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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Numerous tech companies, including Amazon, Google, and Facebook are asking Seattle-based staff to work from home because of coronavirus — Amazon and Facebook have shut down individual offices as well — Numerous tech companies have asked their Seattle-based employees to work from home …
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Microsoft on the Issues, TechCrunch, GeekWire, Business Insider, CNBC, GeekWire, NPR, Reuters, and Digital Trends
Tweets: @bradsmi, @nickwingfield, @satyanadella, @shanselman, @ow, @kf, @tweetsbytwito, @bizcarson, @mattyglesias, @sarahconnor2017, @inafried, and @donasarkar
| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
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The Verge, Axios, BuzzFeed News, The Seattle Times, GeekWire, Silicon Valley Business …, Business Insider, CHS Capitol Hill Seattle, Kotaku, King County, Washington, TechSpot, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @kyweise, @benioff, @chrisbrogan, @lisatozzi, @annehelen, @bromano, @buzzfeednews, @mr_berman, and @carnage4life
| Judd Legum / Popular Information: |
Facebook reverses course and says it will remove 1K+ deceptive census ads being run by the Trump campaign, after initially saying they do not violate its policy — November's election will have an enormous impact on politics in the United States for the next four years.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
An unfixable flaw in nearly all Intel chips released in last five years allows sophisticated attackers access to mask ROM of its chipsets and microprocessors — Converged Security and Management Engine flaw may jeopardize Intel's root of trust. — Virtually all Intel chips released … | Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
Sonos says it is getting rid of its controversial recycle mode, which bricked its older devices, while continuing to offer a trade-in discount — Sonos has been under fire lately for the way it has handled a few decisions around its oldest products. Last fall, the company introduced a …
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The Verge, Input, Digital Trends, The Next Web, MacRumors, Ubergizmo, TechSpot, SlashGear, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, iMore, and Business Insider
Tweets: @ifixit and @repaircoalition
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Sources: Apple is rejecting apps related to COVID-19 that do not originate from “recognized institutions” like governments or hospitals — - Apple is cracking down on apps related to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak that aren't from recognized institutions like governments or hospitals, iPhone developers say.
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iMore, Digital Trends, Gizmodo, CNET, Wccftech, The Verge, iPhone Hacks, CNN, SlashGear, AppleInsider, Input, TechCrunch, MacRumors, Patently Apple, 9to5Mac, Mashable, BGR, TechRadar.com, and Fast Company
Tweets: @bzamayo, @ecclisiastamort, @entirelyamelia, @nitotv, @lisahopeking, and @rock_health
| Michael H. Keller / New York Times: |
Five Eyes nations release guidelines for platforms to fight child porn; US senators introduce a bill to remove Section 230 for failure to police such content — Legislation announced on Thursday aimed at curbing the spread of online child sexual abuse imagery would take the extraordinary step …
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United States Senate Committee …, Ars Technica, Reuters, Wired, TechFreedom, Yahoo Finance, CNET, TechCrunch, CNBC, The Verge, and Techdirt
| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
DuckDuckGo makes Tracker Radar, a tool detailing 5,326 domains used by 1,727 companies and organizations that track users online, publicly available — DuckDuckGo, the maker of search engine and browser technology that doesn't track you online, is sharing data it's collected about online trackers …
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DuckDuckGo Blog, SlashGear, Neowin, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Yahoo Finance, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @johnwilander, @stshank, @duckduckgo, @duckduckgo, @benbajarin, @ldrogen, @duckduckgo, @ashk4n, and @whatthebit
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Jack Dorsey says he is reevaluating plans to spend part of the year in Africa amid the coronavirus outbreak and “everything else going on” — The Twitter CEO is facing down an adversarial investor who wants him gone — Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is reevaluating his plans …
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Financial Times, Reuters, Bloomberg, Axios, CNN, KnowTechie, Tubefilter, and Telegraph
| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
Clearview AI's facial recognition app was used by the company's investors, clients, and friends to “test” its tech for over a year prior to public scrutiny — Investors and clients of the facial recognition start-up freely used the app on dates and at parties — and to spy on the public.
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OneZero, Gizmodo, Gizmodo, CoinDesk, Business Insider, The Surveillance, Mashable, and CNET
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter expands its rules around hateful conduct to include language that dehumanizes people on the basis of their age, disability, or disease — Last year, Twitter expanded its rules around hate speech to include dehumanizing speech against religious groups.
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Twitter, Input, and help.twitter.com
Tweets: @hawkize, @rlewisreports, @digiphile, @arthurwyatt, @chadloder, @arischulman, @technosucks, @tonyromm, @letsgoayo, @jaybwood, @mattmcgee, and @untimelygamer
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Arweave, which uses blockchain to perpetually host sites and apps, raises $8.3M seed from a16z, USV, and Coinbase Ventures, four months after raising $5M — The Chinese government has been removing criticism of its coronavirus response from apps like Weibo, the local equivalent of Twitter.
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The Arweave Project and The Market Refresh
Tweets: @ariannasimpson, @joshconstine, @ico_analytics, and @emiliemc
| Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: |
South Korea passes crypto legal framework legislation, letting the country's regulators oversee and develop rules for cryptocurrencies and crypto exchanges — The South Korean National Assembly passed new legislation today that will provide a framework for the regulation and legalization of cryptocurrencies and crypto exchanges.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Appeals court declines to invalidate one of the WiFi-related patents underlying a $1.1B verdict Caltech has won against Apple and Broadcom — Apple in January was ordered to pay the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) $838 million for infringing on Caltech patents related to WiFi transmissions.
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Reuters, Bloomberg Law, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, and iDownloadBlog.com
| Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Report details Apple's struggles to create a device manufacturing supply chain in India — Several years ago, employees at Apple investigated whether components for the iPhone could be made in India. The results weren't encouraging. — While the employees found some companies …
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MacRumors, Cult of Mac, iPhone Hacks, and AppleInsider
Tweets: @amir, @raffasadun, @jessicalessin, @tombschrader, @waynema, @benedictevans, and @radnus0
| Dave Gershgorn / OneZero : |
Emails show Wolfcom, a major body cam provider in the US, is testing integrating live facial recognition on its Halo camera with at least one police department — Police cam manufacturer Wolfcom has contracts with 1,500 organizations — olfcom, a company that makes technology for police …
Tweets: @kevinroose, @willoremus, @dlberes, @davegershgorn, @mer__edith, @mallorytmcmahon, @trevortimm, @dlberes, @jeffbercovici, @dlberes, @iwillleavenow, @aclu, @zittrain, @matt_cagle, @emanuelmaiberg, @olaasm, @gabrielrossman, @fightfortheftr, and @michellelegro. Thanks:@dlberes
| Leah Rosenbaum / Forbes: |
Suki, an AI-powered voice assistant for doctors, raises $20M Series B, doubling total funding to $40M since 2017, claims 40x usage growth in the past year — How much would a virtual assistant boost your productivity at work? For doctors that are exhausted from long hours typing …
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MobiHealthNews, resources.suki.ai, and Voicebot.ai
Tweets: @mmahesh1, @sukiwaterhouse, and @forbesscience
| Chris Mellor / Blocks and Files: |
Nvidia acquires SwiftStack, a small AI-focused data storage and management platform it currently uses, for an undisclosed sum — Nvidia is buying SwiftStack, an object storage software company. Terms were undisclosed but the takeover looks like a white knight move by Nvidia.
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SwiftStack, Forbes, and TechCrunch
| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Rigetti Computing's $71M raise was at a significant cut to valuation, because quantum computing is hard, and commercial applications are still few — The $71 million in financing that quantum computing technology developer Rigetti Computing recently raised came at a significant cut …
Tweets: @nick_farina
| Emily Dreyfuss / Protocol: |
Elizabeth Warren changed the discussion about tech companies through her call to break up big tech, influencing debate even after her withdrawal from the race — Warren's campaign may be dead, but her call to break up big tech lives on. — Elizabeth Warren's decision to end her campaign means …
Tweets: @ekp, @emilydreyfuss, @profgalloway, and @reckless
| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
UK's Virgin Media says a marketing database with personal details of ~900K customers, including names and addresses, had been left unsecured since last April — At least one person from outside Virgin Media accessed non-financial details — Almost a million Virgin Media customers … Sponsor Posts
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