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    • Retailers are using employee influencers on TikTok to garner organic reach, compensating them according to leaderboards built into employee advocacy platforms (Michael Waters/Digiday)

    Michael Waters / Digiday: Retailers are using employee influencers on TikTok to garner organic reach, compensating them according to leaderboards built into employee advocacy platforms  —  Brands and retailers are desperate to get their employees to post on TikTok.  —  Last week, GameStop encouraged store workers … Retailers are using employee influencers on TikTok to

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    • Austrian Supreme Court makes a final ruling in a long-running Facebook speech takedown case, ruling it must remove defamatory posts about a politician worldwide (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

    Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Austrian Supreme Court makes a final ruling in a long-running Facebook speech takedown case, ruling it must remove defamatory posts about a politician worldwide  —  Austria’s Supreme Court has dismissed Facebook’s appeal in a long running speech takedown case — ruling it must remove references … Austrian Supreme Court makes a

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    • DHS says US election was the most secure, with "no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised" (Jay Peters/The Verge)

    Jay Peters / The Verge: DHS says US election was the most secure, with “no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised”  —  “The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history.”  —  The November 3rd election was the … DHS says US

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    • Total PC market, including tablets, grew to 124.5M units in Q3, up 23% YoY; Lenovo shipped 23.5M devices, up 11.6% YoY, Apple shipped 22.1M, up 41% YoY (Canalys)

    Canalys: Total PC market, including tablets, grew to 124.5M units in Q3, up 23% YoY; Lenovo shipped 23.5M devices, up 11.6% YoY, Apple shipped 22.1M, up 41% YoY  —  Shanghai (China), Bengaluru (India), Singapore, Reading (UK) and Portland (US) – Thursday, 12 November, 2020 Total PC market, including tablets, grew to 124.5M units in Q3,

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    • ‘No evidence’ voting in the US ‘was in any way compromised,’ says Department of Homeland Security

    Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The November 3rd election was the “most secure in American history” and “there is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised,” according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

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    • iOS 14.3 beta code indicates Apple may suggest third-party apps to users during the iPhone or iPad setup process, likely to appease antitrust concerns (Filipe Espósito/9to5Mac)

    Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: iOS 14.3 beta code indicates Apple may suggest third-party apps to users during the iPhone or iPad setup process, likely to appease antitrust concerns  —  As Apple has been investigating for anti-competitive practices, the company is working on new ways to avoid these accusations and even sanctions from governments around the

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    • Many Mac users experienced app slowdowns during the launch of Big Sur, possibly due to issues with Apple's OCSP service being unable to validate certificates (Ars Technica)

    Ars Technica: Many Mac users experienced app slowdowns during the launch of Big Sur, possibly due to issues with Apple’s OCSP service being unable to validate certificates  —  Even Macs that didn’t upgrade to Big Sur had problems.  —  Mac users today began experiencing unexpected issues … Many Mac users experienced app slowdowns during the

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