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Sources: Google will keep nearly all of its employees working from home until at least July 2021, affecting almost 200,000 full-time and contract employees — Search-engine giant pushes back return to normalcy — SAN FRANCISCO—Google will keep its employees home until at least next July … | Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg plans to tell Congress that Facebook's rise is an American success story and regulation only serves to help Chinese companies — - CEO likely to use testimony to set up comparison with China — Zuckerberg sees weakening of American tech as helping China
Tweets: @sarahfrier, @mathewi, @moonalice, @mathewi, @benthompson, @mattzeitlin, @sarahfrier, @hshaban, @willoremus, @next_china, and @sarahfrier
| New York Times: |
Jeff Bezos has taken a hands-off approach to Washington, staying above the fray, but that changes with his first-ever Congressional testimony on Wednesday — The chief executive, who testifies before Congress for the first time on Wednesday, had taken a hands-off approach with lawmakers in Washington.
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Tweets: @wsjbusiness, @hshaban, @fightfortheftr, @dmccabe, and @hypervisible
| Matt Johnston / iTnews: |
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission sues Google for allegedly expanding the use of users' personal data without gaining explicit consent — This time over expanded use of personal data. — The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has again taken aim at Google …
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Australian Competition …, Reuters, AppleInsider, The Register, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, MediaNama, ZDNet, and Neowin
Tweets: @wolfiechristl and @acccgovau
| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at work-from-home trends: rise of “desktop as a service”, purpose-built hardware for remote communication, and more investment in home office equipment — Tens of millions of Americans are working from home and many will never go back; employers scramble to figure out what tools they'll need to stay productive
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The Atlantic. Tweets: @taylorlorenz, @tommorton, @mims, @mims, @dianeswonk, @idpharmacometrx, @cindyotis_, @prof_smurph, @wsj, @genszen, @cbdawson, @k_morrissey, @profmusgrave, @mims, @mims, and @mims
| Bloomberg: |
Sources detail Twitter's struggle to control employee account access: multiple warnings to Dorsey since 2015, bogus help requests used to snoop, and more — - Dorsey, Twitter's board warned repeatedly, ex-employees say — Company says 1,500 staff and contractors can access user data
Tweets: @firstadopter
| Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Audit finds six election boards in MI, MO, ME, NH using a buggy version of email software Exim, which the NSA says has been targeted in attacks by Russia's GRU — Six jurisdictions used software that Russian spies have targeted in cyberattacks — Many of the thousands of county …
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Mashable, Area 1 Security, Gizmodo, The Verge, and Engadget
Tweets: @wsj, @wsjpolitics, and @dabeard
| Prasid Banerjee / Livemint: |
A look at how India has become a “hack-for-hire” hub, as the growing, dark, and shady industry targets politicians, companies, and activists — - Politicians, companies and activists are increasingly being targeted by a secretive industry. How does it work?
Tweets: @dillidurast and @razhael
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Digital banking app and tech unicorn Dave confirms a security breach after a hacker published personal information on 7.5M+ of its users on a public forum — Dave user data is now available for download on a public hacking forum. — Digital banking app and tech unicorn Dave.com confirmed today …
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A Banking Blog for Humans, TechCrunch, BleepingComputer, and Slashdot
Tweets: @notsolpon, @ungarino, @mdudas, @haveibeenpwned, @troyhunt, @troyhunt, @ws, and @campuscodi
| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
The debate over TikTok is a chance to come up with a thoughtful model to regulate big tech companies, whether they're based in China, Copenhagen, or California — There is plenty the U.S. government could do to ensure that TikTok acts responsibly without getting rid of it altogether.
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Beyond Search. Tweets: @taylorlorenz, @kevinroose, @hunterwalk, @jchengwsj, @slhamlet, @andylalwani, @sherman4949, @rabois, @taylorlorenz, @taylorlorenz, @taylorlorenz, @taylorlorenz, @taylorlorenz, @taylorlorenz, @taylorlorenz, @sherman4949, @mattzeitlin, @readmargins, @adamconner, @ruima, and @aaschapiro
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
OnePlus Nord review: 90Hz OLED display, sub-6GHz 5G, and great battery, but its CPU can hold the phone back and the camera is mediocre despite multiple lenses — A less expensive OnePlus phone that mostly ticks all the boxes — If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission.
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The Guardian, Ars Technica, Wired, OneZero , CNET, Android Police, and Engadget
| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
SAP announces plans to spin out Qualtrics, a user experience management platform it acquired in 2018 for $8B, with an IPO in the US — Twenty months after SAP swooped in and announced its plan to acquire Qualtrics for $8 billion as it was on the cusp of an IPO, the experience management software company may be going public after all.
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