Microsoft is shutting down LinkedIn in China. The first major tech regulation bill of this wave is set to debut in the Senate today. TCL’s cheap smartphones sound pretty good, actually. The gaming industry is serious about combatting cheating. Instacart might be on strike this weekend, and Gitlab celebrates its IPO.
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Anthropic Doing 2x OpenAI?
OpenAI paused training and rewrote its Preparedness Framework after Astra flirted with a critical cyber threshold. Leaked numbers showed Anthropic out-earning OpenAI nearly two to one, Anthropic prepped supervoting shares, Amazon expanded drone delivery, and Meta's addiction tria ... Show More
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Sep 2020
Sunday looks like sanction day for WeChat and TikTok. Grayfly and Blackfly (and APT41). Maze hides payloads in VMs. Ransomware is implicated in a death. Google Play housecleaning. Fox, chickencoop.
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FBI suspects China-linked hackers accessed officials’ call logs and SMS messages, Brazil sues Meta and TikTok, and Sony pulled the plug on Concord
The FBI suspects China-linked hackers accessed officials’ call logs and SMS messages, Brazil sues Meta and TikTok for not protecting minors, and Sony pulled the plug on Concord and shut down Firewalk Studios. It's Wednesday, October 30th and this is Engadget News.
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TikTok on the clock, a “post-pandemic reset” and the software surge rolls on
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