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Meta's new policies for contractors and staff moderating Facebook and Instagram allow dehumanizing speech, like “a trans person isn't a he or she, it's an it” — “A trans person isn't a he or she, it's an it,” reads a new guideline telling moderators what is now allowed on Facebook and Instagram
More: The Intercept and Electronic Frontier Foundation
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| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
Sources: many of Meta's employees are furious about its moderation changes allowing “allegations of mental illness” when based on “gender or sexual orientation” — Meta's decision to specifically allow users to call LGBTQ+ people “mentally ill” has sparked widespread backlash at the company.
More: Techdirt, Business Today, New Republic, and Attitude
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Forums: r/LGBTnews, r/AnythingGoesNews, and r/technology
| Colby Hall / Mediaite: |
More: The National Pulse, The Hill, Gizmodo, and Salon
| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
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| Kevin Purdy / Ars Technica: |
The Linux Foundation launches an initiative to fund developing Chromium projects in a “neutral space”, with support from Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Opera — But it's really a “neutral space” for funding and support, corralling together some big names with a stake in the future of Chrome's open source roots, Chromium.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Elon Musk and his right-wing allies discussed how to destabilize the UK Labour government and remove PM Keir Starmer, beyond Musk's aggressive X posts — Technology billionaire interested in building support for another political party, notably Reform UK
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| Financial Times: |
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| Joseph Cox / Wired: |
A hack of location data firm Gravy reveals Candy Crush, Tinder, and thousands of other apps are being used to steal user location data; apps may not even know — A hack of location data company Gravy Analytics has revealed which apps are—knowingly or not—being used to collect your information behind the scenes.
More: Pixel Envy and Reuters
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| Jaiveer Singh Shekhawat / Reuters: |
Frank McCourt's Project Liberty says it made a formal bid to ByteDance to acquire TikTok's US assets, aiming to keep the app alive without its current algorithm — Entrepreneur and former Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt's Project Liberty and its consortium of partners in The People's Bid …
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Google and Microsoft donate $1M to Trump's inauguration; Google says the donation, a YouTube livestream, and a homepage event link align with past inaugurations — Google donated $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration fund, becoming the latest major tech company to try …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Court docs: Mark Zuckerberg approved the Meta team that trains AI Llama models to use data from LibGen, a “links aggregator” to pirated, copyrighted material — Counsel for plaintiffs in a copyright lawsuit filed against Meta allege that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave the green light …
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Ubisoft says it is appointing advisers to review and pursue strategic options after an October 2024 report said its majority backers were considering a buyout — French video game publisher Ubisoft said Thursday it's appointing advisors to review and pursue strategic options after a report …
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
A US judge rules that Google must face a class action claiming Google collected users' personal data from their phones after they turned off Web & App Activity — Google failed to persuade a federal judge to dismiss a privacy class action claiming it collected personal data …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
X says it is rolling out labels for parody or satire accounts to differentiate them from others and boost transparency; accounts have to apply for the labels — Elon Musk-owned social network X said today that it is rolling out labels for parody or satire accounts to differentiate them from other accounts.
X: @safety, @milasrstark, @hugovale_, and @alx
| Heather Landi / Fierce Healthcare: |
Hippocratic AI, which is building an LLM for health care use cases, raised a $141M Series B at a $1.64B valuation, and launches a health care AI agent app store — Hippocratic AI funding round generative AI Kleiner Perkins — Hippocratic AI is kicking off 2025 with a bang.| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Ivanti warns that threat actors exploited a critical-rated zero-day in its widely used Connect Secure VPN tool to compromise its corporate customers' networks — U.S. software giant Ivanti has warned that a zero-day vulnerability in its widely-used enterprise VPN appliance has been exploited …
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