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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers discover macOS malware dubbed “Silver Sparrow” on at least 30K Macs, which includes a native M1 version and leverages the Installer JavaScript API — With no payload, analysts are struggling to learn what this mature malware does. — A previously undetected piece …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Margaret Mitchell, co-lead of Google's Ethical AI team, says she has been fired; Google says an employee conduct review confirmed multiple policy violations — Margaret Mitchell, the co-lead of Google's Ethical AI team, says that the company has fired her following an investigation into her use of corporate email.
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
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| Shen Lu / Protocol: |
An ex-ByteDance employee recounts the inner workings of the company's complex content moderation system and the role of China's internet censorship policies — This is the story of Li An, a pseudonymous former employee at ByteDance, as told to Protocol's Shen Lu.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Twitch replaced the audio for Metallica's “For Whom The Bell Tolls” with folk music during the band's BlizzCon livestream, presumably to avoid a DMCA notice — The Twitch Gaming stream gave us this beautiful moment — Despite its later-than-usual timing and going completely virtual …
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| Sheldon Chanel / The Guardian: |
Facebook's Australia ban is acute for people in places like Fiji, who rely on phone plans with cheap Facebook access as going to news websites costs more data — Media experts fear that communities reliant on the site for information will suffer significant impact
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| Ian Carlos Campbell / The Verge: |
App Annie: Australian Broadcasting Corporation's news app was briefly the most downloaded app on the AU App Store after Facebook's news ban and is now second — Readers may be going directly to the source — The Australian Broadcast Company's ABC News app shot to the top of Apple's App Store charts …
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| Erika Hayasaki / New York Times: |
An in-depth look at Amazon's ubiquitous presence in California's Inland Empire, with 16 facilities, as COVID-19 spurs Amazon workers nationwide to organize — Covid-19 has cemented the e-commerce giant's hold on the economy — but it has also spurred employees all around the country to organize.
Tweets: @jerseejess, @progintl, @dealbook, @r0wdy_, @ungoldman, @vanishingcorp, @quinnypig, @gideonresnick, @benwerd, @clairegilch, @rahrahraina, @sarahljaffe, @quatoria, @hal_coi, and @greenhousenyt
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Whatsapp says users who haven't accepted its new privacy policy by May 15 can receive calls and notifications “for a short time”, but not read or send messages — WhatsApp said earlier this week that it will allow users to review its planned privacy update at “their own pace” …
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| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
For many services, moderating content has become an existential crisis; some services are even establishing rules that pre-empt the need for costly moderation — Content moderation rules used to be a question of taste. Now, they can determine a service's prospects for survival.
Tweets: @mims, @wsj, @markstenberg3, @aditi_muses, @wiczipedia, @roncharles, @mims, @maxabrahms, @marklittlenews, @mims, @mims, and @jeffjarvis
| Reuters: |
Facebook deletes the main page of the Myanmar military for “repeated violations of Community Standards prohibiting incitement of violence and coordinating harm” — (Reuters) - Facebook on Sunday deleted the main page of the Myanmar military under it standards prohibiting …
Tweets: @watchingmyanmar
| Joyce Lee / Reuters: |
PE firm Carlyle Group invests $200M in Kakao Mobility, which offers South Korea's most popular taxi-hailing service, valuing the company at about $3.1B — SEOUL (Reuters) - Carlyle Group Inc agreed to invest $200 million in South Korea's Kakao Mobility, valuing the firm at 3.42 trillion won …
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| Eric Benjamin Seufert / Mobile Dev Memo: |
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