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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft lays off editorial staff at its News and MSN divisions, reportedly affecting around 50 US and 27 UK jobs, as it increases use of AI for news curation — Microsoft News and MSN is increasingly being run by robots — Microsoft is laying off dozens of journalists and editorial workers …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook won't remove Trump's post on Minnesota protests to “enable as much expression as possible”, says it doesn't violate its policies — “We should enable as much discussion as possible,” Zuckerberg says in a post — Facebook will not remove …
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| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
How, after years of internal deliberations, Twitter finally came to the decision to begin labeling Trump's misleading and violence-glorifying tweets — Inside the company, one faction wanted Jack Dorsey, Twitter's chief, to take a hard line against the president's tweets while another urged him to remain hands-off.
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| Oversight Board / @oversightboard: |
[Thread] Facebook Oversight Board says it is “working hard to set the Board up to begin operating later this year” — There are many significant issues relating to online content that we recognize people want the Board to consider. We're working hard to set the Board up to begin operating later this year so it can start considering cases referred by users and Facebook.
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| The Hacker News: |
Apple paid a researcher $100K for reporting a flaw in “Sign in with Apple” in April that could have let attackers hijack any user's account on third-party apps — Apple recently paid Indian vulnerability researcher Bhavuk Jain a huge $100,000 bug bounty for reporting … | Adrianne Jeffries / The Markup: |
Grubhub should be thriving during the pandemic; instead, delivery apps' unworkable business model, charging high fees to small restaurants, creates huge losses — The crisis is a stark reminder that food delivery tech companies may have an unworkable business model
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| John Herman / New York Times: |
The pandemic pushed Amazon to its breaking point, prematurely delivering a future it has been planning for, where whole categories of physical retail are closed — To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
Tweets: @worrierprincess, @frankpasquale, @xanalter, and @sumofus
| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Sony says it is on track to launch PlayStation 5 this year and has begun manufacturing the console, announces a games-focused event on June 4 — Latest PlayStation console expected to launch globally in the final quarter of 2020 — Sony's PlayStation 5 is “on track” …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Spain-based Freepik, a freemium vector graphics and stock photos marketplace, acquired by PE firm EQT; local news report says deal values Freepik at €250M — Freepik, a Malaga-Spain based website which offers a curated freemium marketplace of vector graphics and stock photos fed …
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| Max Chafkin / Bloomberg: |
US to join Global Partnership on AI, set up to counter China's influence in development of AI technologies, becoming the last of the G-7 countries to sign on — The U.S. plans to join an international organization that will advise companies and governments on the responsible development … | Kirsten Grind / Wall Street Journal: |
COVID-19 Technology Task Force, an effort to let big tech companies assist White House's pandemic response, beset by disagreements over privacy and other issues — Effort to join Silicon Valley tech giants including Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Amazon with the White House to fight the coronavirus is faltering
Tweets: @trippmickle, @kirstengrind, and @wsj
| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Pie Insurance, a startup offering an automated online service that provides small businesses with workers' compensation insurance, announces $127M raise — Pie Insurance, a Washington, D.C.-based startup offering workers' compensation insurance to small businesses, announced this morning … Sponsor Posts
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