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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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EU states reach an agreement on ePrivacy reform. Here’s what worries privacy advocates

After four years of talks, EU member states agreed on the ePrivacy reform, and the Portuguese presidency can now start...
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Europol: 10 held for alleged $100m cryptocurrency theft from celebs, others

Europol, the European police agency, said on Wednesday it had assisted in the arrest of 10 hackers suspected of stealing...
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U.N. experts point finger at North Korea for $281 million cyber theft, KuCoin likely victim

A preliminary United Nations inquiry into the theft of $281 million worth of assets from a cryptocurrency exchange last September...
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Cyberpunk 2077 maker CD Projekt Red has GWENT source code leaked after ransomware attack

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We recently discovered that CD Projekt Red, maker of Cyberpunk 2077 and the Witcher titles, had its source code for...
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Apple iPhone 12 mini sales slow as smaller smartphones lose appeal

Apple Inc's iPhone 12 mini U.S. sales were just 5% of overall sales of its new phones during the first...
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After troubled Cyberpunk 2077 roll-out, CD Projekt hit by cyber attack

CD Projekt has been hit by a cyber attack, which compromised some of its internal systems including the source code...
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Frustration, worry, but little surprise as Clubhouse app is blocked in China

Users of audio app Clubhouse expressed frustration and fears of government surveillance, but little surprise, after it was blocked in...
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Tesla electrifies bitcoin with $1.5 billion bet, car payments pledge

Tesla Inc said on Monday it had invested around $1.5 billion in bitcoin and expected to begin accepting payment for...
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Chinese users flock to U.S. chat app Clubhouse, evading censors

Private social audio app Clubhouse is attracting masses of new users from mainland China, where the U.S. app remains uncensored...
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China issues new anti-monopoly rules targeting its tech giants

China's market regulator released new anti-monopoly guidelines on Sunday that target internet platforms, tightening existing restrictions faced by the country's...
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Google opens paid-for Australia news platform in drive to undercut Canberra's content payment law

Tech giant Google on Friday launched a platform in Australia offering news it has paid for, striking its own content...
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