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House lawmakers introduce five bipartisan bills to limit anticompetitive practices of tech giants like Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook — The proposals could reshape the tech industry as we know it — On Friday, House Democrats introduced five new bills meant to chip away at the power …
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The DOJ's opaque subpoena of Apple during the Russia probe highlights the tension tech companies face in obliging law enforcement and protecting users' privacy — Apple, Google and Microsoft have been plunged into a political firestorm as they have contended with law enforcement requests to hand over information.
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| Ian Hamilton / UploadVR: |
Facebook buys BigBox VR, the maker of VR battle royale title POPULATION: ONE, in its fifth VR game development studio acquisition — Facebook acquired another VR shooter game development studio with the purchase of BigBox VR, the creator of battle royale title POPULATION: ONE.
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Avaddon ransomware gang releases decryption keys for 2,934 of its victims and is likely shutting down due to increased scrutiny by governments around the world — The Avaddon ransomware gang has shut down operation and released the decryption keys for their victims to BleepingComputer.com.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Honeywell merges its quantum computing business with Cambridge Quantum to form a new joint venture; Honeywell will hold a majority stake and invest $270M-$300M — Honeywell, which only recently announced its entry into the quantum computing race, and Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQ) … | Chen Du / PingWest: |
ByteDance launches Volcano Engine to offer enterprise clients its technologies, such as its recommendation algorithm that drove the success of TikTok and Douyin — Taken and compiled from ByteDance's various successful products, the data-driven business insight service marks … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
AT&T CEO says Biden's municipal broadband plan is “a bit misguided” and is confident that Congress will steer legislation in the more “pragmatic” direction — CEO thinks US will keep giving billions to private ISPs instead of public networks.| About Facebook: |
Facebook unveils TextStyleBrush, an AI project that can copy the style of text in a photo using just a single word and can edit and replace text in images — - We're introducing TextStyleBrush, an AI research project that can copy the style of text in a photo using just a single word.
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| Jeremy Bogaisky / Forbes: |
Larry Page's air taxi company Kitty Hawk buys drone software company 3D Robotics, whose co-founder and ex-Wired editor Chris Anderson will become Kitty Hawk COO — Eleven years after Google co-founder Larry Page bankrolled one of the first efforts to develop an electric flying car … | Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Google commits to involve UK's competition and privacy regulators in the development of its Privacy Sandbox proposals to replace third-party cookies on Chrome — - Google will give the U.K.'s Competition and Markets Authority a say in its plans to replace third-party cookies on Chrome.
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| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
US clean energy company Invenergy says it had been hacked but “does not intend to pay any ransom”, after REvil threatened to leak 4TB of stolen data — Group threatens to leak private material from renewable energy tycoon as ‘extortionware’ scourge spreads| Kevin Beaumont / DoublePulsar: |
As ransomware gangs operate on multi-million dollar budgets at a global scale, telling companies to “just patch” or “implement zero trust” is no longer feasible — ve talked about ransomware and extortion attacks on organizations for about a decade.
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| Yevgeniy Sverdlik / Data Center Knowledge: |
Blackstone has agreed to buy and take private QTS Realty Trust, one of the world's largest data center providers, for $10B — In what would be the biggest acquisition of a data center business ever, Blackstone has agreed to take QTS Realty Trust private for $10 billion.
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