Friday, July 31, 2020

How to fight against Big Tech’s power


What can we do if we want to break out of the stranglehold of Big Tech? At first glance, there may not seem like much we can do to escape but there are some steps that could better support tech’s little guys, too.

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Foreign threats loom ahead of US presidential election


NEW YORK (AP) — As the Nov. 3 presidential vote nears, there are fresh signs that the nation’s electoral system is again under attack from foreign adversaries. Intelligence officials confirmed in recent days that foreign actors are actively seeking to compromise the private communications of “U.S. political campaigns, candidates and other political targets” while working […]

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Trump says he’ll act to ban TikTok in US as soon as Saturday


ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) — President Donald Trump says he will take action as soon as Saturday to ban Chinese-owned video app TikTok from the United States. Trump made the announcement to reporters Friday on Air Force One as he returned from Florida. “As far as TikTok is concerned, we’re banning them from the […]

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Microsoft emerges as leading suitor for TikTok’s U.S. business, as Trump plans to order its divestiture from Chinese parent


The decision to force a sale comes amid growing concern that the Chinese government could access users' private data.

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Plug it in: Electric car charging station numbers are rising


DETROIT (AP) — When the electric car revolution arrives, will there be enough places to plug in? There are now 26,000 electric vehicle charging stations open to the public in the U.S., with more than 84,000 plugs. But the country, and the world, will need thousands more if drivers are going to adopt vehicles powered […]

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Deadline extended for tribes to seek broadband licenses


FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The Federal Communications Commission is giving tribes another month to apply for a band of wireless spectrum that would help them establish or expand internet access on their land. Tribes pushed to be first in line to apply for licenses for the mid-band spectrum that is largely unassigned across the western […]

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Florida teenager is charged as ‘mastermind’ of Twitter hack


The recent high-profile of 130 Twitter accounts, included the accounts of celebrities like former Vice President Joe Biden, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Silicon Valley mogul Elon Musk.

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Microsoft said to be in talks to buy TikTok, as Trump weighs curtailing app


It’s unclear how advanced the talks are, but any deal could help alter TikTok’s ownership, according to a person with knowledge of the discussions.

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Reports: Trump to order China’s ByteDance to sell TikTok


NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump will order China’s ByteDance to sell its hit video app TikTok because of national-security concerns, according to reports published Friday. “We are looking at TikTok,” Trump told reporters Friday at the White House. “We may be banning TikTok.” Reports by Bloomberg News and the Wall Street Journal citing […]

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Amazon closer to launching satellites, upping internet reach


The company received government approval to put more than 3,200 satellites into orbit with the goal of beaming internet service to earth.

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Lawsuit: Trump still blocks Twitter critics after court loss


NEW YORK (AP) — An organization that successfully proved President Donald Trump violated the law when he blocked Twitter critics sued him anew on Friday, saying he continues to reject some accounts two years after losing in court. The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University sued Trump a second time in Manhattan federal court […]

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Twitter permanently bans former KKK leader David Duke


Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke has been banned from Twitter for breaking the social media platform’s site’s rules forbidding hate speech. The company said Friday that Duke’s account “has been permanently suspended for repeated violations of the Twitter Rules on hateful conduct.” It didn’t specify what exactly Duke posted that triggered the ban, […]

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Cyberbarons on the hot seat won’t solve the bigness problem


The hearings about abuses by America's biggest tech companies are only the first step in unwinding the unhealthy concentration of power in the economy.

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Twitter says hackers used phone to fool staff, gain access


LONDON (AP) — Twitter says the hackers responsible for a recent high-profile breach used the phone to fool the social media company’s employees into giving them access. The company revealed a few more details late Thursday about the hack earlier this month, which it said targeted “a small number of employees through a phone spear […]

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Nokia profit up despite pandemic as new CEO takes over


HELSINKI (AP) — Nokia has reported better than expected second-quarter earnings on the back of improved margins for telecoms equipment and software despite the coronavirus crisis causing a substantial drop in revenue. The Espoo, Finland-based maker of new-generation 5G mobile and other networks said Friday that its net profit for the April-June period was up […]

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Thursday, July 30, 2020

China celebrates completion of rival sat navigation system


BEIJING (AP) — China is celebrating the completion of its BeiDou Navigation Satellite System that could rival the U.S. Global Positioning System and significantly boost China’s security and geopolitical clout. President Xi Jinping, the leader of the ruling Communist Party and the People’s Liberation Army, officially commissioned the system Friday at a ceremony at the […]

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Australia to make Google and Facebook pay for news content


CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian government said on Friday it plans to give Google and Facebook three months to negotiate with Australian media businesses fair pay for news content. The government has released a draft mandatory code of conduct that aims to succeed where other countries have failed in making the global digital giants […]

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The economy is in record decline, but not for Amazon and other tech giants


Amazon’s quarterly sales were up 40% from a year ago, and its profit doubled.

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Kodak pivots to drugs after abandoning photography, crypto


This wouldn't be Kodak's first attempt at pharmaceuticals, but the company's track record has critics questioning the arrangement for the $765 million U.S. government loan to make ingredients for generic drugs.

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‘This is a new phase’: Europe shifts tactics to limit tech’s power


LONDON — In Brussels, European Union leaders are pursuing a new law that could make it illegal for Amazon and Apple to give their own products preferential treatment over those of rivals that are selling on their online stores. In Britain, officials are drawing up a law to force Facebook to make its services work […]

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Expedia bookings down 90% from last year as virus hammers travel


Expedia Group’s whopping 82% decline in revenue in the second quarter has laid bare the total devastation the coronavirus has wreaked on the travel sector. Shares dipped as much as 4.8% in post-market trading. The Seattle-based online travel giant reported total gross bookings of $2.71 billion for the three-month period to June 30, a decline […]

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Amid the pandemic, Big Tech reports mixed earnings


Big Tech companies reported mixed quarterly earnings on Thursday, a day after their top executives faced a tough congressional grilling over their market power and alleged monopolistic practices. The staggering economic fallout caused by the coronavirus pandemic was reflected in reports released Thursday from Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Google’s corporate parent, Alphabet. Apple delivered surprisingly […]

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Women embrace #challengeaccepted, but some ask: To what end?


CHICAGO (AP) — “Challenge accepted,” they wrote — female Instagram users across the United States, flooding the photo-sharing app with black-and-white images. Together they formed a grid of millions of magazine-style captures of celebrities, spur-of-the-moment selfies and filtered snaps from weddings or other special occasions. The official goal: a show of support for other women. […]

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Huawei overtakes Samsung as top smartphone seller: report


LONDON (AP) — A technology research firm says Huawei has overtaken Samsung to become the world’s biggest smartphone seller, as its home market in China emerged from the coronavirus pandemic better off than other economies. Analysts at Canalys said Thursday that Huawei shipped 55.8 million devices in the second quarter of 2020. While the figure […]

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Catalan separatists sue Spain’s ex-spy chief over phone hack


BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Two Catalan separatist politicians filed a lawsuit Thursday against the former head of Spain’s intelligence agency and an Israeli technology company for allegedly trying to hack their cell phones. Roger Torrent, the speaker of Catalonia’s regional parliament, and Ernest Maragall, a member of Barcelona’s town council, filed the suit at a […]

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Pandemic hits Comcast 2Q; new Peacock service has 10M users


NEW YORK (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic took a toll on Comcast in the second quarter as movie theaters closed, theme parks shut down and advertisers cut back. The company reported Thursday that its NBCUniversal TV, film and theme park divisions, as well as its Sky unit in Europe, all suffered steep drops in revenue […]

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Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Lawmakers batter Big Tech CEOs, but don’t land many blows


WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional lawmakers finally got a chance to grill the CEOs of Big Tech over their dominance and allegations of monopolistic practices that stifle competition. But it’s not clear how much they advanced their goal of bringing some of the world’s largest companies to heel. Invective flew Wednesday as legislators questioned Facebook’s Mark […]

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Lawmakers question Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google about their market power


WASHINGTON — The leaders of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google took a political lashing Wednesday as Democrats and Republicans depicted the executives as wielding their market power to crush competitors and amass data, customers and sky-high profits. The rare interrogation played out over the course of a nearly six-hour hearing, in which lawmakers on the […]

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Universal Pictures’ deal with AMC probably won’t mean you can see big movies at home right away


Questions immediately arose about how many movies will be subject to the deal, and what it means for other movie theater chains.

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Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, other tech CEOs get grilled by House panel over market power


The CEOs came under rapid-fire interrogation from lawmakers who accused the companies of using their power to squash rivals and thwart competition.

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US officials: Russia behind spread of virus disinformation


WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say Russian intelligence officers are spreading disinformation about the coronavirus pandemic through English-language websites, trying to exploit a crisis that America is struggling to contain before the presidential election in November. Two Russians who have held senior roles in Moscow’s military intelligence service known as the GRU have been identified […]

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Mr. Bezos goes, virtually, to Washington: Watch the Amazon CEO’s testimony live


The CEOs of Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Google's parent company appear Wednesday before a congressional committee investigating their market dominance. It will be Jeff Bezos' first time testifying to Congress.

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Russia rejects accusations of spreading virus disinformation


MOSCOW (AP) — Russian officials on Wednesday rejected accusations that Moscow is spreading disinformation about the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S., slamming them as “conspiracy theories” and a “persistent phobia.” U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Russian intelligence services were using a trio of English-language websites to spread disinformation about the coronavirus […]

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Holocaust survivors urge Facebook to remove denial posts


BERLIN (AP) — Holocaust survivors around the world are lending their voices to a campaign launched Wednesday targeting Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg, urging him to take action to remove denial of the Nazi genocide from the social media site. Coordinated by the New York-based Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, the #NoDenyingIt campaign uses […]

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Tuesday, July 28, 2020

4 Big Tech CEOs getting heat from Congress on competition


WASHINGTON (AP) — Four Big Tech CEOs — Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai of Google and Tim Cook of Apple — are set to answer for their companies’ practices before Congress as a House panel caps its yearlong investigation of market dominance in the industry. The four command corporations with gold-plated brands, […]

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Their businesses went virtual; then Apple wanted a cut


After ClassPass and Airbnb began selling virtual classes because of the coronavirus pandemic, Apple tried to collect its commission on the sales.

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Popular TikTok stars to leave platform for rival app over data privacy concerns


Fellow TikTok creators Griffin Johnson, Noah Beck and Anthony Reeves are also signing on as Triller advisors and are equity shareholders.

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US officials tell AP: Russia spreading virus disinformation


WASHINGTON (AP) — Russian intelligence operatives are using a trio of English-language websites to spread disinformation about the coronavirus pandemic, seeking to exploit a crisis that America is struggling to contain ahead of the presidential election in November, U.S. officials said Tuesday. Two Russians who have held senior roles in Moscow’s military intelligence service known […]

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Virgin Galactic shows off passenger spaceship cabin interior


LOS ANGELES (AP) — Passengers flying Virgin Galactic on suborbital trips into space will be able to see themselves floating weightless against the backdrop of the Earth below while 16 cameras document the adventures, the company said Tuesday. Highly detailed amenities to enhance the customer flight experience were shown in an online event revealing the […]

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Twitter gives Trump Jr. a tweet timeout for pandemic misinfo


CHICAGO (AP) — Twitter has temporarily halted President Donald Trump’s son from tweeting on its site after he shared a video riddled with unsupported claims about the coronavirus Monday. Many Republicans reacted with outrage, filling social media with cries of “censorship,” after Donald Trump Jr.’s account was put on a timeout for sharing the video, […]

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Spotlight on 4 Big Tech CEOs testifying in competition probe


WASHINGTON (AP) — They command corporations with gold-plated brands, millions or even billions of customers, and a combined value greater than the entire German economy. One of them is the world’s richest individual; another is the fourth-ranked billionaire. Their industry has transformed society, linked people around the globe, mined and commercialized users’ personal data, and […]

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Turkish parliament to vote on controversial social media law


ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish lawmakers were making their final speeches Tuesday before voting on a bill that would give the government greater powers to regulate social media, in what human rights groups and the opposition have decried as a violation of free expression online. The new legislation would require major social media companies such as […]

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Revel suspends NYC scooter service after 2nd fatal crash


NEW YORK (AP) — Ride-sharing scooter startup Revel said Tuesday it is suspending operations in New York City after a second fatal crash in less than two weeks. Revel tweeted that service “will be shut down until further notice” as it reviews safety and rider accountability measures. The company’s app alerted riders to the news. […]

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In reversal, CES gadget show won’t be in-person after all


NEW YORK (AP) — CES, one of the world’s biggest technology conferences, will be a virtual event in January due to the coronavirus pandemic, a reversal from May when organizers said it would go on as a smaller gathering in Las Vegas. The announcement Tuesday is another blow for Las Vegas which, like all other […]

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Monday, July 27, 2020

Bezos cast in a role he never wanted: Amazon’s D.C. defender


WASHINGTON — In September, Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s chief executive, rattled off terrifying statistics about the warming planet from the storied National Press Club, two blocks from the White House. Then he said he had something exciting to announce. But when he uncovered a towering sign with the news, Amazon’s name was nowhere in sight. Instead, […]

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U.S. agency: Pandemic masks thwarting face recognition tech


Having a tough time recognizing your neighbors behind their pandemic masks? Computers are finding it more difficult, too. A preliminary study published by a U.S. agency on Monday found that even the best commercial facial recognition systems have error rates as high as 50% when trying to identify masked faces. The mask problem is why […]

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Cyberstalker gets 4 years in prison for ‘war’ on woman


SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — Less than two months after their office romance ended, Ahmad Kazzelbach began tampering with the email and social media accounts of the Baltimore woman who broke up with him. He changed her Instagram username to include the word “whore.” That was only the start of a vicious cyberstalking campaign that […]

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Garmin acknowledges cyberattack, doesn’t mention ransomware


BOSTON (AP) — The GPS device maker Garmin Ltd. acknowledged Monday being victimized by a cyberattack last week that encrypted some of its systems, knocking its fitness tracking and pilot navigation services offline. It said systems would be fully restored in the next few days. In an online statement, the company did not specify that […]

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Google to keep most of its employees at home until July 2021


SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — Google has decided that most of its 200,000 employees and contractors should work from home through next June, a sobering assessment of the pandemic’s potential staying power from the company providing the answers for the world’s most trusted internet search engine. The remote-work order issued Monday by Google CEO Sundar […]

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Kosovo wants Apple to correct country’s borders on its maps


PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo’s foreign minister said that she asked Apple to correct her country’s borders in its maps. Meliza Haradinaj posted in her Twitter page on Sunday that she had written a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook “to take immediate steps to correctly present Kosovo’s internationally recognized borders in its AppleMap Service.” […]

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