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| Zoe Schiffer / The Verge: |
In a letter to Tim Cook, written and edited by about 80 people, Apple employees push back against a policy requiring them to return to the office in September — “Over the last year we often felt not just unheard, but at times actively ignored” — Apple employees are pushing …
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| Matthew Karnitschnig / Politico: |
Finance ministers of G7 countries, the US, UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan, agree to back a new global minimum corporate tax rate of at least 15% — The agreement by seven of the world's largest industrial nations is seen as an important step toward changing the global tax structure.| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Microsoft says Bing is not displaying image results for “tank man” on the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre due to “accidental human error” — “There are no results for tank man,” the Bing website reads after searching for the term. — Joseph Cox
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple to announce better multitasking and widget placement for iPadOS, status-based notification alerts, an improved Messages app, and more at WWDC — - Company pitching to developers amid uproar over App Store — Messages, Health apps among those gaining new capabilities
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
A 2007 email between Steve Jobs and then Apple SVP of Software Engineering, approving 3rd party iPhone apps and an App Store, surfaces among Epic trial docs — An email has been going around the internet as a part of a release of documents related to Apple's App Store based suit brought by Epic Games.
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| Bloomberg: |
Investigator says hackers breached Colonial Pipeline through a VPN account whose password has since been discovered inside a batch of leaks on the dark web — - Investigators suspect hackers got password from dark web leak — Colonial CEO hopes U.S. goes after criminal hackers abroad
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Teams behind Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge unveil a development forum at W3C to standardize and build a unified, more secure foundation for extensions — The teams behind the Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge browsers have banded together to improve extensions …
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WebExtensions Community Group, HotHardware.com News, AppleInsider, Engadget, MUO, Android Central, 9to5Google, and 9to5Mac
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| Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: |
Nigeria announces it will block access to Twitter, after the site deleted tweets of President Buhari making threats to the southeastern part of the country — The Nigerian government via its Ministry of Information and Culture today announced its decision to suspend the activities of social media platform Twitter in the country.
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| Dani Blum / New York Times: |
Several companies and clinicians are using VR therapy, which has shown success in treating PTSD, to treat other disorders like social anxiety and phobias — An experimental treatment seems poised to address a dire mental health crisis. — When a Veterans Affairs therapist first suggested … | Michael McSweeney / The Block: |
Jack Dorsey says Square is considering the development of a bitcoin hardware wallet — Square is considering the development of a bitcoin hardware wallet, according to Jack Dorsey, CEO of the payments firm. — Such a product launch isn't a done deal, according to Dorsey, who previewed the concept in a Friday Twitter thread.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Director of FBI says it is investigating ~100 types of ransomware, many tracing back to Russia, and compares the challenge of this wave of cyberattacks to 9/11 — Christopher Wray points to Russian hackers, calls for coordinated fight across U.S. society — FBI Director Christopher Wray …
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| Christopher Bing / Reuters: |
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| Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: |
Survey of ~400 open-source code maintainers reveals poor pay, with 46% saying they go unpaid and, of those who were paid, only 26% say they earn $1K+ annually — Maintaining open-source code is a vital but stressful job. Despite that, a recent Tidelift survey found that almost half of code maintainers aren't paid at all.
Tweets: @aschmitt
| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
EU and UK regulators coordinate to open antitrust investigations into Facebook's classified ad service Marketplace; UK is also probing Facebook Dating — Investigations into classified-ads service Marketplace ramp up regulatory scrutiny on the company in Europe
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European Commission, GOV.UK, Politico, and New York Times
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| Theo Francis / Wall Street Journal: |
Analysis: Palantir's Alexander Karp got compensation worth $1.1B last year and DoorDash's Tony Xu got $400M, both among the biggest CEO pay packages since 2007 — Data-analysis company's Alexander Karp and meal deliverer's Tony Xu received compensation far exceeding that of S&P 500 CEOs
Tweets: @danpriceseattle
| Gilad Edelman / Wired: |
Facebook taking feedback from critics, and Zuckerberg transparently signing off on a concrete policy change, shows the Board's valuable, if limited, function — Facebook has agreed to follow some of the board's non-binding recommendations regarding the Donald Trump suspension. That's progress.
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| Nick Clegg / About Facebook: |
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