Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Friday, September 11th, 2020.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

Microsoft warns that hackers working for Russia, China, and Iran are escalating their attacks surrounding the upcoming

U.S. presidential election.

I lied.

Apple has blinked in the Epic Games App Store battle at least a little bit.

A profile of everyone's favorite note-taking

startup Rome, and of course the weekend long read suggestions.

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

Microsoft has made a big announcement saying hackers working for the countries of

Russia, China, and Iran have recently escalated their attacks on people and

organizations involved in the upcoming U.S. presidential election.

There was a time when maybe it would be our own government that would be the one to warn us about

things like this, but just like with the

coronavirus I guess it's tech companies these days who have all the data who have

all of the power and have I guess the remaining competency to keep us all informed on useful

information like this quoting NBC News. Microsoft's Vice President of

Customer security and trust Tom B, wrote in a blog post published Thursday

that the company's cybersecurity experts had recently seen an uptick in hackers targeting campaigns.

In recent weeks, Microsoft has detected cyber attacks targeting people. targeting have been spotted targeting people tied to Joe Biden and President Donald Trump's

campaigns. Russia's military intelligence agency, the GRU, remains the biggest

threat, said John Hiltquist, the Director of Intelligence Analysis at Mandiant Solutions, a cybersecurity company.

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