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GOOGLE VS. MICROSOFT: Google on Friday slammed Microsoft in a blog post, accusing the rival company of backing proposals for tech giants to pay news publishers for content for self-serving purposes.
“We also believe that this important debate should be about the substance of the issue, and not derailed by naked corporate opportunism . which brings us to Microsoft’s sudden interest in this discussion,” Google’s senior vice president of global affairs, Kent Walker, wrote in a blog post.
The post was published before Friday morning’s House antitrust subcommittee hearing about the media. Microsoft President Brad Smith testified at the hearing endorsing a bill a bipartisan group of members reintroduced earlier this week, the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act, which would allow news outlets to negotiate collectively with tech platforms over the distribution of their content.
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Federal cybersecurity and information technology got a shot in the arm Wednesday with the inclusion of almost $2 billion in cyber funding in the COVID-19 relief bill that passed the House, but some officials say it s not enough. Meanwhile, the nation’s top cybersecurity official warned of ‘widespread’ exploitation by hackers of Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities, and lawmakers introduced a range of measures on data privacy, election cybersecurity, and helping save the news industry.
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CYBER, TECH FUNDS INCOMING: The House on Wednesday allocated almost $2 billion toward cybersecurity and technology modernization as part of passing the American Rescue Plan, which officials described as a “down payment” on the funds needed to fully confront recent massive foreign cyberattacks.