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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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Axios, AppleInsider, Washington Post, Coinspeaker, Fossbytes, MSPoweruser, TechRadar, New.blicio.us, and Adweek
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| Will Oremus / OneZero : |
A look at possible antitrust action against Big Tech following the release of reports from both Democrats and Republicans last week — Democrats aren't the only ones ready to rewrite the antitrust rules for internet platforms — Never in world history has one sector of the global economy risen …
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CNBC, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, and GeekWire
Tweets: @cnyari, @dlberes, @matthewstoller, @benedictevans, and @willoremus
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
A coalition of tech companies, including Microsoft and Symantec, orchestrated a takedown of the TrickBot malware botnet, which had infected 1M+ computers — FS-ISAC, ESET, Lumen's Black Lotus Labs, NTT, Symantec, and the Microsoft Defender team participated in the takedown.
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Microsoft on the Issues, Washington Post, WeLiveSecurity, Krebs on Security, CyberScoop, New York Times, CNN, BleepingComputer, Reuters, Lumen, ESET, Engadget, and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @ericgeller, @ericgeller, @cnnbrk, @itsreallynick, @cmmorris84, @sixdub, @shah_sheikh, and @campuscodi
| Davey Alba / New York Times: |
Study: Facebook likes, comments, and shares from news outlets that routinely publish misinformation roughly tripled from Q3 2016 to Q3 2020 to 1.8B interactions — During the 2016 presidential election, Russian operatives used Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other social media platforms …
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| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Sources: EU is making a “hit list” of up to 20 large internet companies, likely to include Facebook and Apple, subject to tougher rules to curb market power — Brussels broadens search for extra powers to curb power of digital platforms — EU regulators are drawing up a … | 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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U.S. Department of Justice, The Register, AppleInsider, Nikkei Asia, GOV.UK, GOV.UK, Forbes, Cointelegraph, EURACTIV.com, CNBC, ComputerWeekly.com, Beyond Search, Fossbytes, infosecurity-magazine.com, MediaNama, Telecoms.com, Silicon Republic, Agence France-Presse, Telegraph, and Forbes
Tweets: @thejusticedept, @ukhomeoffice, @lukolejnik, @martijn_grooten, @astepanovich, @melt_dem, @alexlindsay, @bitcoin_woods, @bobmcelrath, @martinsfp, @majin_lei, @cristingoodwin, @gnat, @shawnyeager, @nca_uk, @jaredctate, @avifelman, @w7voa, @maxkeiser, @mmasnick, @dannydiekroeger, @matt_odell, @kurtopsahl, @arossp, @donaldsclark, @privacyfocused, @lopp, @kennyog, @mslods, @matthew_d_green, @nekotwit, @randhindi, @zackwhittaker, and @thakurdhanaraj
| 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 …
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Twilio, Forbes, Bloomberg, CNBC, Axios, Crunchbase News, and cloudpro.co.uk. Tweets: @jeffiel. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| Andrew Marantz / New Yorker: |
Facebook's ineffective content moderation efforts, unevenly enforced and handled by low-paid moderators, show it can't and doesn't have the will to fix itself — The platform is overrun with hate speech and disinformation. Does it actually want to solve the problem?
Tweets: @brianstelter
| 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| 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.
Tweets: @fightfortheftr, @avast_antivirus, and @hypervisible
| 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.
Tweets: @campuscodi, @snlyngaas, @sienaanstis, and @hatr
| Axios: |
CrowdTangle: unlike Facebook, liberal messaging flourishes on Instagram, with recent posts on climate change getting 20.3M interactions vs. 6.9M on Facebook — While Facebook continues to take heat over being a tinderbox for conservative media, data shows that liberal …
Tweets: @nrothschild3 and @nrothschild3
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