Fri Dec 13 2019: FTC & Facebook, New Cyberattacks, India & China moves, and Sam Jackson

Today

• Facebook and the FTC

• A new coordinated cyberattack on governments

https://www.zdnet.com/article/two-of-chinas-largest-tech-firms-are-uniting-to-create-a-new-domestic-os/

• India closes the internet, and China starts its own OS

https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614926/india-internet-shutdown-assam-citizenship-amendment-bill-modi-politics/

https://www.zdnet.com/article/two-of-chinas-largest-tech-firms-are-uniting-to-create-a-new-domestic-os/

AND

• Sam Jackson comes to Alexa.

 

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