Meanwhile Huawei CEO calls Trump a “great president” as Trump weighs a ban on its 5G tech in mobile networks. …read more Source:: oss watch
Month: February 2019
The battle between real open source vs. faux open source heats up
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•Is open-source past its prime? Does it need to be replaced? Some companies say yes, while others say nonsense! …read more Source:: oss watch
GitHub bug bounty: Microsoft ramps up payouts to $30,000-plus
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•GitHub revamps its bug bounty with higher rewards and legal safe-harbor terms for researchers. …read more Source:: oss watch
Huawei regularly tried to steal Apple trade secrets: Report
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•Huawei had an internal reward program for employees who stole trade secrets and a company engineer attempted to probe an Apple supplier for information on its latest smart watch, a …read more Source:: oss watch
The EU’s new copyright laws threaten to destroy the internet
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•The EU’s new copyright laws will force all websites to check all posts to see if anything ever published might be a copyright violation. That will include photos, videos, words, …read more Source:: oss watch
Huawei continues dominance as China’s smartphone sales slow in Q4: IDC
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•Huawei continues its dominance in its domestic market, with IDC reporting that it sold 5.7 million more smartphones in Q4 2018 year over year. …read more Source:: oss watch
Duelling ghosts battle over encryption laws in a dying Parliament
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•After just two hours of debate, Australia’s encryption law amendments are now stalled in the Senate until April. Only one key amendment was passed, but both government and opposition can …read more Source:: oss watch
Can Amazon, Facebook, Google be tamed by being forced to share their data?
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•A major German party thinks mandatory data-sharing with rivals and the public can rein in Big Tech. …read more Source:: oss watch
Ex-Apple lawyer in charge of stopping insider trading charged with insider trading
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•Exec told workers not to trade Apple shares using inside information and then did it himself, says the SEC. …read more Source:: oss watch
AT&T adds Chicago and Minneapolis to 5G rollout
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•In the midst of a lawsuit filed by rival carrier Sprint over whether AT&T’s 5G is really 5G, the latter has added two more cities to its 2019 rollout plan. …read more Source:: oss watch