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Memo: Google fires four employees, citing data-security violations, amid rising tension between management and staff — - Move comes after worker protests and union organizing — Google told staff on Monday that it fired four employees for what the company called “clear and repeated violations” of its data-security policies.
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| Gwyn Topham / The Guardian: |
TfL says Uber's London license will not be renewed after it identified risks in Uber's system that allowed drivers to fake their identity; some were unlicensed — Ride-hailing service to continue while it appeals against Transport for London decision — Uber has lost its licence …
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Facebook launches Viewpoints, a market research app that pays users for completing surveys, research, and other tasks, for users in the US — Facebook is once again offering a market research app, but this one appears to avoid some of the privacy concerns from before.
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| Bryan Menegus / Gizmodo: |
Leaked Amazon injury reports show one of its NY warehouses has a very high incident rate score of 15.19 in 2018, versus an average of 6.1 for sawmills in the US — Since opening in September 2018, Amazon's massive fulfillment center on New York's Staten Island has garnered a reputation …
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| Dani Deahl / The Verge: |
Transcribers for Rev say they are exposed to troubling material, including violent police recordings and descriptions of child abuse, often with no warning — Violent police recordings, descriptions of child abuse, and graphic medical videos have appeared without warning, transcribers say
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| Elly Cosgrove / CNBC: |
eBay to sell StubHub to Swiss ticket resale marketplace viagogo for about $4.05B in cash — - The sale is expected to close by the end of the first quarter of 2020, subject to regulatory approval and customary closing conditions. — Tickets are offered for sale through StubHub in Chicago, Illinois.
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| Kieren McCarthy / The Register: |
RIPE, EU's regional internet registry, says it has run out of new IPv4 addresses and any returned will be allotted via waitlist, urges faster adoption of IPv6 — So will you all please move to IPv6? World: Nope. — Analysis It happened four years ago. And again two years ago. And last year.
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
WI-based IT company VCPI, which services ~80,000 computers across ~110 nursing homes in the US, is hit by a ransomware attack and is not paying the $14M ransom — A ransomware outbreak has besieged a Wisconsin based IT company that provides cloud data hosting, security and access management … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon brings Alexa to AWS IoT Core devices, lowering requirements for microprocessor type and RAM, now 1MB instead of 100MB, by offloading tasks to AWS — Amazon's annual AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas — where the tech giant reliably announces a host of products heading to Amazon Web Services …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Omni, which raised $35M, shutters after failing to work out the economics of equipment rentals and physical on-demand storage; Coinbase hires 10 Omni engineers — $35 million-funded Omni is packing up and shutting down after struggling to make the economics of equipment rentals and physical on-demand storage work out.| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Product Hunt founder Ryan Hoover raises $10M for a second Weekend Fund to back early-stage companies — Covering venture capital, software and startups — Six years since founding product discovery site Product Hunt, Ryan Hoover says he isn't planning to step away anytime soon.
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Ryan Hoover. Tweets: @om, @rrhoover, @varadhjain, @sriramk, @kevinrose, @alexrkonrad, and @garrytan. Thanks:@alexrkonrad
| Ian Sample / The Guardian: |
150+ orgs, including Google and Facebook, back Tim Berners-Lee's Contract for the Web, pledging to guard the web from abuse or face removal from supporter list — Inventor of web calls on governments and firms to safeguard it from abuse and ensure it benefits humanity
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contractfortheweb.org, New York Times, BBC, CNBC, Engadget, World Wide Web Foundation, World Wide Web Foundation, Gizmodo, KnowTechie, Newser, iPhone in Canada Blog, New York Times, 9to5Mac, World Wide Web Foundation, World Wide Web Foundation, PYMNTS.com, The Verge, Boing Boing, Inquirer, BetaNews, and Graham Cluley
| AnandTech: |
Review of AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X and 3970X, with 24/32 cores on 7nm: they beat Intel chips across many benchmarks, especially on parallel computing tasks — One of the constant themes of 2019 has been to ask AMD employees about the future of its Threadripper line of products.Thanks:@anandtech
| Filip Piekniewski / Piekniewski's blog: |
A skeptical overview of AI-related news and grandiose PR, from self-driving ventures to orgs focused on artificial general intelligence (AGI), like OpenAI — It's been 7 months since my last commentary on the field, and as it became regular appearance in this blog (and in fact …
Tweets: @peterbotting
| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Palo Alto Networks to acquire Aporeto, which provides identity-based access control to secure workloads across all infrastructures, for $150M in cash — Meanwhile, Palo Alto reported Q1 results above expectations; Nutanix also reported solid Q1 results. — Palo Alto Networks …
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SiliconANGLE, Business Wire, Palo Alto Networks, Silicon Valley Business …, Norwest Venture Partners, PR Newswire, MarketWatch, and Reuters. Tweets: @manan
| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Documents show California's DMV is making ~$50M/year selling drivers' personal info, partaking in the highly criticized but common practice since at least 2013 — The California Department of Motor Vehicles is generating revenue of $50,000,000 a year through selling drivers' personal information … Sponsor Posts
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