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 …



Robotaxi startup Pony.ai announces that it has received a license to operate 100 self-driving cars as traditional taxis in the Chinese city of Guangzhou (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)

Evelyn Cheng / CNBC:
Robotaxi startup Pony.ai announces that it has received a license to operate 100 self-driving cars as traditional taxis in the Chinese city of Guangzhou  —  - Self-driving start-up Pony.ai announced Sunday it received a taxi license, the first of its kind in China.



What to expect for iPhone 14: 48MP wide-angle camera, pill-shaped and circular cutouts instead of a notch, and an A16 for Pro models, a larger 6.7" 14 Max (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
What to expect for iPhone 14: 48MP wide-angle camera, pill-shaped and circular cutouts instead of a notch, and an A16 for Pro models, a larger 6.7" 14 Max  —  Even though it may feel like the iPhone 13 just went on sale, the iPhone 14 launch is less than six months away.



Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo is pursuing an urgent IPO via a SPAC merger at a valuation of less than $500M; it was last valued at $1.2B in 2024 (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Meir Orbach / CTech : Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo is pursuing an urgent IPO via a SPAC merger at a valuation of less than $500M; ...