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• Exclusive: China hacked HPE, IBM and then attacked clients - sources

  20-12-2018 23:46
  Hackers working on behalf of China's Ministry of State Security breached the networks of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co and IBM, then used the access to hack into their clients' computers, according to five sources familiar with the attacks.
  
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• FCC fines Swarm $900,000 for unauthorized satellite launch

  20-12-2018 23:32
  Swarm Technologies Inc will pay a $900,000 fine for launching and operating four small experimental communications satellites that risked "satellite collisions" and threatened "critical commercial and government satellite operations," the Federal Communications Commission said on Thursday.
  
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• Closed, Proprietary, Felonious: The Toxic Rainbow of Locked Technology - EFF

  20-12-2018 23:20
  Closed, Proprietary, Felonious: The Toxic Rainbow of Locked Technology  EFFWhen is software free? Is it enough that the software be licensed under a free or open license? What about patents? Software as a *service*? Trade secrets?
  
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• Australia charges China with backing IP theft, MSP hacking campaign

  20-12-2018 22:01
  Foreign affairs minister Marise Payne and home affairs minister Peter Dutton have issued a statement “expressing serious concern” over intellectual property theft by the hacking group dubbed APT10, which the Australian government has charged has been acting on behalf of the Chinese Ministry of State Security.
  
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• Apple to pull some iPhones in Germany as Qualcomm extends global wins

  20-12-2018 21:53
  Chip supplier Qualcomm Inc won a second court skirmish in its worldwide patent battle with Apple Inc on Thursday, with the iPhone maker saying it would pull some older models from its German stores.
  
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• U.S. senators write to regulators on Robinhood's botched checking plans

  20-12-2018 21:39
  A bipartisan group of U.S. senators sent a letter to regulators on Thursday expressing concern that financial technology startup Robinhood may not be offering full transparency to its customers over the botched launch of its new cash management service.
  
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• VirtualBox 6.0 exports VMs to the cloud — but only Oracle Cloud

  20-12-2018 21:09
  Update to Oracle’s open source virtualization platform also streamlines the UI and eases file management between hosts and guests
  
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• Amazon to lower some fees for third-party sellers

  20-12-2018 20:08
  Amazon.com Inc is going to lower some fees it charges third-party sellers on its marketplace, the company said on Thursday.
  
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• Twitter Inc: Falls on short-seller Citron Research's report

  20-12-2018 18:56
  - Shares of social media company Twitter down 11.3 percent at $29.22; set for its biggest one-day percent fall in nearly five months
  
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• CREtech Takeaways: How Technology Will Change The Places Where We Work - Forbes

  20-12-2018 18:48
  CREtech Takeaways: How Technology Will Change The Places Where We Work  ForbesTechnology is impacting every part of our economy, but one area where excitement for change is building is in the real estate industry. More than 1,000 people ...
  
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• Storms halt SpaceX's first U.S. national security space mission

  20-12-2018 18:38
  Thunderstorms forced Elon Musk's SpaceX to postpone Thursday's launch of a navigation satellite for the U.S. military, which was poised to be the rocket company's first national security space mission for the United States.
  
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• How Syfy's Nightflyers Brings Horror to Life Through Technology - IGN

  20-12-2018 17:00
  How Syfy's Nightflyers Brings Horror to Life Through Technology  IGNBy Ben Mortimer Syfy's new space-thriller Nightflyers is now available to binge online in its entirety, and the sense of danger in the George R.R. Martin-created ...
  
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• Atlas Copco looks to battery spark in changing car industry

  20-12-2018 15:41
  Swedish industrial group Atlas Copcois set to profit from a shift towards electric cars after investing in technology to meet a challenge that is hurting many traditional parts suppliers, a company executive said.
  
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• Industries must adopt ethics along with technology - TechCrunch

  20-12-2018 15:30
  Industries must adopt ethics along with technology  TechCrunchA recent New York Times investigation into how smartphone-resident apps collect location data exposes why it's important for the industry to admit that the ethics ...
  
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• Uber resuming self-driving car testing in Pennsylvania

  20-12-2018 14:03
  Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] on Thursday is resuming limited self-driving car testing on public roads in Pittsburgh, nine months after it suspended the program following a deadly accident in Arizona.
  
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• The Amazonian tribe defending their land with technology - Al Jazeera English

  20-12-2018 13:17
  The Amazonian tribe defending their land with technology  Al Jazeera English'Today, we defend our land with this map. Before we killed with spears. Things are different now.'
  
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• South Korean food delivery startup Woowa Bros lands $320 million investment

  20-12-2018 12:14
  The operator of South Korea's largest food delivery app has secured a $320 million investment from Hillhouse Capital, Sequoia Capital and GIC, it said on Thursday, in a deal that values the startup at about $2.6 billion.
  
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• Amazon error allowed Alexa user to eavesdrop on another home

  20-12-2018 11:59
  A user of Amazon'sAlexa voice assistant in Germany got access to more than a thousand recordings from another user because of "a human error" by the company.
  
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• Hyundai to open car plant in Indonesia, to build EVs: minister

  20-12-2018 11:47
  Hyundai Motor Coplans to start producing electric vehicles (EVs) in Indonesia as part of an around $880 million auto investment in the country, Industry Deputy Minister Harjanto said on Thursday.
  
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• Angry South Korean taxi drivers strike against carpooling service

  20-12-2018 09:59
  Tens of thousands of South Korean taxi drivers walked off the job across the country on Thursday and held a mass rally in downtown Seoul to protest against a carpooling service that they say will destroy their jobs.
  
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• Gatwick Airport drones: What military technology are they using to allow planes to fly? - The Independent

  20-12-2018 09:00
  Gatwick Airport drones: What military technology are they using to allow planes to fly?  The IndependentTens of thousands of people had their Christmas holidays disrupted after Gatwick Airport was forced to close due to rogue drones. The airport's only runway was ...
  
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• An online battle for 900 million hearts and minds: India braces for election

  20-12-2018 06:00
  When India votes in a general election next year, it will be the world's largest democratic exercise, and the biggest ever testof the role of social media in an election.
  
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• Cryptocurrency industry faces insurance hurdle to mainstream ambitions

  20-12-2018 05:06
  Cryptocurrency exchanges and traders in Asia are struggling to insure themselves against the risk of hacks and theft, a factor they claim is deterring large fund managers from investing in a nascent market yet to be embraced by regulators.
  
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• Sheep breeding using technology aims to find a perfect match - ABC News

  20-12-2018 04:04
  Sheep breeding using technology aims to find a perfect match  ABC NewsA West Australian sheep farmer uses the latest technology to find the perfect match to produce the type of lambs he wants.
  
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• CBA makes Albert Alipay compatible

  20-12-2018 04:04
  ​Commonwealth Bank of Australia is making Alipay available as a payments option on its Albert point-of-sale devices.
  
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• Technology allows us all to be flakes - Stuff.co.nz

  20-12-2018 03:55
  Technology allows us all to be flakes  Stuff.co.nzThanks to technology, we feel no obligation to stick to our plans - ever.
  
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• Palo Alto prepares to expand scope of Cyber Range

  20-12-2018 03:16
  Palo Alto Networks is preparing to launch the next generation of its Cyber Range training scheme in the first half of calendar 2019.
  
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• SoftBank Corp shares recover from early fall, after record IPO

  20-12-2018 03:13
  SoftBank Corp shares fell as much as 8 percent early on Thursday before erasing the losses in volatile trading, following the telco's 15 percent tumble on debut the previous day.
  
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• Microsoft delivers emergency patch for under-attack Internet Explorer

  20-12-2018 02:26
  Microsoft has issued a rare emergency security update to fix a zero-day vulnerability in the still-supported IE9, IE10 and IE11.
  
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• Unauthorised subtitle services to be blocked: Court grants largest anti-piracy injunction

  20-12-2018 01:39
  The Federal Court has granted an application for the largest anti-piracy injunction so far, ordering Telstra, TPG, Optus, Vocus and Vodafone, as well as the companies’ subsidiaries, to take steps to block their customers from accessing more than 150 domains.
  
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• Facebook shares drop as data privacy fallout spreads

  20-12-2018 01:33
  Facebook Inc shares sank on Wednesday as concerns about its ability to safeguard user data sparked a government lawsuit, criticism in the U.S. Congress and a New York Times report on how it had shared data with other companies.
  
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• Amazon Web Services hints at quantum computing future

  20-12-2018 01:20
  Amazon Web Services has, for the first time, hinted at its interest in offering quantum computing to customers.
  
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• Elon Musk unveils his first Los Angeles-area tunnel

  20-12-2018 00:36
  (This Dec. 18 story corrects paragraphs 2 and 17 to show that free rides were given at the event, not that there were no free rides)
  
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