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Alphabet settles shareholder lawsuit over its handling of sexual harassment claims, agrees to eliminate mandatory arbitration and limit Google's use of NDAs — - Alphabet has reached a settlement with shareholders in a lawsuit alleging sexual misconduct mishandling and cover-up by executives …
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| Yuan Yang / Financial Times: |
US sets export restrictions on China's biggest chipmaker SMIC, saying exports to SMIC posed an “unacceptable risk” of being diverted to “military end use” — Blacklisting of SMIC hurts China's chip self-sufficiency drive — The US government has sanctioned China's …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Source code of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 has leaked online on various file sharing sites this week; Microsoft says it is “investigating the matter” — Windows Server 2003 source also included — Microsoft's source code for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 has leaked online.
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| Alex Heath / The Information: |
Stan Chudnovsky, head of Messenger at Facebook, says Facebook has asked Apple for years to give users an option to make Messenger the default iOS messaging app — Facebook executives have sharply ramped up their criticism of Apple in recent months, contesting the iPhone maker's restrictions …
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| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
DOJ files its opposition to TikTok's request to halt Trump ban, says blocking the ban will infringe on Trump's authority, calls ByteDance CEO mouthpiece for CCP — TikTok is seeking to stave off a ban set to take effect Sunday — The Justice Department filed its opposition Friday …
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| Ethan Gach / Kotaku: |
Report: longtime Ubisoft veteran and Rayman creator Michel Ancel retired from the game publisher earlier this month while being investigated for toxic behavior — Rayman creator, Beyond Good and Evil 2 director, and longtime Ubisoft veteran Michel Ancel retired from the video game publisher earlier …
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| Emily Birnbaum / Protocol: |
Tech groups consider legal action against Trump's EO barring federal contractors from offering Diversity and Inclusion training, raising First Amendment issues — The country's top tech companies are mobilizing against President Trump's executive order barring federal contractors …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Epic acquires SuperAwesome, a UK-based platform offering devs a toolkit for implementing kids' safety features in their products; will remain standalone company — Epic Games, an American video game and software developer, announced Friday that it is acquiring SuperAwesome, a UK-based platform used to power kid-safe technology.
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| Sara Castellanos / Wall Street Journal: |
CB Insights: cloud computing startups raised almost $3B across 97 deals in Q2 2020, up from 76 deals in Q2 2019, with deal volume reaching a three-year high — 'It's like digital transformation on steroids': Cloud-computing funding deals reached a three-year high in the second quarterThanks:@keithswiader
| Mehr Nadeem / Rest of World: |
A look at how Iranians are using satellite file-casting app Toosheh to bypass state internet blackouts as the country pushes its national intranet — With the threat of another big internet blackout looming, companies are creating workarounds for Iranians using satellite dishes. — • LAHORE, PAKISTAN
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Leaked email: Google informed its advertisers on Friday that it will block election ads referencing “the election, or its outcome” after polls close on Nov. 3 — Google informed its advertisers Friday that it will broadly block election ads after polls close Nov. 3, according to an email obtained by Axios.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Apple has agreed to allow Facebook to process payments for its paid online events feature via Facebook Pay, without taking a 30% cut, until December 31 — Last month, Facebook introduced support for paid online events — and since many of the businesses offering those events have struggled during …
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