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Google updates Chrome to address an actively exploited high-severity zero-day vulnerability in Mojo, its sixth patch for zero-day vulnerabilities in 2022 — Google has released Chrome 105.0.5195.102 for Windows, Mac, and Linux users to address a single high-severity security flaw …
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| Peter Frontini / Reuters: |
Brazil orders Apple to stop selling iPhones without a charger in the country and fines the company ~$2.38M, citing “deliberate” discrimination against consumers — Brazil's government on Tuesday ordered Apple Inc (AAPL.O) to stop selling iPhones without a battery charger in the country …
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Signal appoints former Google manager Meredith Whittaker as its first president, helping shape strategy, comms, and policy — Meredith Whittaker, the former Google manager, is Signal's first president. She is out to convince users to pay for the free app.
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| Iris Deng / South China Morning Post: |
Huawei launches the Mate 50 series, the first smartphones to link with China's BeiDou global satellite navigation system, on sale without 5G for ~$720 to ~$980 — Huawei Technologies Co on Tuesday launched its new flagship Mate 50-series smartphones that support satellite communications …
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| Cindy Cohn / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Peter Eckersley, who worked at EFF for 12 years, including as its chief computer scientist, and founded the Let's Encrypt certificate authority, has died at 43 — With deep sadness, EFF mourns the loss of our friend, the technologist, activist, and cybersecurity expert Peter Eckersley.
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| Politico: |
A look at Russia's scramble to access semiconductors, transformers, and other high-tech parts for weapons, many of which are sanctioned, for the Ukraine war — It's the microchips that look set to get Vladimir Putin in the end. Six months into its invasion of Ukraine …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sony says longtime PlayStation hardware architect Masayasu Ito plans to retire on October 1; Ito joined Sony in 1986 and began working on consoles in 2000 — Sony Group Corp.'s PlayStation unit is set to lose its longtime hardware architect Masayasu Ito, who will retire at the end of this month.
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| Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: |
Chinese government tenders show important institutions, such as Tsinghua University, rely on AI chips from Nvidia and AMD, which are now under US export limits — High-profile universities and state-run research institutes in China have been relying on a U.S. computing chip to power … | New York Times: |
The trial of former Uber Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan begins this week over allegedly covering up a 2020 data breach and paying off the hackers — Joe Sullivan, Uber's former chief of security, faces criminal charges for his handling of a 2016 security breach. His trial this week has divided the security industry.| Reuters: |
Swiss startup 21.co, which runs the 21Shares crypto investment platform, raised $25M led by Marshall Wace at a $2B post-money valuation — Crypto investment product firm 21.co, the parent of 21Shares, said on Tuesday it had raised $25 million in a funding round led by Marshall Wace that valued the company at $2 billion.
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| Lauren Hirsch / New York Times: |
CVS Health plans to acquire Signify Health, which offers analytics and tech to help 10,000 doctors provide in-home care to 2.5M US patients, for around $8B — The deal for Signify Health, which has a network of doctors who make home visits, would cement the drugstore chain's move away from its traditional roots.
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| Ana Swanson / New York Times: |
The US Commerce Department releases its plan for the $50B CHIPS Act: $28B for grants and loans, $10B for expanded manufacturing, and $11B for R&D — The Commerce Department issued guidelines for companies angling to receive federal funding aimed at bolstering the domestic semiconductor industry.| Vish Gain / Silicon Republic: |
The EU launched its new San Francisco office to liaise with US tech companies and promote EU standards and technologies, digital policies, and governance models — The aim of the US office is to strengthen EU digital diplomacy. It is headed by Gerard de Graaf, a key official who has worked on landmark tech laws.
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