• New York Times: In a rare public protest at Facebook, dozens of employees stage a virtual walkout, pushing back on Zuckerberg's decision to let Trump's inflammatory posts stand

• Sam Shead / CNBC: As some Facebook employees publicly express anger, Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook is committing $10M to groups working on racial injustice

• Taylor Soper / GeekWire: A look at recent statements by tech companies, including Amazon, Microsoft, and Salesforce, regarding racism in America after George Floyd's death

• Tom Warren / The Verge: Sony postpones a PlayStation 5 event scheduled for June 4 “to allow more important voices to be heard”, following similar moves by EA and Google amid protests

• Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Tim Cook, in a memo to staff addressing racism in US, says Apple will give to non-profits like Equal Justice Initiative, match staff donations 2-to-1 in June

• Kim Lyons / The Verge: YouTube says it will donate $1M to the Center for Policing Equity, a nonprofit think tank that works with police departments to change discriminatory practices

• Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: Google pushes an update for its Pixel line, with improved Adaptive Battery, Google Assistant integration with Recorder, a new bedtime tab in the clock app, more

• TechCrunch: Google adds a suite of Bedtime tools to Android, building on its Wind Down feature, to turn on Do Not Disturb and enable grayscale effect, for Pixels first

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• Elizabeth A. Harris / New York Times: Hachette, Penguin Random House, Wiley, HarperCollins sue Internet Archive, saying its project to let users borrow ebooks scanned from books violates copyrights

• Bloomberg: Global Disinformation Index report examining 49 sites with COVID-19 disinformation says Google placed ads on 84% of them   —  One ad for telecom company O2 appeared on an article linking virus to 5G networks

• Bloomberg: Zynga says it will buy Turkish mobile game developer Peak for $1.8B, its biggest acquisition yet; the deal is $900M in cash and $900M in Zynga stock

• Michael Pelly / Australian Financial Review: Australian appeals court rules that media companies can be held responsible for defamatory comments posted under stories on their Facebook Pages

• Damien Wilde / 9to5Google: Samsung launches Access, a new service for US users offering an S20 handset, Microsoft 365, 1TB OneDrive, and more, starting at $37/month

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• 17 minutes ago Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple releases iOS 13.5.1, patching the vulnerability used by Unc0ver's jailbreak tool   —  Apple is releasing iOS 13.5.1 to the public today following last month's release of iOS 13.5.

• 17 minutes ago Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple releases iOS 13.5.1, patching the vulnerability used by Unc0ver's jailbreak tool   —  Apple is releasing iOS 13.5.1 to the public today following last month's release of iOS 13.5.

• 42 minutes ago Tom Warren / The Verge: Sony postpones a PlayStation 5 event scheduled for June 4 “to allow more important voices to be heard”, following similar moves by EA and Google amid protests

• 57 minutes ago TechCrunch: Google adds a suite of Bedtime tools to Android, building on its Wind Down feature, to turn on Do Not Disturb and enable grayscale effect, for Pixels first

• 2 hours ago Elizabeth A. Harris / New York Times: Hachette, Penguin Random House, Wiley, HarperCollins sue Internet Archive, saying its project to let users borrow ebooks scanned from books violates copyrights

• 2½ hours ago Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: Google pushes an update for its Pixel line, with improved Adaptive Battery, Google Assistant integration with Recorder, a new bedtime tab in the clock app, more

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• 3½ hours ago New York Times: In a rare public protest at Facebook, dozens of employees stage a virtual walkout, pushing back on Zuckerberg's decision to let Trump's inflammatory posts stand

• 4 hours ago Meagan Simpson / BetaKit: Clearpath Robotics raises ~$29M Series C led by Kensington Capital Partners to expand Otto Motors, its autonomous industrial robots division

• 5½ hours ago Damien Wilde / 9to5Google: Samsung launches Access, a new service for US users offering an S20 handset, Microsoft 365, 1TB OneDrive, and more, starting at $37/month

• 5½ hours ago Ina Fried / Axios: Survey: 54% of Americans agree with adding fact-checking labels to Trump tweets; 60%+ say politicians' lies are a bigger threat than censorship on social media

• 6 hours ago Bloomberg: Global Disinformation Index report examining 49 sites with COVID-19 disinformation says Google placed ads on 84% of them   —  One ad for telecom company O2 appeared on an article linking virus to 5G networks

• 7 hours ago Michael Pelly / Australian Financial Review: Australian appeals court rules that media companies can be held responsible for defamatory comments posted under stories on their Facebook Pages

• 7 hours ago Matthew Hutson / Science: Researchers: new algorithms aimed at making neural networks more efficient perform as well as old algorithms, suggesting little improvement over 10-year period

• 8 hours ago Igor Bosilkovski / Forbes: Accern, which uses NLP and predictive analytics to create workflow automation and risk management software for financial services industry, raises $13M Series A

• 8 hours ago Sam Shead / CNBC: As some Facebook employees publicly express anger, Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook is committing $10M to groups working on racial injustice

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• 9 hours ago Bloomberg: Zynga says it will buy Turkish mobile game developer Peak for $1.8B, its biggest acquisition yet; the deal is $900M in cash and $900M in Zynga stock

• 9 hours ago Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Singapore-based Beam, which offers shared electric scooters in Korea, Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand, and Taiwan, raises $26M Series A

• 12 hours ago Noah Kirsch / Forbes: StubHub's co-founder Eric Baker bought back the company for $4B just days before the pandemic brought the live events business to a halt

• 13 hours ago Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Indian government rejects Walmart-owned Flipkart's proposal to enter the food retail business in the country   —  The Indian government has rejected Flipkart's proposal …