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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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| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
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 … | Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Google is backtracking 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 …
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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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London police announce they will use 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: |
YouTube gains exclusive streaming rights to Activision Blizzard's big esports events like Overwatch League, which was a Twitch exclusive for the past two years — As part of a multiyear partnership between the game publisher and Google — Video game publisher Activision Blizzard has entered …
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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following DOD, Treasury objections — Proposed rules making it harder for American firms to sell to Chinese company are withdrawn — WASHINGTON—The Commerce …
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| 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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Tweets: @parallelsmac, @z3rotrust, @threatpost, @kaspersky, and @e_kaspersky
| 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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BGR, MacRumors, Input, and Cult of Mac
Tweets: @wsj, @nxthompson, @trippmickle, @bradnews, @davecbenoit, @faderp, and @daveambrose
| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
LA-based commercial real estate marketplace CRExi raises $29M, says it had $700B worth of transactions on its platform — Los Angeles is one of the most desirable locations for commercial real estate in the United States, so it's little wonder that there's something of a boom in investments … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
CloudKnox Security, which lets companies protect their private and public clouds from insider threats via “least privilege” policies, raises $12M Series A — CloudKnox Security, a cybersecurity startup that helps companies protect their private and public clouds from insider threats …
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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.Sponsor Posts
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