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Microsoft admits it signed a malicious driver called “Netfilter” targeting gaming environments; the rootkit malware was observed communicating with Chinese IPs — Microsoft has now confirmed signing a malicious driver being distributed within gaming environments.
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UK's Financial Conduct Authority orders Binance to stop all regulated activities in Britain by June 30, issues consumer alert against it — FCA also issues consumer alert against sprawling cryptocurrency group — The UK's financial watchdog has ordered Binance to stop all regulated activities … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is considering iPads with displays larger than 12.9-inch, for 2023 or later, and has promoted new execs to the leadership team of its car project — This week: Apple explores larger iPads and reshuffles its car team, Amazon eyes augmented reality, and Peloton takes on the Apple Watch.| Noah Bailey: |
Windows 11 has needlessly stringent hardware requirements, especially its arbitrary list of compatible CPUs, which will render a lot of decent hardware obsolete — The latest announcements for Windows 11 have revealed that the next version of the Windows operating system will have very stringent hardware requirements.
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Google unveils “Play Media Experience Program”, which will let certain media apps get a larger cut of Play Store sales for supporting more Android form factors — Google entices multimillion-dollar media apps with a 15 percent Play Store fee. — There are 3 billion active Android devices …
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| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
Study: an algorithm developed by EHR provider Epic to predict sepsis infections in patients missed two-thirds of sepsis cases and frequently issued false alarms — A study found that a system used to identify cases of sepsis missed most instances and frequently issued false alarms.| Andrew Deck / Rest of World: |
A look at Chinese content farms behind “Factory TikTok”, a subgenre where workers making products like aloe jelly and gloves also are influencers selling them — How workers manufacturing products like aloe jelly and gardening gloves also became the influencers selling them.
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The Overspill. Tweets: @gquaggiotto, @sub8u, @parismarx, @lmatsakis, @bnox, @linzhang9, @richggall, @restofworld, @sam_azl, @restofworld, and @dlberes
| Cyrus Farivar / NBC News: |
As “security robots” get deployed across the US by local governments and companies, there is little to no evidence they can effectively fight crime — When the Westland Real Estate Group bought Liberty Village, a sprawling 1,000-unit apartment complex on the northeastern edge … | ProPublica: |
Analysis finds thousands of videos of Uyghurs denying abuses against their community on Twitter and YouTube as part of an elaborate Chinese influence campaign — Co-published with The New York Times … Recently, the owner of a small store in western China came across some remarks by Mike Pompeo, the former U.S. secretary of state.
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| Matt Stoller / BIG: |
Antitrust bills have issues, but Judiciary Committee passing them is nothing short of a revolution in American thinking on political economy and monopoly power — The Judiciary Committee voted 21-20 to split up Google, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook. What happened was unbelievable.
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FOSS Patents and Philip Elmer‑DeWitt
Tweets: @halsinger, @reichenstein, @matthewstoller, @benedictevans, @jeremys, and @reichenstein
| José Adorno / 9to5Mac: |
Telegram adds group video calls, screen sharing, noise suppression, animated backgrounds, tablet and desktop support with side panel and split-screen view, more — Telegram for iOS received a major update this week. After months of teasing and testing, Group Video Calls is finally available …
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| Charity L. Scott / Wall Street Journal: |
Venmo will let users sell products and services on their personal accounts for the same 1.9% plus 10-cent fee applied to business profiles, starting July 20 — Payments app says it will allow use of personal accounts for business transactions as of July 20Sponsor Posts
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