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SpaceX Starship rocket prototype nails landing... then blows up

The third time appeared to be the charm for Elon Musk's Starship rocket - until it wasn't. The latest heavy-duty...
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Microsoft says Chinese hackers targeted groups via server software

A China-linked cyberespionage group has been remotely plundering email inboxes using freshly discovered flaws in Microsoft mail server software, the...
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Google pledges changes to AI research oversight after internal revolt

Alphabet Inc's Google will change procedures before July for reviewing its scientists' work, according to a town hall recording heard...
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SolarWinds, Microsoft, FireEye, CrowdStrike defend actions in major hack - U.S. Senate hearing

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Top executives at Texas-based software company SolarWinds Corp, Microsoft Corp and cybersecurity firms FireEye Inc and CrowdStrike Holdings Inc defended...
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Facebook 'refriends' Australia after changes to media laws

Facebook said on Tuesday it will restore Australian news pages after negotiating changes with the government to a proposed law...
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Chinese spyware code was copied from America's NSA: researchers

Chinese spies used code first developed by the U.S. National Security Agency to support their hacking operations, Israeli researchers said...
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EU looks to drones, space communication to get ahead in tech race

The European Commission on Monday announced three flagship projects - in drone technologies, space communication and space traffic management -...
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Coming bill would allow U.S. news publishers to team up when negotiating with Facebook, Google

Bipartisan members of Congress plan to introduce a bill in coming weeks to make it easier for smaller news organizations...
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SolarWinds hackers studied Microsoft source code for authentication and email

The hackers behind the worst intrusion of U.S. government agencies in years won access to Microsoft's secret source code for...
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Internet Registry for Europe experienced a credential-stuffing attack, claims it was unsuccessful

The Regional Internet Registry for Europe and part of Asia (RIPE NCC) said its single sign-on (SSO) service experienced what...
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Facebook unfriends Australia: news sites go dark in content row

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Australians woke to empty news feeds on their Facebook Inc pages on Thursday after the social media giant blocked all...
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Amazon deployed secret strategy to dodge India's regulators, documents show

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Amazon has for years given preferential treatment to a small group of sellers on its India platform, publicly misrepresented its...
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Italian watchdog fines Facebook 7 million euros over improper data use

Italy's competition watchdog said on Wednesday it had fined Facebook 7 million euros ($8.5 million) for not complying with a...
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Epic Games takes Apple fight to EU antitrust regulators

Fortnite creator Epic Games has taken its fight against Apple to European Union antitrust regulators after failing to make headway...
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Twitter a goldmine for tracking consumer mood on prices, Bank of Italy finds

The Bank of Italy said on Monday a set of experimental indicators it created from the content of millions of...
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COMB: largest breach of all time leaked online with 3.2 billion records

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It's being called the biggest breach of all time and the mother of all breaches: COMB, or the Compilation of...
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Google partners brace for hit as search giant threatens Australia exit

Google's threatened shutdown of its search engine in Australia over a proposed content licensing law would ripple across industries, saddling...
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Oldsmar, Florida water facility credentials contained in COMB data leak

On Tuesday, February 2, the largest compilation of breached usernames and passwords, known as COMB, was leaked online. COMB contains...
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Volkswagen taps Microsoft's cloud to develop self-driving software

Volkswagen AG on Thursday said it will use Microsoft Corp's cloud computing services to help it streamline its software development...
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Facebook may have vastly overpaid in data privacy settlement: court filing

Facebook Inc may have paid $4.9 billion more than the maximum penalty it faced under a settlement agreement with regulators...
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