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| Leah Nylen / Politico: |
Sources: DOJ and state AGs investigating Google for alleged antitrust violations are considering forcing it to sell Chrome and parts of its ad business — Prosecutors for the Justice Department and state attorney general offices are discussing ways of curbing the search giant's market power as they prepare to sue the company.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Five Eyes governments as well as India and Japan make a new call for backdoors into products that are end-to-end encrypted — Another Five Eyes meeting, another call for encryption backdoors in modern tech. — Members of the intelligence-sharing alliance Five Eyes, along …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Twilio confirms it is buying customer data infrastructure company Segment for $3.2B in an all-stock deal, expected to close in Q4 2020 — Twilio today announced its biggest acquisition to date, spearheading a strong move into customer data management alongside its existing API-based tools … | BR24: |
Investigation details how a hacking group called OceanLotus has been spying on Vietnamese opposition members and dissidents for years, including in Germany — A group of Vietnamese hackers has been systematically spying on dissidents for years, including in Germany.
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| Will Bedingfield / WIRED UK: |
Snap launches a geography-specific Local Lens called City Painter as its first persistent, shareable AR experience, for London's Carnaby Street — Snap has launched its first persistent, shareable augmented reality experience on London's Carnaby Street - it's a proof of concept for a 1:1 digital copy of everything on the planet
Tweets: @joecrotchett and @artechouse
| Sara Castellanos / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the competition to develop new encryption standards to guard against quantum-computing attacks and replace public-key cryptography methods like RSA — The world's top cryptographers are competing to develop algorithms that can withstand attacks from an ultrafast quantum computer
Tweets: @scastellwsj, @chrispeikert, and @mchui
| Kevin McAllister / Protocol: |
Interview with Amazon Halo's principal medical officer Maulik Majmudar on the fitness band, its controversial body fat and emotional tone features, and more — Amazon Halo's Principal Medical Officer Dr. Maulik Majmudar says he hears your concerns about the company's newly unveiled Halo device — but not in a creepy way.
Tweets: @evan_greer and @dawnnafus
| South China Morning Post: |
Shenzhen is giving local residents 10M yuan (~$1.47M) worth of China's new sovereign digital currency through a lottery, to test and promote the digital yuan — Winners will be announced on Sunday and can receive their digital ‘red packet’ by opening an e-wallet via official app The payouts …
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| Xinmei Shen / South China Morning Post: |
As the adoption of facial recognition soars in China, thanks in part to COVID-19, stolen biometric data is being sold online at alarmingly low prices — Residential neighbourhoods across China are adopting facial recognition, but people have few means of fighting back Incorrectly configured databases remains … | Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Privacy advocates warn that Amazon's Ring Always Home Cam drone and biometric payment system, Amazon One, will normalize aggressive new forms of data collection — Privacy advocates warn that the Ring Always Home Cam and Amazon One both normalize aggressive new forms of data collection.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Thailand-based logistics startup Flash Express, which operates a door-to-door pickup and delivery service, raises $200M Series D — Flash Express, a two-year-old logistics startup that works with e-commerce firms in Thailand, said on Monday it has raised $200 million in a new financing round …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Microsoft's beta cloud gaming service xCloud can't compete with Stadia, but it stands out with its Game Pass business model, mobile experience, and big catalog — The first time you boot up an Xbox One game on an Android phone can be surreal. Earlier this month, I opened the Game Pass app … Sponsor Posts
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