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Edison Mail says it has "rolled back" an iOS app update that gave a "small percentage" of users full access to other users' email accounts (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Edison Mail says it has “rolled back” an iOS app update that gave a “small percentage” of users full access to other users’ email accounts  —  Edison Mail is one of the more popular third-party email applications for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, but an apparent bug in the service is raising

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Secret Service investigating a crime ring inundating unemployment offices with fake claims

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The US Secret Service says it is investigating a Nigerian crime ring that has been using Americans’ stolen identities to file fraudulently for unemployment benefits, according to Krebs on Security. Authorities say members of the ring were able to exploit weak security measures within many states’ unemployment systems

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While the pandemic has boosted recruitment at Chinese tech companies in some sectors, many smaller online companies have experienced job cuts and hiring freezes (South China Morning Post)

South China Morning Post: While the pandemic has boosted recruitment at Chinese tech companies in some sectors, many smaller online companies have experienced job cuts and hiring freezes  —  In the first quarter of 2020, the number of Chinese recruitment postings across all industries fell 22.6 per cent compared … While the pandemic has boosted

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Jason Rubin, Facebook VP for special gaming initiatives, on how Facebook thinks about gaming and how Oculus Quest can get AAA games like Call of Duty (Seth Schiesel/Protocol)

Seth Schiesel / Protocol: Jason Rubin, Facebook VP for special gaming initiatives, on how Facebook thinks about gaming and how Oculus Quest can get AAA games like Call of Duty  —  Jason Rubin, Facebook’s vice president for special gaming initiatives, tells Protocol how Facebook thinks about gaming — and why streaming games are the future.

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Zoom is investigating performance and connectivity issues affecting many users in the US and UK (Steven Musil/CNET)

Steven Musil / CNET: Zoom is investigating performance and connectivity issues affecting many users in the US and UK  —  Users report being unable to host or join videoconference calls.  —  Some Zoom users early Sunday reported performance issues with the videoconferencing app that prevented them from joining … Zoom is investigating performance and connectivity

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Zoom hit with Sunday morning outage

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Users of videoconferencing platform Zoom are reporting problems hosting and joining meetings and the company is investigating, according to the its status page. “Our team is investigating the root cause of issues joining Zoom Meetings. These issues appear to be limited to a subset of users,” according to

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Mitigating Con Deprivation: Disobey 2020

While the Coronavirus-induced lockdown surely makes life easier for the socially anxious and awkward ones among us, it also takes away the one thing that provides a feeling of belonging and home: conferences. Luckily, there are plenty of videos of past events available online, helping to bypass the time until we can mingle among like-minded

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