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| 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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| 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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| 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 …
Tweets: @lukolejnik, @convexity16, @skupor, @jmrybnicek, @ashimehta23, @leggett, @benedictevans, @noam, @ben_schroeter, and @remych
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
This year's Xbox Games Showcase made it clear that Microsoft's true focus for next generation Xbox gaming is not on hardware but on Xbox Game Pass subscription — If you were heading into Microsoft's Xbox game showcase yesterday to witness a demonstration of why next-gen gaming and the …
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Tweets: @vicious696, @darthchillash, @gavinpurcell, @alexmulhearn, and @tomwarren
| 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.
Tweets: @ketagalanmedia, @wired, @letahong, @monstro, @wired, and @nxthompson
| 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 … | Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
Experts call for US legislation to make it easy for domestic abuse victims to leave family phone plans, which can be used by abusers to stalk their victims — Abusers can use shared accounts to stalk and harass victims, and plans aren't always easy to escape.
Tweets: @lmatsakis, @lmatsakis, @dlberes, @tayhatmaker, @evacide, @mshelton, and @privacydigest
| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
AB Tasty, a startup focused on improving UX on e-commerce sites, travel portals, fashion sites, and more, announces $40M Series C, bringing total raised to $64M — AB Tasty has raised a new $40 million funding round led by Credit Mutuel Innovation with existing investors Korelya Capital, Omnes, Partech and XAnge also participating.
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| Ian Sherr / CNET: |
NBA says it will install 17-foot tall screens on game courts to serve as digital “stands” filled with 300 remote fans using the Together mode in Microsoft Teams — The basketball organization said it'll install massive 17-foot tall screens on each game court to serve as digital “stands” filled with 300 fans.
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Microsoft 365 Blog, The Verge, Axios, Thurrott, Reuters, TheStreet, Neowin, Engadget, Windows Central, Ross Dawson, and Seeking Alpha
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| Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
The EFF and 17 other advocacy organizations urge US court to rule that Trump's appointee to the OTF violated the law by ousting OTF's president and the board — Government Attempts Takeover of Private, Independent Nonprofit Protecting Internet Freedom — San Francisco—The Electronic …
Tweets: @eff
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers say the Android version of DJI Go 4, installed 1M+ times, covertly collected a range of sensitive user data and sent it to servers in mainland China — DJI Go 4, installed more than 1 million times, can execute arbitrary code. — The Android version of DJI Go 4 …
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Synacktiv, New York Times, Android Authority, Android Headlines, HackRead, Threatpost, iPhone in Canada Blog, SecurityWeek, and The Hacker News
Tweets: @synacktiv, @awinston, @repdancrenshaw, @ewong, @ncscgov, and @grimmcyber
| Jeanne Whalen / Washington Post: |
US officials unveil a plan to build a quantum Internet, existing alongside our current one, which uses the laws of quantum mechanics to share info more securely — The new network would sit alongside the existing Web, offering a more secure way to send and process information
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OSTI.GOV, insideHPC, Nextgov, CNET, CircleID, Protocol, and fnal.gov
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