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Google VP in charge of Android Security withdraws from Black Hat conference and asks the infosec community to stop using terms like "black hat" and "white hat" (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Google VP in charge of Android Security withdraws from Black Hat conference and asks the infosec community to stop using terms like “black hat” and “white hat”  —  A Google security researcher withdrew from the Black Hat security conference and asked the community to stop using the ‘black hat’ term. Google

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India's e-commerce policy draft seeks creation of an e-commerce regulator, mandates government access to online companies' source codes and algorithms, more (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: India’s e-commerce policy draft seeks creation of an e-commerce regulator, mandates government access to online companies’ source codes and algorithms, more  —  – Plan comes amid calls to reduce dominance of global giants  — E-Commerce regulator to be named to ensure fair competition India's e-commerce policy draft seeks creation of an

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Colin Huang, the CEO of Chinese e-commerce company Pinduoduo, steps down; the company says he will remain chairman and work on long-term strategy (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Colin Huang, the CEO of Chinese e-commerce company Pinduoduo, steps down; the company says he will remain chairman and work on long-term strategy  —  – PDD shares have more than quadrupled in less than two years  — Huang gives away $14 billion stake after stepping down as CEO Colin Huang, the CEO of Chinese

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Hong Kong's new national security law could force platforms like Facebook and Twitter to relinquish some of the freedom their operations have had in the city (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Hong Kong’s new national security law could force platforms like Facebook and Twitter to relinquish some of the freedom their operations have had in the city  —  New national-security law means authorities can ask companies to delete users or their content  —  HONG KONG—U.S. technology titans face … Hong Kong's new national

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We won’t reach other solar systems for a while — robots could visit them first

{$inline_image}Many great movies and television shows, including the Lost in Space reboot, show various versions of interstellar travel. SpaceX and the new space race are making space geeks salivate at the thought. To those like myself who’ve cherished the idea since the debut of the Starship Enterprise, the question becomes, what is the reality that we could

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9 new trailers to watch this week

Image: Pixar Like seemingly everyone else right now, I watched back through Avatar: The Last Airbender for the first time in years (actually, just the second and third seasons since my wife got through most of the first one without me) because it’s come back to Netflix. It’s been really wonderful seeing such a brilliant,

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Some Amazon contracted delivery drivers in the US say they are feeling overwhelmed and overworked by dramatic increases in workloads during the pandemic (Lauren Kaori Gurley/VICE)

Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: Some Amazon contracted delivery drivers in the US say they are feeling overwhelmed and overworked by dramatic increases in workloads during the pandemic  —  Amazon’s contracted delivery drivers say that their workloads have dramatically increased during the Covid-19 pandemic, in some cases more than doubling. Some Amazon contracted delivery drivers

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