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DOJ approves T-Mobile/Sprint merger; Dish will acquire Boost Mobile, Virgin Mobile, Sprint's prepaid business, and “certain” spectrum assets as part of the deal — After over a year of waiting in regulatory limbo — The United States Justice Department has approved …
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| Eli Blumenthal / CNET: |
History of Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Networking Telephony, or Sprint, which transitioned to mobile, made some disastrous bets, and merged with T-Mobile — Sprint has struggled to stay alive for more than a decade, constantly fighting for that next wireless customer.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
The DOJ requires both the new T-Mobile and the new Dish wireless service to support eSIMs, which may speed up the adoption of the technology in the US — The DOJ is requiring T-Mobile and dish to support eSIM — The Department of Justice may have just done more to help eliminate …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Chairman of Dish on his plans to build a nationwide wireless carrier, including its first 5G launch in late 2020, possibility of big tech partnerships, and more — Rather than try to convince skeptics he is serious about the wireless business, Dish Network Chairman Charlie Ergen tells Axios … | Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
Source: Apple contractors grading Siri responses regularly hear sensitive info with data that may identify the user, often due to accidental Siri activations — Workers hear drug deals, medical details and people having sex, says whistleblower — Apple contractors regularly hear confidential …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft is rolling out a new chat-based Cortana UI for Windows 10 as a beta to Windows Insiders in the US, with support for text and voice queries — It's more conversational than before — Microsoft is tweaking how Cortana works in Windows 10. While the digital assistant might …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Marcus “MalwareTech” Hutchins sentenced to time served and one year of supervised release for writing and selling the Kronos banking malware — Marcus Hutchins, the malware researcher who became known as an “accidental hero” for stopping the WannaCry ransomware attack in 2017 …
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| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
A developer based in Crimea and one based in Iran say that GitHub has “restricted” their accounts “due to US trade controls” — If you use GitHub's online services in a country facing US sanctions, you could be about to be kicked off all but the most basic offerings.
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| CNBC: |
Trump says Apple will not be given tariff waivers or relief for Mac Pro parts made in China, calls on Apple to build products in the US instead — KEY POINTS — President Trump said his administration will not provide waivers or relief for Apple products built in China.
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| Dhara Singh / CNET: |
Pete Buttigieg says he will take on companies like Lyft, Uber, and Google for misclassifying workers as contractors and outsourcing work to staffing agencies — Pete Buttigieg, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate and former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is big tech's latest critic.| CNN: |
Sources: in recent weeks, WH officials have shown Trump a document, identical to one made by Oracle, alleging a conspiracy to award Amazon the JEDI contract — (CNN)Tech giant Oracle's push to scuttle a bid by its rival Amazon to win a highly sought-after defense contract … | Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Interview with Facebook's ex-CSO Alex Stamos about the Stanford Internet Observatory, funded in-part by $5M from Craig Newmark, for monitoring online abuse — Alex Stamos' Stanford-based project will try to persuade tech firms to offer academics access to massive troves of user data.
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| Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: |
The acquisition of Intel's modem business gives a big boost to Apple's efforts to integrate a modem into its SoCs, which may be crucial for its future wearables — The size and performance of Apple's future products may depend on it. Analysts explain. — On Thursday, Apple confirmed … | Apple: |
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