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| Eric S. Yuan / Zoom Blog: |
Zoom apologizes for security failures, says it has 200M+ DAUs vs. 10M in Dec., and plans to freeze development of new features to focus on security and privacy — Whether you are a global corporation that needs to maintain business continuity, a local government agency working to keep …
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| New York Times: |
Zoom says it's now disabled a feature that let users covertly access data from some people's LinkedIn profiles, even when they were in the meeting anonymously — After an inquiry from Times reporters, Zoom said it would disable a data-mining feature that could be used to snoop on participants during meetings without their knowledge.
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| Mark Hachman / PCWorld: |
Zoom has issued a patch for a vulnerability in its Windows client that let attackers steal Windows login credentials from malicious chat links — Update: After this story and others went live April 1, Zoom CEO Eric Yuan addressed Zoom security and other issues in a blog post.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Paul Blest / VICE: |
Leaked notes from an internal meeting attended by Jeff Bezos reveal Amazon execs discussed a plan to smear fired warehouse employee Christian Smalls — Leaked notes from an internal meeting of Amazon leadership obtained by VICE News reveal company executives discussed a plan …
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| Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters: |
Amazon says it plans to roll out temperature checks and masks for staff at its US and European warehouses and will use ML to improve social distancing measures — (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) plans to roll out temperature checks and face masks for staff at all its U.S …
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| Christine Fisher / Engadget: |
Facebook launches a standalone Messenger app for MacOS and Windows with unlimited, free group video calls, support for Dark Mode, and more — The Facebook Messenger app is available for MacOS and Windows — Today, Facebook is bringing its Messenger app to desktop.
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| Pururaj Dutta / Appleosophy: |
Apple references its rumored AirTags item tracking tags in a video uploaded to its Apple Support channel on YouTube — Apple just uploaded a video on their Apple Support YouTube channel titled “How to erase your iPhone”. This tutorial tells us about the process of erasing an iPhone …
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| Seth Schiesel / New York Times: |
Amazon reveals plan for interactive games on Twitch, arriving over summer; sources say Amazon is working on a cloud gaming platform codenamed Project Tempo — The internet giant is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in the effort, with its first original game, Crucible, to be released next month.
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Memo: Google will begin letting some advertisers run COVID-19 related ads, prioritizing government entities, hospitals, and others working directly on the issue — Democrats had criticized Google for refusing to run attack ads targeting Trump's coronavirus response.
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
A deep dive into the deal between Apple and Amazon which lets the retail giant process some payments in Prime Video app, and the motivations of both companies — Benjamin Mayo, writing for 9to5Mac yesterday: … I've been digging into this since the news broke, and I think it's even more significant than Mayo suggests.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Intel announces its first 10th-gen Comet Lake H-series CPUs for high-end gaming laptops, with clock speeds that can boost past 5.0GHz — Intel's best laptop chips get better — Intel is announcing the next wave of its Core processors, and it's finally bringing out the big guns …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy says VC-backed startups will become eligible for $350B in small business loans guaranteed via the CARES Act — Venture capital-backed startups will become eligible for $350 billion in small business loans guaranteed by the federal government … | Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
Binance acquires crypto data aggregator CoinMarketCap, source says for around $300M — - Binance has confirmed acquiring CoinMarketCap after The Block first reported the deal on Tuesday — A source with knowledge of the deal told The Block that the deal is primarily in the form of equity as well as BNB| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
European countries, including France and Germany, are offering billions of euros to support tech startups during COVID-19; the UK is facing calls to do similar — - France and Germany have said they will provide billions of euros in financial support for their tech start-ups.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
App Annie: consumers spent a record $23.4B+ globally through Google and Apple app stores in Q1 2020, with average weekly time spent in apps and games up 20% YoY — Time spent in mobile apps has been surging, as people stuck at home due to the coronavirus outbreak have been turning to apps … Sponsor Posts
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