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Sources: Google will extend its work from home policy until at least July 2021, affecting almost 200,000 full-time and contract employees — Search-engine giant pushes back return to normalcy — SAN FRANCISCO—Google will keep its employees home until at least next July …
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Sources detail Twitter's struggle to control employee account access: multiple warnings to Dorsey since 2015, bogus help requests used to snoop, and more — - Dorsey, Twitter's board warned repeatedly, ex-employees say — Company says 1,500 staff and contractors can access user data| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg plans to tell Congress that Facebook's rise is an American success story and regulation only serves to help Chinese companies — - CEO likely to use testimony to set up comparison with China — Zuckerberg sees weakening of American tech as helping China
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
As the House antitrust hearing looms, lawmakers discuss potential lines of inquiry, including evidence of a “copy-acquire-kill” strategy to subdue rivals — Congress brought the country's big banks to heel after the financial crisis, cowed a tobacco industry for imperiling public health …
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| Intel Newsroom: |
Intel announces a reorg, with chief engineering officer Murthy Renduchintala departing, Intel veteran Dr. Ann Kelleher now leading work on 7nm and 5nm processes — New Leaders for Key Intel Technology Organizations will Report Directly to CEO Bob Swan; Murthy Renduchintala to Depart
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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Qualcomm announces Quick Charge 5, refueling smartphone batteries to 50% in five minutes and 100% in 15, likely to start showing up over the next few months — Wireless recharging has become increasingly popular over the past few years due to its convenience — just drop your phone on a pad …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Alexa app gets revamped, adding more personalization options and replacing 3rd-party skill suggestions on the main screen with frequently used actions — After launching a number of new developer tools for Alexa last week, Amazon today introducing an updated version of its Alexa mobile app for consumers.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Garmin says a ransomware attack occurred on July 23 but there's “no indication” customer data was stolen, expects to return to normal operation in a few days — Sport and fitness tech giant Garmin has confirmed its five-day outage was caused by a ransomware attack.
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| The Economic Times: |
Sources: India is examining an additional 275 Chinese apps, including PubG, AliExpress, and Resso, for a potential ban citing national security and user privacy — List includes Tencent-backed gaming app PubG, Xiaomi's Zili and AliExpress from Alibaba Group.
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| Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: |
Source code leaked from exposed repos of many companies including Nintendo, Daimler AG, Microsoft, Adobe, Lenovo, and AMD; unclear how much of it is proprietary — Source code from exposed repositories of dozens of companies across various fields of activity (tech, finance, retail, food …
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| Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: |
Match Group names ex-CBS Interactive boss Jim Lanzone as Tinder's new CEO, beginning August 3 — Match Group's flagship dating app is navigating changes to online dating during the Covid-19 pandemic — Match Group Inc. MTCH 1.56% is naming a new chief executive for the company's flagship dating app Tinder … | Ashley Gold / Axios: |
Documents from June show Texas AG is probing Facebook over its collection of biometric data, which potentially violates state law — Texas is investigating Facebook for possibly running afoul of state laws on the collection of biometric data, according to June documents uncovered by a tech watchdog group.| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
Inside Facebook's “AI red team”, which hacks its own AI systems to stay ahead of outside attackers and better understand vulnerabilities and blind spots — Attackers increasingly try to confuse and bypass machine-learning systems. So the companies that deploy them are getting creative.
Tweets: @nxthompson, @krishnan, and @wired
| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Ro, a telemedicine startup that caters to the uninsured, raises $200M led by General Catalyst valuing it at $1.5B and says it has hit $250M in annual revenue — - Ro wants to build the “Shopify for health care,” beginning by catering to patients without insurance who want to pay for health care without an in-person doctor's visit.| Matt Johnston / iTnews: |
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission sues Google for allegedly expanding the use of users' personal data without gaining explicit consent — This time over expanded use of personal data. — The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has again taken aim at Google …
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