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DOJ announces a 16-count superseding indictment against Huawei and its CFO Meng Wanzhou that includes charges of racketeering and conspiracy to steal IP — Ratcheting up its pressure campaign against Huawei and its affiliates, the Department of Justice and the FBI announced today …
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DOJ has charged the owner of Helix, a dark web Bitcoin mixer service operating from 2014-2017, for allegedly laundering bitcoins worth $300M+ at the time — This is the first case the DOJ has brought against a Bitcoin mixer. — US authorities have arrested and charged an Ohio man for running a …
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Judge orders a temporary block on Microsoft's JEDI cloud contract with Pentagon, in response to a suit filed by Amazon — - A judge ordered Thursday a temporary block on the JEDI cloud contract in response to a lawsuit filed by Amazon. — Last month, Amazon filed a motion asking the court …
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| Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sony's PlayStation 5's retail price may be as much as $450 per unit due to scarce components, which have pushed the manufacturing costs — - May wait for Microsoft's Xbox group to make first pricing move — New PlayStation VR headset also planned after PS5 launch
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Google has removed 500+ malicious Chrome extensions from its Web Store, likely affecting millions of users, that were part of a long-running ad fraud network — A network of malicious Chrome extensions was injecting malicious ads in millions of Chrome installs.
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California Supreme Court rules that Apple violated CA law by not paying employees at its stores for time spent on mandatory bag and iPhone searches — Listen — Apple Inc. violated California law when it failed to pay employees for time they spend waiting for mandatory bag and iPhone searches …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
YouTube TV to end support for subscriptions through Apple in-app purchases on March 13 — YouTube today sent out emails to customers who are subscribed to its YouTube TV service through Apple's App Store, letting them know that App Store subscriptions are going to be discontinued in March.| Kim Zetter / VICE: |
Researchers: Voatz, the voting app used in W. Virginia and four other states, has elementary security flaws that could let an attacker intercept and alter votes — A mobile voting app being used in West Virginia and other states has elementary security flaws that would allow someone … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's NPE Team releases Hobbi, a photo and video sharing app designed for documenting personal projects and hobbies — Facebook is adding another app to its group of experimental projects from the NPE Team, an initiative it announced last year focused on rapidly trying out new ideas in social to see how users react.
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| Bloomberg: |
Payments startup Flywire raises $120M Series E at a $1B+ valuation, led by Goldman Sachs; announces it has acquired healthcare tech startup Simplee — Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is leading a new funding round for payments startup Flywire. The deal will add $120 million to the company's coffers …
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Social Science One and Facebook say they are now making a dataset with ~38M URLs available to academic researchers, two years after announcing the initiative — We are excited to announce that Social Science One and Facebook have completed, and are now making available to academic researchers …
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Nvidia reports Q4 revenue of $3.11B, up 41% YoY, gaming revenue of $1.4B, data center revenue of $968M, and net income of $950M; stock up 6%+ after hours — Nvidia said it expects Q1 revenue of $3 billion, plus or minus two percent, above market estimates for $2.85 billion in revenue.
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Google's Area 120 launches GameSnacks, which offers casual games for low memory devices on 2G and 3G, launching initially in Indonesia on Gojek's GoGames — A new project called GameSnacks is launching today from Google's in-house incubator, Area 120, with the goal of bringing fast-loading …
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