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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.| Ryan Mac / New York Times: |
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.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Researchers uncover BrakTooth, 16 flaws in Bluetooth firmware in SoC boards used in billions of devices from 11 top vendors that can allow remote code execution — A team of security researchers has published details this week about a suite of 16 vulnerabilities that impact the Bluetooth software stack …
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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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Texas Right to Life whistleblower site is now using Epik for its name servers and as its domain registrar, as DigitalOcean 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 … | Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
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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.| 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: @stevenlevy, @drwave, @chris_mellor, @rstephens, @richardkerris, @stevenbjohnson, and @condenast
| 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, and Benzinga
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| 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| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Food sharing app OLIO raises $43M Series B led by VNV Global, as the startup tries to tackle food waste, with Tesco adding 2.7K stores to the service in 2020 — It was curious enough that OLIO, a UK startup with an app that lets users post a photo of unwanted food and share it with the local neighborhood …
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Harvard study details how automated hiring systems, now used by 99% of Fortune 500 companies, exclude 10M+ qualified workers in the US from hiring discussions — Automated-hiring systems are excluding many people from job discussions at a time when additional employees are desperately needed
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Harvard Business School. Tweets: @sarahmaeve1, @warrendavidson, @rakeshlobster, @quinnypig, @hshaban, @hshaban, @joeljohnson, @wsj, @rajakorman, @jc_econ, @p_millerd, and @raju
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