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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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| 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
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: new “Pro” Apple Watch will have about 7% larger screen, a new design, and a case with a more durable formulation of titanium to make it extra rugged — Apple is set to report earnings this week against the backdrop of an economic downturn and a plan to slow hiring.| 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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| 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
| 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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| 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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| 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.| 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?| 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
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| 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 … | 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 … Sponsor Posts
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