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As Australian and French regulators plan to make tech companies pay publishers for news content, leaders from Ireland to Malaysia say they are paying attention (Ben Smith/New York Times)

Ben Smith / New York Times: As Australian and French regulators plan to make tech companies pay publishers for news content, leaders from Ireland to Malaysia say they are paying attention  —  News organizations have long hoped that tech platforms would pay them for news.  Now regulators abroad are moving to make that happen. As

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Researcher: PCs with Thunderbolt ports have an unpatchable flaw letting hackers with physical access circumvent data safeguards; some new PCs are not affected (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

Andy Greenberg / Wired: Researcher: PCs with Thunderbolt ports have an unpatchable flaw letting hackers with physical access circumvent data safeguards; some new PCs are not affected  —  The so-called Thunderspy attack takes less than five minutes to pull off with physical access to a device, and affects any PC manufactured before 2019. Researcher: PCs

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Sources: online used-car seller Vroom files confidentially for IPO, setting sights on a June offering after its December 2019 funding round valued it at $1.5B (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: online used-car seller Vroom files confidentially for IPO, setting sights on a June offering after its December 2019 funding round valued it at $1.5B  —  Firm sets sights on a June offering after rich funding round  —  Online used-car seller Vroom Inc. has filed confidentially … Sources: online used-car seller Vroom

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Sources: the FBI and DHS are preparing to accuse China of attempting to hack vaccine data from academic and private laboratories (New York Times)

New York Times: Sources: the FBI and DHS are preparing to accuse China of attempting to hack vaccine data from academic and private laboratories  —  Iran and other nations are also looking to steal data and exploit the pandemic with attacks on infrastructure, officials say. Sources: the FBI and DHS are preparing to accuse China

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Ohio-based Finite State, which provides supply chain security and risk management for IoT devices, raises $12.5M Series A, bringing its total raised to $19.5M (Jayne Gest/Smart Business Dealmakers)

Jayne Gest / Smart Business Dealmakers: Ohio-based Finite State, which provides supply chain security and risk management for IoT devices, raises $12.5M Series A, bringing its total raised to $19.5M  —  Finite State, which provides supply chain security and risk management for IoT and embedded devices, has raised $12.5 million … Ohio-based Finite State, which

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Report: iPhone 12 Pro models to feature a ProMotion display with 120Hz refresh rate, improved Face ID, and 3x optical zoom for telephoto lens (Benjamin Mayo/9to5Mac)

Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: Report: iPhone 12 Pro models to feature a ProMotion display with 120Hz refresh rate, improved Face ID, and 3x optical zoom for telephoto lens  —  Max Weinbach’s latest reporting as featured in EverythingApplePro’s video indicates that the iPhone 12 will feature a high refresh-rate 120Hz ProMotion display. Report: iPhone 12 Pro

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Report: White House is in talks with Intel and TSMC about building chip factories in the US to make chips for third party clients (Jon Fingas/Engadget)

Jon Fingas / Engadget: Report: White House is in talks with Intel and TSMC about building chip factories in the US to make chips for third party clients  —  The Trump administration hasn’t been shy about wanting to reduce its dependence on Asia for technology, and that might soon include the processors inside PCs and

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