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ESA says E3, scheduled for early June as a three-day event, has been canceled due to COVID-19 concerns — ESA announces it won't hold massive game marketing event for the first time since 1995. — [Update: In a message sent Wednesday morning, the ESA cited “growing concerns over [the] …
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| Clare Duffy / CNN: |
Google recommends all North American employees work remotely until at least April 10 — New York (CNN Business)Google parent company Alphabet is recommending that all of its North America employees work from home through April 10 due to coronavirus, according to an email shown to CNN.
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Sources: during a meeting, the White House sought help from Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, and others to combat coronavirus misinformation and track its spread — The White House on Wednesday sought new help from Amazon, Google and other tech giants in the fight against coronavirus …
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| Shakeel Hashim / Protocol: |
UK will introduce a 2% tax on search engines, social media services, and online marketplaces with $650M+ annual revenue and £25M+ UK revenue starting on April 1 — The U.K. government has confirmed that it will levy a 2% tax on “the revenues of search engines, social media services …
| Rama Venkat / Reuters: |
Uber says it may temporarily suspend drivers and riders who have contracted or been exposed to COVID-19, will compensate quarantined drivers for up to 14 days — (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc (UBER.N) notified riders and drivers that it may temporarily suspend the accounts of anyone …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft posts an advisory about a new wormable flaw in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019; there's currently no patch available, but there are workarounds — Critical bug in Microsoft's SMBv3 implementation published under mysterious circumstances. — Word leaked out on Tuesday … | CNBC: |
Microsoft says it is unifying its Research groups, bringing them under Peter Lee and appointing Eric Horvitz as its first chief scientific officer — - Eric Horvitz, who has been with Microsoft since 1993, is now the company's chief scientific officer. — Peter Lee is taking on all of Microsoft Research with the change.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
AWS debuts Bottlerocket, an open source OS for using Linux-based containers on virtual machines and bare metal hosts, in dev preview on Amazon EC2 and EKS — AWS has launched its own open-source operating system for running containers on both virtual machines and bare metal hosts.
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
YouTube says it will enable ads on a limited number of videos about coronavirus, including from some news partners and creators who accurately self-certify — Weeks after YouTube declared automatic demonetization — YouTube is reassessing its policies in an effort to let some creators monetize videos …
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| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
A look at 10-year-old Vicarious, which buys standard industrial robots, enhances them with its AI software, and contracts them out; Vicarious has raised $130M+ — Vicarious, a secretive 10-year-old startup backed by Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos, reveals its progress and an initial customer.| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
EU Commission outlines proposals for green initiatives related to tech: right-to-repair laws, ending premature obsolescence, and restricting single-use products — The European Commission has set out a plan to move towards a ‘right to repair’ for electronics devices, such as mobile phones, tablets and laptops.
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The Guardian, XDA Developers, The Verge, Yahoo Finance, and Bloomberg
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| Ben Collins / NBC News: |
Investigation finds that books dominating Amazon's search results on COVID-19 are often plagiarized from news outlets, with authors lacking verifiable IDs — The listings highlight the challenge that Amazon has faced as consumers have turned to the company for a variety of goods and information.
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| Neha Malara / Reuters: |
TikTok says it will open a transparency center in LA in early May, letting experts evaluate its content moderation and later get insights into its source code — (Reuters) - Social media app TikTok is launching a content moderation center in a bid to boost transparency … | Shannon Vavra / CyberScoop: |
Bipartisan congressional committee report gives 75 recommendations for how US government should approach cyber security issues, from Cyber Command's goals to 5G — A bipartisan congressional committee is urging the federal government to enact a sweeping set of cybersecurity upgrades in order …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple says it will close all of its 17 retail stores in Italy from March 12 “until further notice” amid the COVID-19 outbreak — Apple Inc. said it is closing all 17 of its retail stores in Italy “until further notice” as the coronavirus pandemic limits activity in the country.
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MacRumors, AppleInsider, The Verge, 9to5Mac, MacTrast, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, and Cult of Mac
| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Ahead of this month's SCOTUS review of Oracle's 2010 Java copyright infringement case against Google, a look at how Oracle once got rich by copying IBM's SQL — Oracle's history highlights a possible downside to its stance on API copyrights. — More than a decade ago …
Tweets: @markcallaghandb, @newsycbot, @grimmelm, and @binarybits
| Tom Krazit / Protocol: |
Interview with co-founders of Oxide Computer, which has raised $20M in funding to date to start a computer company to compete in the server market and rival HPE — Oxide Computer is a bold bet by three prominent engineers that some day, more and more companies will want cloudlike hardware under their own control.| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
At EARN IT Act hearing, Sen. Blumenthal says the “bill says nothing about encryption”, while industry groups allege it may force them to drop E2E encryption — - At a hearing Wednesday, senators disputed tech industry claims that a new bill targeting tech's legal shield would necessarily prohibit encryption.Sponsor Posts
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