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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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| 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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| 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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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
EA hackers say they used stolen cookies, bought online for $10, to gain access to EA Slack, and then tricked IT support to give login tokens for EA's network — A representative for the hackers explained to Motherboard how the group stole a wealth of data from the game publishing giant. — Joseph Cox
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| New York Times: |
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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| Heather Haddon / Wall Street Journal: |
McDonald's says hackers breached its operations in some markets, exposing some US business info and delivery customer data in South Korea and Taiwan — Hack exposed some U.S. business information, customer data in South Korea and Taiwan — McDonald's Corp. said hackers stole some data …
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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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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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| Alyse Stanley / Gizmodo: |
Some attendees of Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, which had no mask or proof of vaccine requirements for its 12K guests, say they tested positive for COVID-19 — The event had no face mask or proof of vaccine requirements for its roughly 12,000 attendees
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Apple finally adds support for Windows Precision Touchpad drivers in its latest Boot Camp update but only on Intel Macs with a T2 chip — MacBooks running Windows now have much better trackpad support — Apple is finally adding support for Windows Precision Touchpad drivers in its latest Boot Camp update.
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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 …
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| Shirin Ghaffary / Vox: |
NLRB expands its complaint against Google to add three more fired workers who say the company retaliated against them for protesting against its work with CBP — The NLRB is expanding its complaint against Google for allegedly retaliating against employee activists in what could turn out to be a precedent-setting decision.
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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| TechCrunch: |
YC's decision to remove two of its CEOs who critiqued the accelerator publicly from its program raises questions about how YC moderates its community — A look into how a famed, yet feared, accelerator handles dissent — Community has never felt louder in startupland.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Volkswagen says a vendor's security lapse exposed details of 3.3M+ customers spanning 2014 to 2019, including sensitive data of 90K clients in the US and Canada — Volkswagen says more than 3.3 million customers had their information exposed after one of its vendors left a cache of customer data unsecured on the internet.Sponsor Posts
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