This Week in Tech 772

• Microsoft Build Highlights, Surface Earbuds Review, Minecraft's Biggest Month
• College Board sued over flawed online AP tests
• Minecraft Dungeons Review
• Minecraft hits 162 Million users/month
• Former TWiT Producer OMGChad's OMGCraft hits 1,000,000 YouTube subscribers!
• Satya Nadella's "RGV2cw" Easter Egg spells "Devs" in Base 64
• All the easter eggs in the Microsoft Build 2020 livestream
• Microsoft Build 2020 highlights: Project Reunion and Fluid Framework
• Microsoft embraces open source: it's a whole new Microsoft
• Twitter says everyone can work from home forever. Facebook says they can, too, but they might pay you less if you move out of state
• Joe Rogan podcast is now a Spotify Exclusive - will other podcasts start going exclusive?
• Zoom vs Discord vs Facebook Rooms
• How to beat Zoom fatigue
• Will working from home kill the 75-hour work week, or make it worse?
• Work-from-home means less commuting, for better or for worse
• Will conferences stay virtual, go back to face-to-face, or be a hybrid?
• What Zoom/Teams/Slack/Meet/etc solution does your company use?
• Zoom solves its security issues - or at least seems to be working on it very hard
• How well is your school handling distance learning?
• Different communication strokes for different gamer folks
• Tom Hanks' movie "Greyhound" is a $70 Million Apple TV+ Exclusive
• HBO Max premieres May 27th, adding yet more confusion to the online media world
• Bad news about that $125 Equifax settlement
• Grandma ordered to remove photos of grandchildren over GDPR violation
• Facebook found not liable for spreading terrorist content by US Supreme Court
• Walmart kills Jet.com after buying it for more than $3 Billion

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Links

• Apple rumored to be buying older TV shows and films to bolster TV Plus - CNET
• Tom Hanks film 'Greyhound' to premiere on Apple TV+ in $70M deal
• In a win for Facebook, SCOTUS has declined to hear a lawsuit claiming the social network provided "material support" to terroris
• Facebook employees may face pay cut if they move to cheaper areas to work from home
• Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey extends permanent work from home policy to Square - CNET
• Microsoft: we were wrong about open source
• The biggest announcements from Microsoft Build 2020
• Review: Microsoft Surface Earbuds sound and feel great, but hurt the wallet
• Microsoft hid lots of secret nerdy messages to devs in its Build stream
• Zoom continues its catch-up security sprint with new training, bug bounty tweaks
• Class-action lawsuit filed against College Board about botched AP tests
• iPhone's HEIC Format Causing Some Students to Fail AP Exams, Here's How to Fix It
• Minecraft play spikes, tops 126M builders a month amid COVID-19 - CNET
• Source: Joe Rogan's Spotify deal will likely be worth $100M+
• Walmart will discontinue Jet.com, nearly four years after $3B purchase - CNET
• Grandmother ordered to delete Facebook photos under GDPR - BBC News
• HBO Max launches May 27: Discounts, free upgrades, shows and movies to expect
• Minecraft Dungeons review: Compelling combat, relentlessly rewarding, deceptively difficult