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Google says Microsoft's support of a bill for greater bargaining power for news pubs is “self-serving” and intended to distract from the SolarWinds hack — Google has always been committed to providing high-quality and relevant information, and to supporting the news publishers who help create it.
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| Brad Smith / Microsoft On the Issues: |
In House hearing, Brad Smith says monetizing referral traffic has become increasingly difficult for news pubs because Google squeezes out most of the profit — Editor's Note: On Mar. 12, Microsoft President Brad Smith testified before the House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law
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Sources: tools used in the Feb. 28 Exchange hack are similar to proof-of-concept attack code that Microsoft distributed to security partners a week earlier — Investigators seeking to unravel how attack spread in week before software fix — Microsoft Corp. is investigating whether … | Patrick Howell O'Neill / MIT Technology Review: |
ESET: at least ten, mostly state-backed, hacking groups are exploiting Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities on thousands of servers in over 115 countries — Days before Microsoft released a fix for a secret attack on its email systems, hackers ramped up their activity. Now experts say swift action is required.
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| Marco Rubio / USA Today: |
Marco Rubio says he is endorsing Amazon workers' unionization efforts in Alabama because Amazon leadership is waging “culture war against working-class values” — Amazon is waging a culture war against working-class values and is not helping workers or our economy.
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| Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal: |
In a letter to GOP Senators, Amazon says it removed a book because of its policy not to sell books that frame LGBTQ+ identity as a mental illness — Company states policy in response to inquiry by several Republican senators over recent removal of book by conservative author| Matt Burgess / WIRED UK: |
UK Home Office confirms trial of web surveillance tool that can track users' browsing history in partnership with two unnamed ISPs and National Crime Agency — The Investigatory Powers Act, or Snooper's Charter, was introduced in 2016. Now one of its most contentious surveillance tools is being secretly trialled by internet firms
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Facebook announces a project to train its AI to understand what is happening in videos, using data from videos publicly available on Facebook — AI that can understand video could be put to a variety of uses — Teaching AI systems to understand what's happening in videos as completely …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
A look at the history of Twine, an open-source tool for producing web-based interactive fiction and games with text, as it remains a significant force in gaming — IN THE VIDEO GAME Howling Dogs, released in 2012, players wake up in a prison with few options: a shower, a nutrient dispenser …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Epidemic Sound, a marketplace for online creators looking for background music, raises $450M from Blackstone and EQT Growth, at a valuation of $1.4B — The popularity of video and other streamed content like podcasts is continuing to grow at a breakneck speed, and today a startup called Epidemic Sound … | Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple sues its former materials lead Simon Lancaster for allegedly stealing trade secrets and leaking them to the media — Apple is taking legal action against its former materials lead, Simon Lancaster, over allegedly leaking trade secrets to the media. The lawsuit accuses Lancaster of abusing his … | Eric Martin / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the Biden administration has informed some Huawei suppliers it is imposing more explicit prohibitions on the export of 5G components to the company — - Conditions for licensed exporters went into effect this week — Move builds on Huawei prohibitions implemented under Trump
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Mike Winkelmann, the digital artist known as Beeple, sold an NFT of his work for $69M, through a first-of-its-kind auction at Christie's — Through a first-of-its-kind auction at Christie's — Until October, the most Mike Winkelmann — the digital artist known as Beeple — had ever sold a print for was $100.
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| Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review: |
Facebook sidelined AI experts and weakened initiatives to clean up misinfo because leadership didn't want to hurt Zuckerberg's desire for growth — Joaquin Quiñonero Candela, a director of AI at Facebook, was apologizing to his audience. — It was March 23, 2018 …
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