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Microsoft admits it signed a malicious driver called “Netfilter” targeting gaming environments; the rootkit malware was observed communicating with Chinese IPs — Microsoft has now confirmed signing a malicious driver being distributed within gaming environments.
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| Financial Times: |
UK's Financial Conduct Authority orders Binance to stop all regulated activities in Britain by June 30, issues consumer alert against it — FCA also issues consumer alert against sprawling cryptocurrency group — The UK's financial watchdog has ordered Binance to stop all regulated activities … | Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google unveils “Play Media Experience Program”, which will let certain media apps get a larger cut of Play Store sales for supporting more Android form factors — Google entices multimillion-dollar media apps with a 15 percent Play Store fee. — There are 3 billion active Android devices …
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| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
Study: an algorithm developed by EHR provider Epic to predict sepsis infections in patients missed two-thirds of sepsis cases and frequently issued false alarms — A study found that a system used to identify cases of sepsis missed most instances and frequently issued false alarms.| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Microsoft engineer says users will be able to sideload Android Apps on Windows 11 — Many questions about how the feature will work remain, however — According to an engineer at Microsoft, Windows 11 users will have the ability to sideload Android apps onto the operating system …
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| Sascha Segan / PCMag: |
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| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Microsoft, following a probe of SolarWinds hack, says an attacker compromised one of the company's support agents to launch attacks against customers — Microsoft (MSFT.O) said on Friday an attacker had won access to one of its customer-service agents and then used information from that to launch hacking attempts against customers.
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| José Adorno / 9to5Mac: |
Telegram adds group video calls, screen sharing, noise suppression, animated backgrounds, tablet and desktop support with side panel and split-screen view, more — Telegram for iOS received a major update this week. After months of teasing and testing, Group Video Calls is finally available …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is considering iPads with displays larger than 12.9-inch, for 2023 or later, and has promoted new execs to the leadership team of its car project — This week: Apple explores larger iPads and reshuffles its car team, Amazon eyes augmented reality, and Peloton takes on the Apple Watch.
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| Andrew Deck / Rest of World: |
A look at Chinese content farms behind “Factory TikTok”, a subgenre where workers making products like aloe jelly and gloves also are influencers selling them — How workers manufacturing products like aloe jelly and gardening gloves also became the influencers selling them.
Tweets: @gquaggiotto, @sub8u, @parismarx, @lmatsakis, @bnox, @linzhang9, @richggall, @restofworld, @sam_azl, @restofworld, and @dlberes
| ProPublica: |
Analysis finds thousands of videos of Uyghurs denying abuses against their community on Twitter and YouTube as part of an elaborate Chinese influence campaign — Co-published with The New York Times … Recently, the owner of a small store in western China came across some remarks by Mike Pompeo, the former U.S. secretary of state.
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Tweets: @egavactip, @opiumhum, @propublica, @im_pulse, @tuckergoodrich, @tedcruz, @kenroth, @reuters, @_nickmonaco, @sfthq, @uyghurproject, and @propublica
| Matt Stoller / BIG: |
Antitrust bills have issues, but Judiciary Committee passing them is nothing short of a revolution in American thinking on political economy and monopoly power — The Judiciary Committee voted 21-20 to split up Google, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook. What happened was unbelievable.
Tweets: @halsinger, @reichenstein, @matthewstoller, @jeremys, and @reichenstein
| Jackson Ryan / CNET: |
Inside the intense debate among Wikipedia editors to include the coronavirus lab leak theory on COVID-19 pages, as the theory has gained more media attention — Building a better encyclopedia requires consensus and neutrality, but behind the scenes, editors wrangle with the pandemic's most contentious question.
Tweets: @jayrosen_nyu, @jeskillings, @dctrjack, @raju, @dvanboom, and @evelyndouek
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