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This week's stories

•  Get yourself some Stroopwafels at https://amzn.to/2w5siD9
•  San Francisco declares state of emergency over coronavirus
•  WHO says coronavirus cases may have peaked and plateaued in China
•  Google starts announcing I/O 2020 ticket winners
•  Google removes 600 apps for annoying ads
•  Google will stop labeling pictures as "man" or "woman"
•  Trying to trick Amazon Go with a banana
•  Facebook bans fake coronavirus cures
•  YouTube not bound by First Amendment
•  Weather reporter accidentally broadcasts with Facebook filters on
•  Trump asks the Supreme Court to back Oracle over Google
•  Google warns against sideloading its apps on Huawei phones
•  What are your smart speakers recording by accident?
•  Verizon will still sell the Pixel 5
•  Google moving data out of UK for Brexit
•  Is Twitter real life?
•  Twitter tries to fight misinformation, adds "continue thread"
•  Clearview AI hacked, all clients and searches stolen
•  Samsung "1" Find My Mobile data breach
•  Dunkin' Bag of Bacon
•  Mike Bloomberg busted for paying for tweets, but Facebook is fine with it
•  Swiss law forbids liking hate speech
•  EU to staff: use Signal
•  TSA bans employees' Tik Tok use
•  Gmail blocks malware with AI
•  Musicians Copywrite every melody possible
•  Intuit buys Credit Karma
•  Bruce Schneier joins Tim Berners-Lee's internet alternative startup
•  Creator of the Konami code dies at 61

Picks of the week

•  Leo's Tool: Smithsonian Open Access
•  Ant's Good Stuff 1: RIP Katherine Johnson
•  Ant's Good Stuff 2: What My Grandfather Said: Finally Got 'Em
•  Mathew's Stuff: NSA phone surveillance program cost $100 million and yielded one major investigation
•  Jeff's Number: Andreessen Horowitz a16z Marketplace 100

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Links

• Daelmans Stroopwafels Wafers Variety Pack - Amazon
• Google starts notifying I/O 2020 ticket winners
• Trump Backs Supporter Larry Ellison in Court Fight With Google - Bloomberg
• Google addresses Huawei ban and warns customers not to sideload apps like Gmail and YouTube
• Google removes ‘nearly 600’ apps from the Play Store over annoying ads
• Hey, Brits. Your Google data is leaving the EU before you are: Hoard to be shipped from Ireland to US next month
• Verizon says it’s fully committed to Google’s phones this year after rumor of a split
• Google tells Cloud Vision API customers it will no longer label pictures with "woman" or "man"
• TV reporter unwittingly turns on Facebook filters before going live
• Facebook confirms ban on misleading coronavirus ads
• Trying to fool Amazon with a banana
• Twitter is testing new ways to fight misinformation — including a community-based points system
• Twitter rolling out new 'Continue thread' option for connecting multiple tweets together - 9to5Mac
• Twitter is real life
• Clearview AI, provider of facial recognition search to police, says an intruder accessed its entire list of customers
• Samsung cops to data breach after unsolicited '1/1' Find my Mobile push notification • The Register
• Twitter is suspending 70 accounts linked to Michael Bloomberg's campaign for violating its policies
• Facebook's decisions around influencers' ads made for politicians, like exempting them from its Ads Library
• TSA bans employees from using TikTok
• Swiss Court Finds That Clicking 'Like' to Spread Hateful or Defamatory Content May Be a Crime
• EU Commission to staff: Switch to Signal messaging app – POLITICO
• Tech Platforms Aren't Bound by First Amendment, Court Rules
• San Francisco declares state of emergency over coronavirus outbreak
• Google Translate now supports five more languages
• Google is testing a quick share button for the Chrome toolbar
• Google’s Stadia adds four SteamWorld games to its lineup
• Google details I/O 2020 sustainability goals, like buying carbon offsets for attendee air travel
• OK Google, charge my car' - Assistant adds native control for chargers and batteries
• Google Contacts can now find people you haven't saved to your account (APK Download)
• Google makes its Titan security keys available across Europe
• Ask the Tech Guy: Yubikey
• You can now set Sonos speakers as the default playback option for Google Assistant
• Google image search now adds more data (e.g., whether the link will take you to a commerce site)
• Scroll to text fragment: new to Chrome (anchors without anchor tags)
• Gmail Is Catching More Malicious Attachments With Deep Learning
• Musicians Algorithmically Generate Every Possible Melody, Release Them to Public Domain - VICE
• Intuit Near Deal to Buy Credit Karma for $7 Billion - WSJ
• World Wide Web's Sir Tim swells his let's-remake-the-internet startup with Bruce Schneier, fellow tech experts
• Creator of Konami Code, an Easter egg known worldwide, has passed away - CNET
• Dunkin Donuts Bag o' Bacon!!!!!
• Smithsonian Open Access | Smithsonian Institution
• RIP Katherine Johnson
• What My Grandfather Said: Finally Got 'Em
• NSA phone surveillance program cost $100 million and yielded one major investigation: report
• Andreessen Horowitz a16z Marketplace 100