总:WhatsApp, a popular encrypted-messaging app owned by Facebook, reported a security flaw that allows hackers to install surveillance software on smartphones by placing calls in the app.

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encrypt 加密/译成密码
flaw 瑕疵/裂缝/(安全)漏洞
surveillance 盯梢/监督

It was reported that a team of Israeli hackers-for-hire had used the vulnerability to inject spyware onto phones belonging to human-rights activists and lawyers.

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Israeli 以色列人
vulnerability 弱点/致命性
spyware 间谍软件


America’s Supreme Court gave the go-ahead for iPhone users to sue Apple.

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sue 控告/起诉

The case centres on whether Apple’s App Store, which takes a 30% cut of all sales, constitutes an unfair monopoly.

该案件焦点在于苹果的Appstore是否构成不公平的垄断行为，Appstore占了苹果总销量的30%

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Unlike Android-based rivals, Apple’s phones are designed to prevent users from installing apps from other sources.

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Thyssenkrupp and Tata Steel abandoned a plan to merge their European steel assets because of stiff resistance from the EU’s antitrust regulator.
.......遭到欧盟反垄断监管机构的强烈抵制。

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merge 融合
antitrust 反托拉斯/反垄断

Pushed by activist investors demanding reform at Thyssenkrupp, the proposal had been announced in September 2017.

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The German company will now spin off its lifts division, its most profitable business.
这家德国公司现将拆分其最盈利的电梯业务。

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