Slack announces its biggest ever redesign. Sony signals that the smartphone recession is real and is not getting better anytime soon. Is WeWork circling the drain? Why a Gizmodo editor is suing Apple over Tetris. And guess what? The bots are better at solving CAPTCHAs than you are. Something something, Turing Test.

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Slack’s biggest redesign ever tries to tame the chaos of your workday (The Verge)
Netflix launches a game controller app for playing games on your TV (TechCrunch)
Sony Expects Smartphone Rebound Only in 2024 After China Fizzles (Bloomberg)
WeWork Tumbles After Raising ‘Substantial Doubt’ About Future (Bloomberg)
Apple's 'Tetris' movie ripped off tech writer's book, lawsuit says (Reuters)
New ‘Downfall’ Flaw Exposes Valuable Data in Generations of Intel Chips (Wired)
Bots are better than humans at cracking ‘Are you a robot?’ Captcha tests, study finds (The Independent)

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