Aug. 20, 2019
Tue. 08/20 - Is Apple TV+ DOA?
Twitter suspends a bunch of China-linked accounts, is Apple TV+ dead on arrival? 23 towns in Texas are hit with ransomware, and why isn’t Alexa in your car?
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- Information operations directed at Hong Kong (Twitter)
- Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior From China (Facebook)
- Updating our advertising policies on state media (Twitter)
- Apple Targets Apple TV+ Launch in November, Weighs $9.99 Price After Free Trial (Bloomberg)
- Apple splashes $6bn on new shows in streaming wars (Financial Times)
- States to Move Forward With Antitrust Probe of Big Tech Firms (WSJ)
- Sony to acquire Insomniac Games (Polygon)
- Over 20 Texas local governments hit in 'coordinated ransomware attack' (ZDNet)
- The first Lightning security key for iPhones is here, and it works with USB-C, too (The Verge)
- Amazon Wants to Put Alexa in Cars. Google and Apple Are There Already (Bloomberg)
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