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IBM announces job cuts, will offer subsidized medical coverage to all affected US employees through June 2021; sources say layoffs will be in the thousands — - Thousands of IBM workers in North America likely affected — Newly unemployed staff fear finding another job in a recession| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Interview with Sundar Pichai on working from home, antitrust, collaborating with Apple and others, how Alphabet's holding company model held up, and more — In an interview, the Google and Alphabet CEO discusses working from home, weathering antitrust probes, and how the company needs to do a better job on diversity.
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AppleInsider, 9to5Google, CNET, and Android Central
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| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Mozilla, Twitter, and a coalition that includes Facebook, Apple, and Google, call on Congress to protect search and browser data from warrantless access — A recent amendment to require the FBI to get a warrant to view browsing data failed by one vote. — A group of technology companies …
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise unveils plans targeting gross savings of at least $1B by 2022, including layoffs and temporary pay cuts of 25% for top executives — (Reuters) - Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE.N) on Thursday unveiled a plan targeting gross savings of at least $1 billion by 2022 …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Sources: a version of iOS 14 dated Dec. 2019, likely obtained via a development iPhone 11, has been circulating among researchers and jailbreakers for months — Security researchers and hackers have had access to a leaked early version of iOS 14, the iPhone's next operating system, since at least February, Motherboard has learned.
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| Kate Cox / Ars Technica: |
US district court rules that turning on a phone to view its lockscreen without unlocking it qualifies as searching the phone and would generally need a warrant — Location data requires a warrant since 2018; lock screen may now, too. — Smartphones are a rich data trove not only for marketers but also for law enforcement.
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| Karen Weise / New York Times: |
Sources: while Amazon has pushed its annual Prime Day to September, the company is preparing for an earlier “Summer Sale” to let brands sell excess inventory — After losing some online shoppers to rivals during the pandemic, the retail giant is turning back to faster shipping times and big sales.| Emily Birnbaum / Protocol: |
The presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden does not have a top adviser for tech policy and lacks the tech policy infrastructure of his Democratic predecessors — The former VP and presumptive Democratic nominee lacks the tech policy infrastructure of his predecessors.
Tweets: @tonyajoriley, @birnbaum_e, and @rdrv3
| Bloomberg: |
A look at China's plan to invest an estimated $1.4T over six years to build out 5G, surveillance infrastructure, and AI, relying heavily on Chinese companies — - Latest infrastructure blueprint aims to spur virus-hit economy — Plan helps Beijing swap foreign brands for national champions
Tweets: @johnhemmings2, @khoelzle, and @lisaabramowicz1
| Bloomberg: |
Interviews shed light on the strained relationship between Masayoshi Son and Vision Fund leader Rajeev Misra, who some say has created a divisive workplace — Son's support tested after $18 billion in writedowns, clashes with internal rivals — In early March, before the coronavirus pandemic triggered …
Tweets: @bradstone, @menakadoshi, @economictimes, @andresbarreto, and @bloombergquint. Thanks:@tsgiles
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
With Spotify owning shows, a podcast player, tools to make new shows, and selling ads, the podcasting world is now divided into open and closed ecosystems — The Joe Rogan deal makes the company's big ambitions known — In what's likely the biggest deal ever for a single podcast …
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Techdirt, Telecoms.com, Tubefilter, Apple Must, The Mac Observer, and AppleInsider
| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
States Title, a house title insurance and closing startup that claims to use AI to reduce the time of a closing from around 40 days to 20, raises $123M Series C — Buying a home is one of the biggest, and most expensive, decisions in a person's life. Over the past year or so …
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PR Newswire, HousingWire, The Title Report, PitchBook, The Real Deal New York, Insurance Insider, GlobeSt, Inman, and AiThority. Tweets: @bayareawriter
| Tom McKay / Gizmodo: |
A US Copyright Office report states that the DMCA's safe harbor provision is “askew” and recommends making it easier for rightsholders to issue takedown notices — The U.S. Copyright Office has released a long-awaited, 192-page report that could give the music and movie industry …
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Facebook says its $1,000 enterprise-edition Oculus Quest, which sells as part of the Oculus for Business platform, is now available for companies to purchase — Today Facebook announced that its enterprise-edition Oculus Quest that sells for $1,000 as part of its Oculus for Business platform …
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