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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
A Garmin employee confirms that the company's servers were hit by WastedLocker, a ransomware variant developed by Russia-based cybercriminal group Evil Corp — 07/24/20 Update below. This article was originally published on July 23rd, 2020. It has been updated to reflect that BleepingComputer … | Ashley Gold / Axios: |
Source: the rescheduled House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee hearing featuring CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google will take place this Wednesday — The CEOs of Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Google will now testify before the House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee on Wednesday …
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| Benedict Evans: |
Tech went from interesting to a crucial part of society in a decade, with events in 2016 polarizing the conversation, causing a rush for easy regulatory answers — Technology was a small industry until very recently. It was exciting and interesting, and it was on lots of magazine covers …
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No Mercy/No Malice and Philip Elmer‑DeWitt
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| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
After user reports, Instagram says it is “fixing a bug in iOS 14 Beta that mistakenly indicates that some people are using the camera when they aren't” — The company says it's fixing the issue — In the latest instance of iOS 14's beta mode tattling on unexpected app behavior …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
While Slack files an antitrust complaint against Microsoft's Teams bundling, Google, with its G Suite bundle, is uniquely positioned to be an even bigger threat — Slack surprised Microsoft with a competition complaint in Europe yesterday. After arguing for months that Microsoft Teams …
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Microsoft 365 Blog, The Verge, and Windows Central
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| Ian Tucker / The Guardian: |
Q&A with Yaël Eisenstat, who was briefly hired as Facebook's global head of elections integrity in 2018 and, she says, intentionally sidelined from the start — The ex-CIA officer on why she lasted only six months at the tech giant and her fears about its role in the forthcoming US election| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
A vigilante hacker has been sabotaging the Emotet malware botnet, replacing a quarter of daily payloads with animated GIFs, stopping victims from being infected — Emotet botnet activity goes down as Emotet admins are wrestling with a vigilante for control over parts of their infrastructure.| Andrew Leonard / Wired: |
Audrey Tang, Taiwan's digital minister and an accomplished programmer, is showing how digital tools can build strong, open, accountable democracies — Audrey Tang says tech can build trust, tame misinformation, and strengthen democracy. Her plan might even work in the US.
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
A survey of 500+ cybersecurity pros sheds light on which skills they find most useful in cybersecurity job candidates, and which are most frequently lacking — Thousands of people graduate from colleges and universities each year with cybersecurity or computer science degrees only to find employers …
Tweets: @bettersafetynet, @briankrebs, @infosecsherpa, and @foresightcyber
| Adam Conner / Margins: |
TikTok's rise in the US should serve as a cautionary tale for social media startups, as it had to spend billions of dollars on ads on rival platforms to compete — Can anyone really compete? — 1 hr … Hi all, I'm Adam Conner, longtime fan of The Margins, first-time contributor.
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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Intel's decision to consider outsourcing manufacturing heralds the end of an era in which the company, and the US, dominated the semiconductor industry — - World's largest chipmaker considers outsourcing manufacturing — Crucial technology expertise is shifting overseas, to TSMC
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| Mengmeng Zhang / Counterpoint Research: |
Despite smartphone sales in China declining 17% YoY in Q2, Huawei grew 14%, capturing 46% of the market, as Apple grew 32%, becoming the fastest growing OEM — - Huawei captured a massive 60% share of the 5G smartphone market — Huawei reached its highest ever share in China capturing 46% of sales volumes.Sponsor Posts
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