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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Some contractors at Google's Austin content moderation facility describe being overworked and suffering severe mental health consequences after just six months — These moderators help keep Google and YouTube free of violent extremism — and now some of them have PTSD
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
ICANN says it will review PIR's sale of .org to Ethos Capital to decide if it should be allowed; notes it has 30 days to provide or withhold its consent — ICANN asks questions about new owner, will have 30 days to make decision. — ICANN is reviewing the pending sale of the .org domain manager …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram will preemptively flag potentially offensive captions, in addition to comments, aiming to nudge users to reconsider their words without censoring them — Earlier this year, Instagram launched a feature that would flag potentially offensive comments before they're posted.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram expands its fact checking efforts by hiding false content behind warnings, except for politicians, and removing it from Explore and hashtag pages — Instagram is giving politicians the same free reign to spread misinformation as its parent company Facebook.
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
A look at the back-end operations of Evil Corp, the Russian gang sanctioned by the US Treasury for allegedly operating a cybercrime network with FSB connections — The U.S. Justice Department this month offered a $5 million bounty for information leading to the arrest and conviction …
Tweets: @jaredhanson, @techchaser, and @briankrebs
| Can Sezer / Reuters: |
New Android phones sold in the Turkish market will not have Google services, until the company resolves a dispute with Turkey's competition authority — ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Google has told its Turkish business partners it will not be able to work with them on new Android phones to be released in Turkey … | Davey Alba / New York Times: |
Campaign staff and researchers say almost no political campaigns, including presidential ones, have teams for spotting and pushing back on disinformation — Few politicians have teams to spot false statements about them online, or to fight back before it spreads.
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| Karl Freund / Forbes: |
Intel acquires Israel-based AI chip maker Habana Labs for $2B — Senior Analyst, Machine Learning and HPC — In a strategic move in its datacenter AI plans, Intel has announced that it will acquire Israeli chip startup Habana Labs for $2B. Intel had reaffirmed its plans to deliver …
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| Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal: |
Netflix shares detailed overseas subscriber numbers for the first time in a filing, and says 90% of total subscriber growth came from outside the US since 2017 — Streaming service is disclosing detailed subscriber information by region for operations outside of the U.S. for the first time
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Financial Times, Reuters, New York Times, Hollywood Reporter, Variety, and Deadline
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| Jia Tolentino / New Yorker: |
How social media and apps like FaceTune led to a widespread pursuit of a generic “Instagram Face” look, enabled by non-invasive cosmetic medical procedures — How social media, FaceTune, and plastic surgery created a single, cyborgian look. — This past summer …
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| Martha Pskowski / OneZero: |
How delivery workers in Mexico City use WhatsApp groups to share real time info on crashes, robberies, harassment, and their deliveries in high crime areas — A 1,000-person WhatsApp community keeps delivery workers safe — a recent Tuesday night, Luisa Amezquita, a Rappi company delivery worker …
Tweets: @went1955, @ozm, and @llchristyll
| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Tel Aviv-based Arbe, which is developing a high-resolution radar chipset for autonomous vehicles, raises $32M Series B — It's not enough for an autonomous vehicle to see the world around it. These vehicles need to understand what they're seeing in real time.
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