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Sources: Trump is considering the establishment of a commission that would examine allegations of anticonservative bias and censorship on social media — Move is likely to draw pushback from tech companies; ACLU raises free-speech concerns — WASHINGTON—President Trump is considering establishing …
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An overview of how governments around the world are using smartphone data, apps, drones, facial recognition, and AI to track COVID-19 and surveil citizens — Now that the world is in the thick of the coronavirus pandemic, governments are quickly deploying their own cocktails of tracking methods.| 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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| Camilla Tominey / Telegraph: |
Boris Johnson instructed officials to draw up plans to reduce Huawei's involvement in UK's 5G networks to zero by 2023, a reversal of a softer policy approach — The Prime Minister has instructed officials to draw up plans that would see China's involvement in the UK's 5G network reduced to zero
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Researchers discuss ShinyHunters, a hacking group that is hawking what it claims is ~200M stolen records on the dark web since May 1 from at least 13 companies — In the first two weeks of May, they've hit the dark web, hawking 200 million stolen records from over a dozen companies.| Jael Goldfine / PAPER: |
Facebook has had a recent influx of millennial and Gen Z users, some of whom say certain Facebook groups offer unemployment support, job search help, and more — Facebook is for old people. Everybody knows that! Usage plummeted in 2019, most sharply among Gen-Z and millennials.
Tweets: @jaelgoldfine and @kantrowitz
| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
Moves by Joe Rogan and others don't mean YouTube will get cut out of the podcast game, because creator success still relies upon discoverability on the platform — What does podcasting on YouTube look like without Rogan? — Joe Rogan is largely moving on from YouTube …
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| George Avalos / Mercury News: |
Facebook revises proposal for Willow Village, its 50+ acre development project in Menlo Park, to reduce square footage by 29%, from 1.75M to 1.25M square feet — Willow Village near Facebook's Menlo Park HQ undergoes sweeping changes for office space — MENLO PARK — Facebook …
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| Kai-Fu Lee / Wired: |
AI has played a useful but fragmented role in the global fight against COVID-19, from predicting outbreaks to aiding diagnosis and drug discovery efforts — Disease diagnosis, drug discovery, robot delivery—artificial intelligence is already powering change in the pandemic's wake.
Tweets: @kaifulee, @nxthompson, and @wired
| Tony Wan / EdSurge: |
PresenceLearning, which helps school districts provide speech and mental health therapy to students online, raises $27M Series D, bringing total raised to $70M+ — Speech and other special-education professionals were already in short supply even when classes were in session.| Annie Musgrove / Tech.eu: |
London-based Blink, an app that helps companies and orgs connect with their frontline workers, raises £8.2M Series A led by Partech as it launches publicly — Blink, a London-based app that connects frontline employees, has announced £8.2 million in funding from Partech Partners and a group of angel investors.
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| Reuters: |
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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