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Twitter applied its “manipulated media” label for the first time to an edited video of Joe Biden, tweeted by a White House official and retweeted by Trump — It's the first time the social network has enforced a new policy to fight doctored videos and photos| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
In an internal memo, Tim Cook outlines measures Apple is implementing in response to COVID-19, says office employees in all affected regions can work remotely — - Apple CEO outlines work from home, other steps in new memo — ‘This is a challenging moment’, Apple CEO tells employees
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| Jon Schuppe / NBC News: |
Investigation details how a man became a burglary suspect when police used a “geofence warrant” to gather Google location data from devices near a crime scene — “I was using an app to see how many miles I rode my bike and now it was putting me at the scene of the crime," the man said.
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| Maria Farrell / The Conversationalist: |
When former tech execs reinvent themselves as experts on taming Big Tech, they seize attention and resources, which undermines the work of independent activists — The tech executive turned data justice warrior is celebrated as a truth-telling hero, but there's something a bit too smooth about this narrative arc.
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| Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: |
As ARM narrows the performance gap with x86 and chips from startups like Ampere rival Intel Xeon, transitioning even Mac Pros to “Axx” CPUs may be feasible — Once again, we look at what needs to happen for the Mac to shed its old x86 processors and make the tantalizing transition …
Tweets: @counternotions
| Caleb Henry / SpaceNews.com: |
AST & Science raises $110M Series B led by Rakuten and Vodafone to build a broadband network via a constellation of satellites that link directly to smartphones — WASHINGTON — Japanese online shopping giant Rakuten and global telecom leader Vodafone led a $110 million investment … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researchers detail how Android apps can steal one-time 2FA codes from Google Authenticator by taking screenshots, a flaw that was first disclosed in 2014 — Google Authenticator app lets other apps take screenshots of its code. Issue was first reported to Google in October 2014, but it was never addressed.
Tweets: @campuscodi and @gurgling_mrd
| Sam Dean / Los Angeles Times: |
A look at the state of telecommuting as ICANN holds its four-day Public Meeting, with ~3,000 people from 150 countries, remotely for the first time — On Thursday morning, as the number of new coronavirus cases in California climbed, crates of telecommunications equipment …
Tweets: @bernieborges, @ashtroid22, @memorie_holiday, @latimes, @amywebb, @war_kittens, and @jeffbercovici
| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Researchers detail two new side channel attacks that can leak secret data from all AMD CPUs made between 2011 and 2019 — AMD processors from 2011 to 2019 impacted — A new paper released by the Graz University of Technology details two new “Take A Way” attacks, Collide+Probe and Load+Reload …
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Digital Trends, Play Crazy Game, TechRadar.com, Engadget, ZDNet, and DSOGaming
| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
Profile of Kang-Xing Jin, Facebook's head of health who is leading the efforts to stop the spread of misinformation about COVID-19 on the site — As the company works to contain coronavirus misinformation, Facebook's head of health steps into the spotlight.
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CCN.com and Digital Trends
Tweets: @tonyromm, @peterbotting, @blmohr, @vincekuraitis, @ccheever, @chrissyfarr, @demccaffrey, and @bizcarson
| Jake Bright / TechCrunch: |
A look at three reports with contrasting stats on 2019 VC investments in Africa, with all of them showing Nigeria and Kenya as top destinations — Five years ago, it was hard to come by any formal numbers for annual VC investment in Africa. These days the challenge is choosing which number to follow.| Yevgeniy Sverdlik / Data Center Knowledge: |
Equinix, a leading provider of colocation services, says it has closed its acquisition of bare metal cloud provider Packet for $335M in a deal announced in Jan. — The colocation giant's platform-building endeavor enters a whole new phase. — Equinix has closed its acquisition of Packet … Sponsor Posts
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