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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 …
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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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| 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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| Benedict Evans: |
Tech went from interesting to a crucial part of society in a decade, with events in 2016 polarizing the conversation, causing a rush for easy regulatory answers — Technology was a small industry until very recently. It was exciting and interesting, and it was on lots of magazine covers …
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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.| Mengmeng Zhang / Counterpoint Research: |
Despite smartphone sales in China declining 17% YoY in Q2, Huawei grew 14%, capturing 46% of the market, as Apple grew 32%, becoming the fastest growing OEM — - Huawei captured a massive 60% share of the 5G smartphone market — Huawei reached its highest ever share in China capturing 46% of sales volumes.
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| 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.
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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Intel's decision to consider outsourcing manufacturing heralds the end of an era in which the company, and the US, dominated the semiconductor industry — - World's largest chipmaker considers outsourcing manufacturing — Crucial technology expertise is shifting overseas, to TSMC
Tweets: @bilalfarooqui, @esaagar, @scottlincicome, and @business
| 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.
Tweets: @plexus, @michlimlim, @rossdawson, @johnlmacfarlane, @letahong, @monstro, @wired, @wired, @ketagalanmedia, and @nxthompson
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Sea Machines Robotics, a provider of software and equipment for autonomous boats and ships, raises $15M Series B led by Accomplice — Autonomous vessel software and systems provider Sea Machines Robotics today closed a $15 million funding round to accelerate deployment of its technologies in the unmanned naval boat and ship market.
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Sea Machines, The Robot Report, The Boston Globe, Boston Business Journal, gCaptain, and Splash 247
Tweets: @technexus and @thisisdynamo
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
NTT Disruption, which acquired Jibo's assets, says the social robot will remain operational for existing owners as it plans to target the enterprise market — Jibo was supposed to die over a year ago, yet somehow, it's still alive. The social, lovable robot went viral on Twitter last March … | 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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