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| Rob Copeland / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Google will keep nearly all of its employees working from home until at least July 2021, affecting almost 200,000 full-time and contract employees — Search-engine giant pushes back return to normalcy — SAN FRANCISCO—Google will keep its employees home until at least next July … | Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg plans to tell Congress that Facebook's rise is an American success story and regulation only serves to help Chinese companies — - CEO likely to use testimony to set up comparison with China — Zuckerberg sees weakening of American tech as helping China
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Jeff Bezos has taken a hands-off approach to Washington, staying above the fray, but that changes with his first-ever Congressional testimony on Wednesday — The chief executive, who testifies before Congress for the first time on Wednesday, had taken a hands-off approach with lawmakers in Washington.
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| Matt Johnston / iTnews: |
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission sues Google for allegedly expanding the use of users' personal data without gaining explicit consent — This time over expanded use of personal data. — The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has again taken aim at Google …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources detail Twitter's struggle to control employee account access: multiple warnings to Dorsey since 2015, bogus help requests used to snoop, and more — - Dorsey, Twitter's board warned repeatedly, ex-employees say — Company says 1,500 staff and contractors can access user data
Tweets: @firstadopter
| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at work-from-home trends: rise of “desktop as a service”, purpose-built hardware for remote communication, and more investment in home office equipment — Tens of millions of Americans are working from home and many will never go back; employers scramble to figure out what tools they'll need to stay productive
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| Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Audit finds six election boards in MI, MO, ME, NH using a buggy version of email software Exim, which the NSA says has been targeted in attacks by Russia's GRU — Six jurisdictions used software that Russian spies have targeted in cyberattacks — Many of the thousands of county …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Walmart Marketplace says it added 3,000 sellers in June, up from 2,290 in April; Walmart announced a partnership with Shopify to onboard SMB sellers in mid-June — Walmart's recent partnership with Shopify to expand its online marketplace appears to already be paying off.| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Samsung's trailer for its August 5 Unpacked event seems to confirm the launch of Galaxy Buds Live, Note20, Watch 3, Z Fold 2, and Tab S7 — Samsung is preparing to launch a slew of new products on August 5th and, now, the company has put out a teaser which essentially confirms which devices are arriving at the event.
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
OnePlus Nord review: 90Hz OLED display, sub-6GHz 5G, and great battery, but its CPU can hold the phone back and the camera is mediocre despite multiple lenses — A less expensive OnePlus phone that mostly ticks all the boxes — If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission.
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| Prasid Banerjee / Livemint: |
A look at how India has become a “hack-for-hire” hub, as the growing shady industry targets politicians, companies, and activists — - Politicians, companies and activists are increasingly being targeted by a secretive industry. How does it work?
Tweets: @dillidurast and @razhael
| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
Consumer Technology Association launches the Public Health Tech Initiative, a working group including Microsoft and Facebook that will learn from the pandemic — As the U.S. continues its struggle to control the COVID-19 pandemic, a broad coalition of tech and health care organizations … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
OpenSpace raises $15.9M Series B led by Menlo Ventures for its automated 360° photo documentation of construction sites and AI-powered tools like object search — OpenSpace, a platform that helps construction teams track the progress of building projects through capturing 360-degree photos …
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FinSMEs, Crunchbase News, and OpenSpace
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Digital banking app and tech unicorn Dave confirms a security breach after a hacker published personal information on 7.5M+ of its users on a public forum — Dave user data is now available for download on a public hacking forum. — Digital banking app and tech unicorn Dave.com confirmed today …
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A Banking Blog for Humans, TechCrunch, BleepingComputer, and Slashdot
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