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| Katie Bo Lillis / CNN: |
Sources: the FBI determined around 2017 that Huawei gear in cell towers near US military bases in the Midwest was capable of capturing and disrupting DoD comms — On paper, it looked like a fantastic deal. In 2017, the Chinese government was offering to spend $100 million to build …
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The Verge, The Hill, PhoneArena, Slashdot, and Huawei Central
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| Preetika Rana / Wall Street Journal: |
DoorDash and Uber Eats are moving beyond food, focusing on groceries and alcohol, as users cut spending due to high inflation and a potential economic downturn — Delivery apps look to move beyond food as they face high inflation, a potential economic downturn — Grubhub CEO on the Postpandemic Future of Food Delivery
Tweets: @preetika_rana, @jerrycap, @ericbellmanwsj, and @berber_jin1
| Karen Hao / Wall Street Journal: |
How China's mass collection of personal info and its new, unevenly enforced data security rules contribute to a thriving underground market for stolen data — Government's mass collection of personal information aids social control but undermines national security, cybersecurity researchers say
Tweets: @joshchin, @jchengwsj, @_karenhao, @jchengwsj, @chris__pc, @jchengwsj, @masspirates, and @jchengwsj
| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
A South Carolina bill would make it illegal to host a website or “an internet service” with information that is “reasonably likely to be used for an abortion” — More states could follow, setting up a battle over the future of online speech across the country. — Listen
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| Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: |
Google fires engineer Blake Lemoine, who said he believes Google's LaMDA conversational tech is sentient, citing employment and data security policy violations — Google has fired Blake Lemoine, the engineer who said he believed the company's LaMDA conversational technology was sentient.
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Washington Post, The Verge, Australian Financial Review, Wall Street Journal, AI Supremacy, New York Times, The Register, Engadget, Reuters, BBC, Insider, Beyond Search, Gizchina.com, Android Police, New York Post, The i Paper, The Guardian, Appuals.com, and CNET
Tweets: @tvietor08, @pt, @sub8u, @jeffjarvis, @jimpethokoukis, and @kantrowitz
| Gilad Edelman / Wired: |
A look at the bipartisan American Data Privacy and Protection Act, which privacy experts say might finally give the US a strong federal data protection law — A bill with bipartisan support might finally give the US a strong federal data protection law. — Usually, when Congress is working …
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Tech Policy Press, Pixel Envy, and Electronic Frontier Foundation
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| Zeyi Yang / MIT Technology Review: |
Gamers in China, where online porn is banned, are using the Steam app Wallpaper Engine as a cloud drive and a video player to exchange adult-only content — Wallpaper Engine has become a haven for ingenious Chinese users who use it to smuggle adult content as desktop wallpaper. But how long can it last?| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
A look at attacks on internet cables in France in April 2022, when “backbone cables” were surgically cut in three locations around Paris in around two hours — As new details about the scope of the sabotage emerge, the perpetrators—and the reason for their vandalism—remain unknown.| Andy Maxwell / TorrentFreak: |
Epidemic Sound, which offers music tracks to creators, sues Meta, alleging approximately 94% of content using Epidemic's music on Meta's platforms is unlicensed — Faced with the prospect of copyright strikes, Content ID claims and potential account loss, thousands of YouTubers, TikTok users … | Jeanne Whalen / Washington Post: |
How the nearly two-year-old chip shortage upended Detroit's car manufacturing, which a historian says may be the biggest disruption since the 1970s fuel crisis — The worst crisis for automakers in 50 years has left dealerships with little to sell as prices soar for consumers — Listen
Tweets: @carlquintanilla
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
T-Mobile agrees to pay $350M to settle class action lawsuits over a 2021 cyberattack that impacted ~76.6M customers and pledges to invest $150M in data security — T-Mobile agreed Friday to pay $350 million to settle class-action lawsuits brought over an August 2021 cyberattack …
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SEC.gov, Slashdot, Business Standard, International Business Times, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, InfoRiskToday, United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri, Engadget, Mashable, The Verge, DataBreachToday, PCMag, Neowin, Seeking Alpha, and Wall Street Journal. Thanks:@taylor_soper
| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Uber admits it failed to inform the FTC of the November 2016 hack that affected 57M passengers and drivers, as part of a settlement to avoid US criminal charges — Uber Technologies Inc (UBER.N) on Friday accepted responsibility for covering up a 2016 data breach that affected 57 million passengers … Sponsor Posts
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