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WSJ: Cloud Hopper, a hacking campaign by Chinese state-sponsored group APT10, was far bigger than formerly known, hitting 12+ cloud providers including IBM, HPE — The hackers seemed to be everywhere. — In one of the largest-ever corporate espionage efforts, cyberattackers alleged …
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| Bloomberg: |
Uber, Postmates sue CA to block AB5, days ahead of bill taking effect, say law unconstitutionally targets gig economy companies and benefits other industries — - Companies call labor rights measure unfair, unconstitutional — A.B. 5 will qualify many contractors for employment benefits
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| Fred Wilson / AVC: |
Big trends and takeaways from the 2010s: the “capital as a moat” model has failed, machine learning has become table stakes for tech companies, and more — My friend Steve Kane suggested I take a longer view in my pair of year end posts this year: … And so I will.
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| Brenda Goh / Reuters: |
Huawei's Rotating Chairman Eric Xu estimates the company's 2019 revenue grew 18% YoY to $122B, says it shipped 240M smartphones, but forecasts “difficult” 2020 — SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Huawei Technologies on Tuesday said its full-year revenue would likely jump 18% in 2019 to 850 billion yuan …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Microsoft wins court order to seize 50 domains run by North Korean cyber-espionage group Thallium, the fourth APT Microsoft has combated with this tactic — Microsoft takes control of 50 domains operated by Thallium (APT37), a North Korean cyber-espionage group.
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| ProPublica: |
IRS amends its deal with tax prep software firms, now barred from hiding free products from search, and ends its ban on making its own online filing system — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.
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| Toby Sterling / Reuters: |
2018 tax filings: Alphabet will no longer use the IP licensing scheme commonly called the “Double Irish, Dutch sandwich”, which had let it delay paying US taxes — AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Alphabet (GOOGL.O), the parent company of Google, will no longer use the intellectual property …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Sonos should rethink its Trade Up program's “Recycle Mode”, which bricks old Sonos devices for a discount on newer ones, and consider a policy of reuse — An irreversible kill switch for a discount is a bad deal for the environment — Late last week, Sonos was called …
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| Eric Feng: |
Analysis of PitchBook data since 2005 shows that in 2019, the number of enterprise-focused seed deals overtook consumer-focused seed deals for the first time — I recently wrote a recommendation letter for a former coworker who wanted to change careers by going back to school.| Yahoo News: |
Overview of the ongoing efforts by the US to modernize its spy operations, to contain the damage from the 2014 OPM breach, be more resilient to tracking, more — When hackers began slipping into computer systems at the Office of Personnel Management in the spring of 2014 …
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| Kate Eichhorn / MIT Technology Review: |
Obsessive documentation of one's life online has made it hard for young people to shed their past identities and might have bad effects for society at large — As past identities become stickier for those entering adulthood, it's not just individuals who will suffer. Society will too.
Tweets: @warmoth, @abigaillynnbru2, @derekeb, @robotnr7312, @ministryprivacy, @thechrislarsen, @jencyjac, @calamur, and @techreview
| Dan Sabbagh / The Guardian: |
UK surveillance watchdog: public bodies have insufficient government guidance on when it's appropriate to use facial recognition, lip-reading tech, and more — CCTV commissioner says he gets many queries about facial recognition and other tools — Police forces, hospitals and councils struggle …
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