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Fred Imbert / CNBC:

Following positive COVID-19 vaccine news, Zoom's shares fell 15%+ and other “stay-at-home” stocks like Amazon and Netflix dropped 3.4%-5.4% in pre-market trades — Shares of Zoom Video fell sharply on Monday morning as names benefitting from people staying at home due …

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Bloomberg:

Apple suspends new business with key supplier Pegatron after discovering violations of labor rules related to a student worker program — - Apple says Pegatron violated rules for student worker program — Company says new business paused until corrective action taken

Issie Lapowsky / Protocol:

As POTUS, Biden will overturn Trump's immigration EOs, support net neutrality and may not prioritize Section 230 reform but his approach to antitrust is unclear — Joe Biden's election as the 46th president of the United States gives the tech industry a reason to breathe a brief sigh of relief …

Jessica Guynn / USA Today:

Facebook is showing a notification atop its apps that Joe Biden is the projected winner of the 2020 election; Twitter is showing a banner in its Explore tab

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Corbin Davenport / Android Police:

Let's Encrypt warns phones running Android 7.1 or older won't connect to many secure websites starting in 2021 as they will no longer trust its root certificate — It took a long time, but most of the web now uses HTTPS to securely transmit information, partially thanks to a push by Google.

More: Let's Encrypt, Engadget, The Register, TechSpot, The Next Web, Gizmodo, Tom's Guide, Fossbytes, Forbes, Mashable, Engadget, and Neowin

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Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet:

Windows 10, iOS 14, Chrome, Safari, and Firefox were hacked in Tianfu Cup, China's largest hacking competition; winning team from Qihoo 360 got $744K in prizes — Winning hacker team pockets $744,500 at the Tianfu Cup, China's top hacking contest. — Many of today's top software programs …

More: Forbes, SecurityWeek, TechSpot, The Hacker News, Security Affairs, and Fossbytes

Tweets: @tianfucup, @alexstamos, @alexstamos, and @alexstamos

Jim Salter / Ars Technica:

Raspberry Pi 400 review: functional $100 desktop PC that supports both Raspberry Pi OS and Ubuntu Desktop, but integrated keyboard is narrow and no 3.5mm jack — The Pi 400 isn't a powerful desktop PC—but it is a desktop PC, for $100 or less. — Late Friday afternoon …

Waqas / HackRead:

Data breach leaks sensitive, private, and financial data of millions of customers from Booking.com, Expedia, Hotels.com, and others who use Prestige Software — The list of online booking sites affected by the breach includes some of the top industry giants including Booking.com.

More: Engadget, infosecurity-magazine.com, Tech Observer, and Website Planet

Tweets: @mylaocoon, @hackread, @rprew, and @chrispcritters

Ron Miller / TechCrunch:

Tim Berners Lee's Inrupt startup releases an enterprise version of the Solid privacy platform, which allows organizations to build privacy-focused apps — Inrupt, the startup from World Wide Web founder Tim Berners-Lee, announced an enterprise version of the Solid privacy platform today …

More: 9to5Mac, CNBC, CNET, Inrupt, and Financial Times. Tweets: @timberners_lee

Wall Street Journal:

AI companies like Unanimous.ai and Expert.ai say they correctly predicted election results in battleground states while traditional polling again falls short — As traditional political polling methods appear to fall short again, some tech firms say that AI holds promise

Tweets: @moonalice, @hypervisible, and @catalinagoanta

Saritha Rai / Bloomberg:

Indian grocery delivery service Bigbasket confirms it suffered a data breach in which attackers stole user email ids, mobile phone numbers, and full addresses — - Attackers offer to sell data on millions of users on dark web — Cybercrimes on the rise as Covid forces people to shop online

More: Cyble, Inc42 Media, Security Affairs, MediaNama, and TechRadar

Emma Colton / Washington Examiner:

Parler becomes top downloaded app in the US as conservatives rally support to leave Twitter and Facebook — Social media platform Parler jumped to the top downloaded app this weekend, as conservatives rally support to leave Facebook and Twitter over censorship.

More: Protocol. Tweets: @carnage4life, @willricci, @jstrauss, @goldstatetimes, @rudepundit, @dbongino, @mrolmos, and @dcexaminer

Pavel Alpeyev / Bloomberg:

SoftBank's Vision Fund posts a $7.6B profit in fiscal Q2 and says original $1.35B investment is now worth $7.9B — - The unit booked a $7.6 billion profit in fiscal second-quarter — Derivative bets totaled $2.7 billion at the end of September — Masayoshi Son is making his case for SoftBank Group Corp.'s turnaround.

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Ryan Glasspiegel / Front Office Sports:

New NBA penalties for the LA Clippers highlight an ESPN team's disputed reporting from two weeks ago and podcaster Pablo Torre's work that began in 2025

Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:

Prime Video will become the exclusive streaming home for six NHL teams, including the Hurricanes and Ducks, in local markets starting with the 2026-2027 season

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David Pierce / Protocol:

Q&A with iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens about the new Massachusetts car repair ballot measure, parallels with the right to repair battle with Apple, and more

Tweets: @drpippam and @pierce

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:

Germany-based challenger bank Vivid Money, which lets customers create sub-accounts called pockets with their own IBAN numbers, raises $17.6M Series A

Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review:

Researchers want to infuse common sense into AI by merging language models trained via unsupervised learning, like GPT-3, with labeled computer vision datasets

More: arXiv. Tweets: @matthewseclips, @sustainhistory, and @inukshuk_io

Sahil Patel / Wall Street Journal:

As smart TVs become more popular, advertisers want the advantages of better targeting while avoiding the privacy mistakes made by the online ad industry

Tweets: @davemorgannyc

Doris Yu / Tech in Asia:

China-based e-signature services provider Esign raises $151M Series D, says it now has over 5.02M enterprise users and 270M individual users

More: Caixin Global. Tweets: @techinasia

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet:

FBI warns that hackers are abusing misconfigured SonarQube applications to steal source code repositories from US government agencies and private businesses

More: Security Affairs, BankInfoSecurity, and BleepingComputer

Tweets: @zcobb, @anonopshispano, @knolesmichael, @kirtaner, @tonymorbin, and @hermcardona

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Heather Kelly / Washington Post:

Facebook starts putting some political and social groups on a 60 day probation and will closely monitor them, to slow the spread of disinfo about the election

More: Mashable, CNET, Gizmodo, Reclaim The Net, The Verge, Engadget, Micky, and The German Marshall Fund …

Tweets: @fadiquran, @fadiquran, @elisethoma5, @milenaac, @rweingarten, @mikebutcher, @wiczipedia, and @heatherkelly

Irina Ivanova / CBS News:

CFPB issued a rule last week allowing debt collectors to send unlimited texts, emails, and social media messages to debtors, will require opt-out instructions

More: American Banker, Automotive News, USA Today, and Lifehacker

Tweets: @mdudas, @ohadsamet, @alexh_johnson, and @lexharis

Omer Benjakob / WIRED UK:

A vicious culture war is taking place via edit wars on Wikipedia in India, exploiting and aggravating religious tensions in the context of COVID-19

Tweets: @webfoundation, @hkumar747, @conorjtobin, @wireduk, and @omerbenj

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

In a survey, Spotify hints at plans for a subscription podcast service; the survey describes at least four plans, ranging from $3 to $8 per month

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