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Susan Wojcicki talks about the crises that have engulfed YouTube recently, the power of its platform, and being a working parent of five — As the crisis-hit video site struggles to stem the flow of extreme content, the CEO talks about her role as the internet's gatekeeper
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| Mishaal Rahman / XDA Developers: |
Huawei announces its first device running Harmony OS, an Honor Vision smart TV launching on August 15 — Companies that have traditionally been known for their smartphones are venturing into the smart TV business. Xiaomi has been in this game for some time now, while OnePlus is also gearing up to launch its own smart screen product.| Richard Lai / Engadget: |
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| Nick Heath / ZDNet: |
Interview with Python creator Guido van Rossum on Python's creation in the 1980s, its evolution, draw for developers, and future — Frustrated by programming language shortcomings, Guido van Rossum created Python. With the language now used by millions, Nick Heath talks to van Rossum about Python's past and explores what's next.
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| April Glaser / Slate: |
There is a growing sentiment among Stanford's CS students to resist working at tech companies like Palantir that they feel are unethical — Palantir is about a 15-minute walk from Stanford University. That stone's-throw convenience helped one morning in June when a group of Stanford students perched …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
FCC filing reveals Sonos is working on its first-ever Bluetooth speaker — The long-awaited portable Sonos speaker could arrive this fall — One of two devices recently filed by Sonos with the FCC is a portable Bluetooth speaker, The Verge can confirm. In the filing for product model S17 …
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| Joel Stein / Bloomberg: |
A reporter describes trying to regain privacy by hiding from Silicon Valley using a slew of location-altering, signal silencing, face-masking gadgets — As the spy gear piles up on my desk, my 10-year-old son asks me what my mission is. “I'm hiding,” I whisper, pointing in the direction I think is north … | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Researcher finds hundreds of exposed AWS EBS snapshots leaking sensitive customer data, like VPN configurations, passwords, and in some cases government data — How safe are your secrets? If you used Amazon's Elastic Block Storage snapshots, you might want to check your settings.| Krystal Hu / Yahoo Finance: |
Uber imposes hiring freeze on engineering teams in the US and Canada, canceling scheduled interviews with job applicants this week — Uber isn't letting tech workers join the ride, at least for now. — The ride-hailing giant has been canceling scheduled on-site interviews for tech roles this week … | Ina Fried / Axios: |
AMD CEO talks about plans to quickly ramp up production of EPYC server chips, launched this week, and sustaining the advantage created by Intel's stumbles — With Intel struggling to get to the next generation of chipmaking technology, AMD has an opportunity to gain some ground on its longtime rival.
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China's central bank official says its digital currency, CBDC, is “ready”, and will not rely entirely on a pure blockchain architecture — Mu Changchun, Deputy Chief in the Payment and Settlement Division of the People's Bank of China (PBOC,) stated that the CBDC prototype exists …
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Sources: Trump's draft executive order calls for new FCC regulations narrowing CDA Section 230 protections for social media platforms when they suppress content — Washington (CNN Business)A draft executive order from the White House could put the Federal Communications Commission in charge …
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| Kevin Poulsen / The Daily Beast: |
8chan users who are migrating to 08chan, an unofficial site hosted on ZeroNet, inadvertently lose anonymity because the P2P network exposes users' IP address — An unofficial new version of the hate-filled forum isn't as anonymous as its users might hope. — Refugees from the anonymous 8chan forum …
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