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Facebook apologizes after its AI recommendation feature categorized a video of Black men as “about Primates”; Facebook disabled the feature and is investigating — Facebook called it “an unacceptable error.” The company has struggled with other issues related to race.| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Apple made an unforced error by trying to tackle CSAM and child safety issues inside the Apple Park vacuum while adhering to its annual iOS release schedule — Hello friends, and welcome back to Week in Review. — Last week, we dove into the truly bizarre machinations of the NFT market.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Harvard's Willy Shih on the global chip shortage, supply chains, and why Biden's $52B for chip manufacturing may not be enough for the US to catch up to TSMC — Since the beginning of the pandemic, the demand for microchips has far exceeded supply, causing problems in every industry that relies on computers.
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| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
Following Texas' abortion law, tech companies could face suits over providing on-demand rides to clinics, subpoenas requesting user data, and more — With the Supreme Court deciding not to block Texas' effective ban on abortion this week, fears have been rightly focused on the people in Texas …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Texas Right to Life whistleblower site is now using Epik for its name servers and as its domain registrar, as Digital Ocean appears to have cut off service — GoDaddy gave website “24 hours to move to a different provider.” — The Texas Right to Life group will have to find a new hosting provider … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple Watch Series 7 will be announced alongside the new iPhone, but production issues may cause the new models to ship late or in limited quantities — This is the free version of Power On. If you like it, consider subscribing to Bloomberg.com — you'll receive …
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Regulators rush to catch up with DeFi startups and crypto-backed lenders like BlockFi, which now touts $10B+ in assets, 450K+ clients, and licenses in 28 states — The boom in companies offering cryptocurrency loans and high-yield deposit accounts is disrupting the banking industry and leaving regulators scrambling to catch up.| Carrie Mihalcik / CNET: |
#AppleToo publishes an open letter to Tim Cook, asking for transparent and fair compensation, reinvestigation of discrimination and harassment cases, and more — Among the requests in the open letter are transparent compensation and a reinvestigation of reports of discrimination and harassment.
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#AppleToo, BBC, Insider, iPhone in Canada Blog, Benzinga, iMore, phonearena.com, and AppleInsider
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Profile of Alvy Ray Smith, a Pixar co-founder who created the algorithms fundamental to animated movies and left after severe disagreements with Steve Jobs — Alvy Ray Smith helped invent computer animation as we know it—then got royally shafted by Steve Jobs. Now he's got a vision for where the pixel will take us next.
Tweets: @chris_mellor, @stevenlevy, @rstephens, @drwave, @richardkerris, @stevenbjohnson, and @condenast
| Laura Forman / Wall Street Journal: |
Online real estate “iBuyers” like Opendoor, Zillow, and Offerpad have increased their home purchases in Q2, as virtual showings speed up the home buying process — IBuyer investors must ask whether scalability and sustainability are mutually exclusive—and, if so, which is more important| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Interview with Dom Hofmann on how and why he created Loot, the communities, creativity, and NFT speculation it spawned, and the future of the project — Loot (and Vine) creator Dom Hofmann on creating an open-source, decentralized game / financial asset / art project / metaverse (?)
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Bitcoin News and Decrypt
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| Raphael Satter / Reuters: |
Source: Google has temporarily locked an unspecified number of Afghan government email accounts, as the Taliban seeks to acquire former officials' emails — Google has temporarily locked down an unspecified number of Afghan government email accounts, according to a person familiar with the matter …
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