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Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Friday. Sign up here to get this email in your inbox every morning. The FBI is leading an inquiry into the colossal Twitter hack that impacted high-profile accounts on Wednesday. The hackers posted tweets through the hijacked accounts asking people to donate Bitcoin to cryptocurrency addresses.  Cybersecurity blogger Brian Krebs thinks the...

Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Thursday. Dozens of high-profile Twitter accounts, including Obama, Biden, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Kanye, were hacked in a colossal bitcoin scam. The scammers may have made off with as much as $120,000. Twitter says the bitcoin hackers gained access to its "internal systems and tools." The company appeared to discount allegations...

Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Wednesday. The UK government announced it will remove Huawei from its 5G network by 2027, and telecoms companies will be banned from purchasing Huawei 5G equipment from next year. UK Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said the decision was due to major sanctions imposed on the Chinese firm by the US government. Amazon...

Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Thursday. The Justice Department proposed a measure that would roll back protections for internet companies such as Facebook and Twitter. The proposal would weaken Section 230, the law that protects internet companies from being held liable for other people's posts on their platforms as long as they make a good faith effort...

Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Wednesday. The European Commission opened two simultaneous antitrust investigations into Apple on Tuesday. The probes will center on Apple Pay and the App Store's terms and conditions. Amazon announced it is putting AI cameras in some of its warehouses to see if workers are adhering to social distancing. When employees walk past...

Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Tuesday. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is reportedly willing to testify before Congress after the company initially resisted making him available to address antitrust concerns. Lawmakers have threatened to subpoena Bezos, forcing him to appear before the House Judiciary Committee. GitHub, the world's largest site for hosting open-source software, is working to replace...

Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Monday. Facebook has rejected a proposed code of conduct from an Australian watchdog that would make it pay for news links, the Guardian reports. Facebook said there would be no "significant" effect on its business model if it stopped sharing newslinks. US states appear to be backing off using contact tracing apps...

Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Tuesday. Uber confirmed on Monday that it would lay off 3,000 more employees, following a previous round of job cuts in May. In an email to staff, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi outlined other restructuring efforts, like closing offices and slowing investments. Uber's CEO and board of directors have given up their cash salaries...

Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Monday. This week Apple is reopening 25 of its US stores plus 12 in Canada, Bloomberg reports. People going into Apple stores will have their temperatures checked at the door and will be provided with a face mask if they don't have one. Uber is expected to begin another round of layoffs...

Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Friday. Google CEO Sundar Pichai says tech companies "shouldn't get carried away" with fighting the COVID-19 pandemic and should let governments and health officials lead the response. In a new interview with Time magazine, Pichai also suggested that working from home may become more normal after the pandemic. Amazon shut all its...

Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Thursday. Apple announced the new iPhone SE, a smaller, cheaper iPhone that's about half the price of the iPhone 11. Apple is making the phone available to preorder on Friday before it starts shipping on April 24. The US government is in talks with AI startup Onfido to roll out immunity passports...

Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Wednesday. Amazon has seen its first warehouse-worker death from COVID-19 as calls for safer working conditions mount. The employee in question worked at Amazon's Hawthorne warehouse in California. Apple has released a tool that shows how whether people are obeying lockdown and social distancing rules. The tool gathers location data from Apple...

Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Tuesday. Amazon says it has already hired 100,000 workers in 4 weeks during the coronavirus crisis and plans to hire 75,000 more. Amazon is now estimating it will spend over $500 million on increased wages.  Apple and Google say their coronavirus-tracking tech will remain "opt-in" only, and governments won't be allowed to...

Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Friday. Uber's Q4 earnings topped Wall Street expectations, and the company said it will be profitable sooner than expected. Uber said it plans t0 hit profitability by the end of 2020, and shares soared as much as 10% following the new timeline. Jeff Bezos used Instagram to take an apparent swipe at...

Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Thursday. LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner is stepping down after 11 years. Weiner will be replaced by Ryan Roslansky, a senior vice president in charge of product. Clearview AI, the startup that scraped billions of photos from Facebook and Google to create a facial-recognition database, was sent a cease-and-desist by Google and YouTube....

Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Wednesday. The company behind the Iowa-caucus app that caused the results delay released its first public statement about the fiasco. Results from the much-anticipated Iowa caucuses were delayed Monday night into Tuesday after the Iowa Democratic Party said there were "inconsistencies" in initial results, and the app's developer Shadow Inc said it...

Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Tuesday. Google's parent company Alphabet reported its Q4 financials. The company broke out its YouTube and Cloud financials for the first time, but missed analysts' revenue forecasts. Jeff Bezos accused his girlfriend's brother of "extortion" in an escalating legal battle over nude photos leaked to the National Enquirer. According to the Daily...

Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Monday. Jeff Bezos' girlfriend's brother is suing the Amazon CEO for defamation, claiming he was falsely accused of providing incriminating photos to the National Enquirer. Michael Sanchez says he never possessed Bezos' intimate photos, contradicting a New York Times report that found evidence that Lauren Sanchez sent leaked texts and photos to...