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Senator asks Twitter about claim worker was paid to help with hack
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator Josh Hawley, a Republican who closely follows tech issues, pressed Twitter Chief Executive Jack Dorsey on Friday on whether a company employee had been paid to assist wi...
Jul 17, 2020
Rival parties take aim at Germany’s Scholz over Wirecard scandal
By Holger Hansen BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's Social Democrat Finance Minister Olaf Scholz is facing calls from rival parties to account for the regulatory failures that led to the collapse of Wirecar...
Jul 17, 2020
Google to prevent ads on coronavirus conspiracy theory content
By Sheila Dang (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google on Friday said it will prohibit websites and apps that use its advertising technology from running ads on "dangerous content" that goes against scienti...
Jul 17, 2020
‘Guess who’s back?’: Political figures locked out in hack start returning to Twitter
By Elizabeth Culliford (Reuters) - Some U.S. political figures, candidates and lawmakers locked out of their Twitter accounts in collateral damage from Wednesday's high-profile hack were beginning to ...
Jul 17, 2020
Symptom tracker app reveals six distinct types of COVID-19 infection
LONDON (Reuters) - British scientists analysing data from a widely-used COVID-19 symptom-tracking app have found there are six distinct types of the disease, each distinguished by a cluster of symptom...
Jul 17, 2020
Stripe wins business following Wirecard’s collapse
BERLIN (Reuters) - The U.S. payments company Stripe is picking up some former Wirecard customers, an executive told Reuters. "It is difficult to count the impact of Wirecard, but we know that some for...
Jul 17, 2020
Japan puts central bank digital currencies on key policy roadmap
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will look closer into whether to issue central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) in future, the government said in its annual policy roadmap, a sign that Tokyo may be warming to ...
Jul 17, 2020
Twitter says about 130 accounts targeted in cyber attack
(Reuters) - Twitter Inc said late on Thursday that hackers targeted about 130 accounts during the cyber attack this week, in which profiles of many high-profile personalities were compromised. The com...
Jul 16, 2020
Microsoft trims jobs as it enters new fiscal year
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it had trimmed its workforce across geographies and teams as it entered a new fiscal year from July 1. The Washington-based software giant...
Jul 16, 2020
Before hack tore through Twitter, online forum offered accounts for sale
By Raphael Satter and Joseph Menn (Reuters) - Before a hacking campaign tore through Twitter and compromised some of its most high-profile users, an ad went up on a gray market site that facilitates t...
Jul 16, 2020
