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October 21, 2023, 7:05 PM

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Rohan Goswami / CNBC:
Okta's stock closes down 11.57% after the cybersecurity company said a hacker accessed its support system using a stolen credential and viewed client files  —  - Cybersecurity firm Okta said an unidentified hacker had accessed the company's support system and viewed client files.
Beth Wang / Bloomberg Law:
A US jury finds Google guilty of gender bias and awards female executive Ulku Rowe $1M+, in the first such case filed against Google after 2018's mass walkouts  —  Google LLC treated female executive Ulku Rowe differently than other employees because of her gender and must pay her more than $1 million …
More: The Verge and Engadget
Threads: @carnage4lifeX: @sarumbearForums: Hacker News and r/technology
Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:
Paddy Cosgrave steps down as the CEO of Web Summit, which plans to appoint a new CEO; the event, set to start on November 13 in Lisbon, will go ahead as planned  —  Paddy Cosgrave has stepped down from his role as chief executive officer of Web Summit after his remarks following attacks …
The Irish Times:
Google, Meta, Intel, Amazon, Siemens, and others pull out of Web Summit 2023, after the event's co-founder and CEO, Paddy Cosgrave, accused Israel of war crimes  —  Intel, Siemens and actor Gillian Anderson previously said they were withdrawing  —  Google and Facebook-owner Meta have become …
Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News:
Report: seven unreliable X accounts, some promoted by Elon Musk, dominated English-language news on X around the Israel-Hamas war from October 7 to October 10  —  The University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public said that the most popular posts about the crisis revealed how news …
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
A look at the Allen Institute for AI's plan to build “open” generative AI model OLMo; the nonprofit research center is led by former Apple ML leader Ali Farhadi  —  The nonprofit Allen Institute for AI, led by a respected computer scientist who sold his company to Apple, is trying to democratize cutting-edge research.
Wall Street Journal:
How Meta is struggling to moderate Israel-Hamas war content, amid internal friction and its moderation tools' limited ability in parsing Arabic dialects  —  In trying to prevent Instagram and Facebook from contributing to further violence, Meta is juggling internal friction and limited tools to address a flood of content
Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:
Bugs in the ChatGPT app reveal internal natural language prompts shared between DALL-E 3 and ChatGPT, including some commands written in all-caps for emphasis  —  Politeness and emphasis play a surprising role in AI-model communications.  —  Not long after OpenAI first unveiled …
Sanjay Gupta / The Keyword India:
Google expands consumer and merchant credit features on Google Pay in India, launches new generative AI-based visual and local capabilities in Search, and more  —  Country Head & Vice President, Google India  —  With India looking at a billion connected people in the near future …
Casey Newton / Platformer:
A look at Discord's new Warning System, which limits users' behavior based on their violation instead of relying on strikes, and avoids permanent bans  —  Most platforms ban their trolls forever.  Discord wants to rehabilitate them  —  Today, let's talk about how the traditional platform justice system …
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