Coffee Briefing, December 11, 2020 – Technicity GTA recap, Salesforce news, plus more

Amazon wants to hire 75,000 more workers, Microsoft Teams to increase on-screen headcount to nine, and over 500,000 Zoom accounts have been leaked.

A story about seismic data shows how the world has changed during COVID-19, Reddit gets chatty about the status of internet infrastructure in the U.S., and there’s enough misinformation online about COVID-19 to make your head spin.

Microsoft Word now flags two spaces after period as an error, Apple and Google put their heads together to combat the coronavirus, and robots are suddenly emerging as key allies during the ongoing quarantine efforts across the world.

WhatsApp puts heavy restrictions on forwarded messages to try to stop the spread of coronavirus misinformation, Huawei…

Researchers find a way to translate brain activity into text, Zoom goes on CNN to say the company might have made some mistakes when it comes to privacy on its platform, and please, please, stop burning 5G towers.

Schools in New York get cold feet about Zoom, Skype introduces video meetings with no sign-up, and ways to make video chats let’s painful for those who don’t like staring at their own mug.

Zoom gets dunked on some more because of multiple reported security and privacy issues, Softbank says no to a $3B deal with WeWork, and details surface about a viral video on TikTok.

Social distancing ruins a group of hackers’ cyberattack plans, Zoom removes the code that sends data to Facebook after everyone pointed it out, and there’s no shortage of chatter about the increased strain the internet is experiencing right now.

Edward Snowden issues a strong warning about surveillance in the wake of COVID-19, people are figuring out that Zoom shares data with Facebook even if users don’t have an account with the social media platform, and Amazon solicits public donations to pay workers’ sick leave.

WeWork is doing its best to entice people to work from its locations again with money, more Amazon workers test positive for COVID-19, and a flying UPS delivery wingcopter is turning heads on social media.

Bill Gates says the US acted too late to avoid a lockdown; Snopes scales back due to overwhelming coronavirus misinformation; Plague Inc. flips the script on the virus.

It’s the rise of 3D-printed ventilators, drones are being deployed and programmed to yell at people not practising social distancing, and a story about targeted ads blows up on Reddit.

People are worried over the strain COVID-19 is putting on the internet, YouTube and Netflix reduce their streaming resolutions in response to spikes in traffic, and Tech’s Big 5 lost a lot of money in one month.