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| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
An appeals court blocked an order requiring Uber and Lyft to classify drivers as employees, averting an expected shutdown of their services in California — The companies, under legal pressure to reclassify their drivers as employees, said they would halt rides unless an appeals court gives them permission to continue.
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| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
Former Uber CSO Joe Sullivan charged with obstruction of justice for trying to conceal the 2016 data breach of millions of users and drivers from FTC officials — Joe Sullivan, who led Uber's security team through the company's most tumultuous period, was fired by the company's newly installed chief executive in 2017.
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| Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal: |
A trade body representing NYT, WaPo, WSJ, and other publishers asks Apple for improved deal terms for digital subscriptions sold through the App Store — The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal are among companies seeking more favorable terms in Apple's app store
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| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Sources: Apple quietly acquired Israeli AR and computer vision startup Camerai over a year ago for several tens of millions of dollars — The AR and computer vision company was purchased a year and a half ago, an example of the tech giant's strategy of silently buying up small tech companies
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| Casey Newton / The Interface: |
Facebook says it's piloting an effort that will closely watch posts that rapidly gain millions of views to ensure they don't violate community standards — Earlier this week, I wrote about how platforms proved they can stop a piece of health-related misinformation in its tracks.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Facebook confirms Mark Zuckerberg testified before FTC this week, as part of the agency's antitrust probe — - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg this week testified at a Federal Trade Commission investigative hearing related to the federal agency's antitrust investigation into the tech company, the company confirmed to CNBC on Thursday.
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| DL Cade / PetaPixel: |
Latest update to Lightroom for iOS inadvertently wiped users' photos and presets not synced to the cloud; Adobe says Apple backups may recover some photos — This morning, multiple readers wrote in to alert us to a major Adobe gaff. It seems the latest update to the Lightroom app for iPhone …
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| John Kruzel / The Hill: |
DOJ asks US Supreme Court to reverse a lower court ruling that found Trump violated the First Amendment by blocking his critics on Twitter — The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to reverse a lower court ruling that found President Trump violated the First Amendment by blocking his critics on Twitter.
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| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
Pachyderm, an open source service on Kubernetes that helps manage data for AI, raises $16M Series B led by Microsoft's M12 — Pachyderm Inc., a San Francisco startup that provides a data science platform for easing artificial intelligence development, today disclosed that it has closed … | Bruce Japsen / Forbes: |
Uber partners with NimbleRx, an on-demand prescription delivery service, as it enters the home prescription delivery business, first in Seattle and Dallas area — Ride share giant Uber said it was jumping into the medication delivery business with the startup on-demand prescription platform NimbleRx.| Wall Street Journal: |
Report: China is targeting top science and tech expertise in the US and other countries through 600+ talent recruitment stations globally, with 146 in the US — New study details inner workings of talent recruitment programs linked to misconduct — WASHINGTON—China is targeting top scientific … | Sam Shead / CNBC: |
Airbnb announces a global party ban at its listings and an occupancy cap of 16 people, saying some users took “bar and club behavior to homes” during COVID-19 — - Home-sharing platform Airbnb has introduced a global ban on parties as the coronavirus pandemic continues.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Google fixed a bug impacting Gmail and G Suite email servers, which allowed attackers to spoof SPF and DMARC rules, months after being alerted by a researcher — Attackers could have sent spoofed emails mimicking any Gmail or G Suite customer. — Google has patched on Wednesday …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Sources: the Open Technology Fund is suing the US Agency for Global Media, helmed by a new Trump-appointed CEO, for withholding $20M in Congressional funds — The Open Technology Fund (OTF) is suing the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) over roughly $20 million in congressionally appropriated funds …
Tweets: @sarafischer
| Packy McCormick / Not Boring: |
A deep dive into Tencent, its history, core businesses, investment portfolio, and Pony Ma's “outsider CEO” characteristics that led to its success — Part I in a Two Part Series on the Biggest Company We Know the Least About … Hi friends 👋, — Happy Monday!
Tweets: @zoescaman and @docolumide
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Medical imaging startup Exo, which is developing AI-powered workflow software and a portable ultrasound device, raises $40M, bringing total raised to ~$88M — Exo, a medical technology startup developing a portable ultrasound device and accompanying AI-powered cloud platform, has raised $40 million in a round of funding.
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Ann Syrdal, AT&T researcher who helped give computers a female voice and laid the groundwork for digital assistants like Siri and Alexa, dies at 74 — As a researcher at AT&T, she helped lay the groundwork for modern digital assistants like Siri and Alexa.
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