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Timnit Gebru says she was fired as co-lead of Ethical AI at Google due to an email to colleagues; leaked email details her struggles as a Black leader at Google — “Stop writing your documents because it doesn't make a difference”: Timnit Gebru's final message to her peers
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DOJ sues Facebook, accusing it of improperly reserving jobs for H-1B workers by not sufficiently advertising open positions and overlooking US residents — Justice Department lawsuit says social-media company didn't sufficiently advertise open positions, overlooked U.S. residents| New York Times: |
EU law inhibiting the monitoring of email, messaging, and other services that takes effect Dec. 20 would also restrict scanning for child sexual abuse imagery — Regulators argue that while abuse imagery on the internet is abhorrent, unchecked scanning for it by tech companies could violate privacy rights.
Tweets: @gabrieldance, @missingkids, @missingkids, @benedictevans, @satariano, @rasmus_kleis, @jeffjarvis, and @orinkerr
| M.G. Siegler / 500ish: |
Despite Microsoft's present-day sales power, a wave of product-focused enterprise companies inspired by Slack and its peers will ultimately disrupt the giant — A quick rebuttal on the Slackforce Slacklash — Look, it's late. And everyone is happy enough so there's no pressing need to weigh in here.
Tweets: @davidsacks, @caseynewton, @dannosaur7, @harrymccracken, @davidsacks, and @davidsacks
| Campbell Kwan / ZDNet: |
White House issues another executive order aiming to guide federal development of AI, focusing on nine principles to build public trust in the technology — This time, the order is focused on promoting the use of trustworthy artificial intelligence by the government.
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| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
Chinese scientists claim quantum supremacy with a system that calculated in mins what a supercomputer would take 2B years, using tech different than Google — Google trumpeted its quantum computer that outperformed a conventional supercomputer. A Chinese group says it's done the same, with different technology.
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Sources: the DOJ is in talks with Huawei's CFO Meng Wanzhou that would allow her to return to China in exchange for admitting wrongdoing in ongoing case — Justice Department is discussing an arrangement that would allow her to return to China in exchange for admitting wrongdoing
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Tweets: @gordongchang, @shen_shiwei, @emilyrauhala, @adrianmorrow, and @gordongchang
| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
Interview with the mayors of London, Toronto, and Lisbon about their cities adopting new tech like facial recognition, managing public expectations, more — For the mayor of any modern city, an increasingly large part of the job entails managing the public backlash to new technology being deployed in those cities.
Tweets: @issielapowsky, @issielapowsky, and @issielapowsky
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Parler's lax moderation policies have helped it become a magnet for porn and escort services, which might complicate its hopes of expanding into advertising — Hashtags like #keepamericasexy proliferate alongside conspiracy theories and conservative politics
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| Reuters: |
The DOD has added China's largest chipmaker SMIC to its blacklist of alleged Chinese military companies — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Thursday added China's top chipmaker SMIC and oil giant CNOOC to a blacklist of alleged Chinese military companies …
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
Warner Bros. says it will release every single movie in 2021 simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max in the US and stream them for one month — For a period of one month in the United States — WarnerMedia is pushing even more aggressively into streaming by releasing every single movie in 2021 simultaneously on HBO Max.
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| Alex Heath / The Information: |
Facebook is reorganizing its unit focused on its role in global elections, moving staff into a larger organization called Central Integrity, led by Guy Rosen — Facebook is breaking up its unit focused on the social network's role in elections globally, dispersing the team of roughly 300 through …
Tweets: @jamesrbuk and @hhariri
| Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News: |
Twitter starts applying its Synthetic and Manipulated Media policy in India, as it labels a video tweeted by BJP's head of social media as “manipulated media” — Critics have been asking American tech companies to apply the same standards to the rest of the world as they do to the US.
Tweets: @pranavdixit and @pranavdixit
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Twitter says it is turning off threaded replies because they made conversations hard to read, and shuts down its prototype twttr app — It's also shutting down its experimental app, twttr — Twitter has been experimenting with threaded replies for some time as a way to potentially make replies easier to read and follow.
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| Kayla Gogarty / Media Matters for America: |
Daily interactions with right-leaning pages on Facebook fell only 6% in the 20 days post-election vs. 20 days before despite reports of an adjusted algorithm — After the election, the platform had reportedly decided to elevate established news outlets and reduce visibility of right and left-leaning pages.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Users can now share in-app purchases and subscriptions via Apple's iCloud Family Sharing, if developers enable the option in their apps — iPhone and iPad users who share apps with their families through Apple's Family Sharing feature can now share subscription apps as well.
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MacStories, Redmond Pie, iPhone in Canada Blog, Pocketnow, iMore, iDownloadBlog.com, Apple Terminal, and 9to5Mac
| Nicholas Kristof / New York Times: |
How Montreal-based Pornhub profits from child and revenge porn, rape, spy cam and other criminal, non-consensual sex videos — Why does Canada allow this company to profit off videos of exploitation and assault? — Pornhub prides itself on being the cheery, winking face of naughty …
Tweets: @nickkristof and @nachristakis
| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Apple's Screen Recognition, a computer vision system in iOS14 trained on images of apps in use, labels the UI elements on screen for users who are blind — Apple has always gone out of its way to build features for users with disabilities, and VoiceOver on iOS is an invaluable tool for anyone …
Tweets: @vick08, @edapthere, and @sommer
| Brian Barrett / Wired: |
IBM researchers say a sophisticated global phishing campaign is targeting the companies involved in the “cold chain” needed to distribute COVID-19 vaccines — As vaccines await US approval, a sophisticated global phishing campaign has tried to harvest credentials from companies involved in their distribution.Sponsor Posts
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