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Sources: Accenture is making its YouTube content moderators sign a document acknowledging that performing the job can cause PTSD — Accenture comes clean with its workforce — as part of an apparent legal defense — Content moderators for YouTube are being ordered to sign a document acknowledging …
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Sources: Accenture has sent a form to Facebook content moderators working at a European facility requiring them to acknowledge that their job could cause PTSD — Content moderators working at a European facility for Facebook have been required to sign a form explicitly acknowledging … | BBC: |
London police announce it'll start using live facial recognition cameras within a month for five to six hours at a time with bespoke lists of suspects each time — The Metropolitan Police has announced it will use live facial recognition cameras operationally for the first time on London streets.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
After backlash, Google backtracks on desktop search redesign which made it hard to distinguish ads from organic results, will experiment with favicon placements — The company says it will experiment with favicon placement — Google is backtracking on a controversial search engine redesign … | Jon Porter / The Verge: |
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| Tad Walch / Deseret News: |
Clayton Christensen, the author of the theory of disruptive innovation, dies at 67 — Apple's Steve Jobs, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Netflix's Reed Hastings and Intel's Andy Grove looked to influential management thinker — SALT LAKE CITY — Clayton Christensen, whose theory of disruptive innovation …
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| Tara Seals / Threatpost: |
Kaspersky Lab: in 2019, ~30% of all macOS malware detections derived from the Shlayer trojan, an unsophisticated malware that spreads via fake app installs — The malvertising-focused trojan known as Shlayer has burbled to the top of the malware heap when it comes to targeting Mac users.
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| Bob Davis / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: US withdrew proposed rules which would have made it harder for US firms to sell to Huawei from overseas facilities, following DOD, Treasury objections — Proposed rules making it harder for American firms to sell to Chinese company are withdrawn — WASHINGTON—The Commerce …
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| Tripp Mickle / Wall Street Journal: |
Profile of Tony Blevins, the VP of procurement at Apple, known as the Blevinator for his ability to stare down suppliers and slash prices to the bone — Apple procurement executive Tony Blevins's job is to stare down suppliers and slash prices to the bone, an increasingly vital role
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Inside the Pwn2Own Miami 2020 hacking contest, where hackers targeted industrial control systems software for the first time — At Pwn2Own, hackers had no trouble dismantling systems that help run everything from car washes to nuclear plants—with the prize of taking home the very computers they “pwn.”
Tweets: @wired, @wired, and @a_greenberg
| Bloomberg: |
Tech CEOs at Davos dodge issues such as privacy, misinformation, extremist content, and antitrust violations by focusing on the need for global AI regulation — - Two years ago tech executives went on Davos repentance tour — Google, IBM, Microsoft all called for regulation on AI
Tweets: @sam_l_shead, @business, and @sarahmsyed
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Beacon Platform, an application development platform designed for capital markets, raises $20M Series B — Beacon Platform Inc., a NYC-based vendor of cloud-based enterprise technology and capital markets software solutions, closed a $20m Series B funding.| Ian Servantes / Input: |
In the aftermath of StockX's 2019 data breach, customers continue to face challenges including fraudulent purchases and lack of customer service responses — Some buyers continue to deal with fraudulent purchases, and the company's response (or lack thereof) is cause for concern.
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