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A text string in the Sindhi language can crash iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Watch when devices receive a notification with it; bug seems to be fixed in iOS 13.4.5 beta — Every so often, a bug in iOS emerges where a certain string of text will cause your iPhone or iPad to crash.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nintendo says 160K Nintendo accounts have been breached since the beginning of April using credentials obtained illegally by “some means other than our service” — The issues started at the beginning of April — Nintendo is disabling the ability to log into a Nintendo Account through …
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson to step down, President and COO John Stankey will take over the position on July 1 — - AT&T announced CEO Randall Stephenson will retire and President and COO John Stankey will take over the position on July 1. — The transition comes at a tough … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Leaked images from 2019 show Google considered a feature that let users tip money to websites like Wired or NYT as part of its Contributor program — Leaked images obtained by TechCrunch reveal that Google considered and designed a feature that would let people donate money to websites …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple says it found no evidence of hackers exploiting the newly discovered vulnerabilities in the Mail app for iPhone and iPad — - It saw no immediate threat to users after investigating — Hundreds of millions worldwide use Apple's mobile devices — Apple Inc. said it found … | Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Internal documents: Google plans to cut its marketing budget by as much as 50% for the second half of the year and freeze hiring of marketing employees — - The company is planning to slash its marketing budgets by as much as half, according to internal documents viewed by CNBC.
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| Carrie Mihalcik / CNET: |
Federal court officially approves the $5B settlement Facebook reached with the FTC last July — Now it's official. — Now, it's Facebook official. The social network said a federal court on Thursday officially approved a settlement Facebook reached with the US Federal Trade Commission …
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| Alex Heath / The Information: |
Sources: Zuckerberg suspended the push to introduce ads to WhatsApp partly to avoid antagonizing regulators but also to avoid angering privacy-conscious users — Worried about angering regulators and wanting to prioritize a broader integration of its services, Facebook pulled back last year …
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| Paayal Zaveri / Business Insider: |
Slack says it will not reopen its offices until at least September 1 of this year, will continue to pay contractors and hourly workers their regular wages — - Slack will not reopen its offices until at least September 1 of this year, and is committed to continue paying its employees … | J.R. Reed / CNBC: |
Tech companies cut hiring, with analysts seeing ~20% drops in job openings between mid-March and mid-April, steep drops in supply chain logistics and delivery — - Despite the massive shift to remote work and the surge in demand for certain online services, the tech industry has seen a widespread drawdown in job listings.| Alexander Behrens / Decrypt: |
Coinbase announces Coinbase Oracle, a source of signed price data for BTC-USD and ETH-USD markets sourced from the Coinbase Pro exchange — San Francisco-based crypto exchange Coinbase announced today the release of Coinbase Oracle, a source of signed price data for BTC-USD and ETH-USD markets sourced from the Coinbase Pro exchange.
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| The Economic Times: |
How IT companies in India transitioned 4M employees to work remotely, including by moving desktops that employees were using at their workplaces to their homes — IT companies had to move desktops that employees were using at their workplaces to their homes as they could not procure laptops in multiple thousands at such short notice.
Tweets: @omkar_raii
| Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today: |
Facebook adds knowledge library and alerting service to Workplace, says the tool is well placed to support remote work during pandemic — With more people switching to working from home amid the COVID-19 lockdowns, Facebook is adding some new features to its professional Workplace platform …
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| Charles Davis / Business Insider: |
Amazon confirms a major outbreak of COVID-19 at a NJ warehouse after employee says 30+ are infected, as Amazon is set to end unlimited unpaid time off April 30 — - Over 30 workers at an Amazon warehouse in Carteret, New Jersey, have contracted COVID-19, according to sources at the facility.| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
Low paying but accessible jobs in crowd work, such as tagging photos and filling out surveys, are seeing a boom on platforms like Mechanical Turk since COVID-19 — People who've lost jobs and are stuck indoors are turning to crowd work—filling out online surveys and transcribing audio for less than the minimum wage.
Tweets: @sesmith and @scottthurm
| Megan Graham / CNBC: |
Google to require all advertisers to verify their identities, starting in the US; existing advertisers will have 30 days to complete the verification process — - Google began requiring political advertisers wanting to run election ads on its platform to verify their identity back in 2018.
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