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DOJ charges six Russian GRU officers who were allegedly behind NotPetya, BlackEnergy blackouts in Ukraine, cyberattacks on Olympics and French election, more — The US Department of Justice has unsealed today charges against six GRU officers believed to be members of Sandworm …
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UK and US say Russian military intelligence services were planning a cyberattack on the Olympics and Paralympics in Tokyo, originally scheduled for this summer — Patrick Wintour in London, Julian Borger in Washington — Russian military intelligence services were planning a cyber-attack …
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| Bloomberg: |
Intel agrees to sell its NAND memory unit to SK Hynix for about $9B; the acquisition includes Intel's solid-state drive, NAND flash, and wafer businesses — - U.S. chipmaker has fallen behind in a chip manufacturing race — Intel Corp. agreed to sell its Nand memory unit …
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| Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: |
Technology companies now account for nearly 40% of the S&P 500 and are set to end the year eclipsing a record of 37% from 1999 — Companies that do everything from manufacturing phones to operating social-media platforms now account for nearly 40% of the S&P 500
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| Reuters: |
Major founder-led tech companies have seen their share prices double in 2020 vs. 7.8% gain for the S&P 500, while outperforming non-founder led tech companies — (Reuters) - Technology companies led by their founders have been the standout winners in share price performance and profit growth this year …
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| Corbin Davenport / Android Police: |
Google confirms it's discontinuing Nest Secure, a home security system it introduced in 2017, but will continue to support existing users — Google released the Nest Guard in 2017 as a simple security system with motion sensors and a keypad, but it never received an upgrade, even as other Nest devices were updated again and again.
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Google Assistant smart displays, including 3rd-party devices, get a revamp this week with dark mode, multiple account calendar support, a new home screen, more — Plus a new interface for navigating features via touch — Google is updating the look and functionality of the software …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Leaked Apple docs say 5G speeds are not supported on iPhone 12 when using two lines in Dual SIM mode; source says Apple will enable this feature later this year — iPhone XS models and newer feature both a physical SIM slot and a digital eSIM, allowing for a feature known as dual SIM, dual standby.
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| Cristiano Lima / Politico: |
Senate Judiciary Committee postpones its plans to vote to subpoena Twitter and Facebook CEOs after some Republicans expressed reservation about the move — The Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday postponed plans to vote on subpoenas to compel the CEOs of Twitter and Facebook to testify …
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| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
New mathematical model-based research suggests that exposing US social media users to viewpoints different than their own furthers political polarization — Mathematicians are teaming up with political scientists to create models of how social media divides us, and results suggest at least …
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| Andrew Tarantola / Engadget: |
Facebook announces an open source AI model that can translate directly between 100+ languages without first translating to English — Whether you're logging on from the US, Brazil, Borneo, or France, Facebook can translate virtually any written content published on its platform …
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
IBM reports Q3 revenue of $17.6B, down 2.6% YoY, vs $17.54B est, total cloud revenue of $6.0B, up 19% YoY, with Red Hat revenue rising 17% YoY — The company reported non-GAAP third quarter earnings of $2.58 a share on revenue of $17.6 billion, down 2.6% from a year ago.
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Twitter's blocking of NY Post's story undermined its role as a facilitator for info sharing, while Facebook slowing the spread of the story was reasonable — On September 8, 2004, longtime CBS anchor Dan Rather presented four documents about then-President George W. Bush's Texas Air National Guard service in the early 1970s.
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| Jem Aswad / Variety: |
Apple launches Apple Music TV, a free 24-hour curated livestream of popular music videos, available in the US on Apple's Music and TV apps — Apple has launched Apple Music TV, a free 24-hour curated livestream of popular music videos that will also include “exclusive new music videos and premiers …
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