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| Noah Smith / Noahpinion: |
The NYT overstated the influence of both Slate Star Codex and the Rationalist community on Silicon Valley, and falsely portrayed the tech industry as right-wing — Stereotyping the tech industry as a bunch of secretive right-wingers isn't correct, and it isn't helpful. — 11 hr ago
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Examining the links between the Rationalist community, with Slate Star Codex blog as its epicenter, and influential leaders in tech, including OpenAI's founders — Slate Star Codex was a window into the psyche of many tech leaders building our collective future. Then it disappeared.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources shed light on the increasingly personal battle between Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg, who in private reportedly said “we need to inflict pain” on Apple — Animosity between CEOs Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook erupts over privacy and dueling visions of internet| Will Oremus / OneZero : |
What we want from Facebook and other platforms is not less politics but less of a distortionary effect on politics caused by an algorithmic bias toward outrage — Social networks would love to show users less political content. Here's why that's a problem.
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The Markup and Insider
| Stanford Internet Observatory: |
After researchers raised data privacy concerns, Clubhouse says it is taking steps “to prevent Clubhouse clients from ever transmitting pings to Chinese servers” — The audio chat app “Clubhouse” went viral among Chinese-speaking audiences. Stanford Internet Observatory examines …
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Bloomberg, The Verge, Reuters, iPhone Hacks, Mashable, AppleInsider, Engadget, Apple Terminal, Vox, Insider, and KnowTechie
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| Rest of World: |
Inside “PGM” Facebook groups, the largest of which has 160,000+ members, where Brazilians collect, share, and memorialize the accounts of the recently deceased — Long before the Covid-19 pandemic, Brazilian Facebook users were gathering to memorialize total strangers.
Tweets: @restofworld, @decka227, @cengizyar, @renske_visser, @restofworld, @j_fuller, @restofworld, @pribellini, @iethics, @lmatsakis, @iethics, @restofworld, @telliotter, and @garrytan
| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
Microsoft's quantum computing ambitions suffer a setback after its researcher, who claimed to have found the Majorana particle, prepares to retract his findings — In a 2018 paper, researchers said they found evidence of an elusive theorized particle. A closer look now suggests otherwise.
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MSPoweruser and Slashdot
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
House committee says Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman, and YouTube streamer Keith Gill will testify at GameStop hearing on February 18 — On February 18th, the House Financial Services Committee will hold a virtual hearing to look into how GameStop's shares
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Financial Services Committee, The Verge, Insider, Gizmodo, New York Times, and CNET
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| Angel Au-Yeung / Forbes: |
Following Bumble's IPO, CEO and founder Whitney Wolfe Herd, who is 31, became the youngest female CEO ever to take a company public in the US — [Update 7 pm ET: Whitney Wolfe Herd ended the day Thursday with a net worth of $1.5 billion based on Bumble stock closing at $70.55.]
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Bloomberg, Insider, CNBC, Fox Business, The Hill, CultureMap Austin, Reuters, TechCrunch, and New York Post
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
A look at the challenges of podcast moderation: the difficulty of finding infringing content, the plethora of players, and philosophical objections to the idea — When former White House adviser-turned-podcaster Steve Bannon called for the beheading of Dr. Anthony Fauci and FBI director Christopher Wray, the tech platforms reacted.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google resumes updating its major iPhone and iPad apps, starting with YouTube; Google did not update the apps since before Apple's Dec. 8 privacy label change — The vast majority of Google's iOS apps have not been updated since early December. A trio of smaller Google applications saw …
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The Verge, Engadget, and AppleInsider
| Gené Teare / Crunchbase News: |
Out of about $150B raised by US companies in VC funding in 2020, only $1B went to Black or African-American startup founders — Last year, U.S. companies raised record amounts of venture capital, at just under $150 billion. But of that capital, only $1 billion went to Black …
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