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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
A Garmin employee confirms that the company's servers were hit by WastedLocker, a ransomware variant developed by Russia-based cybercriminal group Evil Corp — 07/24/20 Update below. This article was originally published on July 23rd, 2020. It has been updated to reflect that BleepingComputer … | Ashley Gold / Axios: |
Source: the rescheduled House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee hearing featuring CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google will take place this Wednesday — The CEOs of Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Google will now testify before the House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee on Wednesday …
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| Scott Galloway / No Mercy/No Malice: |
Some ideas for questions and visual aids that House antitrust subcommittee members can use when questioning the CEOs of Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google — The CEOs of Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google are scheduled to testify in front of the US House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee.
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| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
After user reports, Instagram says it is “fixing a bug in iOS 14 Beta that mistakenly indicates that some people are using the camera when they aren't” — The company says it's fixing the issue — In the latest instance of iOS 14's beta mode tattling on unexpected app behavior …
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| Ian Tucker / The Guardian: |
Q&A with Yaël Eisenstat, who was briefly hired as Facebook's global head of elections integrity in 2018 and, she says, intentionally sidelined from the start — The ex-CIA officer on why she lasted only six months at the tech giant and her fears about its role in the forthcoming US election| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
While Slack files an antitrust complaint against Microsoft's Teams bundling, Google, with its G Suite bundle, is uniquely positioned to be an even bigger threat — Slack surprised Microsoft with a competition complaint in Europe yesterday. After arguing for months that Microsoft Teams …
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| Alex Sherman / CNBC: |
Given TikTok's potential future value, ByteDance shouldn't sell its majority stake in it at the reported $25B-$40B valuation, despite the risk of a US ban — - ByteDance is evaluating new corporate structures for TikTok, including setting up an independent board and selling a stake in the company …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
A vigilante hacker has been sabotaging the Emotet malware botnet, replacing a quarter of daily payloads with animated GIFs, stopping victims from being infected — Emotet botnet activity goes down as Emotet admins are wrestling with a vigilante for control over parts of their infrastructure.| Brian Merchant / OneZero : |
Q&A with Tim Maughan, the sci-fi writer whose dystopian visions of AR-powered surveillance capitalism now seem to be turning into reality with uncanny accuracy — A Q+A with the novelist Tim Maughan, whose disturbing future predictions have had an unfortunate habit of coming true
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| Andrew Leonard / Wired: |
Audrey Tang, Taiwan's digital minister and an accomplished programmer, is showing how digital tools can build strong, open, accountable democracies — Audrey Tang says tech can build trust, tame misinformation, and strengthen democracy. Her plan might even work in the US.| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
EU watchdogs warn that there is no grace period after Schrems II ruling and transfers of personal data from EU to US relying on Privacy Shield are now illegal — European data watchdogs have issued updated guidance in the wake of last week's landmark ruling striking down a flagship transatlantic … | Adam Conner / Margins: |
TikTok's rise in the US should serve as a cautionary tale for social media startups, as it had to spend billions of dollars on ads on rival platforms to compete — Can anyone really compete? — 1 hr … Hi all, I'm Adam Conner, longtime fan of The Margins, first-time contributor.
Tweets: @readmargins, @mdudas, @hkanji, @mattzeitlin, @readmargins, @adamconner, @adamconner, @ruima, @aaschapiro, and @can. Thanks:@adamconner
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