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Trump signs an executive order to block all transactions with ByteDance and WeChat starting Sept. 20, just 5 days after Microsoft's deadline to acquire TikTok — Microsoft is currently in talks to acquire the company — President Trump has signed a new executive order …
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| Financial Times: |
As it pursues TikTok, a look at how Microsoft laid roots in China in the 1990s and nurtured China's future tech leaders, including ByteDance's Zhang Yiming — The US tech company hopes its connections will help it navigate storm safely — More than two decades of efforts by Microsoft … | Bloomberg: |
Should Trump's EO ban WeChat from the Chinese App Store, the ramifications would be huge as the app is a communication and transaction cornerstone — - U.S. companies from Apple to Walmart rely on Tencent's WeChat — Banning WeChat, the world's most-used messaging app …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Facebook slams Apple's App Store policies, launches Facebook Gaming on iOS without the app's mini games feature to pass the App Store's strict approval policies — Facebook is not happy with the months of rejections it has faced — Facebook is joining Microsoft in condemning Apple's App Store policies today.
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Tweets: @alexhern, @ryan_browne_, @dhh, @alexhern, @privacymatters, @facebookgaming, @facebookgaming, @larsklint, @joncomms, and @jhthedev
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Apple confirms cloud gaming services like xCloud and Stadia violate App Store guidelines and will not work on iOS, as Apple cannot review each game offered — New cloud gaming services from Google and Microsoft won't work on iOS — Cloud gaming is shaping up to have a big moment …
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Sources: Facebook fired employee who collected evidence of favoritism for right-wing pages; staff worry about Trump using Facebook to dispute election results — Facebook employees collected evidence showing the company is giving right-wing pages preferential treatment when it comes to misinformation.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Intel is investigating a leak of 20 GB of documents, some confidential, possibly from an internal source accessing its Resource and Design Center — Leak confirmed to be authentic. Many files are marked “confidential” or “restricted secret.” — US chipmaker Intel is investigating …
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Tweets: @deletescape, @liliputingnews, @alyssam_infosec, @jgamblin, @steptoeinvest, @gregotto, and @om
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Qualcomm patches 6 security flaws in a Snapdragon DSP used in most Android phones, which allowed attackers to take over a phone without needing user interaction — Several security vulnerabilities found in Qualcomm's Snapdragon chip Digital Signal Processor (DSP) chip could allow attackers … | Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal: |
US government contractor Anomaly Six collects and sells location data from hundreds of millions of phones globally via its SDK that is embedded in 500+ apps — Anomaly Six has ties to military, intelligence agencies and draws location data from more than 500 apps with hundreds of millions of users
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| Adrianne Jeffries / The Markup: |
Leaked docs: Alphabet trains staff not to use terms like “market”, “barriers to entry”, and “network effects” in written communication to avoid antitrust issues — The Markup obtained internal documents that coach new employees to avoid creating …
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Troy Hunt says he will be open sourcing the Have I Been Pwned code base — Let me just cut straight to it: I'm going to open source the Have I Been Pwned code base. The decision has been a while coming and it took a failed M&A process to get here, but the code will be turned over to the public … | Axios: |
Report: average congressional district now has about 400 high-tech startups employing around 3.4K workers, with average annual wages of ~$79K — The technology sector increasingly underpins the U.S. economy, with signs of its growth becoming more woven into local economies far outside iconic innovation hubs … | James Vincent / The Verge: |
Over the past year, scientists have renamed 27 human genes because Microsoft's Excel misread their names as dates and changed the formatting — Sometimes it's easier to rewrite genetics than update Excel — There are tens of thousands of genes in the human genome: minuscule twists of DNA …
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