10 things in tech you need to know today

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Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Monday.

1. A fresh Cambridge Analytica leak will reportedly reveal the global scale of voter manipulation aided by the now-defunct firm. According to The Guardian, over 100,000 documents are set to be leaked over the coming months via an anonymous Twitter account linked to ex-Analytica employee Brittany Kaiser.
2. Austria's foreign ministry has been targeted in what it called a "serious cyber attack," BBC News reports. Experts have said the attack could continue for several days.
3. Tesla's market cap finished the week just shy of $80 billion, according to Bloomberg. That's after the firm delivered a record 112,000 vehicles in the fourth quarter of 2019.
4. The head of CES has defended an invite for Ivanka Trump. Gary Shapiro told BBC News that Donald Trump's daughter has done "great work" and will bring attention to job-related issues.
5. A group claiming to be from Iran has hacked and defaced a US government agency website, posting an image of Trump being punched in the face. As of Sunday morning, The Federal Depository Library Program's (FDLP) website was down and the message had been removed.
6. Campaigners have challenged British and European patent authorities over their rejection of the world's first "AI inventor". A nine-strong squad of international legal experts is battling for designs conceived by artificial intelligence to be recognised in law, and has filed patents on its behalf around the world.
7. Samsung has revealed a new rotating TV that's like a giant smartphone for your living room. The Korean tech giant's new Sero TV rotates between portrait and landscape mode to match the way you use your smartphone.
8. Twitter users are slamming a World War 3 themed video game after it used the American-Iranian conflict to promote its product. "Iran starting World War 3? Simulate any #WWIII scenario you can think of in Conflict of Nations right now!" Conflict of Nations tweeted on Friday.
9. Tim Cook made about $10 million less in 2019 than in the previous year, Bloomberg reports. That's in part due to a smaller bonus, but the Apple CEO still made $125 million last year.
10. Samsung has made a super-ultrawide monitor that even the most powerful gaming PC probably can't keep up with. PC gamers will likely have to dial down their games' graphics settings to achieve anything close to 240 fps, even with the most powerful PC hardware you can buy.

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