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Interview with Sundar Pichai on working from home, antitrust, collaborating with Apple and others, how Alphabet's holding company model held up, and more — In an interview, the Google and Alphabet CEO discusses working from home, weathering antitrust probes, and how the company needs to do a better job on diversity.
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| Olivia Carville / Bloomberg: |
IBM announces job cuts, will offer subsidized medical coverage to all affected US employees through June 2021; sources say layoffs will be in the thousands — - Thousands of IBM workers in North America likely affected — Newly unemployed staff fear finding another job in a recession
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| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Mozilla, Twitter, and a coalition that includes Facebook, Apple, and Google, call on Congress to protect search and browser data from warrantless access — A recent amendment to require the FBI to get a warrant to view browsing data failed by one vote. — A group of technology companies …
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise unveils plans targeting gross savings of at least $1B by 2022, including layoffs and temporary pay cuts of 25% for top executives — (Reuters) - Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE.N) on Thursday unveiled a plan targeting gross savings of at least $1 billion by 2022 …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Sources: a version of iOS 14 dated Dec. 2019, likely obtained via a development iPhone 11, has been circulating among researchers and jailbreakers for months — Security researchers and hackers have had access to a leaked early version of iOS 14, the iPhone's next operating system, since at least February, Motherboard has learned.
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| Camilla Tominey / Telegraph: |
Boris Johnson instructed officials to draw up plans to reduce Huawei's involvement in UK's 5G networks to zero by 2023, a reversal of a softer policy approach — The Prime Minister has instructed officials to draw up plans that would see China's involvement in the UK's 5G network reduced to zero
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| Kate Cox / Ars Technica: |
US district court rules that turning on a phone to view its lockscreen without unlocking it qualifies as searching the phone and would generally need a warrant — Location data requires a warrant since 2018; lock screen may now, too. — Smartphones are a rich data trove not only for marketers but also for law enforcement.
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| Karen Weise / New York Times: |
Sources: while Amazon has pushed its annual Prime Day to September, the company is preparing for an earlier “Summer Sale” to let brands sell excess inventory — After losing some online shoppers to rivals during the pandemic, the retail giant is turning back to faster shipping times and big sales.| Reuters: |
US Commerce Dept. adds 7 Chinese tech companies to economic blacklist for complicity in human rights violations, including Softbank-backed CloudMinds — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Friday it would add 33 Chinese firms and institutions to an economic blacklist … | Emily Birnbaum / Protocol: |
The presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden does not have a top adviser for tech policy and lacks the tech policy infrastructure of his Democratic predecessors — The former VP and presumptive Democratic nominee lacks the tech policy infrastructure of his predecessors.
Tweets: @tonyajoriley, @birnbaum_e, and @rdrv3
| Tom McKay / Gizmodo: |
A US Copyright Office report states that the DMCA's safe harbor provision is “askew” and recommends making it easier for rightsholders to issue takedown notices — The U.S. Copyright Office has released a long-awaited, 192-page report that could give the music and movie industry …
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A look at China's plan to invest an estimated $1.4T over six years to build out 5G, surveillance infrastructure, and AI, relying heavily on Chinese companies — - Latest infrastructure blueprint aims to spur virus-hit economy — Plan helps Beijing swap foreign brands for national champions
Tweets: @rajatsethi86, @johnhemmings2, @khoelzle, and @lisaabramowicz1
| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Audible is in talks to acquire celebrity podcasts and considers selling original shows individually; Amazon Music is also preparing to add podcasts — Under growing pressure from Spotify, the e-commerce giant is looking to spend big in podcast land
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