Apple doubled its biggest bug bounty reward, Chinese regulators are investigating Qualcomm, and a 65-year old computer was programmed to play Boards of Canada's 'Olson'

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-Apple is updating its Security Bounty program this November to offer some of the highest rewards in the industry. It has doubled its top award from $1 million to $2 million for the discovery of "exploit chains that can achieve similar goals as sophisticated mercenary spyware attacks" and which requires no user interaction.

-China's antitrust regulator has opened an investigation into Qualcomm's acquisition of Israeli connected-vehicle chip company Autotalks. The State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) alleges that Qualcomm is suspected of violating China's anti-monopoly laws by not disclosing certain details of the deal.

-The Programmed Data Processor-1 is perhaps most recognizable as the home of Spacewar!, one of the world's first video games, but it also works as an enormous and very slow iPod, too. In the video, Boards of Canada's "Olson" plays off of paper tape that's carefully fed and programmed into the PDP-1 by engineer and Computer History Museum docent Peter Samson.

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