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Internal postings show Ankhi Das, a top Facebook exec in India, supported “strongman” Modi's party before he was elected in 2014 and disparaged its main rival — Some employees said the sentiments and actions conflicted with the company's longstanding neutrality pledge| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Samsung starts mass production of 16 GB LPDDR5 DRAM using extreme ultraviolet lithography, says the process clears a “major developmental hurdle” in scaling RAM — Samsung is fond of bragging about its progress on memory chips, but this is one time where it made a particularly notable breakthrough.
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Tesla releases new software update to visually detect speed limit signs, and more — Tesla has started pushing a new version of its software update to now visually detect speed limit signs, and more. — For a while, there has been speculation about to what degree Tesla …
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| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at autonomous boat tech as ocean research nonprofit Promare says it will unveil in September a fully autonomous ship called Mayflower with IBM as partner — Driverless ships don't have to worry about crowded roads. And they don't need bunks—or toilets. — TEXT — 1 RESPONSE| Jack Morse / Mashable: |
Slack discloses a now fixed critical RCE flaw in its desktop app; Slack paid $1,750 bug bounty to researcher, which critics say is a paltry sum — Slack and its scores of desktop app users just dodged a major bullet. — The communications tool relied upon by journalists, tech workers …
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Profile of Frank Slootman, hired 16 months ago as the CEO of cloud database company Snowflake, as he takes his third startup public — - Frank Slootman is preparing to take Snowflake public 13 years after his first tech IPO, Data Domain, and eight years after his second, ServiceNow.
Tweets: @jordannovet
| Cory Doctorow / OneZero : |
Cory Doctorow highlights the conceptual limitations of Shoshana Zuboff's “surveillance capitalism” and details how to dismantle it — The most surprising thing about the rebirth of flat Earthers in the 21st century is just how widespread the evidence against them is.
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| Dara Kerr / CNET: |
How a law professor became the target of posts on conservative sites, social media harassment, and PR firms hired by gig economy companies, for supporting AB5 — Labor activists are targeted in a social media campaign as gig economy companies spend millions to prevent workers from becoming employees.
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| Jacob Bunge / Wall Street Journal: |
How the startup Farmers Business Network is trying to disrupt the largely brick-and-mortar $40B US farm supply business, while agri giants refuse to play along — Farmers Business Network faces pressure from big suppliers as it tries to grow its online platform
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Report: black market for stolen game logins generates $1B annually, with logins for Fortnite, Roblox, Minecraft, and RuneScape accounting for ~$700M in sales — - Roblox, Minecraft and RuneScape accounts are also popular — 'They can't keep up with demand,' researcher says in a report
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| Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review: |
Online creators are creating deepfake memes as the technology grows more accessible, and publishing YouTube instructions so others can learn how — The rapidly increasing accessibility of the technology raises new concerns about its abuse. — Grace Windheim had heard of deepfakes before.
Tweets: @allanwhite, @techreview, @hkanji, @_karenhao, and @martinwaxman
| Fanny Potkin / Reuters: |
A look at the rapid growth of TikTok in Southeast Asia, where the app has been downloaded 360M times, up 151% YoY, according to Sensor Tower — SINGAPORE (Reuters) - At 19, Sandy Saputra is big on TikTok Indonesia. Within a year, he's leapt from quiet, small-town life to star influencer status … | Wall Street Journal: |
China's state media quoted a government adviser, who said ByteDance should study the new export list and “seriously and cautiously” consider halting TikTok deal — Chinese government trade adviser cautions app maker to study new regulations prior to sale
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