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• Flatpak Linux app distributor is now ready for prime time

  21-08-2018 22:45
  After three years in beta, the multi-Linux desktop app installation tool has achieved Version 1.0 status
  
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• U.S. officials threaten Russia with 'much more economic pain'

  21-08-2018 19:19
  Washington is prepared to impose more economic pain on Russia if it does not change its behavior, Trump administration officials said on Tuesday, as U.S. lawmakers pushed for stronger measures to counteract "malign" Russian activities.
  
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• Microsoft president: Russians targeting all political sides - MSNBC

  21-08-2018 18:47
  There is no evidence that the latest Russian hacking attacks against U.S. Senate offices or American-based think tanks were successful, Microsoft Corp's Brad Smith said on Tuesday, adding that the hackers are targeting "everyone across the political spectrum."
  
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• Morgan Stanley halts research coverage of Tesla, shares rise

  21-08-2018 18:08
  Brokerage Morgan Stanley has suspended equity coverage on Tesla Inc, hinting that the U.S. bank may be doing business directly with the company as it explores options to go private, pushing the electric carmaker's shares up as much as 5 percent on Tuesday.
  
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• Uber hires CFO after lengthy search, paving way for IPO

  21-08-2018 18:04
  Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] has hired a chief financial officer, the ride-services company said on Tuesday, filling a long-standing vacancy and clearing the way for a much-anticipated initial public offering next year.
  
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• U.S. sanctions Russian firms, vessels over North Korea oil transfers

  21-08-2018 17:23
  The United States on Tuesday announced sanctions on two Russian shipping companies and six vessels it said were involved in the transfer of refined petroleum products to North Korean vessels in violation of U.N. restrictions.
  
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• U.S. imposes fresh sanctions for Russian cyber-related activity

  21-08-2018 17:06
  The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on two Russians, one Russian company and one Slovakian firm for what it said were their actions to help another Russian company avoid sanctions targeting Russia's malicious cyber-related activities.
  
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• Russian firm says it is baffled by addition to U.S. sanctions

  21-08-2018 17:05
  The head of Russian company Vela-Marine Ltd, targeted on Tuesday by U.S. sanctions for allegedly helping another Russian company circumvent sanctions, said he did not understand why his firm was being designated.
  
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• U.S. charges ex-online marketing executives at EIGI, Constant Contact

  21-08-2018 17:01
  The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged two former top executives at Endurance International Group Holdings Inc for allegedly inflating operating metrics, the regulatory agency said on Tuesday.
  
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• U.S. would impose more economic pain if Russia does not change: official

  21-08-2018 16:43
  U.S. State and Treasury Department officials told a U.S. Senate committee hearing on Tuesday that Washington is prepared to impose more economic pain on Russia if it does not change its behavior, and that significant amounts of arms deals with Russia have been abandoned as a result of U.S. diplomatic efforts.
  
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• Russian hackers targeted U.S. Senate, think tanks: Microsoft

  21-08-2018 16:43
  Microsoft Corp charged that hackers linked to Russia's government sought to launch cyber attacks on the U.S. Senate and conservative American think tanks, warning that Moscow is broadening attacks ahead of November's congressional elections.
  
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• Facebook moves to rate users on trustworthiness: report

  21-08-2018 16:40
  Facebook Inc has started scoring its users based on their trustworthiness in an attempt to fight misinformation, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday, citing a company executive.
  
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• Russia denies Microsoft allegations it targeted U.S. think tanks: Ifax

  21-08-2018 16:25
  The Russian authorities deny allegations from Microsoft that hackers linked to Russia's government tried to target the websites of two right-wing U.S. think-tanks, the Interfax news agency reported on Tuesday.
  
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• Kremlin says it does not understand Microsoft's U.S. hacking allegations

  21-08-2018 16:25
  The Kremlin said on Tuesday it did not understand allegations from Microsoft that hackers linked to Russia's government had tried to target the websites of two right-wing U.S. think-tanks.
  
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• Israel to end licensing agreement with Microsoft

  21-08-2018 15:43
  The Israeli government will not renew a contract for various Microsoft desktop software at the end of the year, it said on Tuesday, citing a change in license terms it said would double the price.
  
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• Car-sharing startup Getaround raises $300 million in funding led by SoftBank

  21-08-2018 15:08
  Car-sharing startup Getaround Inc has raised about $300 million in the latest funding round led by Japan's SoftBank Group Corp, the San Francisco-based firm said on Tuesday.
  
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• Lyft surpasses 5,000 self-driving rides with Aptiv fleet

  21-08-2018 15:04
  Lyft has completed more than 5,000 self-driving rides through its ride-hailing app, the company said on Tuesday, as it aims to become a serious competitor in autonomous driving while its biggest rival, Uber, retrenches.
  
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• Morgan Stanley halts research coverage of Tesla

  21-08-2018 14:54
  Brokerage Morgan Stanley has ceased equity coverage on Tesla Inc, potentially a sign the U.S. bank may be doing business directly with the electric carmaker as it explores options to go private.
  
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• Japan pushing to end smartphone bundling, cut wireless fees: source

  21-08-2018 13:53
  Japan is aiming to force wireless carriers to cut their monthly fees and stop bundling the cost of smartphones with wireless services, a senior telecoms ministry source said on Tuesday, in a move that is likely to hit Apple Inc.
  
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• Norway wealth fund allowed to stay on as investor if Tesla goes private

  21-08-2018 13:00
  Rules governing Norway's $1 trillion wealth fund would allow it to stay on as an investor in Teslaif the electric carmaker goes private, its deputy CEO said on Tuesday.
  
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• Pure Storage CEO on all-flash data centers and the cloud

  21-08-2018 12:00
  One year ago Charlie Giancarlo took the helm of Pure Storage, which in fiscal year 2018 reported its first billion-dollar year.
  
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• WhatsApp to clamp down on 'sinister' messages in India: IT minister

  21-08-2018 11:50
  India said Facebook-owned WhatsApp had pledged on Tuesday to develop tools that would combat fake messages, to help the country crack down on people whipping up public anger throughmass message forwards on social media.
  
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• Want to hack the WA government? Try ‘Password123’

  21-08-2018 10:06
  A staggering 60,000 out of 234,0000 active accounts at a range of WA government agencies were potentially at risk of a dictionary attack due to their weak passwords, a review by the state’s auditor general has found.
  
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• Whoops: Government dished out too much money for data retention

  21-08-2018 07:19
  A grants program designed to help telcos defray the initial capital costs of complying with the government’s data retention regime was not implemented “to an appropriate standard having regard to the risks involved and the policy outcomes being sought,” a less-than-flattering audit has concluded.
  
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• U.S. tariffs cast a cloud over Huawei's solar electronics launch

  21-08-2018 06:08
  Huawei Technology Co's coming U.S. launch of a solar-panel control device is expected to collide with new Trump administration tariffs on Chinese electronics, undermining a product that analysts had seen as challenging rivals on pricing.
  
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• Banking still needs workhorse tech – don’t dump mainframes just yet

  21-08-2018 04:37
  In industries like financial services where IT systems are high-volume and mission-critical, news of mainframes’ demise is greatly exaggerated (to paraphrase W.C. Fields) – at least for the near term.
  
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• Twenty-two states ask U.S. appeals court to reinstate 'net neutrality' rules

  21-08-2018 04:24
  A group of 22 state attorneys general and the District of Columbia late Monday asked a U.S. appeals court to reinstate the Obama administration's 2015 landmark net neutrality rules and reject the Trump administration's efforts to preempt states from imposing their own rules guaranteeing an open internet.
  
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• MP warns of cyber threat to Australian elections

  21-08-2018 03:59
  The shadow assistant minister for cyber security, Gai Brodtmann, has called for the government to classify Australia’s election systems as a “critical infrastructure sector” under the Trusted Information Sharing Network in order to “overlay the appropriate scrutiny and assurance mechanisms to assure the Australian people of the cyber resilience of their democracy”.
  
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• Gold Coast plans to open up expanded fibre network to telcos

  21-08-2018 02:21
  The Gold Coast is planning to offer ISPs and backhaul providers access to its expanded fibre network in the hopes of reaping a financial reward for the Queensland city.
  
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• Paul Allen's space firm details plans for rockets, cargo vehicle

  21-08-2018 02:19
  The space company of billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen on Monday unveiled details of medium-lift rockets and a reusable space cargo plane it is developing, injecting more competition into the lucrative launch services market.
  
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• Why Salesforce is open sourcing the AI technology behind Einstein

  21-08-2018 01:25
  Salesforce is open sourcing the machine learning technology behind its Einstein AI platform.
  
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• Lawsuit over Google location tracking

  21-08-2018 01:10
  Google has been accused in a lawsuit of illegally tracking the movements of millions of iPhone and Android phone users even when they use a privacy setting to prevent it.
  
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• CBA blames data centre woes for outage

  21-08-2018 01:05
  The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has attributed a major outage of its online banking services yesterday to an “issue” with one of its key data centres.
  
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• Exclusive: Trump says it is 'dangerous' for Twitter, Facebook to ban accounts

  21-08-2018 00:43
  U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that it is "very dangerous" for social media companies like Twitter Incand Facebook Incto silence voices on their services.
  
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