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| Leah Nylen / Politico: |
Sources: DOJ and state AGs investigating Google for alleged antitrust violations are considering forcing it to sell Chrome and parts of its ad business — Prosecutors for the Justice Department and state attorney general offices are discussing ways of curbing the search giant's market power as they prepare to sue the company.
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| Will Oremus / OneZero : |
A look at possible antitrust action against Big Tech following the release of reports from both Democrats and Republicans last week — Democrats aren't the only ones ready to rewrite the antitrust rules for internet platforms — Never in world history has one sector of the global economy risen …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
A coalition of tech companies, including Microsoft and Symantec, orchestrated a takedown of the TrickBot malware botnet, which had infected 1M+ computers — FS-ISAC, ESET, Lumen's Black Lotus Labs, NTT, Symantec, and the Microsoft Defender team participated in the takedown.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Five Eyes governments as well as India and Japan make a new call for backdoors into products that are end-to-end encrypted — Another Five Eyes meeting, another call for encryption backdoors in modern tech. — Members of the intelligence-sharing alliance Five Eyes, along …
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U.S. Department of Justice, The Register, GOV.UK, GOV.UK, Forbes, Nikkei Asia, Cointelegraph, EURACTIV.com, CNBC, ComputerWeekly.com, Fossbytes, Telecoms.com, infosecurity-magazine.com, MediaNama, Silicon Republic, Agence France-Presse, Telegraph, and Forbes
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Twilio confirms it is buying customer data infrastructure company Segment for $3.2B in an all-stock deal, expected to close in Q4 2020 — Twilio today announced its biggest acquisition to date, spearheading a strong move into customer data management alongside its existing API-based tools …
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| Davey Alba / New York Times: |
Study: Facebook likes, comments, and shares from news outlets that routinely publish misinformation roughly tripled from Q3 2016 to Q3 2020 to 1.8B interactions — During the 2016 presidential election, Russian operatives used Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other social media platforms … | Will Bedingfield / WIRED UK: |
Snap launches a geography-specific Local Lens called City Painter as its first persistent, shareable AR experience, for London's Carnaby Street — Snap has launched its first persistent, shareable augmented reality experience on London's Carnaby Street - it's a proof of concept for a 1:1 digital copy of everything on the planet| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Privacy advocates warn that Amazon's Ring Always Home Cam drone and biometric payment system, Amazon One, will normalize aggressive new forms of data collection — Privacy advocates warn that the Ring Always Home Cam and Amazon One both normalize aggressive new forms of data collection.
Tweets: @fightfortheftr, @avast_antivirus, and @hypervisible
| BR24: |
Investigation details how a hacking group called OceanLotus has been spying on Vietnamese opposition members and dissidents for years, including in Germany — A group of Vietnamese hackers has been systematically spying on dissidents for years, including in Germany.
Tweets: @campuscodi, @snlyngaas, @sienaanstis, and @hatr
| Sara Castellanos / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the competition to develop new encryption standards to guard against quantum-computing attacks and replace public-key cryptography methods like RSA — The world's top cryptographers are competing to develop algorithms that can withstand attacks from an ultrafast quantum computer
Tweets: @scastellwsj, @chrispeikert, and @mchui
| Sarah Jacob / Bloomberg: |
Google halts plans to launch News Showcase in Australia, says it isn't clear if the product will be viable under the country's draft News Media Bargaining code — Google has halted plans to launch its ‘News Showcase’ product in Australia as the tech company isn't clear if it will be viable under … | Andrew Marantz / New Yorker: |
Facebook's ineffective content moderation efforts, unevenly enforced and handled by low-paid moderators, show it can't and doesn't have the will to fix itself — The platform is overrun with hate speech and disinformation. Does it actually want to solve the problem?Sponsor Posts
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