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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 … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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.
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| 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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Analysis: thousands of people are organizing via private group chats, message boards, Twitter, Instagram, more to execute coordinated “Zoombombing” campaigns — Zoom, the videoconferencing app, has become a target for harassment and abuse coordinated in private off-platform chats.
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| Jim Waterson / The Guardian: |
Telecom engineers, considered essential workers in the UK, are facing harassment from anti-5G conspiracy mongers, linking the deployment of 5G to coronavirus — EE suspects telephone mast engulfed by fire in Birmingham was an arson attack as celebrities claim Covid-19 caused by new network
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| 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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| 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.
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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 … | 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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| 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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| 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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| Jane Zhang / South China Morning Post: |
4Paradigm, a China-based startup providing AI-powered real-time data analytics, raises $230M from Cisco, Lenovo, and others, at a post-money valuation of ~$2B — The funding round has attracted new strategic investors including American technology conglomerate Cisco and the world's largest …
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