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Sources: Microsoft is working on in-house designs for chips to run its cloud servers and Surface PCs — Microsoft Corp. is working on in-house processor designs for use in server computers that run the company's cloud services, adding to an industrywide effort to reduce reliance …
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An analysis of publicly available web records shows SolarWinds hackers accessed the networks at Cox Communications and the local government in Pima County, AZ — LONDON (Reuters) - Suspected Russian hackers accessed the systems of a U.S. internet provider and a county government in Arizona …
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| Scott Simmie / DroneDJ: |
China-based drone maker DJI is among the companies the US Commerce Department has added to its blacklist — An updated “Entity List” is bad news for the world's largest drone manufacturer. DJI has been put in the company of Huawei and others, a move that will have negative consequences for the firm.
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| Patricia Hurtado / Bloomberg: |
DOJ charges a China-based executive at Zoom with disrupting video meetings commemorating Tiananmen Square Massacre; Zoom says it terminated the employee — - Worker accused of disrupting Tiananmen Square commemorations — Zoom says it fired Xinjiang Jin after internal investigation
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| Kara Swisher / New York Times: |
The only explanation for its ad campaign against Apple is that Facebook has decided shamelessness works, after years of cozying up to the Trump administration — The company declared in newspaper ads that it was “standing up to Apple.” It's a desperate ploy that's unlikely to work.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Judge says DOJ's antitrust lawsuit against Google likely won't go to trial until late 2023 — - The Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit against Google likely won't go to trial until late 2023, Judge Amit Mehta said at a status hearing on Friday. — The judge set September 12, 2023 as a tentative date to start the trial.
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| Sriram Krishnan / The Observer Effect: |
Q&A with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke on his typical day, time management, culture, product creation, organizational design, meetings, and working from home — Welcome to the third interview on ‘The Observer Effect’. We are lucky to have one of the most interesting founders in technology and commerce …
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla have banned a root certificate being used by the Kazakhstan government to intercept and decrypt HTTPS traffic — This marks the second time browsers makers had to intervene and block a certificate used by the Kazakhstan government to spy on its citizens.
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Apple clarifies power-saving modes of AirPods Max, says they enter low power mode after 5 minutes of non-use and ultralow power state after 18 hours in the case — When Apple unveiled AirPods Max last week, it revealed that they don't come with an on/off power button, but instead enter an …
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| Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
Sources: dating app Bumble has filed confidentially for an IPO, with plans for a listing around Valentine's Day — Bumble, the dating app where women make the first move, has filed confidentially for an initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Amazon launches group video and audio calling for up to seven participants on Echo devices — It's also coming soon to the Alexa app — Amazon is launching a new group video or audio calling feature for Echo devices today, just in time for the holidays.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Israel-based social casino game developer Playtika files for an IPO, reporting $1.8B in revenue for first 9 months of 2020 vs. $1.4B for all of 2019, 35M MAUs — Israel-based mobile gaming giant Playtika has filed for its long-awaited initial public offering (IPO).
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