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China's state media quoted a government adviser, who said ByteDance should study the new export list and “seriously and cautiously” consider halting TikTok deal — Chinese government trade adviser cautions app maker to study new regulations prior to sale
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| Coco Liu / Nikkei Asian Review: |
China updates its export control list, adding AI tech including “personalized content recommendations based on data analysis”, which may affect TikTok US sale — Popular video app's powerful algorithm likely to face ‘dual-use’ restrictions — HONG KONG — Beijing …
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Cory Doctorow highlights the conceptual limitations of Shoshana Zuboff's “surveillance capitalism” and details how to dismantle it — The most surprising thing about the rebirth of flat Earthers in the 21st century is just how widespread the evidence against them is.| Jack Morse / Mashable: |
Slack discloses a now fixed critical RCE flaw in its desktop app; Slack paid $1,750 bug bounty to researcher, which critics say is a paltry sum for such a bug — Slack and its scores of desktop app users just dodged a major bullet. — The communications tool relied upon by journalists …
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| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at autonomous boat tech as ocean research nonprofit Promare says it will unveil in September a fully autonomous ship called Mayflower with IBM as partner — Driverless ships don't have to worry about crowded roads. And they don't need bunks—or toilets. — TEXT — 1 RESPONSE| South China Morning Post: |
Construction of a $20B chip manufacturing plant in Wuhan stopped due to lack of funding, the latest example of China's semiconductor efforts failing to take off — Construction on a US$20 billion state-of-the-art semiconductor manufacturing plant in Wuhan has stalled due to a lack of funding It's … | Dara Kerr / CNET: |
How a law professor became the target of posts on conservative sites, social media harassment, and PR firms hired by gig economy companies, for supporting AB5 — Labor activists are targeted in a social media campaign as gig economy companies spend millions to prevent workers from becoming employees.
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| Nico Grant / Bloomberg: |
Okta, which provides identity management service for companies, has been a big beneficiary of remote work during lockdown with its stock rising 106% since March — - Businesses, schools tap firm's tools to secure online access — McKinnon stays cautious on outlook as investors seek growth
Tweets: @technology, @nicoagrant, and @lindsayklife
| Todd Shields / Bloomberg: |
Google and Facebook remove Hong Kong as a destination for the proposed Pacific Light Cable Network undersea cable project, refile keeping Taiwan and Philippines — - Underseas internet project refiled for Taiwan and Philippines — Companies re-apply without Pacific Light Data Communication
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| Fred Lambert / Electrek: |
Tesla releases new software update to visually detect speed limit signs, and more — Tesla has started pushing a new version of its software update to now visually detect speed limit signs, and more. — For a while, there has been speculation about to what degree Tesla … | Fanny Potkin / Reuters: |
A look at the rapid growth of TikTok in Southeast Asia, where the app has been downloaded 360M times, up 151% YoY, according to Sensor Tower — SINGAPORE (Reuters) - At 19, Sandy Saputra is big on TikTok Indonesia. Within a year, he's leapt from quiet, small-town life to star influencer status … | Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple has terminated Epic's App Store account, following legal dispute between the companies; Epic has an alternative Apple account to manage its Unreal Engine — As previously warned by Apple, Epic's App Store account has now been terminated due to the Fortnite developer knowingly violating App Store policy.
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