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Meta says a global community development head, who spoke about inappropriate communications with a 13 year old in a viral sting video, is no longer an employee — Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has confirmed to TechCrunch that Jeren A. Miles, who had been a manager of global community development …
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Project Zero: Linux developers patch security holes faster than anyone else, in an average of 25 days vs Google in 44 days, Apple in 69, and Microsoft in 83 — Linux programmers do a better job of patching security holes than programmers at Apple, Google, and Microsoft.| Scott Galloway / No Mercy / No Malice: |
How Apple may get to $1T in revenue by 2030, from $366B in 2021, using its hardware expertise, high consumer trust, and capital reserves to enter new markets — Round numbers have no inherent meaning — they're a consequence of 10 fingers. But they provide a benchmark, a way to focus our observations.
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Whistleblower Aid, representing Frances Haugen, files two SEC complaints claiming Meta misled investors about its work to fight misinfo on COVID-19 and climate — A pair of new whistleblower complaints filed the with the Securities and Exchange Commission in February allege Facebook misled investors …
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Sources: Better.com is preparing for layoffs that could affect as much as 40% to 50% of staff, as more senior executives depart including its finance VP — Things are getting worse at Better. — More executives have resigned from Better.com nearly three months after the online mortgage … | Avi Asher-Schapiro / Thomson Reuters Foundation News: |
Internal documents: 400+ Salesforce employees signed an open letter objecting to its NFT plans, including helping other companies create and sell NFTs — After Salesforce announced a foray into the NFT market, hundreds of workers revolted, raising environmental and fraud concerns
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A look at the decline of MySpace, which flailed around for over a year as it was overtaken by Facebook, and parallels with Meta as TikTok surges — Read to the end for the anti-NFT anthem — I want to open today's email with an apology!! I wrote about the map-based Wordle game Worldle on Monday and I …
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Q&A with Intel EVP Dr. Ann Kelleher on lessons learned from the company's misadventures with 10nm process nodes, its vision for Foundry Services, and more — It's somewhat of an understatement to say that Intel's future roadmap on its process node development is one of the most aggressive in the history of semiconductor design.| James Hibberd / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Netflix announces four comedy specials to be hosted and produced by Dave Chappelle; the comedian's last special led to Netflix employee protests — The controversial comic will host and produce four comedy specials focusing on other veteran comedians.| Wired: |
A look at Microsoft's AI system in Argentina's Salta province to predict teenage pregnancies, which faced pushback from activists for being invasive and opaque — A government leader in Argentina hailed the AI, which was fed invasive data about girls. The feminist pushback could inform the future of health tech.| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Kubecost, whose open source tools help businesses monitor, manage, and optimize Kubernetes spend at scale, raises a $25M Series A led by Coatue Management — In the past year, Kubernetes adoption exploded, with over 5.6 million developers using the cloud-native tools — an increase of 67% from the year prior.| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Convictional, which offers a one-stop shop for retailers to source, onboard, integrate, and trade with suppliers, raises a $40M Series B led by YC Continuity — Retailers have traditionally onboarded their drop-ship, marketplace and wholesale suppliers using electronic data interchange … Sponsor Posts
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