Escalating Cyber Threats and Regulatory Challenges for Big Tech

Nintendo finally announces the new Switch, but how new is it really? What the heck is happening with Didi and China? REvil strikes again, and what that might mean for the hacking situation going forward. And on a day of big geopolitical news, might big tech platforms be chased out of India and Hong Kong because their employees are in danger of being sent to jail?

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Links:

• Nintendo Switch OLED model will go on sale October 8th for $350 (The Verge)
• Chinese Regulators Suggested Didi Delay Its U.S. IPO (Wall Street Journal)
• Didi Shows China’s Tech Giants Must First Answer to Beijing (Bloomberg)
• China’s Big Tech Crackdown Puts Dozens of U.S. IPOs at Risk (Bloomberg)
• Hundreds of Businesses, From Sweden to U.S., Affected by Cyberattack (New York Times)
• REvil gang asks for $70 million to decrypt systems locked in Kaseya attack (The Record)
• Twitter has lost liability protection in India, government says (Tech Crunch)
• American Internet Giants Hit Back at Hong Kong Doxxing Law (New York Times)

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