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The details of House's antitrust report matter less than the fact it exists, signaling an intent to challenge Big Tech's power, although how remains to be seen — William Letwin, in Law and Economic Policy in America: The Evolution of the Sherman Antitrust Act, argued that the only way to understand …
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| Steve Kovach / CNBC: |
Following the House's antitrust report, an overview of how Democrats and Republicans view regulation and the common ground between them, like more FTC funding — - The House Subcommittee on Antirust released its report on Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google, building a case for why each company has monopoly power.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google announces security features, including cross-app alerts for account security issues, coming first to iOS, and Assistant guest mode for some Nest devices — They're rolling out on a limited basis in the coming weeks — Google is announcing a few security-related updates today … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Slack says it will add Snapchat-like stories and push-to-talk audio calls before end of 2020 — Get ready to Slack your daily stories — Slack is getting ready to introduce Instagram-like stories and push-to-talk audio into its communications software before the end of 2020.
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| Gilad Edelman / Wired: |
A group of tech companies, publishers, and advocates unveil Global Privacy Standard, to let users opt out of the sale of personal data at the browser level — California's privacy law says businesses must respect universal opt-outs. Now the technology finally exists to put that to the test.| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Apple brings Health Records on the iPhone to the UK and Canada, starting with Oxford University Hospitals in UK and Women's College Hospital in Canada — Apple has today announced that access to Health Records on the iPhone is now available in the UK and Canada, providing a fuller, more secure picture of patient health.| New York Times: |
Trump administration announces changes to the H-1B visa program, substantially raising the wages companies must pay and narrowing the eligibility criteria — Four weeks before the election, the Trump administration has announced stricter rules for the H-1B visa program, which U.S. companies have long valued.
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| Izabella Kaminska / Financial Times: |
UK ICO publishes three-year investigation into Cambridge Analytica, finding no evidence that CA or associate company SCL misused data to influence Brexit vote — UK Information Commission concludes three-year investigation into digital marketing group — A sprawling investigation …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sony publishes a full PS5 teardown, revealing removable sides, dust catchers, storage expansion, and more — A closer look inside the PlayStation 5 — Sony has published a seven-minute teardown video of the PS5. The teardown gives us the best look at the PS5 so far …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Google is facing an antitrust investigation in India over allegedly abusing the dominance of Android in the smart TV market — NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's GOOGL.O Google is facing a new antitrust case in India in which the U.S. tech giant is alleged to have abused …
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| Nico Grant / Bloomberg: |
Salesforce partners with Okta to help customers use Salesforce's Work.com COVID-19 tools, like contact tracing for workplaces — - Pact will help get more employee data into work.com platform — Software giant faces steep competition from ServiceNow| Theodore Schleifer / Vox: |
Almost 2,000 US election offices have applied for Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's $250M gift for election infrastructure; grants ranged from $5,000 to $15M — Mark Zuckerberg's donation has led to a gold rush for his cash. Paul Marotta / Getty Images — A feeding frenzy has begun.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Trump administration is exploring restrictions on Ant Group and Tencent's payments platforms, although a final decision isn't imminent — - Threat of Trump measures casts new shadow over Ant Group IPO — The Trump administration is exploring restrictions on billionaire Jack Ma's Ant Group …
Tweets: @zhugeex, @jenniferjjacobs, and @tariqkrim
| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
mmhmm, Phil Libin's virtual presentation startup, raises $21M Series A led by Sequoia alongside $5M from Libin's startup studio All Turtles and $5M in debt — Covering venture capital, software and startups — As Phil Libin speaks his Zoom background changes rapidly … | BBC: |
Facebook removed a post by Trump saying COVID-19 is “less lethal” than flu, only the second time it has done so, as Twitter hides the tweet and adds a warning — Facebook has deleted a post in which President Trump had claimed Covid-19 was “less lethal” than the flu.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Intel says its 11th-gen Rocket Lake desktop CPUs will arrive in Q1 2021, with PCIe 4.0 support; AMD is set to unveil new CPUs at an event tomorrow — Just ahead of AMD's own next-gen Zen 3 announcement — Intel has confirmed that its 11th Gen Rocket Lake desktop processors will be out sometime … | Bloomberg: |
How a Citigroup tech executive's news site, with an estimated 10M visitors/month, helped QAnon go mainstream with widespread political implications — Jason Gelinas lived a normal suburban life with a plum Wall Street gig. He also ran the conspiracy theory's biggest news hub.
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| The Guardian: |
Facebook's QAnon ban left some high-profile Australians who are linked to the conspiracy theory untouched because the ban does not extend to individual profiles — Pages and groups deleted but individual accounts - like Pete Evans' profile - left untouched| NBC News: |
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Survey: TikTok has surpassed Instagram as the second most popular social app for US teens, with 34% choosing Snapchat, 29% TikTok, and 25% Instagram — - TikTok has surpassed Instagram as teenagers' second favorite social media app, according to a report published on Tuesday.
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