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MWC bans visitors from China's Hubei province and will require those who have been to China prove they were outside the country for 14 days before the event — A couple of weeks out, Mobile World Congress organizer, the GSMA, has issued some fairly sweeping safeguards over growing concerns around the coronavirus.
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Sources: over 300 Chinese companies, including Xiaomi, Megvii, and Didi Chuxing, are seeking bank loans totaling $8.2B to soften coronavirus' impact — BEIJING (Reuters) - More than 300 Chinese firms including Meituan Dianping (3690.HK), China's largest food delivery company …
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| Eric Geller / Politico: |
US DOJ charges four Chinese intelligence officers with hacking Equifax; the breach was disclosed in 2017 and exposed financial records of 150M Americans — Federal prosecutors announced charges Monday against four Chinese intelligence officers for hacking the credit-reporting giant Equifax …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Samsung shows off the unannounced Galaxy Z Flip in an Oscars ad, ahead of its Unpacked keynote, with small print that says a crease on the main screen is normal — It's not just leaks that let us know what big tech companies plan to announce at their keynotes, increasingly it's the companies themselves.
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| CNBC: |
Amazon's AWS says it wants to depose Trump, Defense Secretary Mark Esper, and former Defense Secretary James Mattis after losing Pentagon's $10B JEDI contract — - Amazon's cloud-computing arm wants to depose President Donald Trump, Defense Secretary Mark Esper and former Defense Secretary James Mattis … | Wall Street Journal: |
Inside Netflix's aggressive Oscars campaign, spending an estimated $100M+ mainly to promote two films, while other studios usually spend $5M-$20M per film — With lavish parties, huge billboards, and screenings around the world, awards campaigning may never be the same
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| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
Profile of Ben Nimmo, a founder of Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, who helped pioneer investigations into online disinformation — Ben Nimmo helped pioneer disinformation investigations. His work is now more urgent as misleading internet tactics spread.
Tweets: @stewartmcdonald, @benimmo, @alexstamos, and @satariano
| David E. Sanger / New York Times: |
Research: North Korea's internet use has surged ~300% since 2017 despite US sanctions, with ~50% of its traffic flowing through a new connection in Russia — The North has evaded America's “maximum pressure” campaign with a 300 percent increase in internet use that has opened up new opportunities for cybercrime.| New York Times: |
A look at how QAnon, the far-right conspiracy, has seeped from the web to the offline world, appearing in political campaigns, criminal cases, and more — A city council member in California took the dais and quoted from QAnon, a pro-Trump conspiracy theory about “deep state” …
Tweets: @owillis, @nytimes, @kevinroose, @kevinroose, @brandyzadrozny, @maxboot, and @rgoodlaw
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Arm announces Cortex-M55 and Ethos-U55, aimed at bringing edge AI capabilities to IoT devices, arriving in 2021 at the earliest — The smart devices of the future might not need servers to enable AI — Edge AI is one of the biggest trends in chip technology.| Bloomberg: |
Profile of YouTube's top kids channel Cocomelon, which has about 2.5B monthly views and an estimated $11.3M in ad revenue, as it expands into merchandise — Jay Jeon is an unassuming mogul. No one takes notice of him as he slips into the corner booth at the Italian steakhouse steps from his Orange County office on a sunny Friday.| Haaretz: |
Homepage source code of an app used by Israel's Likud party exposed admin passwords, letting anyone access info on 6M+ voters in the country's voter registry — Names, identification numbers and addresses of over 6 million voters were leaked through the unsecured Elector app
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