March 9, 2021

Tue. 03/09 – An FTC Commissioner To Make Silicon Valley Cower?

Is Joe Biden about to name the architect of the current antitrust movement to a seat on the FTC? Are other bad actors swooping in to take advantage of the SolarWinds hack? Is Microsoft gonna play both sides of the fence with new Surface devices? And why popular YouTubers are suddenly building their own platforms.

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Links:POLITICO Playbook: Scoop: Biden taps another Big Tech trustbuster (Politico/Playbook)Amazon’s Antitrust Antagonist Has a Breakthrough Idea (NYTimes)Attacks on SolarWinds Servers Also Linked To Chinese Threat Actor (The Record)Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 will reportedly include both AMD and Intel configurations (The Verge)Apple releases iOS 14.4.1 and macOS 11.2.3 to address a WebKit vulnerability (Engadget)Why popular YouTubers are building their own sites (BBC News)LOGITECH’S CIRCLE VIEW DOORBELL IS THE CLOSEST THING WE HAVE TO AN APPLE-MADE DOORBELL (The Verge)


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