John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: negotiations between Congressional lawmakers on online privacy policies include limits on tech giants' collection, storage, and use of personal info — Disclosures of social-media harms to young people put pressure on Congress, tech companies to safeguard personal information
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Wednesday, April 27, 2022
Sources: negotiations between Congressional lawmakers on online privacy policies include limits on tech giants' collection, storage, and use of personal info (John D. McKinnon/Wall Street Journal)
How to backup WhatsApp chats on Google Drive
Tuesday, April 26, 2022
Analysis: Huawei spent $22.1B, or 22.4% of its revenue, on R&D in 2021, seeking to sidestep US sanctions; Meta invested 20.9% into R&D, far above its US peers (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Analysis: Huawei spent $22.1B, or 22.4% of its revenue, on R&D in 2021, seeking to sidestep US sanctions; Meta invested 20.9% into R&D, far above its US peers — Few companies devote more of their revenue to research than Huawei Technologies Co., for which developing new technologies …
Sources detail how Elon Musk's Twitter bid succeeded: Morgan Stanley gathering support for $25.5B in loans, overcoming initial shareholder doubts, and more (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
Sources detail how Elon Musk's Twitter bid succeeded: Morgan Stanley gathering support for $25.5B in loans, overcoming initial shareholder doubts, and more — Tesla boss convinced Wall Street sceptics to back his $44bn takeover offer — Just 12 days ago, some of the most experienced operators …
Why Uber may be in legal trouble in Australia
Fidelity will let retirement savers put bitcoin into their 401(k) accounts starting later in 2022, the first major retirement plan provider to do so (Anne Tergesen/Wall Street Journal)
Anne Tergesen / Wall Street Journal:
Fidelity will let retirement savers put bitcoin into their 401(k) accounts starting later in 2022, the first major retirement plan provider to do so — Investment giant's move could send cryptocurrency investing further into mainstream if employers decide to offer option
SonarSource, which helps companies detect reliability and vulnerability issues in code, raises $412M co-led by Advent and General Catalyst at a $4.7B valuation (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
SonarSource, which helps companies detect reliability and vulnerability issues in code, raises $412M co-led by Advent and General Catalyst at a $4.7B valuation — Maintaining source code is one of the toughest challenges that software developers face. In a 2020 survey from Sourcegraph …
Facebook-owner Meta fights to overturn UK order to sell Giphy
Monday, April 25, 2022
Sources: Tencent-controlled Chinese video game streaming service Huya, which rivals DouYu, will lay off hundreds of staff; Huya had 2,075 employees in 2020 (Josh Ye/Reuters)
Josh Ye / Reuters:
Sources: Tencent-controlled Chinese video game streaming service Huya, which rivals DouYu, will lay off hundreds of staff; Huya had 2,075 employees in 2020 — Chinese video game streaming site Huya (HUYA.N) has started laying off staff, three sources close to the matter said …
Source: Twitter could reach a deal with Elon Musk for a takeover at $54.20 per share as soon as today; Twitter stock jumps ~4% (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Source: Twitter could reach a deal with Elon Musk for a takeover at $54.20 per share as soon as today; Twitter stock jumps ~4% — Twitter is in the final stretch of negotiations about a sale to Elon Musk, a person with knowledge of knowledge of the matter said, Bloomberg News reports.
Sunday, April 24, 2022
Apple, Amazon, and Google have turned to old union-busting tactics, like surveilling workers suspected of organizing, posting propaganda, and hiring consultants (Washington Post)
Washington Post:
Apple, Amazon, and Google have turned to old union-busting tactics, like surveilling workers suspected of organizing, posting propaganda, and hiring consultants — Tech companies are facing increasing momentum from workers trying to organize — At a Staten Island warehouse set to start …
Oracle patches a critical bug in Java 15 and above, which lets attackers forge TLS certificates and signatures, two-factor authentication messages, and more (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Oracle patches a critical bug in Java 15 and above, which lets attackers forge TLS certificates and signatures, two-factor authentication messages, and more — A failure to sanity check signatures for division-by-zero flaws makes forgeries easy. — Organizations using newer versions …
Sources: Twitter's board met Sunday to discuss Elon Musk's bid, which is being considered more seriously after Musk's filing detailed $46.5B in financing (New York Times)
New York Times:
Sources: Twitter's board met Sunday to discuss Elon Musk's bid, which is being considered more seriously after Musk's filing detailed $46.5B in financing — Twitter's 11-member board met on Sunday morning to discuss Mr. Musk's offer to buy the company and take it private. — Give this article- - - Read in app
Reliance Industries calls off its $3.4B acquisition of core parts of Indian retail chain Future Group, following Amazon's legal fight against the deal (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Reliance Industries calls off its $3.4B acquisition of core parts of Indian retail chain Future Group, following Amazon's legal fight against the deal — Reliance Industries “cannot implement” its $3.4 billion deal to acquire core parts of retail chain Future Group after the latter's secured …
A look at India's draft DPDP rules, which require platforms to verify the age and identity of a parent when obtaining consent to process data of users under 18 (Kamya Pandey/MEDIANAMA)
Kamya Pandey / MEDIANAMA : A look at India's draft DPDP rules, which require platforms to verify the age and identity of a parent whe...
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Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist : Since October, the NYPD has deployed a quadruped robot called Spot to a handful of crime scenes and hostage...
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Lorena O'Neil / Rolling Stone : A look at the years of warnings about AI from researchers, including several women of color, who say ...