Welcome to the Tech Meme Ryan Home for Thursday, April 2nd, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Zoom apologizes but also reveals some insane growth numbers.

Facebook Messenger comes to the desktop.

YouTube wants to clone Tik-Tok.

Apple lets some people avoid the App Store Tax.

More gross firings by teleconference, and a timely

interesting raise. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

So the Zoom controversies rage on, for example, Zoom says it has now disabled a feature which allowed users to covertly access data from some people's LinkedIn profiles

without their knowledge of permission,

even if those people were in a given Zoom meeting anonymously.

And SpaceX says it has banned the use of

Zoom internally because it was concerned about privacy and security issues.

But this morning Zoom came out with a big blog post apologizing for its security failures

and said that it plans to freeze all development of new features across its products in order

to direct all engineering focus to improving its security and privacy broadly.

This is quoting from CEO Eric Yuan's blog post, quote,

For the past several weeks supporting the influx of new users has been a tremendous undertaking and our sole focus.

We have strived to provide you with uninterrupted service and the same user-friendly experience that has made

Zoom the video conferencing platform of choice

for enterprises around the world, while also ensuring platform safety, privacy, and security.

However, we recognize that we have fallen short of the communities and our own privacy and security expectations.

For that, I am deeply sorry and I want to share what we are doing about it.

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