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| Kent Walker / The Keyword: |
Google says Microsoft's support of a bill for greater bargaining power for news pubs is “self-serving” and intended to distract from the SolarWinds hack — Google has always been committed to providing high-quality and relevant information, and to supporting the news publishers who help create it.
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| Brad Smith / Microsoft On the Issues: |
In House hearing, Brad Smith says monetizing referral traffic has become increasingly difficult for news pubs because Google squeezes out most of the profit — Editor's Note: On Mar. 12, Microsoft President Brad Smith testified before the House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: tools used in the Feb. 28 Exchange hack are similar to proof-of-concept attack code that Microsoft distributed to security partners a week earlier — Investigators seeking to unravel how attack spread in week before software fix — Microsoft Corp. is investigating whether …
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| Patrick Howell O'Neill / MIT Technology Review: |
ESET: at least ten, mostly state-backed hacking groups are exploiting Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities on thousands of servers in over 115 countries — Days before Microsoft released a fix for a secret attack on its email systems, hackers ramped up their activity. Now experts say swift action is required.
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| Marco Rubio / USA Today: |
Marco Rubio says he is endorsing Amazon workers' unionization efforts in Alabama because Amazon leadership is waging “culture war against working-class values” — Amazon is waging a culture war against working-class values and is not helping workers or our economy.
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| Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal: |
In a letter to GOP Senators, Amazon says it removed a book because of its policy not to sell books that frame LGBTQ+ identity as a mental illness — Company states policy in response to inquiry by several Republican senators over recent removal of book by conservative author
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| James Tarmy / Bloomberg: |
MetaKovan, an anonymous digital asset investor and founder of NFT focused crypto-based investment fund Metapurse, is the buyer of the $69M Beeple NFT — A digital asset investor who goes by the handle Metakovan and refuses to give his full name, announced that he is the buyer …
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| BuzzFeed News: |
An internal doc at Facebook, co-written by Chris Cox, aims to equip employees with rebuttals to the perception that the company's products fuel polarization — In a Thursday presentation, Facebook executives told employees the company isn't to blame for social division in the country.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Facebook announces a project to train its AI to understand what is happening in videos, using data from videos publicly available on Facebook — AI that can understand video could be put to a variety of uses — Teaching AI systems to understand what's happening in videos as completely …
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| Matt Burgess / WIRED UK: |
UK Home Office confirms trial of web surveillance tool that can track users' browsing history in partnership with two unnamed ISPs and National Crime Agency — The Investigatory Powers Act, or Snooper's Charter, was introduced in 2016. Now one of its most contentious surveillance tools is being secretly trialled by internet firms
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Sources: Qualcomm is struggling to meet higher than expected demand due to the global chip shortage and US sanctions against Huawei — SAN FRANCISCO/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Qualcomm Inc is struggling to keep up with demand for its processor chips used in smartphones and gadgets … | Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
NTSB sent a letter to the NHTSA asking for stricter standards on automated vehicle tech, citing Tesla's Level 2 Autopilot system tests as needing more oversight — - The National Transportation Safety Board is calling on its sister agency, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration …
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
FCC designates five Chinese tech firms, Huawei, ZTE, Hytera, Hangzhou, and Dahua, as a threat to US security; Huawei challenged its prior FCC designation in Feb — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Friday designated five Chinese companies as posing a threat …
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| Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: |
Sports cards marketplace Alt raises $31M Series A led by Seven Seven Six, with First Round, SV Angel, Kevin Durant's Thirty Five Ventures, others participating — A new startup is making it easier to make sure your mother doesn't throw away your old baseball cards.| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple sues its former materials lead Simon Lancaster for allegedly stealing trade secrets and leaking them to the media — Apple is taking legal action against its former materials lead, Simon Lancaster, over allegedly leaking trade secrets to the media. The lawsuit accuses Lancaster of abusing his …
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AppleInsider, Ars Technica, The Verge, iPhone Hacks, Gizmodo, iPhone in Canada Blog, infosecurity-magazine.com, and TechSpot
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