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Timnit Gebru says she was fired as co-lead of Ethical AI at Google due to an email to colleagues; leaked email details her struggles as a Black leader at Google — “Stop writing your documents because it doesn't make a difference”: Timnit Gebru's final message to her peers
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Tweets: @timnitgebru, @caseynewton, @drewharwell, @sifill_ldf, @kateconger, @uche_blackstock, @timnitgebru, @ram_ssk, @itsafronomics, @juliasilge, @ssmith_calabor, @josheidelson, @blackamazon, @ibjiyongi, @bcmerchant, @blackamazon, @lizjosullivan, @harrymccracken, @lizzieohreally, @lizthegrey, @histoftech, @libshipwreck, @latoyapeterson, @daveyalba, @ibjiyongi, @igorbrigadir, @zenalbatross, @joewestby, @ekp, @hughlangley, @ericajoy, @juliacarriew, @willoremus, @lizthegrey, @azeem, @mhbergen, @saraashleyo, @_alialkhatib, @juliaxgulia, @histoftech, @histoftech, @richardjnieva, and @recursecenter
| Brian Barrett / Wired: |
IBM researchers say a sophisticated global phishing campaign is targeting the companies involved in the “cold chain” needed to distribute COVID-19 vaccines — As vaccines await US approval, a sophisticated global phishing campaign has tried to harvest credentials from companies involved in their distribution.
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Tweets: @jfslowik, @virginiahughes, @alfonslopeztena, @campuscodi, @nytimes, @muniramustaffa, @mandiant, @repmaloney, @b_fung, and @lanceulanoff
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DOJ sues Facebook, accusing it of improperly reserving jobs for H-1B workers by not sufficiently advertising open positions and overlooking US residents — Justice Department lawsuit says social-media company didn't sufficiently advertise open positions, overlooked U.S. residents
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
Warner Bros. says it will release every single movie in 2021 simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max in the US and stream them for one month — For a period of one month in the United States — WarnerMedia is pushing even more aggressively into streaming by releasing every single movie in 2021 simultaneously on HBO Max.
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| Peter Rudegeair / Wall Street Journal: |
Stripe launches Treasury to let its customers offer checking accounts and other business-banking services; Shopify will offer the services from early next year — Shopify, a Stripe customer, will begin offering the service to its merchants early next year — Stripe Inc. is teaming …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Google will let users with ARCore-compatible Android phones submit Street View imagery, starting in Toronto, NYC, Austin, Nigeria, Indonesia, and Costa Rica — No special equipment required — Google Maps is getting a new update that lets you create Street View photos using just a phone.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Twitter says it is turning off threaded replies because they made conversations hard to read, and shuts down its prototype twttr app — It's also shutting down its experimental app, twttr — Twitter has been experimenting with threaded replies for some time as a way to potentially make replies easier to read and follow.
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| Washington Post: |
Parler's lax moderation policies have helped it become a magnet for porn and escort services, which might complicate its hopes of expanding into advertising — Hashtags like #keepamericasexy proliferate alongside conspiracy theories and conservative politics
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| Alex Heath / The Information: |
Facebook is reorganizing its unit focused on its role in global elections, moving staff into a larger organization called Central Integrity, led by Guy Rosen — Facebook is breaking up its unit focused on the social network's role in elections globally, dispersing the team of roughly 300 through …
Tweets: @hhariri
| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Slack's struggles to succeed as a standalone company mirror the fortunes of other one-time innovators in enterprise productivity who struggled with distribution — And why the era of worker-centered work tools may be over — Slack's life as an underdog darling of Silicon Valley ended on November 2, 2016.
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Tweets: @davidsacks, @dannosaur7, @harrymccracken, @tomwarren, @davidsacks, @binarybits, @om, @davidsacks, @davidsacks, and @rickpastoor
| Washington Post: |
Leaked docs: Facebook to start policing anti-Black hate speech more aggressively than anti-White comments, reversing years of “race-blind” practices — The company is overhauling its algorithms that detect hate speech and deprioritizing hateful comments against Whites, men and Americans.| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple opens enrollment for its App Store Small Business Program with a reduced commission of 15%; deadline is Dec. 18 to qualify for a reduced rate on Jan. 1 — Apple has officially opened enrollment for the new App Store Small Business Program. This program allows developers to qualify …
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Apple Developer, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, MacDailyNews, Six Colors, SlashGear, and iMore
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| Charlie Savage / New York Times: |
In a letter to Sen. Wyden, ODNI says FBI used Section 215 of the Patriot Act to collect website visitor logs without a warrant, but not keywords from searches — A disclosure sheds new light on a high-profile national security law as lawmakers prepare to revive a debate over it in the Biden administration.
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Gizmodo. Tweets: @charlie_savage, @zackwhittaker, @digiphile, @jameeljaffer, @jakelaperruque, @snowden, @bradmossesq, @saramorrison, and @pt
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft launches Azure Purview, a unified data governance service that automates the discovery, cataloging, mapping, and tracking of data, in public preview — As businesses gather, store and analyze an ever-increasing amount of data, tools for helping them discover, catalog …
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| David McLaughlin / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Facebook's VR business practices have attracted the attention of the DOJ, which is talking to developers about their interactions with Facebook — - Justice Department asks app developers about Oculus actions — “Copy, acquire, kill” accusations echo House report critiques
Tweets: @cixliv, @amoration, @billfishkin, @andgokevin, @vertis, and @hoofnagle
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Facebook says it will start removing false claims about coronavirus vaccines that have been debunked by public health experts — - Facebook's policy has been to remove false claims about Covid-19 that it says could lead to “imminent physical harm.” — Now, Facebook said it will …
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Tweets: @mikeisaac, @mikebutcher, @oliverdarcy, @lanceulanoff, @megancgraham, @ryan_browne_, @antonioregalado, @alexhern, @antonioregalado, @xml_jim, @moonalice, @wgrz, and @db
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Users can now share in-app purchases and subscriptions via Apple's iCloud Family Sharing, if developers enable the option in their apps — iPhone and iPad users who share apps with their families through Apple's Family Sharing feature can now share subscription apps as well.| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
YouTube will warn users before they post comments that “may be offensive to others” and adds better content filter systems for creators — An attempt to weed out offensive comments — YouTube is trying to combat offensive comments that appear under videos by following …
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blog.youtube, CNET, TechCrunch, Android Police, SlashGear, Polygon, Tubefilter, and Neowin
Tweets: @tyadkisson, @rkyncl, @susanwojcicki, @edbott, @akilahobviously, @sarafischer, and @youtubecreators
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Amazon introduces a feature that lets users text Alexa on iOS to ask for things instead of only using their voice, now available in public preview — Type with Alexa is available now as a ‘public preview’ — Amazon is testing a new feature for its iOS Alexa app: the ability to type out Alexa commands …
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| Anna Irrera / Reuters: |
S&P Dow Jones Indices says it will launch cryptocurrency indices in 2021, using data from crypto company Lukka on more than 550 of the top traded coins — LONDON (Reuters) - S&P Dow Jones Indices, a division of financial data provider S&P Global Inc, said on Thursday … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Report: data of 243M Brazilians was exposed for at least six months after the password for a database was left inside source code of a health ministry website — The password to access a highly sensitive Ministry of Health database was stored inside a government site's source code.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the DOJ is in talks with Huawei's CFO Meng Wanzhou that would allow her to return to China in exchange for admitting wrongdoing in ongoing case — Justice Department is discussing an arrangement that would allow her to return to China in exchange for admitting wrongdoing
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Bloomberg and South China Morning Post
Tweets: @gordongchang, @emilyrauhala, and @adrianmorrow
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The DOD has added China's largest chipmaker SMIC to its blacklist of alleged Chinese military companies — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Thursday added China's top chipmaker SMIC and oil giant CNOOC to a blacklist of alleged Chinese military companies … Sponsor Posts
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