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| Ed Hammond / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Magic Leap is laying off about half its employees, or around 1,000 people, as it winds down its consumer business; Magic Leap has raised over $2B — - About 1,000 employees are said to be affected by cuts — Magic Leap to wind down consumer business in retreat
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Facebook invests $5.7B in Jio for a 9.99% stake, making it the largest minority shareholder in the subsidiary of India's most valued firm, Reliance Industries — Facebook has enjoyed unparalleled reach in India for more than a decade. But as China's fast-growing ByteDance emerges …
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| Nikhil Pahwa / MediaNama: |
Facebook's deal with Jio is unlikely to make a dent in India's mobile payments market, where Google Pay, PhonePe, and Paytm have emerged as the big players — So it's confirmed: Facebook has bought 9.9% stake in Jio Platforms Limited, the parent company of Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited, for $5.7 billion (Rs 43,574 crore).
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Researchers say they found two iPhone 0-days, exploited in the wild, including a remote zero-click flaw in the Mail app; Apple says an update will patch both — In the summer of 2016, researchers at a digital rights organization and a cybersecurity firm announced they had caught …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
iPhone SE 2020 review: good battery life but has a tired design and while the camera is good in bright light and great at video, it is noisy in low-light — A strong case against $1,000 phones — What do you look for in a new iPhone? The top of the list likely includes battery life and camera quality.
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| New York Times: |
US intelligence officials say Chinese operatives are amplifying COVID-19 disinformation in America using text messages and social media posts — American officials were alarmed by fake text messages and social media posts that said President Trump was locking down the country.| Scott Rosenberg / Axios: |
Zoom fatigue is now setting in, as it moves from being a social lifeline to a chore, used for all interactions while aggravating anxieties in an exhausting time — The rapid trajectory of videoconferencing service Zoom has entered a new phase: What started as a social lifeline during the pandemic …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Zoom rolls out its 5.0 update, focused exclusively on security and privacy features, including easier call management and upgrading encryption — Zoom is moving quickly to address complaints — Zoom promised a 90-day feature freeze to fix privacy and security issues, and the company is delivering on some of those promises.
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Google's Threat Analysis Group shares a report outlining efforts by over 12 state-sponsored hackers using COVID-19 as cover for espionage — More than 12 government-backed groups are using the pandemic as cover for digital reconnaissance and espionage, according to a new report.
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The Keyword, BleepingComputer, CNET, and Yahoo Finance. Tweets: @campuscodi. Thanks:@aaronjstein
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says it will now show the location of large Facebook and Instagram accounts alongside posts, to help users assess their authenticity, rolling out in US — Facebook today is introducing another feature aimed at making it easier to see who's behind the posts published across Facebook and Instagram.| CNBC: |
US Small Business Administration notifies ~8,000 business owners seeking federal relief loans that their personal data may have been exposed to other applicants — - Some small business owners seeking help via the Small Business Administration's Economic Injury Disaster Loan program …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Netflix announces plans to offer $1B in junk bonds to fund operations and potential acquisitions; as of the end of March, Netflix reported $14.17B in debt — Netflix is going back to the debt markets yet again, announcing plans to offer $1 billion in junk bonds to fund operations and potential acquisitions.| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Hands-on with Motorola's new $999 Edge Plus, which has a 6.7-inch display, Snapdragon 865, 5G, 12GB of RAM, 3.5mm jack, and arrives on May 14 on Verizon — Hands-on with Motorola's most powerful phone in years — Motorola is making flagship phones again.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Vivaldi browser gets built-in options to block ads and tracking, with a blocklist powered by DuckDuckGo's Tracker Radar, and comes out of beta on Android — Vivaldi, the browser launched by former Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner, has long positioned itself as a highly customizable alternative to Chrome and Firefox for power users.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google launches a Watchlist feature for Search to help users keep track of TV shows and movies — Google is adding a new feature to Search that will help you keep track of all the TV shows and movies you want to watch during these long weeks at home. The company had already …
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| Danny Palmer / ZDNet: |
Trustwave: the number of ransomware attacks in 2019 quadrupled year-over-year, and they are now more commonplace than payment card theft cybercrime incidents — Ransomware attacks have overtaken credit card theft as the top form of cybercrime according to new data.
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Trustwave, BetaNews, TechRepublic, and infosecurity-magazine.com
Tweets: @shah_sheikh and @dannyjpalmer
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google says Flutter, its open source UI framework, now has nearly 500,000 users, up 10% month-over-month in March, as it outlines future changes — Google today revealed that “nearly half a million developers” now use its open source UI framework Flutter each month.| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Patreon says it laid off 30 employees, 13% of its workforce, partly due to current economic uncertainty, despite seeing a surge in new creators last month — Creative platform Patreon has laid off 30 employees, which is 13% of its workforce, TechCrunch has learned.| Bobby Allyn / NPR: |
Profile of Martin Pichinson, whose firm helps wind down financially troubled tech companies, as his work ramps up amid 21K lost startup jobs since early March — Toggle more options — Monikers have followed Martin Pichinson for his whole career, given his line of work.
Tweets: @npr and @wolfejosh
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Facebook rolls out Messenger Kids to 70+ new countries, adding features to make it easier for parents to connect kids with their friends — With schools closed and people physically distancing, parents are turning to technology more than ever to help their kids connect with friends and family.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Intel details Project Corail, a partnership with Accenture and Sulubaaï Environmental Foundation, debuted in May 2019, that uses AI to monitor coral reef health — To commemorate Earth Day, Intel — in partnership with Accenture and Sulubaaï Environmental Foundation … | Will Knight / Wired: |
MIT has terminated its five-year research collaboration with Chinese AI firm iFlytek, which is accused of supplying tech for surveilling Uighurs in China — Reports accuse iFlytek of selling technology to the government that's used to oppress ethnic Uighurs in China's northwest.
Tweets: @wired, @kenroth, and @tsimonite
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