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Welcome to Tech News Briefing.

It's Wednesday, October 2nd.

I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal.

Epic Games claims that Google and Samsung colluded to keep third-party app stores off

new phones. This is the latest antitrust

lawsuit epic has brought over app store issues. We'll tell you what's behind

the allegations. And then, the White House wants to boost cyber security for water facilities around the U.S.

Our reporter James Rundle will tell us about a recent incident and why there are growing concerns about the need to act. Fortnitemaker, Epic Games, says it filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google and Samsung,

claiming the two tech giants secretly colluded and imposed, quote,

onerous restrictions on new third-party app stores.

Users of Samsung's newest smartphones have to take 21 steps to download a new app store according

to EPIC, which has its own app marketplace.

This isn't the first battle Epic has had over app accessibility.

Here to tell us more about this lawsuit and its possible impact is our reporter Sarah Needleman.

Sarah, what restrictions does Epic say Google and Samsung put in place?

They claim that the two comm is colluded to make it so that when you buy one of

Samsung's new phones a feature is automatically turned on by default called autoblocker and this feature prevents

users from downloading alternative app stores.

So if you want to go ahead and download EPIC's Game Store, for example, you would have to take a number of steps to find out where you can turn off that feature.

Epic claims that there are a lot of warnings that try to scare people not to do it about

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