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How workers on platforms like Amazon's Mechanical Turk are being paid pennies to train AI — Each morning when she wakes up, Kristy Milland powers up her home computer in Toronto, logs into Amazon Mechanical Turk, and waits for her computer to ding. — Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) … | Chris Baraniuk / BBC: |
Florida court says a suspect can be made to reveal his iPhone passcode to investigators — A court in Florida has said a suspected voyeur can be made to reveal his iPhone passcode to investigators. — The defendant was arrested after a woman out shopping saw a man crouch down and aim …
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Current and former employees recount the birth of cloud computing efforts at Microsoft and how the company came to embrace cloud computing as a business — From suffering through a decade of product delays, missed opportunities and lackluster stock performance, Microsoft found a rebirth of sorts through cloud computing.| Jay Greene / Wall Street Journal: |
Nadella's Microsoft turns itself around, changing its insular culture by acquiring more companies, and incorporating new leaders from those companies — After years of missteps, the software giant is among the few titans of the 1990s to figure out the new world of mobile technology and cloud computing
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California Attorney General insists Uber should immediately stop testing self-driving vehicles on public roads, or she'll seek injunctive relief — The California Department of Motor Vehicles sent Uber a notice asking it to terminate its pilot self-driving car service in San Francisco last week …
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| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
Two lawyers behind Prenda Law, a copyright troll law firm, were arrested and indicted for running a multimillion-dollar extortion scheme — Lawyers who turned porn lawsuits into big business now face criminal charges. — The two lawyers said to be the masterminds behind Prenda Law …
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Analysis shows limitations of self-reported diversity data from six major tech companies and how the data conceals some details vital for measuring progress — The tech industry doesn't just have a diversity problem. It has a results problem. Major tech companies pour millions of dollars …
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Saudi Telecom Co. to buy 10% stake in Middle Eastern ride-hailing app Careem for $100M — Saudi Telecom will take a 10 percent stake in Careem — Investment will make Careem the Mideast's latest Tech Unicorn — Government controlled Saudi Telecom Co. will invest $100 million …
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Investigation finds site that first posted “Pope endorses Trump” hoax is part of network that created hundreds of hoaxes on celebrities moving to various towns — In early July, a website made to look like a real news organization published what would prove to be one of the biggest fake news hits of the US election.| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Lynda.com notifies 9.5M users about breach containing contact and courses viewed info, resets ~55K passwords that had hashes stored in the breached database — Online learning company Lynda.com, a subsidiary of LinkedIn, which is now officially a subsidiary of Microsoft … | New York Times: |
U.S. Faces Tall Hurdles in Detaining or Deterring Russian Hackers — WASHINGTON — When a suspected Russian cybercriminal named Dmitry Ukrainsky was arrested in a Thai resort town last summer, the American authorities hoped they could whisk him back to New York for trial and put at least … | Turkey Blocks: |
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