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- Jitsi Meet features update, April 2020
- Stop using Google Analytics on your website
- The Ten Rules for Data Modeling with DynamoDB
- Show HN: FalsiScan – Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned
- Free CS Courses – Amazon Future Engineer
- Jax – Composable transformations of Python and NumPy programs
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- A music discovery site used in over 1M videos and games
- List of software and things that use or support WireGuard
- HPE sets end date for hobbyist licenses for OpenVMS
- Zoom sued for overstating, not disclosing privacy, security flaws
- Adding Mainline Arm Frame Buffer Compression Support for Rockchip
- Musth
- Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand? (2007) [pdf]
- Crafting Interpreters Is Complete
- Mosh
- Update on Zoom’s 90-Day Plan to Bolster Key Privacy and Security Initiatives
- Crypto’s Business Model Is Familiar. What Isn’t Is Who Benefits
- Mobile Benchmark Cheating as a Service
- A Static Future: The magic of compile-time workflows
- 230, or not 230? That is the EARN IT question
- Wolf Species Rebounds in Southwest
- Maximator: European signals intelligence cooperation, from a Dutch perspective
- Promising Covid-19 treatment using convalescent serum therapy fast-tracked
- Ext.net 7.0 Preview for Asp.net Core
- Moving from ReCAPTCHA to HCAPTCHA
- Google's Chief Internet Evangelist: 'privacy may be an anomaly' (2013)
- Toilet paper, hand sanitizer. And now web cams
- Natural number game
Reddit: Technology
- Senator backing anti-crypto bill calls out Zoom’s lack of end-to-end crypto
- Kushner’s team seeks national coronavirus surveillance system
- Jack Dorsey Vows to Donate $1 Billion to Fight the Coronavirus
- Taiwan joins Canada in banning Zoom for government video conferencing
- Netflix now lets you lock your profile with a PIN
- Attackers can bypass fingerprint authentication with an ~80% success rate
- Taiwanese team finds key antibodies in COVID-19 patients
- Firefox 75 arrives with revamped address bar, Mozilla sticks to 2020 schedule despite coronavirus
- 5G Conspiracy Theorists Are Using Fears About The Coronavirus To Make Money
- Mozilla Supports the Open COVID Pledge: Making Intellectual Property Freely Available for the Fight Against COVID-19
- Verizon canceling FiOS installs and telling customers to wait a few months
- Introducing DualSense, the New Wireless Game Controller for PlayStation 5
- No driver needed: Self-driving trucks are starting to move cargo on the nation's highways
- Democratic senators question Google over decision to release coronavirus location data
- Tech enthusiast proves Windows 10 can run on 192MB RAM
- California allows startup Nuro to test driverless delivery vehicles
- Netflix will allow parents to remove movies and shows, filter by rating in new update
- NASA puts $7M toward long-shot research, from moon mining to solar lenses
- YouTube tightens Covid-19 rules after David Icke interview
- German foreign ministry restricts use of Zoom over security concerns: report
- Facebook’s Ad System Might Be Hard-Coded for Discrimination The social network says it shows users the most “relevant” ads, but a new study suggests the system perpetuates bias.
- Verizon refuses to give DSL users its low-income deals during pandemic
- BlackBerry: Chinese cybercriminals target high-value Linux servers with weak defenses
- New email service, OnMail, will let recipients control who can send them mail
Tech blogs
Techcrunch
- Talking venture, B2B and thesis-driven investment with Work-Bench’s Jon Lehr
- Mozilla names long-time chairwoman Mitchell Baker as CEO
- Google Stadia is free for everyone, with two-month trial for Pro Tier
- Next year in Jerusalem — but for now, Zoom
- Bernie Sanders ends his historic campaign for the presidency
- Lacking eyeballs, Facebook’s ad review system fails to spot coronavirus harm
- Twine aims to end social isolation with its video chat app for deep conversations
- France is officially working on ‘Stop Covid’ contact-tracing app
- Daily Crunch: Jack Dorsey announces $1B relief fund
- Fintech’s uneven new reality has helped some startups, harmed others
Engadget
- Ableton Live is currently even cheaper than it was on Cyber Monday
- Stadia Pro is free for two months starting today
- Netflix’s ‘Space Force’ spoof starring Steve Carell arrives on May 29th
- HBO Go and Now won't work on older Apple TV models after April
- Netflix and Instagram team up for a series of live COVID-19 chats
- Snapchat is facing outages in the US and Europe
- Of course Huawei will have its own credit card
- Instacart hopes to expedite deliveries with 'first available shopper' option
- The best games for Nintendo Switch
- Boeing finds two more 737 Max software flaws
ZDNet
- Google launches virtual agent tool to answer questions about COVID-19
- Is your MacBook's battery worn?
- Hackers are scanning for vulnerable VPNs in order to launch attacks against remote workers
- Box adds automated malware detection to Box Shield
- Apple might fix your broken iPhone, Mac, or other device for free, even if it's out of warranty (2020 edition)
- COVID-19: Let's not let the hopeful news get lost, part two
- Working from home: How employees' iPhones and Samsungs were put to a new use
- Roundup: Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic delivers array of cybersecurity challenges
- Most US consumers still don't understand 5G wireless, study finds
- Google: Here's how Google Meet beats 'zoombombing' trolls
Wired Magazine
- After 50 Years of Effort, Researchers Made Silicon Emit Light
- Clever Cryptography Could Protect Privacy in Covid-19 Contact-Tracing Apps
- How to Care for Your Car While Sheltering in Place
- A Meme Account About a Mall Is Now a Lifeline
- We Need a Covid-19 Vaccine—Let’s Get It Right the First Time
- That Weird Pain in Your Nuts and the Limits of Telemedicine
- 18 Best Nintendo Switch Games (2020): 'Pokémon', 'Cuphead', and More
- Samsung Galaxy A Series (2020): Specs, Price, Release, and More
- A Cheap 3D Printer Can Trick Smartphone Fingerprint Locks
- To Beat Covid-19, Scientists Try to 'See' the Invisible Enemy
VentureBeat
- Google debuts 2-month Stadia Pro free trial
- Google Cloud launches coronavirus response program with Contact Center AI
- Researchers fool deepfake detectors into classifying fake images as real
- Facial recognition is no match for face masks, but things are changing fast
- Box bolsters cloud security with automated malware detection
- N3twork announces $50 million fund to grow mobile games
- GamesBeat Summit Digital speakers: Neil Young, Bing Gordon, and Kate Edwards
- Vela Games raises $3.1 million for player-first co-op games
- Samsung’s $500 Galaxy A51 5G targets budget-conscious users
- As E3’s online event dies, others step in with digital events for gaming
Gizmodo
- Twitch Overhauls Its Vague Attire Policy With Further Specificity on Underboob
- 10 X-Files Episodes to Watch That Are Still Scary as Hell
- Stadia Is Free
- Cyclone Harold Wreaks Havoc Across the Pacific—And It's Not Done Yet
- It's Way Too Early to Start Nitpicking the Surface Duo's Camera
- Adobe Releases a Free Coloring Book So You Can Color Through It
- Lenovo's Yoga C740 Is a Damn Good Laptop for Under $1,000
- Evidence of 10,000-Year-Old Crops Points to the Amazon as an Early Agricultural Hotspot
- Entire Ecosystems Could Abruptly Go Extinct Within This Decade
- Our First Look at Space Force, That Comedy About the Joke That Is the Real Space Force
Techmeme
- Google makes Stadia free to use for anyone with a Gmail address and will give new users two months of Stadia Pro for free
- Tech giants like Apple, Facebook, and Google are scrambling to create digital internships for this summer, as offices remain shuttered during the pandemic
- Investigation details facial recognition company Clearview AI's ties to the alt-right, including hiring employees with deep links to far-right extremists
- Zoom gives updates on its progress with privacy and security: appointing a CISO Council and Advisory Board and bringing on Alex Stamos as an outside advisor
- Sources: Airbnb is paying 10%+ interest on the $1B funding it raised on Monday; investors were offered free stock warrants based on an $18B valuation
- Google says Meet, its teleconferencing tool, is adding 2M new users a day and logged 2B minutes of video calls in March with daily usage up 25x from January
- Sources: White House team led by Jared Kushner has reached out to health tech companies about creating a real-time surveillance system for tracking COVID-19
- SimilarWeb and Apptopia: amid quarantines, Americans increasingly use online platforms on computers, not smartphones; Nextdoor.com traffic is up 73% from Jan.
- UK's NCSC and US DHS publish a list of 2,500 COVID-19-related threats they are tracking, including malicious websites and email addresses linked to scams
- Study of 225 pieces of COVID-19-related content rated false or misleading: 59% remain up with no warning label on Twitter, 27% on YouTube, and 24% on Facebook
The Verge
- Amazon is temporarily extending its return policy due to the pandemic
- The Verge’s best and worst coronavirus masks
- Valorant had a record-breaking day on Twitch
- Twitter notifies users that it’s now sharing more data with advertisers
- Google launches free version of Stadia with a two-month Pro trial
- Clearview AI CEO disavows white nationalism after exposé on alt-right ties
- Sony’s new DualSense controller is its most exciting design since the original PlayStation
- The Apple Watch Series 5 is cheaper than ever today at Amazon and Best Buy
- Passover and Easter are now Zoom events
- How to look your best on a video call
TNW
- Report: Airbnb gouged for over 10% interest on billion-dollar loan
- AI predicts results of English Premier League matches canceled by coronavirus
- Daily Distraction: Here are some free movies for your popcorn-munching ass
- The internet is obsessed with redesigning the new PS5 controller
- Zoom sued by shareholder after security issues tanked its stock price
- Entrepreneurs get immediate PayPal and Stripe payment notifications with CashNotify
- Study: No, electric car motors don’t adversely interfere with pacemakers
- Why conspiracy theories flourish during pandemics
- Research: How location-tracking apps could stop the spread of coronavirus
- MIT’s sprayable sensor can turn your sofa armrest into a TV remote
Slashdot
- Big Tech's Summer Internships Go Digital
- Hospitals Deploy AI Tools To Detect COVID-19 on Chest Scans
- All Microsoft Events Will Be Digital-only Until July 2021
- Long the Anonymous Cogs in Corporate America's Back Office, Work-From-Home Crises Have Put the IT Department in the Spotlight
- The Virus Changed the Way We Internet
- CFOs Looking To Make Remote Work, Telecommuting More Permanent Following COVID-19, Says Gartner Study
- US Children With COVID-19 Less Likely To Be Hospitalized Than Adults, CDC Study Finds
- NASA Astronaut's Estranged Wife Charged With Lying About Space Crime Allegation
- Easy-To-Pick 'Smart' Locks Gush Personal Data, FTC Finds
- Verizon Is Cancelling Home Internet Installations During the Pandemic
ArsTechnica
- Google makes seamless update support mandatory in Android 11
- Tesla announces pay cuts and worker furloughs
- Zoom brings in former Facebook security head amid lawsuits, investigations
- You can help medical science just by playing a new Borderlands mini-game
- I was bored, so I watched the movie that astronauts must view before launch
- The 2020 World Car of the Year awards are out, and the winner is…
- Attackers can bypass fingerprint authentication with an ~80% success rate
- Moto Razr review—RIP to our Moto Razr (March 30, 2020 – March 31, 2020)
- Asus ROG Zephyrus G14—Ryzen 7nm mobile is here, and it’s awesome
- Scientists ponder how jugglers seem to defy limits to human reaction times
CNET
- Instacart adds features to increase number of deliveries
- Google's video chat service adds 2 million users a day amid coronavirus
- Lyft pulls bait-and-switch on promised coronavirus sick pay, drivers say
- Sony reveals PS5 DualSense controller, Twitter CEO pledges $1B to Covid-19 relief video
- Chan Zuckerberg Biohub and UCSF boost Bay Area coronavirus testing
- Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey pledges $1B to coronavirus relief
- 5G has no link to COVID-19, and Facebook, YouTube are taking down posts
- Coronavirus cancellations and delays: Democratic convention, British Open and more
- Ford car parts inspired new respirator production video
- YouTube throttling conspiracy vids, Quibi's launch video
Flipboard: Tech
- 10 Most In-Demand Tech Jobs On Indeed In 2020
- Tata Elxsi increases focus on healthcare innovation
- These are the best technologies to use from home during social distancing
- Raytheon Technologies Rises 5.86% - Investing.com ZA
- Special Edition, Spring 2020: - Project Syndicate
- Apple commits to hiring over 1,000 summer interns, with online and in-person components - 9to5Mac
- Investors are placing bold bets on tech stocks — this is a very bad idea
- Jared Kushner asking tech companies to build detailed health surveillance network: report
- RPG: The Dark Eye And Stars Without Number Available Free On DriveThruRPG - Bell of Lost Souls
- Sources: NFL sets up tech safeguards for draft
The Register
- Academic showdown as boffins biff-baff over when Version 1.0 of Earth's magnetic core was released
- Buy now, pay later: HPE says demand for financing jumps amid pandemic
- We could all do with a bit of empathy in our systems, says Mozilla as it ships Firefox 75 in the thick of global pandemic
- Asleep at the wheel: Why did it take 5 HOURS for Microsoft to acknowledge an Azure DevOps TITSUP*?
- You're either bored stiff or going bonkers with stress in lockdown. Maybe you could take a break with this survey?
- Tribunal halts all Information Commissioner's Office cases because UK data watchdog can't print or organise PDFs
- Commit to Android codebase suggests Google may strong-arm phone makers into using 'seamless' partitioned updates
- Saving your battery as well as your privacy? New Brave for Android claims 5% power reduction
- Dixons Carphone top brass take 20% pay cut as swathes of Brit workforce furloughed
- Changing of the guard at Cloud Foundry: CTO made executive director, VMware veep becomes chairman of the board
Medium: Technology
- How AI Is Helping in the Fight Against COVID-19
- A Hopeful Future
- YouTube Tested by Flood of Star Doctors During ‘Infodemic’
- The Technology That Could Free America From Quarantine
- The Strangest Operating Systems Ever Released
- Working on Security and Safety with Zoom
- Civic Tech takes on a pandemic
- What is Quibi?
- Across the Universe
- How IoT Keeps Mine Workers Breathing Underground
Vox: Recode
- Support Vox’s explanatory journalism
- 6 things to know about telehealth
- These are the trade-offs we make when we depend on billionaires to save us
- What you should know about Jack Dorsey’s surprising $1 billion commitment to charity
- America’s emergency medical stockpile is almost empty. Nobody knows what happens next.
- The tech sector is finally delivering on its promise
- Quibi — the new short-form streaming service for your phone — explained
- Amazon white-collar employees are fuming over management targeting a fired warehouse worker
- Trump ordered more N95 masks. 3M says his tactics could make the shortage worse.
ReadWrite
- Global Immigration Market Is Shaped By AI, Tech Careers
- SellYourMac’s Brian Burke on the True Costs of Old Tech
- 5 Signs that You are Ready to Scale Business and Deploy Innovation
- Is Content Driving the Online Market?
- Refocusing Your Agency’s Media Operations During the Pandemic Will Lead to Long-Term Growth
- How Technology Can Replace the Watercooler and Connect Employees
- 3 Ways to Better Manage Your Company’s Most Valuable Resource
- 7 Actionable Tips to Secure Your Smart Home and IoT Devices
- How to Become an Expert Copywriter 8 Tricks to Learn
- Cybersecurity, Modern Technology and Business Threats
MIT Technology Review
- Facebook has a new social network that’s just for couples
- Blood plasma taken from covid-19 survivors might help patients fight it off
- The pandemic has messed up global supply chains. Blockchains could help.
- Why the coronavirus lockdown is making the internet stronger than ever
- Here are the states that will have the worst hospital bed shortages
- WhatsApp is limiting message forwarding to combat coronavirus misinformation
- Google’s auto-complete for speech can cover up glitches in video calls
- Why some covid-19 tests in the US take more than a week
- Google taught this robotic dog to learn new tricks by imitating a real one
- How to make sense of all the information about coronavirus
Mainstream media
NYTimes: Tech
- Uber and Lyft Drivers Face Hurdles to Stimulus Bill Benefits
- A.I. Is Helping Scientists Understand an Ocean’s Worth of Data
- Computers Already Learn From Us. But Can They Teach Themselves?
- Want to Be Better at Sports? Listen to the Machines
- Thanks to A.I., Machines Get a Taste for the Right Kinds of Food
- You Can’t Spell Creative Without A.I.
- Artists Explore A.I., With Some Deep Unease
- College Is Hard. Iggy, Pounce, Cowboy Joe and Sunny are Here to Help.
- In the Battle Against the Machines, She’s Holding Her Ground
- Jack Dorsey Vows to Donate $1 Billion to Fight the Coronavirus
WSJ: Tech
- iPhone Can't Recognize You With a Mask On? Here's What To Do About It
- Instagram Draws Surge in Offers of Masks With Potential Risks
- Airbnb Paying More Than 10% Interest on $1 Billion Financing
- Twitter's Dorsey Pledges $1 Billion to Charity, Including Coronavirus Relief
- Amazon to Suspend Delivery Service That Competes With UPS, FedEx
- WeWork Directors Sue SoftBank Over Terminated $3 Billion Share Offer
- CNN Buys Canopy, Maker of News-Reader App
- Facebook's WhatsApp Battles Coronavirus Misinformation
- Nope, Your Parents' Home Isn't the Best Place to Work
- Foursquare Merges With Factual, Another Location-Data Provider
Washington Post: Technology
- The NBA sends its stars to the gaming world, but not its esports league
- The Technology 202: Airbnb is reeling from the coronavirus fallout
- On Twitter, almost 60 percent of false claims about coronavirus remain online — without a warning label
- More than money, gaming needs its ‘Snow White’ moment, says indie star Jenova Chen
- For all its greatness, Final Fantasy VII wasn’t a good game. Let’s remember why.
- The Technology 202: Democratic senators blast WhatsApp’s handling of coronavirus falsehoods
- Meet the ‘Weird Al’ Yankovics of our social distancing era
- After botched test flight, Boeing will refly its Starliner spacecraft for NASA
- The ultimate guide to which socializing app is right for you, from Zoom to Netflix Party
- Your Internet is working. Thank these Cold War-era pioneers who designed it to handle almost anything
Guardian: Tech UK
- Influencers among 'key distributors' of coronavirus misinformation
- Final Fantasy VII Remake review – a classic game reaches new heights
- Twitter chief to donate quarter of his fortune to coronavirus fight
- PlayStation 5: Sony reveals new DualSense controller
- What I’m really watching: living room comedy and upscale junk food
- 'Jeff Bezos values profits above safety': Amazon workers voice pandemic concern
- Google's UK staff earned average of £234,000 in 2019
- WhatsApp to impose new limit on forwarding to fight fake news
- Apple MacBook Air review: 2020's near-perfect consumer laptop
- How false claims about 5G health risks spread into the mainstream
BBC: Tech UK
- Tesla cuts staff pay as coronavirus halts production
- Coronavirus: Covid-19 detecting apps face teething problems
- Facebook releases couples-only messaging app
- Coronavirus: Twitter boss pledges $1bn for relief effort
- Coronavirus: 'Reading about virus online makes me anxious'
- Apps to help you stay social during lockdown
- Zoom banned by Taiwan's government over China security fears
- Coronavirus: YouTube tightens rules after David Icke 5G interview
- Pixel 4: Google addresses Face Unlock problem five months later
- Short-form streaming app Quibi launches to rival Netflix
Computing UK
- Covid-19: How G4S has coped with the lockdown
- Boeing discovers two new flaws in the flight control software of 737 MAX
- DarkHotel APT is exploiting SangFor VPN vulnerability to target Chinese institutions, claims Chinese security firm
- WhatsApp imposes new limit on message forwarding to curtail spread of fake news
- Covid-19: the race to create privacy-focused contact tracing tools
- How to mitigate the privacy issues of video conferencing platforms
- Interpol warns of increase in ransomware attacks against hospitals amid Covid-19 crisis
- Just 17 per cent of all internet-facing Microsoft Exchange servers are patched against CVE-2020-0688 vulnerability
- Social media platforms asked to take much swifter action against fake 5G coronavirus conspiracy theory
- Covid-19 response at Worcestershire County Council: Not just keeping the lights on
BleepingComputer
- Zoom removes meeting IDs from client title bar to boost security
- Microsoft: No surge in malicious attacks, only more COVID-19 lures
- Firefox now tells Mozilla what your default browser is every day
- Zoom creates council of CISOs to solve security, privacy issues
- Microsoft releases April 2020 Office updates with crash fixes
- Microsoft and Google postpone insecure authentication removal
- Chrome 81 Released With 32 Security Fixes and Web NFC API
- NASA under 'significantly increasing' hacking, phishing attacks
- Drug testing firm sends data breach alerts after ransomware attack
- Microsoft buys corp.com to prevent Windows account hijacking
Reuters: Technology News
- Video service Zoom taking security seriously: U.S. government memo
- Zoom hires former Facebook security chief to beef up privacy, safety
- Zoom sued for overstating, not disclosing privacy, security flaws
- German foreign ministry restricts use of Zoom over security concerns: report
- Turkey to track citizens via mobile phones to enforce quarantines
- EU to adopt unified policy on coronavirus mobile apps
- Tesla to furlough workers, cut employee salaries due to coronavirus
- China orders Baidu to clean up 'low-brow content'
- Jack Dorsey pledges $1 billion of his Square stake for COVID-19 relief efforts
- Amazon to suspend delivery service competing with UPS, FedEx