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Sources: Apple to roll out 12-month interest-free Apple Card payment plans for iPads, Macs, more and 6-month plans for AirPods, Apple TV, and HomePod — - Company gearing up for monthly installments for Apple Card — Similar feature for iPhone purchases already available on card
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Tweets: @arthurtyson3, @charlesarthur, @martinsfp, @reneritchie, and @caro_milanesi
| Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
More than 140 scientists funded by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative urge Mark Zuckerberg to reconsider Facebook's policies on misinformation and incendiary language — More than 140 scientists funded by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative urged Mark Zuckerberg to enforce stricter policies around …
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| Rana Foroohar / Financial Times: |
To remain this big and unregulated, Facebook aligns itself with powers that be, as its actions in Myanmar and now in the US show — To stay this big and unregulated, the social media platform can't afford to upset rulers — Oligarchs are immoral business leaders who …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Overall, remote learning this spring didn't work: schools disagree on fair student assessment, students lack equal access to technology, teaching got harder — The pandemic forced schools into a crash course in online education. Problems piled up quickly. ‘I find it hectic and stressful’| Chen Du / PingWest: |
Sources: ByteDance has recently implemented a restriction on employees in China from accessing code bases for overseas products like TikTok — ByteDance has been erecting technical firewalls between its China and global operations for more than a year, PingWest has learned …
Tweets: @benthompson, @niubi, @elliottzaagman, @lichtspektrum, and @lichtspektrum
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Three Amazon workers file lawsuit alleging that Amazon has failed to adequately protect workers from COVID-19 by not following CDC's contact tracing guidelines — - A lawsuit filed by three Amazon workers calls into question the company's contact tracing efforts.
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| Tanya Basu / MIT Technology Review: |
Google Docs is a key tool for organizing protests, as activists anonymously edit public lists of funds, charities, books on racism, and letter-writing templates — Facebook and Twitter might have the bells and whistles, but the word processing doc's simplicity and accessibility have made it a winning tool.
Tweets: @hautepop, @dariorodighiero, @lizzadwoskin, @aakarpost, @halleberry, @tanyabasu, @tanyabasu, and @niallfirth
| Fahmida Y Rashid / IEEE Spectrum: |
Q&A: web cryptography pioneers Martin Hellman, Taher Elgamal, and Tom Jermoluk on recent advances in authentication tech, and what the future could look like — Martin Hellman, Taher Elgamal, and Tom Jermoluk were instrumental in shaping how the Internet works. Now they're looking at what's next for web security.
Tweets: @ieeespectrum
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Israeli court sentences the co-owners of vDOS, a now defunct DDoS-for-hire service, to six months of community service — The co-owners of vDOS, a now-defunct service that for four years helped paying customers launch more than two million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) …
Tweets: @briankrebs
| Dan Strumpf / Wall Street Journal: |
Interviews with Huawei staff and a review of internal documents shed light on Huawei's efforts to reorganize and aggressively respond to the growing US pressure — Internal communications show how Chinese telecom giant pivoted to counter Washington's charges with lawsuits, reorganization; ‘the company has entered a state of war’
Tweets: @cbcwatcher, @adrianweckler, @bobdavis187, and @docolumide
| Atlantic Council: |
How Tunisia-based PR firm UReputation used social media platforms and websites to spread disinformation and influence elections in 10 African countries — In-Depth Research & Reports by Andy Carvin, Luiza Bandeira, Graham Brookie, Iain Robertson, Nika Aleksejeva, Alyssa Kann, Kanishk Karan … | Jared Council / Wall Street Journal: |
Black tech execs hope the current attention on racial disparities will help diversify tech workers, as black people account for only 7.8% of core US IT workers — Despite yearslong efforts by companies to diversify their tech workforces, black people account for less than 8% of core IT workers in the U.S.
Tweets: @federallamm, @wsj, @shatter242, and @grattongirl
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