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HP Inc. says it plans to cut 7,000 to 9,000 positions, or as much as 16% of its workforce, as it prepares for a CEO transition in November (Nico Grant/Bloomberg)

Nico Grant / Bloomberg: HP Inc. says it plans to cut 7,000 to 9,000 positions, or as much as 16% of its workforce, as it prepares for a CEO transition in November  —  – Fiscal 2020 adjusted profit to be $2.22 to $2.32 per share  — PC giant boosts share buybacks by $5 billion, dividend

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US and UK sign the first-ever bilateral data access agreement, enabled by the Cloud Act, to speed up court-approved data exchanges for criminal investigations (Financial Times)

Financial Times: US and UK sign the first-ever bilateral data access agreement, enabled by the Cloud Act, to speed up court-approved data exchanges for criminal investigations  —  Police and intelligence agencies are to be given expedited access to electronic communications sent by terrorists … US and UK sign the first-ever bilateral data access agreement, enabled

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Judges accepted the rationale that offering DNS and caching makes broadband an information service, allowing the FCC to reclassify it from telecommunications (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: Judges accepted the rationale that offering DNS and caching makes broadband an information service, allowing the FCC to reclassify it from telecommunications  —  Judges reluctantly accepted claim that broadband isn’t “telecommunications.”  —  The Federal Communications Commission … Judges accepted the rationale that offering DNS and caching makes broadband an information

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Rudy Giuliani was briefly kicked off Twitter for tweeting a Ukrainian official’s phone number

Photo by Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images On Thursday, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer and confidant, Rudy Giuliani, was locked out of his Twitter account for a brief period of time after posting a Ukrainian official’s phone number. A Twitter spokesperson told The Verge that Giuliani’s tweets, which included screenshots of text conversations with Andriy Yermak,

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Google Shopping gets a new design with price tracking and a personalized homepage

Google has launched a redesign of Google Shopping in the US across both the online and mobile sites, featuring a new personalized homepage, price tracking, and new Google Lens features for building outfits. The new homepage is now more personalized to your specific shopping preferences, and will automatically suggest reordering products you’ve previously bought and

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Facebook's team for fighting fraudulent app developers and advertisers scores an early win after settling with a New Zealand firm selling fake Instagram likes (Tony Romm/Washington Post)

Tony Romm / Washington Post: Facebook’s team for fighting fraudulent app developers and advertisers scores an early win after settling with a New Zealand firm selling fake Instagram likes  —  The tech giant reached a settlement with a New Zealand company that had peddled fake likes on Instagram Facebook's team for fighting fraudulent app developers

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