Month: August 2020
Trump orders TikTok owner to sell its US business
Donald Trump issued an executive order Friday evening that would require the Chinese owner of TikTok to sell off the its business in the United States in the next 90 days. The order cites national security concerns, and would undo the ByteDance’s 201… Source
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Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says Apple fight is about ‘basic freedoms of all consumers and developers’
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has issued a series of public comments on his personal Twitter account regarding the legal fight the Fortnite creator initiated with Apple yesterday, following the iPhone maker’s removal of the game from the App Store. In the four-part thread, Sweeney says the fight isn’t about…
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Docker could be set to delete all your files if you haven’t accessed them for a while null
Docker has warned users of its plan to delete 4.5PB of container images that have not been used for six months or more. The company is now able to free up some space on its servers as it recently added an expanded clause 2.5 to its Terms of Service that…
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An Alphabet company is designing a road for autonomous cars in Michigan
The state of Michigan wants to build the autonomous roadway of the future. Normally that in itself would be interesting enough, but there’s also the company it’s partnering with to make the project a reality. The state will work with a firm called Ca… Source
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Criminal probe looking into misconduct allegations by former NASA official, WSJ reports
A federal criminal probe is looking into allegations of misconduct by a former NASA official who abruptly resigned from his position at the agency in May, The Wall Street Journal reports. Prosecutors are investigating if the official illegally disclosed information to Boeing about how to compete to build NASA’s new…
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Oracle and Salesforce face class action lawsuits over online ad tracking null
Class action lawsuits have been filed against Oracle and Salesforce in Dutch, English and Welsh courts which claim the tech giants breached GDPR by using third-party cookies to process and share personal data in order to sell targeted ads online. As reported by Computer Weekly, the lawsuits are being brought…
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