Techmeme: Apple suspends new business with key supplier Pegatron after discovering violations of labor rules related to a student worker program (Bloomberg)

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Nilay Patel / The Verge:

Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max review: terrific camera, battery life, and performance, but it's close to being too big and 60Hz display lags behind the competition — Apple's biggest iPhone brings along an impressive camera — The iPhone 12 Pro Max is a big phone. The biggest iPhone ever made, in fact.

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Chris Velazco / Engadget:

Apple iPhone 12 mini review: easy to handle, screen and performance are excellent, but battery life is lackluster and charging with MagSafe is slower — The tech industry is obsessed with size, and it's easy to see why. “Bigger” is often used as shorthand for “better,” and if you need proof just look at phones.

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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

Financial Times:

SoftBank has removed three of its most senior executives, including Vision Fund head Rajeev Misra, from its board, amid calls to improve corporate governance — Japanese conglomerate also books a $1.3bn loss on its Nasdaq trades over the summer — Japan's SoftBank has culled three …

More: CNBC and Fast Company

Tweets: @dee_bosa, @sallyshin, and @arashmassoudi

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.

More: Axios, The Irish Times, Financial Times, The Economic Times, Bloomberg, DealStreetAsia, and Reuters. Tweets: @pelstrom

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: Inrupt, Financial Times, Fortune, Business Insider, CNET, 9to5Mac, CNBC, and Slashdot

Tweets: @timberners_lee, @lindayueh, and @timberners_lee

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% — Shares of Zoom Video fell sharply on Monday morning as names benefitting from people staying at home due to the coronavirus pandemic lost …

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Tweets: @chrismessina, @petebuttigieg, @robzepeda, @martinsfp, and @alex

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 …

More: Tom's Hardware

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:

India's antitrust watchdog says it has opened a case against Google to investigate whether Play Store favors Google Pay over rivals — India's antitrust watchdog has opened an investigation into Google for allegedly abusing the dominant position of its app store to promote its payments service …

More: The Economic Times, XDA Developers, and Competition Commission of India

Tweets: @medianama, @dhh, and @medianama

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: ZDNet, Let's Encrypt, Engadget, TechRadar, SecurityWeek, gHacks Technology News, The Next Web, TechSpot, Tom's Guide, Fossbytes, Mashable, Forbes, Gizmodo, Engadget, and Neowin

Tweets: @restartproject, @glenngabe, @junecastillote, @glenngabe, @scott_helme, @safaiyeh, @hanno, and @pjvangarderen

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, WinBuzzer, The Hacker News, TechSpot, SecurityWeek, SecurityWeek, Security Affairs, and Fossbytes

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

Saritha Rai / Bloomberg:

Indian grocery delivery service Bigbasket confirms it suffered a data breach where 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, MediaNama, TechRadar, Inc42 Media, Security Affairs, and DataBreaches.net

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