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    • Russian hacker group called Digital Revolution claims it breached a contractor for FSB and discovered details of a project intended to build an IoT botnet (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

    Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Russian hacker group called Digital Revolution claims it breached a contractor for FSB and discovered details of a project intended to build an IoT botnet  —  Digital Revolution hacker group leaks details about “Fronton” an IoT botnet a contractor was allegedly building for the FSB, Russia’s intelligence agency. Russian hacker group

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    Google’s Pigweed for ARM development is a nice surprise

    Setting up an environment for Embedded Development was traditionally a pain and so vendors provide integrated development environments to help bridge the gap. Google has open-sourced their version of an embedded targeted environment designated as embedded-targeted libraries which they trademarked Pigweed. Google trademarked Pigweed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in February and it

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    • Amazon warehouse workers and drivers fear the impact of COVID-19 as Amazon grows into an essential service, warning of uneven enforcement of safety measures (Josh Dzieza/The Verge)

    Josh Dzieza / The Verge: Amazon warehouse workers and drivers fear the impact of COVID-19 as Amazon grows into an essential service, warning of uneven enforcement of safety measures  —  Amazon is positioning itself as an ‘essential’ service during the pandemic — a move that benefits the company and puts its warehouse workers and drivers

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    • Sources: SoftBank-backed car-rental startup Getaround, once valued at $1B+, is actively seeking a sale as it deals with the impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak (Bloomberg)

    Bloomberg: Sources: SoftBank-backed car-rental startup Getaround, once valued at $1B+, is actively seeking a sale as it deals with the impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak  —  The car-sharing company Getaround is actively seeking a sale as the coronavirus outbreak has sent demand plunging and left … Sources: SoftBank-backed car-rental startup Getaround, once valued at B+,

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    • Microsoft introduces a Healthcare Bot service using AI to assist frontline organizations, like the CDC, in directing individuals to appropriate medical care (The Official Microsoft Blog)

    The Official Microsoft Blog: Microsoft introduces a Healthcare Bot service using AI to assist frontline organizations, like the CDC, in directing individuals to appropriate medical care  —  In a crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s not only important to deliver medical care but to also provide information to help people … Microsoft introduces a Healthcare

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    • Google launches a dedicated COVID-19 website, focused on locally relevant info in the US, as well as enhanced Search results for terms related to the disease (Dieter Bohn/The Verge)

    Dieter Bohn / The Verge: Google launches a dedicated COVID-19 website, focused on locally relevant info in the US, as well as enhanced Search results for terms related to the disease  —  After lots of complicated drama, a simple website  —  One week ago, President Donald Trump held a press conference wherein … Google launches

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    • Google’s coronavirus website finally launches alongside enhanced search results

    Google’s Covid-19 information website, at google.com/covid19 One week ago, President Donald Trump held a press conference wherein he claimed Google would be building a screening website for the coronavirus that would direct people to testing sites. As we learned in the following days, that wasn’t true. Google’s sister company Verily did launch such a site,

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    • Huawei is testing AppSearch, an app that makes it easy to search and sideload popular Android apps without using Google Play Store, bypassing the US trade ban (Mishaal Rahman/XDA Developers)

    Mishaal Rahman / XDA Developers: Huawei is testing AppSearch, an app that makes it easy to search and sideload popular Android apps without using Google Play Store, bypassing the US trade ban  —  Because the U.S. Commerce Department placed Huawei on the Entity List last year, Huawei cannot sign new Mobile Application Distribution Agreements …

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    • Four US senators, including Bernie Sanders, have sent a letter to Jeff Bezos questioning how Amazon is keeping its warehouse workers safe amid COVID-19 (Jay Peters/The Verge)

    Jay Peters / The Verge: Four US senators, including Bernie Sanders, have sent a letter to Jeff Bezos questioning how Amazon is keeping its warehouse workers safe amid COVID-19  —  The group of senators includes Bernie Sanders  —  A group of four US senators, including Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders … Four US senators, including

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    • Movie listings site Moviefone is sold for $1M as part of a bankruptcy auction by MoviePass owner, which had acquired Moviefone from Oath in 2018 (Trey Williams/The Wrap)

    Trey Williams / The Wrap: Movie listings site Moviefone is sold for $1M as part of a bankruptcy auction by MoviePass owner, which had acquired Moviefone from Oath in 2018  —  Helios & Matheson filed for bankruptcy after blowing through millions of dollars to keep its MoviePass business up and running. Movie listings site Moviefone

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    • Court documents allege some Facebook execs knew for years its potential reach ad metric was "inflated and misleading"; Facebook says the claims have no merit (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)

    Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: Court documents allege some Facebook execs knew for years its potential reach ad metric was “inflated and misleading”; Facebook says the claims have no merit  —  New court documents claim company was aware key ad metric was exaggerating marketing reach Court documents allege some Facebook execs knew for years its

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    • Sources: Airbnb's plans to go public are in disarray after the company racked up hundreds of millions of dollars in losses this year (Brandy Betz/Seeking Alpha)

    Brandy Betz / Seeking Alpha: Sources: Airbnb’s plans to go public are in disarray after the company racked up hundreds of millions of dollars in losses this year  —  The coronavirus pandemic has led to hundreds of millions in losses for Airbnb (AIRB) and has the company considering a funding round rather than going public,

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