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A look at Positive Technologies, a Russian cybersecurity firm sanctioned by the US, which sources say provides hacking tools and ops support for Russian spies — Washington has sanctioned Russian cybersecurity firm Positive Technologies. US intelligence reports claim it provides hacking tools and runs operations for the Kremlin.| NBC News: |
US sanctions Russia for 2020 election interference and SolarWinds hack, blacklisting six tech companies that provide support to Russian intelligence services — The United States is hitting Russia with fresh sanctions for interference in the 2020 presidential election …
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| Naaman Zhou / The Guardian: |
Australian Federal Court rules Google misled Android users into thinking it would not collect their location data when they turned location history off — Google collected data on some Android and Pixel phones even when customers ticked ‘No’ or ‘Do not collect’
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| Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal: |
In a letter to artists, Apple says it pays a penny per stream, roughly double Spotify, which pays an average of about one-third to half a penny per stream — Music-streaming services, seeking to win credibility and subscribers, open up about artist payouts
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Firefox and major Chromium browsers, including Edge, Brave, and Vivaldi, decline to join FLoC, Google's proposed ad technology to replace third-party cookies — Brave, Vivaldi, Edge, and Mozilla are all out — Google is going it alone with its proposed advertising technology to replace third-party cookies.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Ireland-based digital rights group begins “mass action” to sue Facebook over 2019 breach, citing the right to monetary compensation set out in the GDPR — Facebook is to be sued in Europe over the major leak of user data that dates back to 2019 but which only came to light recently … | Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Apple's App Store hosted kids' games that became crypto-based casinos if launched from some non-US locations — Kosta Eleftheriou has found another iOS scam — In popular culture, access to an illicit gambling den is as easy as stumbling into the right shop and saying the password — or greasing some palms.
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| David Priest / CNET: |
Jeff Bezos says Amazon Prime now has 200M+ subscribers, up 50M from the beginning of 2020 — A new letter to shareholders from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos revealed that the tech giant's Prime service now has over 200 million subscribers. That's up 50 million from the beginning of 2020.
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| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
IoT security certification body Internet of Secure Things Alliance launches a new standard for VPN apps, with Google One VPN one of the first to be certified — The Google One VPN app gets a tick of approval from the Internet of Secure Things Alliance. — The Internet of Secure Things Alliance …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Google's Project Zero updates its vulnerability disclosure policy to include a 30-day cushion before publishing bug details to give users time to apply patches — The Google Project Zero security team has updated its vulnerability disclosure guidelines today to add a cushion of 30 days …
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| The Guardian: |
Facebook planned to remove a network of fake accounts that artificially inflated the popularity of an MP in India, until it realized it was for a BJP politician — Whistleblower points to double standard in Facebook's enforcement of rules against powerful — Facebook allowed a network …
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| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
Executives from Intel, Nvidia, and TSMC say the global chip shortage will likely continue at least into 2022 and maybe into 2023 — Companies reeling from natural disasters and massive demand from OEMs, consumers. — How many years will the ongoing chip shortage affect technology firms across the world?
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Tweets: @tomwarren, @jimhandc, @globalfoundries, @matt_on_tech, @maurice_y_lee, @stevestreeting, @meaningness, and @ps5updatesuk
| James Rundle / Wall Street Journal: |
For the first time, NATO wargames include scenarios exploring the impact of widespread cyberattacks on financial infrastructure — Financial industry helped plan scenarios in which widespread disruption would hit banks and other firms — One of the world's largest cyber wargames is …
Tweets: @natesibley
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Dogecoin, the cryptocurrency that started out as a joke in 2013, now has a market cap of $40B after growing nearly 400% in the past seven days — - Dogecoin is a cryptocurrency based on the “Doge” meme, which rose to popularity in late 2013. It started out as a joke.
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Tweets: @anothercohen, @zguz, @thestalwart, @tomgara, @epro, @counternotions, @ryan_browne_, and @itstaylorlocke
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Walmart-owned Flipkart says it will acquire India-based online travel and hotel ticketing company Cleartrip; source says the deal values Cleartrip at about $40M — Flipkart said on Thursday it has agreed to acquire online travel and hotel ticketing firm Cleartrip as the Walmart-owned e-commerce firm looks …
Tweets: @beingpractical, @thinkspection, and @sub8u
| David Folkenflik / NPR: |
Officials say USAGM CEO Michael Pack and others pushed to subsidize software built by Falun Gong adherents, diverting OTF money from other tech for dissidents — Of all the disruptions unleashed by the Trump White House on how the federal government typically works, the saga of one small project …
Tweets: @opentechfund, @skestenbaum, @normornstein, and @davidfolkenflik
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