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Microsoft says hackers working for Russia, China, and Iran have recently escalated their attacks on people and orgs involved in the US presidential election — Hackers working for Russia, China and Iran have recently escalated their attacks around the U.S. presidential race as Election Day looms, Microsoft says.
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Experts discuss worst-case scenarios for election night, from coordinated social media disinfo campaigns to ransomware targeting voter registration systems — We asked security experts to tell us what keeps them up at night — and what to do about it. — Election night, by now …
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Trump says “there will be no extension of the TikTok deadline”, as sources say ByteDance will likely miss the WH deadline to sell TikTok's US operations — - China's regulators plan to review technical details of deal — Microsoft and Oracle have not been dissuaded by China move
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Sources: China would prefer to see TikTok shut down in the US as its believes a forced sale would make China appear weak in the face of pressure from Washington — (Reuters) - Beijing opposes a forced sale of TikTok's U.S. operations by its Chinese owner ByteDance, and would prefer … | Kate Clark / The Information: |
Profile of the note-taking startup Roam Research, which has raised $9M at $200M valuation from Patrick and John Collison, True Ventures, Lux Capital, others — The shift to remote work has buoyed the valuations of several startups making productivity tools.
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Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri says the company needs to “make our case as strongly as we can” against Apple's planned changes to IDFA tracking in iOS 14 — - Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri said the company will push back on a planned change to Apple's iPhone operating system that would impact …
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Apple's revised App Store guidelines now say game streaming services are permitted but games offered by them must be available as individual App Store downloads — In a series of new App Store rules promulgated to developers on Friday, Apple will allow services like Microsoft Xcloud …
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Facebook sues the Irish data protection watchdog in a bid to stop the proposed order that could stop trans-Atlantic transfers of EU users' data — - Move follows Irish threat to halt Facebook's data transfers — Legal wrangling comes after EU court toppled EU-U.S pact
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Epic says Apple will let existing Fortnite players on iOS continue to use Sign in with Apple, after receiving an “indefinite extension” — Sign in with Apple for Fortnite lives on. — Update, September 10 (9:00 pm ET): Apple says that it never planned to remove support for Sign in with Apple for Fortnite.
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Sources: Opendoor, which directly buys and sells homes online, is in talks to go public via merger with Social Capital II, valuing the combined company at ~$5B — - Transaction could be valued at around $5 billion, people said — Blank-check company is led by chairman Chamath Palihapitiya
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Investigation finds more than 70 AmazonBasics products have been reviewed as dangerous, with many still for sale; Amazon says it's investigating — (CNN)When firefighters arrived at Austin Parra's home on January 12, 2017, they could see smoke and the charred remnants of an office chair outside.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
The latest update to Google Chrome, now available on the App Store, gives it the ability to be set up as a default browser on iOS 14 — iOS 14 allows for third-party web browsers and email clients to become the default, so if you really don't like Safari and Apple Mail, you now have other options.
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Profile of AWS' CEO Andy Jassy who joined Amazon in 1997 and is seen as a likely successor to Jeff Bezos — Andy Jassy, the leader of Amazon's cloud computing business, is now the clear heir apparent to Jeff Bezos after the announced retirement of the retail operations chief.| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
A month after the launch of TikTok's $200M fund, some creators are complaining about the low payouts and lack of transparency in how payouts are calculated — Users say the platform's new Creator Fund is opaque and riddled with problems. The company says it's listening.
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