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Sources: DOJ will file an antitrust suit Tuesday alleging that Google engaged in anticompetitive conduct to preserve monopolies in search and search-advertising — Lawsuit follows lengthy investigation and seeks to break company's grip over search traffic — The Justice Department will file …
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Intel agrees to sell its NAND memory unit to SK Hynix for about $9B; the acquisition includes Intel's solid-state drive, NAND flash, and wafer businesses — - U.S. chipmaker has fallen behind in a chip manufacturing race — Intel Corp. agreed to sell its Nand memory unit …
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DOJ charges six Russian GRU officers who were allegedly behind NotPetya, BlackEnergy blackouts in Ukraine, cyberattacks on Olympics and French election, more — The US Department of Justice has unsealed today charges against six GRU officers believed to be members of Sandworm …
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UK and US say Russian military intelligence services were planning a cyberattack on the Olympics and Paralympics in Tokyo, originally scheduled for this summer — Patrick Wintour in London, Julian Borger in Washington — Russian military intelligence services were planning a cyber-attack …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
iPhone 12 Pro review: has an excellent camera and performance, Dolby Vision video is great, 5G can be very fast, but battery life is inferior to iPhone 11 Pro — 5G, LIDAR, MagSafe — the new iPhone 12 Pro has a lot of things you won't be able to do much with right now
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| Corbin Davenport / Android Police: |
Google confirms it's discontinuing Nest Secure, a home security system it introduced in 2017, but will continue to support existing users — Google released the Nest Guard in 2017 as a simple security system with motion sensors and a keypad, but it never received an upgrade, even as other Nest devices were updated again and again.
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| Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: |
Technology companies now account for nearly 40% of the S&P 500 and are set to end the year eclipsing a record of 37% from 1999 — Companies that do everything from manufacturing phones to operating social-media platforms now account for nearly 40% of the S&P 500
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| Kollen Post / Cointelegraph: |
US FinCEN says the operator of cryptocurrency mixers Helix and Coin Ninja must pay $60M in fines, after his arrest in Feb., notes this is its first “mixer” fine — FinCEN has fined the operator of early crypto mixers Helix and Coin Ninja for Bank Secrecy Act violations. — 1961 Total views
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Google Assistant smart displays, including 3rd-party devices, get a revamp this week with dark mode, multiple account calendar support, a new home screen, more — Plus a new interface for navigating features via touch — Google is updating the look and functionality of the software …
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Facebook announces an open source AI model that can translate directly between 100+ languages without first translating to English — Whether you're logging on from the US, Brazil, Borneo, or France, Facebook can translate virtually any written content published on its platform …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
GravityRAT malware, known for checking the CPU temperature of Windows PCs to detect virtual machines or sandboxes, now also targets Android and macOS devices — GravityRAT, a malware strain known for checking the CPU temperature of Windows computers to detect virtual machines or sandboxes …
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| Cristiano Lima / Politico: |
Senate Judiciary Committee plans to vote Thursday on whether to subpoena Twitter and Facebook CEOs after some Republicans expressed reservation about the move — The Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday postponed plans to vote on subpoenas to compel the CEOs of Twitter and Facebook to testify … | Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
New mathematical model-based research suggests that exposing US social media users to viewpoints different than their own furthers political polarization — Mathematicians are teaming up with political scientists to create models of how social media divides us, and results suggest at least …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Leaked Apple docs say 5G speeds are not supported on iPhone 12 when using two lines in Dual SIM mode; source says Apple will enable this feature later this year — iPhone XS models and newer feature both a physical SIM slot and a digital eSIM, allowing for a feature known as dual SIM, dual standby.
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