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Zoom will require passwords to enter calls via Meeting ID and will turn on Waiting Rooms by default to prevent trolls from disrupting calls, starting April 5 — Zoom is making some drastic changes to prevent rampant abuse as trolls attack publicly shared video calls.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Zoom apologizes for routing some calls made in N. America through China, says it “mistakenly” allowed Chinese data centers to accept calls due to traffic spike — Hours after security researchers at Citizen Lab reported that some Zoom calls were routed through China …
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| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
Thousands of Zoom video calls found via web search using Zoom's default file naming scheme after users saved them in unprotected spaces like open AWS S3 buckets — Many of the videos include personally identifiable information and deeply intimate conversations, recorded in people's homes.
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| Reuters: |
Internal docs: Amazon to postpone Prime Day at least until August, expects a potential $100M hit from excess devices it may now have to sell at a discount — (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) is postponing its major summer shopping event Prime Day at least until August and expects potentially …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
US federal law enforcement warns that invading Zoom meetings to broadcast “disruptive content” will result in fines or possible imprisonment — Hacking into a conference call seems like a fun prank — until you get arrested — Federal prosecutors are now warning pranksters …
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| Aliya Chaudhry / The Verge: |
Google temporarily rolls back its SameSite policy in Chrome, to allow stability for essential service websites that may not meet third party cookie requirements — Google says it wants to provide stability during the COVID-19 outbreak — With the launch of Chrome 80 in February … | Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
UK researchers are using Google's mobile location data collected from apps like Google Maps to help track and predict the spread of COVID-19 across Europe — - Data is anonymized and aggregated, can't track individuals — Effort is one of many to use mobile phone data to track virus| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple has acquired Dublin-based AI startup Voysis, which developed a platform for digital assistants to better understand people's natural language — - Company continues to buy AI, voice startups to improve Siri — Dublin-based Voysis focused on adding AI to online shopping
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| Abhilash Kumar / Counterpoint Research: |
Global online music streaming grew 32% YoY in 2019, reaching 358M total subs; Spotify led with 31% market share of paid subs, followed by Apple Music at 19% — - Spotify continues to be the market leader and recorded a 23% YoY growth in total revenue during CY 2019.| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Apptopia and Braze study: with 59M global installs, Netflix led rivals YouTube, Amazon Prime, and Disney+ in Q1, but more time was spent on YouTube Kids — Netflix may still dominate global streaming, but Disney+ has made a huge splash in the United States, where it launched in November.
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| Bloomberg: |
Four Democratic senators send a letter to Apple asking whether its COVID-19 app and website comply with HIPAA, and seeking info on its government agreements — - Menendez, Harris, Booker, Blumenthal send letter to Cook — Apple says it's not collecting answers from the screening tool
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| Angel Au-Yeung / Forbes: |
Profile of Larry Ellison, who has turned the Hawaiian island of Lanai into a data-powered wellness lab and is building a COVID-19 database for the White House — As Larry Ellison sits in one of several idyllic bubbles he has created for himself, a lush 249-acre estate in Rancho Mirage … Sponsor Posts
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