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| Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
Google's 2018 pay equity analysis found that it was underpaying more men than women among software engineers, and it paid $9.7M in adjustments to 10K+ Googlers — SAN FRANCISCO — When Google conducted a study recently to determine whether the company was underpaying women and members of minority groups …
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| Brian Armstrong / The Coinbase Blog: |
Following outcry, Coinbase says Neutrino staff members who previously worked at Hacking Team “will transition out of Coinbase” — We recently announced the acquisition of Neutrino, a blockchain analytics company. I'd like to share a bit of the back story on this acquisition, and a decision we've made going forward.
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Tweets: @brian_armstrong, @btc, @jeffjohnroberts, @crypt0snews, @jamestodaromd, @emiliemc, @sassal0x, and @hasufl
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Comedian Miel Bredouw's fight with Barstool Sports after they posted her video without credit shows how Twitter's copyright system can hurt creators — “It's insane to me that the platform is allowing them to do this.” — Earlier today, Los Angeles-based writer and comedian Miel Bredouw claims …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sources: Microsoft is prioritizing Windows Lite to run on dual-screen devices for new hardware that could launch as early as late 2019 — Microsoft is making a Chrome OS-like version of Windows — Microsoft is preparing a new lightweight version of Windows for dual-screen devices and Chromebook competitors.
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Tweets: @tomwarren, @chuckbaggett, and @stevesi
| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Alphabet startup Chronicle launches Backstory, a “Google Photos for network security” that makes network history easy to search and draw insights from — It's been a year since Alphabet, Google's parent company, announced a moonshot cybersecurity company called Chronicle.
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| Charlie Savage / New York Times: |
Senior GOP congressional aide claims the NSA has shut down a program that collects domestic phone and text records, whose scope was revealed by Snowden in 2013 — WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency has quietly shut down a system that analyzes logs of Americans' domestic calls and texts … | Ben Collins / NBC News: |
On Amazon, a book pushing QAnon conspiracy theories climbs the charts, aided by Amazon's algorithmically generated recommendations — The book is currently No. 9 in all books about politics and No. 1 in all books about “Censorship,” one slot ahead of Ray Bradbury's “Farhenheit 451,”| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
USB Implementers Forum announces USB 4, which offers a maximum speed of 40 Gbps, double that of USB 3.2, and support for Thunderbolt 3 — Double the speed of USB 3.2 up to 40 Gbps — Hot on the heels of USB 3.2 receiving a confusing Gen 2x2 suffix, the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) …
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Tweets: @richardlai, @sophaskins, @gregorymbryant, and @marcoarment
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
The servers running social robot Jibo, which had raised ~$76M in total and shipped to the public in 2017 for $899, are being shut down forever — RIP, Jibo — The servers running Jibo, a connected home robot, are about to be shut down, and the robot has started informing its owners with a bittersweet message.
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Tweets: @dylanljmartin, @pulpfictionaly, @joannastern, @jennyenicholson, @eringriffith, and @neerajka
| Tom Cardoso / Globe and Mail: |
Google to ban political ads in Canada ahead of federal election, says complying with new ad transparency rules required by Bill C-76 would be too challenging — Google is banning political advertising on its platforms ahead of the Canadian federal election because of new ad transparency rules … | Saqib Shah / Engadget: |
Messenger is the first Facebook app to get dark mode, now available on iOS and Android — Days after Facebook Messenger's dark mode was outed on Reddit, the social network has made the update official for iOS and Android. For now, you can only enable it by sending the crescent moon emoji in an existing chat thread or new message.| Politico: |
A look at Tim Cook's lobbying efforts with the White House and China to keep Apple from getting ensnared in US tariffs and avoid backlash from China — But Apple could face future threats if the latest trade talks fail. — President Donald Trump's trade war with China has left a trail …
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| Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept: |
Google employees believe the company is still working on Dragonfly, after finding recent code changes associated with the censored search engine and more — Google employees have carried out their own investigation into the company's plan to launch a censored search engine for China …
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| Zoë Bernard / The Information: |
Sources: Kleiner Perkins is expected to lead a $30M round for HR software startup Rippling, led by ex-Zenefits CEO Parker Conrad, valuing it between $200M-$300M — Venture capitalists pressured Parker Conrad to step down from his health insurance startup, Zenefits, after the company was found to have skirted insurance regulations.| Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair: |
Source: Bezos' security chief is preparing a 90-page investigative report alleging The National Enquirer published exposé to curry favor with Saudi investors — “At the end of this, we're all going to look really, really bad,” says Michael Sanchez. — Improbably, given all that's happened, they're still together.| Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times: |
Google and Facebook, a major presence at CPAC last year, were nowhere to be seen this year amid claims of anti-conservative bias on their platforms — OXON HILL, Md. — A year ago, attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference, the annual jamboree of the political right …
Tweets: @grynbaum
| Cissy Zhou / South China Morning Post: |
As China sees weaker demand for iPhones, Foxconn factory workers are having salaries slashed, benefits taken, and many are resigning — It is a normal Saturday in Zhengzhou, the capital of central China's Henan province. The sky over the Foxconn factory complex is obscured with a choking smog.| Nicholas Thompson / Wired: |
Q&A with the assistant secretary of the US Air Force on signing contracts for new tech within a day of a startup's pitch, Project Maven, AI use in combat, more — WILL ROPER, ASSISTANT secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, technology and logistics, is something like Q for the Defense Department.
Tweets: @tsimonite, @anas_aljumaily, @nxthompson, and @iamnotwaldo
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Roblox tries to make the kid's game safer through a digital civility initiative, moderators, more, after a character was virtually sexually assaulted last year — Roblox has more than 80 million monthly players on its Lego-like virtual world platform for teens, and it only takes a few bad apples to ruin the fun.| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
IBM's cybersecurity team X-Force Red investigated five popular visitor management systems and found 19 zero-day vulnerabilities across the vendors' products — Automation is big business, but smart visitor systems can be as vulnerable to attacks as any other connected device.
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Wired, Security Intelligence, CyberScoop, Boing Boing, and IT PRO
Tweets: @caitlin__kelly, @wired, and @ireneista
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Ride-hailing company Go-Jek raises $100M from Indonesian conglomerate Astra as part of its Series F; Go-Jek has raised more than half of its Series F $2B goal — U.S. ride-hailing giants Lyft and Uber are going public in the U.S. imminently, but over in Southeast Asia …
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Agents and producers working on streaming projects for Apple complain about how involved and “intrusive” execs, including Tim Cook, have been, leading to delays — Apple's push into Hollywood is off to a rough start — thanks in part to “intrusive” tech executives, including Tim Cook, The Post has learned.
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