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    • Interviews with 36+ DOD and tech officials shed light on tech giants' fight for $10B Pentagon JEDI cloud contract using backdoor lobbying and an advisory board (ProPublica)

    ProPublica: Interviews with 36+ DOD and tech officials shed light on tech giants’ fight for $10B Pentagon JEDI cloud contract using backdoor lobbying and an advisory board  —  Tech moguls like Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt have gotten unprecedented access to the Pentagon.  And one whistleblower who raised flags has paid the price. Interviews with

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    DOJ says it has indicted 80 individuals, many based in Nigeria, as part of a massive business email scam and money laundering scheme (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

    {$inline_image} Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: DOJ says it has indicted 80 individuals, many based in Nigeria, as part of a massive business email scam and money laundering scheme  —  The Justice Department have indicted dozens of individuals accused of their involvement in a massive business email scam and money laundering scheme. DOJ says it has

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    Phone companies, state attorneys general announce broad campaign to fight robocalls

    Twelve of the country’s largest telephone companies on Thursday pledged to implement new technology that would spot and block robocalls while helping law enforcement officials track down criminals, part of an agreement brokered between the industry and 51 attorneys general to combat the growing telecom scourge. Phone companies, state attorneys general announce broad campaign to

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    • Shanghai-based The CareVoice, which is building an end-to-end mobile platform for insurers to integrate their existing solutions, raises $10M Series A (Catherine Shu/TechCrunch)

    Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: Shanghai-based The CareVoice, which is building an end-to-end mobile platform for insurers to integrate their existing solutions, raises $10M Series A  —  The CareVoice, a Shanghai-based health insurance software startup with ambitions to expand throughout Asia, announced today that it has raised about $10 million in Series A funding. Shanghai-based The

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    • Users whose accounts have been disabled by Facebook say the opaque review process, the endless wait, and the inability to contact an employee can be maddening (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)

    Kashmir Hill / New York Times: Users whose accounts have been disabled by Facebook say the opaque review process, the endless wait, and the inability to contact an employee can be maddening  —  For a decade, Christopher Reeves, an Uber driver in Seattle, used Facebook for everything: talking with friends, communicating with fellow drivers, meeting

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    • Samsung Galaxy Note10+ review: the screen is beautiful and handwriting recognition with S Pen is neat but software backslides into confusion and DeX is a mess (Dieter Bohn/The Verge)

    Dieter Bohn / The Verge: Samsung Galaxy Note10+ review: the screen is beautiful and handwriting recognition with S Pen is neat but software backslides into confusion and DeX is a mess  —  The most phone  —  How much would you pay to have a stylus in your phone?  —  That’s the essential question for the

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