |
The US esports industry seems to be in a bubble, with viewership stats that sources say are rosy-eyed at best, and inflated, unverified, or misleading at worst — The mainstream narrative of esports has been lovingly crafted by those who benefit from its success. There's big money in esports, they say.
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Windows Central. Tweets: @kotaku, @michelemorrow, @smorriscreation, @sjeneris, and @cecianasta
| Agnieszka Barteczko / Reuters: |
Poland's government files a complaint with EU's top court against EU's new copyright law, which it says is “analogous to preventive censorship” — WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland has submitted a complaint to the European Union's top court against copyright rules adopted by the bloc …
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Engadget, CloudWedge, Geek News Central, The Verge, and Boing Boing
Tweets: @premierrp_en and @annemariebridy
| Intel Newsroom: |
Intel Computex preview: its first volume 10nm Ice Lake mobile CPU, Core i9-9900KS special edition CPU running at 5 GHz on all 8 cores, and more — Ahead of Intel's COMPUTEX Opening Keynote on May 28, the company today previewed products that deliver a significant boost in real-world workload performance …
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Engadget, Engadget, Digital Trends, AnandTech, AnandTech, PCWorld, PCWorld, VentureBeat, and Windows Central
Tweets: @intelnews, @iancutress, @iancutress, @intel, @iancutress, and @iancutress
| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
SEC filing: the CEO and co-founder of King is stepping down on July 1, three years after Activision Blizzard acquired the Candy Crush developer for $5.9B — Riccardo Zacconi is stepping down as chief executive of King, after more than 16 years leading the Candy Crush games developer.
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