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Microsoft says hackers working for Russia, China, and Iran have recently escalated their attacks on people and orgs involved in the US presidential election — Hackers working for Russia, China and Iran have recently escalated their attacks around the U.S. presidential race as Election Day looms, Microsoft says.
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Experts discuss worst case scenarios for election night, from coordinated social media disinfo campaigns to ransomware targeting voter registration systems — We asked security experts to tell us what keeps them up at night — and what to do about it. — Election night, by now … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Opendoor, which directly buys and sells homes online, is in talks to go public via merger with Social Capital II, valuing the combined company at ~$5B — - Transaction could be valued at around $5 billion, people said — Blank-check company is led by chairman Chamath Palihapitiya
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Epic says Apple will let existing Fortnite players on iOS continue to use Sign in with Apple, after receiving an “indefinite extension” — Sign in with Apple for Fortnite lives on. — Update, September 10 (9:00 pm ET): Apple says that it never planned to remove support for Sign in with Apple for Fortnite.
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Twitter expands election misinfo policies, prohibiting misleading claims about results, “inciting unlawful conduct” to prevent peaceful transfer of power, more — Washington (CNN Business)Twitter announced Thursday that it is expanding its policies against election-related misinformation …
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Trump says “there will be no extension of the TikTok deadline”, as sources say ByteDance will likely miss the WH deadline to sell TikTok's US operations — - China's regulators plan to review technical details of deal — Microsoft and Oracle have not been dissuaded by China move| CNN: |
Investigation finds more than 70 AmazonBasics products have been reviewed as dangerous, with many still for sale; Amazon says it's investigating — (CNN)When firefighters arrived at Austin Parra's home on January 12, 2017, they could see smoke and the charred remnants of an office chair outside.
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Google says it will remove any Autocomplete suggestions that endorse or oppose a candidate or a party, or make a claim about voting or the electoral process — Ahead of the U.S. presidential election, Google says it's taken a number of steps to improve the quality of information …
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Apple Music's 3.4.0 beta APK contains a reference to Apple One, likely the name of the rumored Apple subscription bundle — Back in June, our colleagues at 9to5Mac discovered in the iOS 13.5 beta that Apple was planning to bundle their services into a single subscription.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Report finds ransomware incidents accounted for 41% of cyber insurance claims filed in H1 2020, with the average ransom demand increasing 47% — Cyber insurance claims ranged in size from $1,000 to well over $2,000,000 per security incident. — Ransomware incidents have accounted for 41% … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India's Times Internet reports 67B page views, up from 47B last year, says it has 557M MAUs and 111M+ DAUs, with MX Player at 200M+ MAUs and Gaana at 185M MAUs — Times Internet said on Thursday it reaches more than 557 million active users in India each month and over 111 million users … | Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg: |
Facebook sues the Irish data protection watchdog in a bid to stop the proposed order that could stop trans-Atlantic transfers of EU users' data — - Move follows Irish threat to halt Facebook's data transfers — Legal wrangling comes after EU court toppled EU-U.S pact| Kenrick Cai / Forbes: |
Replicant, a customer service platform that uses text-based chatbots and AI assistants to help human reps, raises $27M Series A led by Norwest Venture Partners — Hundreds of millions of consumers use voice assistants such as Amazon Alexa or Apple's Siri for simple tasks in their daily lives.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Microsoft Surface Duo review: has thin, beautiful hardware, good battery life, and runs two apps at once well, but software is too buggy and the camera is bad — All the right ideas — but spoiled by buggy software and a bad camera — Microsoft's Surface Duo aspires to be something different from any other gadget you've used.
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