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    • AT&T claims a weeks-long voicemail outage will be fixed with a single device update, but that doesn’t make sense

    Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge AT&T has been experiencing a weeks-long voicemail outage affecting customers across the country. But it’s hard to tell exactly what’s causing the outage, or how long until it will be fixed — and AT&T is saying conflicting things about what’s going on. Here’s what the company told us,

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    • Google accused of spying with new tool that flags large employee meetings

    Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Google employees have accused their employer of creating a surveillance tool disguised as a calendar extension designed to monitor gatherings of more than 100 people, a signal that those employees may be planning protests or discussing union organizing. Google parent company Alphabet “categorically” denies the accusation. The accusation, outlined

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    Top Chinese official misses space conference amid U.S.-China tensions

    Diplomatic tensions between China and the United States continued to climb Wednesday, when Chinese officials accused the U.S. of having “weaponized” the visa process after a top Chinese official was unable attend a major international space conference currently being held in Washington. Top Chinese official misses space conference amid U.S.-China tensions Source: Washington Post Tech

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    • Microsoft's Q1 Surface revenue declined by 4% YoY, which was blamed on the lack of new or refreshed products, as gaming revenue declined by 7% YoY (Tom Warren/The Verge)

    Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft’s Q1 Surface revenue declined by 4% YoY, which was blamed on the lack of new or refreshed products, as gaming revenue declined by 7% YoY  —  No new Surface or Xbox hardware in recent quarter  —  Microsoft posted the first quarter of its 2020 financial results today … Microsoft's

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    Memo from a departing chief of White House security lays out how an ongoing reorg under the Trump administration has left its networks more vulnerable to attack (Alexi McCammond/Axios)

    {$inline_image} Alexi McCammond / Axios: Memo from a departing chief of White House security lays out how an ongoing reorg under the Trump administration has left its networks more vulnerable to attack  —  An internal memo on cybersecurity, obtained by Axios, warns that “the White House is posturing itself to be electronically compromised once again.”

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    • A cacophony of self-pity drowns out r/The_Donald’s message as Reddit extends quarantine

    Reddit‘s taken r/The_Donald’s teeth away. The once proud community was, in its heyday, the vanguard for the MAGA movement. Now it’s just a sad group of self-declared victims whining about how unfairly they’ve been treated by social media. Back in June, the subreddit was quarantined for “threats of violence against police.” Widespread community outrage over

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