This Week in Tech 782

Tik Tok Ban, Tech Titans Talk to Congress, Twitter Hackers Arrested

• Trump threatens to ban Tik Tok
•  Trump wants Microsoft to buy Tik Tok
• Mr. Cook, Zuck, Bezos, and Pichai go to Washington
•  What should the government do to Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple?
• Twitter hackers arrested
• Our Covid year: CES will be all-virtual in 2021
•  Huawei is the #1 phone maker in the world
•  Need a job? The US Digital Service is hiring!
• Microsoft will end mobile support for Cortana in 2010
•  Election Cyber Surge wants to help America vote
• Trump is witholding funds from the Internet Freedom Fund
•  Watch the Samsung Note 20 and Galaxy Z Fold announcement this week with TWiT!
• Emmys will be all-virtual this year
•  Quibi lost 92% of its day one subscribers
•  Bernie Sanders wants to send you 3 masks
•  Analogue Pocket comes out tomorrow
•  Brianna Wu is the 8th best Super Mario 2 speedrunner in the world
•  Fyre Festival and GSA Auctions

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Links

• The Big Tech Hearing Proved Congress Isn't Messing Around
• Real-Time Analysis: Tech CEOs Face Congress
• Jeff Bezos can’t promise Amazon employees don’t access independent seller data
• Tim Cook would like to remind you that Apple does not dominate any of its markets
• Zuckerberg email proposed buying Instagram because it could be 'very disruptive' to 'vulnerable' Facebook
• TechCongress
• I Tried to Live Without the Tech Giants. It Was Impossible.
• Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack that targeted high-profile accounts | WFLA
• DOJ announces charges against two other suspects in the Twitter hack, including a 19-year-old in UK and a 22-year-old in Orlando
• How the FBI tracked down the Twitter hackers | ZDNet
• Twitter says a spear phishing attack led to the huge bitcoin scam - The Verge
• Twitter contractors reportedly used internal tools to spy on celebrities, including Beyoncé
• Microsoft to end support for Cortana app on mobile; Harman Kardon speakers in early 2021 | ZDNet
• Trump says he will ban TikTok through executive action as soon as Saturday
• Microsoft and Bytedance Put TikTok Talks on Hold After Trump Signals Opposition - WSJ
• ByteDance and Microsoft offer a deal to allow TikTok to remain in the U.S., per report
• Microsoft’s Satya Nadella Switches Gears in Pursuit of TikTok - WSJ
• Breaking Off TikTok Will Be Hard to Do
• Biden's campaign told staffers to delete TikTok from their personal and work phones citing security and privacy concerns
• Why it matters that TikTok wants to reveal its algorithms
• Election Cyber Surge To Deploy Hacker Army For 2020 Vote—Here’s Why
• Trump administration is crippling international Internet freedom effort by withholding funds, officials say
• Huawei overtakes Samsung as world’s biggest smartphone vendor, says report
• YouTube to end community captions feature and deaf creators aren’t happy
• GSA Auctions
• Fyre Festival Auction
• US Digital Service