Google has partnered with India’s state of Maharashtra to offer its education offerings to 23M students and teachers for free (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Google has partnered with India’s state of Maharashtra to offer its education offerings to 23M students and teachers for free — Google has partnered with one of the largest states in India to
DOJ asks court to block California net neutrality law despite FCC’s attempt to preempt state laws being overturned in October 2019 (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: DOJ asks court to block California net neutrality law despite FCC’s attempt to preempt state laws being overturned in October 2019 — DOJ and ISPs sue Calif. despite court vacating FCC’s bid
Tencent stock plunges more than 10%, shedding $45B+ of market value, after Trump’s announcement of a US ban with the company starting next month (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: Tencent stock plunges more than 10%, shedding $45B+ of market value, after Trump’s announcement of a US ban with the company starting next month — – China’s largest social media company slides over 10% — Tencent
Over the past year, scientists have renamed 27 human genes because Microsoft’s Excel misread their names as dates and changed the formatting (James Vincent/The Verge)
James Vincent / The Verge: Over the past year, scientists have renamed 27 human genes because Microsoft’s Excel misread their names as dates and changed the formatting — Sometimes it’s easier to rewrite genetics than update Excel
Intercontinental Exchange has agreed to buy mortgage software company Ellie Mae for $11B from Thoma Bravo, which acquired it last year at a $3.7B valuation (Financial Times)
Financial Times: Intercontinental Exchange has agreed to buy mortgage software company Ellie Mae for $11B from Thoma Bravo, which acquired it last year at a $3.7B valuation — Acquisition of Ellie Mae for $11bn moves NYSE-owner deeper
Trump signs an executive order to block all transactions with ByteDance and Tencent starting Sept. 20, just 5 days after Microsoft’s deadline to acquire TikTok (Russell Brandom/The Verge)
20, just 5 days after Microsoft’s deadline to acquire TikTok — President Trump has signed a new executive order which will block all transactions with Bytedance, TikTok’s parent corporation … Russell Brandom / The Verge: Trump signs
The Senate passed legislation to ban TikTok on federal devices, two weeks after the House passed a similar measure and following bans by the Army and TSA (Maggie Miller/The Hill)
Maggie Miller / The Hill: The Senate passed legislation to ban TikTok on federal devices, two weeks after the House passed a similar measure and following bans by the Army and TSA — The Senate on Thursday
T-Mobile reports total Q2 revenue of $17.7B, up 30.5% YoY, adding 1.25M customers to reach 98.3M total, claims to be the second largest US wireless provider (Stephanie Condon/ZDNet)
Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: T-Mobile reports total Q2 revenue of $17.7B, up 30.5% YoY, adding 1.25M customers to reach 98.3M total, claims to be the second largest US wireless provider — After finalizing its merger with Sprint
Researcher says security vulnerabilities in satellite-based Internet services, some known for over ten years, are threatening the safety of ships and planes (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Researcher says security vulnerabilities in satellite-based Internet services, some known for over ten years, are threatening the safety of ships and planes — Attacks that worked 10 years ago have only gotten
Analysis of hundreds of pages of documents from Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Google released by the House antitrust committee and what they reveal (Lauren Feiner/CNBC)
Lauren Feiner / CNBC: Analysis of hundreds of pages of documents from Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Google released by the House antitrust committee and what they reveal — – Following last week’s grilling of the CEOs of
Dropbox reports Q2 revenue of $467.4M, up 16% YoY, paying users up 1.4M YoY to 15M, as CFO Ajay Vashee plans to step down in September (Michael Tobin/Bloomberg)
reported revenue that beat analysts’ estimates, benefiting from increased demand for cloud software amid a shift to working from home due to the coronavirus. Michael Tobin / Bloomberg: Dropbox reports Q2 revenue of $467.4M, up 16% YoY,
Apple confirms cloud gaming services like xCloud and Stadia violate App Store guidelines and will not work on iOS, as Apple cannot review each game offered (Nick Statt/The Verge)
Nick Statt / The Verge: Apple confirms cloud gaming services like xCloud and Stadia violate App Store guidelines and will not work on iOS, as Apple cannot review each game offered — New cloud gaming services from
Sources: at all-hands, Zuckerberg says a ban on TikTok would set “a really bad long-term precedent”, arguing any benefit for Facebook would be short-term (BuzzFeed News)
BuzzFeed News: Sources: at all-hands, Zuckerberg says a ban on TikTok would set “a really bad long-term precedent”, arguing any benefit for Facebook would be short-term — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told his employees Thursday that banning
Intel is investigating a leak of 20 GB of documents, some confidential, possibly from an internal source accessing its Resource and Design Center (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Intel is investigating a leak of 20 GB of documents, some confidential, possibly from an internal source accessing its Resource and Design Center — Leak confirmed to be authentic. Many files are marked
Intel is investigating a leak of 20 GB of documents, some confidential, possibly from an internal source accessing its Resource and Design Center (Greg Otto/CyberScoop)
Greg Otto / CyberScoop: Intel is investigating a leak of 20 GB of documents, some confidential, possibly from an internal source accessing its Resource and Design Center — Chip giant Intel is investigating the leak of what