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Zoom will require passwords to enter calls via Meeting ID and will turn on Waiting Rooms by default to prevent trolls from disrupting calls, starting April 5 — Zoom is making some drastic changes to prevent rampant abuse as trolls attack publicly shared video calls.| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
US federal law enforcement warns that invading Zoom meetings to broadcast “disruptive content” will result in fines or possible imprisonment — Hacking into a conference call seems like a fun prank — until you get arrested — Federal prosecutors are now warning pranksters …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Zoom apologizes for routing some calls made in N. America through China, says it “mistakenly” allowed Chinese data centers to accept calls due to traffic spike — Hours after security researchers at Citizen Lab reported that some Zoom calls were routed through China …
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| Micah Lee / The Intercept: |
Researchers: Zoom sometimes uses encryption keys issued by servers in China, uses a flawed encryption method, and hence is not suited to communicate secrets — Meetings on Zoom, the increasingly popular video conferencing service, are encrypted using an algorithm with serious …
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| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
Thousands of Zoom video calls found via web search using Zoom's default file naming scheme after users saved them in unprotected spaces like open AWS S3 buckets — Many of the videos include personally identifiable information and deeply intimate conversations, recorded in people's homes.
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| Eric S. Yuan / Zoom Blog: |
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| Reuters: |
Internal docs: Amazon to postpone Prime Day at least until August, expects a potential $100M hit from excess devices it may now have to sell at a discount — (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) is postponing its major summer shopping event Prime Day at least until August and expects potentially …
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| Aliya Chaudhry / The Verge: |
Google temporarily rolls back its SameSite policy in Chrome, to allow stability for essential service websites that may not meet third party cookie requirements — Google says it wants to provide stability during the COVID-19 outbreak — With the launch of Chrome 80 in February … | Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Google uses aggregated anonymized location data from 131 countries to show which places are complying with social distancing and which aren't — New COVID-19 mobility reports show changes in traffic to stores, parks, transit stations, and more — Google is using location data gathered …
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Tweets: @grahamkates, @googlehealth, @privacymatters, @gregggonsalves, @laurelcoons, @deniseforar, @googlemaps, @gleemie, @why0hy, @bhweingarten, @chrissyfarr, @sundarpichai, @rortybomb, @wsj, @marshacollier, @geoffreyfowler, @drzuhdijasser, @tonyromm, @bfriedmandc, @farzad_md, @profgalloway, @jason_kint, @leakissner, @alan_karthi, @privacymatters, @poloolop, @nzewok, and @tedonprivacy
| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple has acquired Dublin-based AI startup Voysis, which developed a platform for digital assistants to better understand people's natural language — - Company continues to buy AI, voice startups to improve Siri — Dublin-based Voysis focused on adding AI to online shopping
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| Abhilash Kumar / Counterpoint Research: |
Global online music streaming grew 32% YoY in 2019, reaching 358M total subs; Spotify led with 31% market share of paid subs, followed by Apple Music at 19% — - Spotify continues to be the market leader and recorded a 23% YoY growth in total revenue during CY 2019.| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Apptopia and Braze study: with 59M global installs, Netflix led rivals YouTube, Amazon Prime, and Disney+ in Q1, but more time was spent on YouTube Kids — Netflix may still dominate global streaming, but Disney+ has made a huge splash in the United States, where it launched in November.
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Streamlabs Blog, CNN, Reuters, Neowin, CCN.com, GameSpot, OnMSFT.com, and Tubefilter
Tweets: @travisshreffler, @masasoncap, @smithymayo, @supachito, @travisshreffler, and @rufflestv
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
The new iPad Pro gets a privacy feature, first introduced on 2018 MacBooks, that disconnects hardware microphones when an attached MFi compliant case is closed — Recent Apple MacBooks have included an aggressive security feature that disconnects hardware microphones when the lid is physically closed.
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TechCrunch, The Verge, MacRumors, BGR, Liliputing, Engadget, AppleInsider, SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacDailyNews, Appleosophy, Input, and Forbes
Tweets: @silentcircle, @diogomonica, @jsoverson, @zackwhittaker, and @apollozac
| Bloomberg: |
Four Democratic senators send a letter to Apple asking whether its COVID-19 app and website comply with HIPAA, and seeking info on its government agreements — - Menendez, Harris, Booker, Blumenthal send letter to Cook — Apple says it's not collecting answers from the screening tool
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CNBC, AppleInsider, The Mac Observer, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, MacDailyNews, Protocol, iDownloadBlog.com, and iMore
Tweets: @lowellheddings, @markgurman, and @exponisity
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