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TikTok confirms it plans to sue the Trump administration as early as next week over executive order banning transactions with TikTok and ByteDance — TikTok is planning to sue the Trump administration over the president's executive order banning transactions with the popular video-sharing app …
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U.S. WeChat Users Alliance, a nonprofit, files a lawsuit in district court in SF against Trump's executive order banning transactions with WeChat and ByteDance — Group of users of popular Tencent-owned app says Trump administration's planned curbs violate civil rights, target Chinese-Americans| Alex Kantrowitz / OneZero : |
Workplace chat apps may alter work conversations the way social media alters public discourse, leading to issues like internal divisions and group harassment — Slack and its counterparts ‘create problems, high school-type problems,’ one CEO said — Sitting among peers at a gathering a few years ago …
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As workspace usage of Slack and Microsoft Teams soars, lawyers see an uptick in harassment claims, as messaging is more informal and often misinterpreted — Chat applications have become a major way employees stay connected, but some see an uptick in agitation and bullying| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Apple says it won't require IAP in WordPress app “since the developer removed the display of their service payment options”, apologizes for confusion caused — “We [...] apologize for any confusion that we have caused” — On Friday, the internet erupted in a small way to learn …
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Freepik, a popular freemium stock photos marketplace, discloses data breach and says hacker obtained info of 8.3M users, including usernames and password hashes — Freepik is one of the most popular websites on the internet, currently ranked #97 on the Alexa Top 100 sites list.| Alex Kantrowitz / OneZero: |
Q&A with Casey Newton on incentives for media and reporters in the age of social media, why some people in tech hate tech press, evolution of Facebook, and more — The Verge's Silicon Valley editor discusses tech media, recent issues with Facebook, and more … Part of the tech world is fed up with tech journalists.| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
FBI and CISA warn of an ongoing voice phishing campaign targeting remote workers in the US aimed at stealing login credentials for corporate networks/VPNs — The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday issued a joint alert …
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| Rana Ayyub / Washington Post: |
In India, like in Myanmar and the Philippines previously, Facebook has no issue aiding dishonest and hateful authoritarian leaders to increase its market share — On Aug. 14, the Wall Street Journal published a damning story about Facebook's complicity in aiding and abetting Prime Minister …
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UK's national statistics regulator says it will review the algorithm used by exam regulator Ofqual to decide grades for high school students — The national statistics regulator is stepping in to review the algorithm used by Ofqual to decide A-level grades for students who could not sit exams.
Tweets: @cjfweatherhead, @bbctrending, @areeqchowdhury, @jamesclayton5, @mdf200, and @t8el
| Grady McGregor / Fortune: |
MediaTek stock dropped 10%+ this week as investors fear that newly tightened US sanctions against Huawei, announced this week, now also apply to MediaTek chips — The Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek was poised to be one of the largest beneficiaries of the United States' yearslong campaign against Huawei, the Chinese telecom giant.| Joe Maring / Android Central: |
Sources: Google Pixel 5 to have a 6" 90Hz display, Snapdragon 765G, and dual rear cameras with an ultrawide lens; leaked renders show a rear fingerprint sensor — Here's your early look at Google's upcoming Pixels. — What you need to know — Following new renders of the Pixel 5 …
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