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Google Execs Testify Company Is the Misunderstood Good Guy of the Advertising Market

In an ongoing antitrust trial, Google is pushing back against the U.S. Justice Department’s accusations that it operates its ad business as a monopoly. In the face of emails and other internal documents laying out Google’s plan to crush rivals by increasing its stranglehold on the advertising market, one executive testified Monday that “We keep looking for ways to make products better.”

Google boss Sundar Pichai cracks a smile

Google Executives’ Ploy to Hide Messages from DOJ Could Be Backfiring

Google employees and executives attempted to hide potentially damaging communications from investigators by using auto-deleting chats and marking emails “privileged and confidential” as a regular course of business —  sneaky moves that may backfire on the internet giant as the second antitrust trial against the company rages on.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai looking displeased

U.S. Charges Russian Intelligence Officers with Cyberattack on Ukraine

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday unsealed an indictment of five Russian intelligence officers, plus one Russian civilian, for conducting the “WhisperGate” cyberattack on Ukrainian infrastructure in January 2022. The case is largely symbolic but offers an interesting look at what the FBI described as “the first shot of the war.”

A hacker from Russia sits working at a computer against the background of the Russian tric