| Hi John,
US Senator Ron Wyden has asked the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to hold Microsoft responsible for its "negligent cyber-security practices, which enabled a successful Chinese espionage campaign against the US Government".
American government services contractor Maximus, which also operates in Canada, Australia and the UK, has informed the SEC of a data breach in which the personal data of between eight and 11 million people has been stolen.
China's "618" online shopping festival failed to shore up smartphone shipments to the country in the second quarter of 2023, with 65.7 million units shipped, meaning a fall of 2.1% year-on-year.
The French competition authority has accused Apple of abusing its dominant position in the market to implement "discriminatory, non-objective and non-transparent conditions" to mine user data for advertising purposes.
The European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, has opened a formal probe into Microsoft's bundling of its Teams application with its Office software.
And as always there's plenty more today, so for all the news please visit www.itwire.com.
Josh Martinez, newsletter editor, iTWire
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