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Timnit Gebru says she was fired as co-lead of Ethical AI at Google due to an email to colleagues; leaked email details her struggles as a Black leader at Google — “Stop writing your documents because it doesn't make a difference”: Timnit Gebru's final message to her peers
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| Brian Barrett / Wired: |
IBM researchers say a sophisticated global phishing campaign is targeting the companies involved in the “cold chain” needed to distribute COVID-19 vaccines — As vaccines await US approval, a sophisticated global phishing campaign has tried to harvest credentials from companies involved in their distribution.
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Security Intelligence, New York Times, us-cert.cisa.gov, Reuters, ZDNet, Financial Times, Engadget, BBC, Gizmodo, Bloomberg, ComputerWeekly.com, CNET, infosecurity-magazine.com, Washington Post, The Register, Financial Times, Tech Xplore, Forbes, WRAL TechWire, HealthITSecurity, ZDNet, The Hill, and The Guardian
Tweets: @jfslowik, @virginiahughes, @campuscodi, @nytimes, @muniramustaffa, @b_fung, and @leahmcelrath
| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
Warner Bros. says it will release every single movie in 2021 simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max in the US and stream them for one month — For a period of one month in the United States — WarnerMedia is pushing even more aggressively into streaming by releasing every single movie in 2021 simultaneously on HBO Max.
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Hollywood Reporter, Variety, Bloomberg, Gizmodo, CNET, Ars Technica, IGN, TechCrunch, Deadline, IndieWire, Android Headlines, AppleInsider, CNBC, SlashGear, The Streamable, Polygon, Android Police, and Cord Cutters News
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DOJ sues Facebook, accusing it of improperly reserving jobs for H-1B workers by not sufficiently advertising open positions and overlooking US residents — Lawsuit by Justice Department's civil-rights division says social-media company didn't sufficiently advertise open positions, overlooked U.S. residents
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| Peter Rudegeair / Wall Street Journal: |
Stripe launches Treasury to let its customers offer checking accounts and other business-banking services; Shopify will offer the services from early next year — Shopify, a Stripe customer, will begin offering the service to its merchants early next year — Stripe Inc. is teaming …
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Stratechery, Stripe, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, PaymentsSource, Crowdfund Insider, PYMNTS.com, and Finextra
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Google will let users with ARCore-compatible Android phones submit Street View imagery, starting in Toronto, NY, Austin, Nigeria, Indonesia, and Costa Rica — No special equipment required — Google Maps is getting a new update that lets you create Street View photos using just a phone.
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The Keyword, Engadget, HotHardware.com News, TechCrunch, GSMArena.com, TechSpot, Neowin, SlashGear, XDA Developers, MSPoweruser, Fast Company, and Mashable
Tweets: @jharpster, @stshank, and @tomwarren
| Washington Post: |
Leaked docs: Facebook to start policing anti-Black hate speech more aggressively than anti-White comments, reversing years of “race-blind” practices — The company is overhauling its algorithms that detect hate speech and deprioritizing hateful comments against Whites, men and Americans.
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Twitter, CNET, The Verge, The Hill, Axios, Agence France-Presse, and Business Insider
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Slack's struggles to succeed as a standalone company mirror the fortunes of other one-time innovators in enterprise productivity who struggled with distribution — And why the era of worker-centered work tools may be over — Slack's life as an underdog darling of Silicon Valley ended on November 2, 2016.
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Box Blog, The Information, Business Insider, Protocol, and 500ish
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Twitter says it is turning off threaded replies because they made conversations hard to read, and shuts down its prototype twttr app — It's also shutting down its experimental app, twttr — Twitter has been experimenting with threaded replies for some time as a way to potentially make replies easier to read and follow.
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Tweets: @twittersupport, @twittersupport, @twittercomms, @twittercomms, @digiphile, and @thekenyeung
| Washington Post: |
Parler's lax moderation policies have helped it become a magnet for porn and escort services, which might complicate its hopes of expanding into advertising — Hashtags like #keepamericasexy proliferate alongside conspiracy theories and conservative politics
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple opens enrollment for its App Store Small Business Program with a reduced commission of 15%; deadline is Dec. 18 to qualify for a reduced rate on Jan. 1 — Apple has officially opened enrollment for the new App Store Small Business Program. This program allows developers to qualify …
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Apple Developer, AppleInsider, MacRumors, TechCrunch, SlashGear, Six Colors, and iMore
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft launches Azure Purview, a unified data governance service that automates the discovery, cataloging, mapping, and tracking of data, in public preview — As businesses gather, store and analyze an ever-increasing amount of data, tools for helping them discover, catalog …
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Three Democratic lawmakers introduce a bill that would require stablecoin issuers to obtain a banking charter, approval from the Federal Reserve and FDIC, more — A new U.S. Congressional bill would require stablecoin issuers to secure bank charters and secure regulatory approval prior to circulating any stablecoins.
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Representative Rashida Tlaib, Decrypt, Crypto Briefing, Cryptonews, Coinmonks, The Daily Gwei, Blockonomi, InsideBitcoins.com, blockchain.news, BitcoinExchangeGuide, and Cointelegraph
Tweets: @reprashida, @rohangrey, @jerallaire, @melt_dem, @tyler_lindholm, @erikvoorhees, @econoar, @mdudas, @xrp_mami, @cyounessi1, @hectorrosekrans, @qwqiao, @zosegal, @thecryptolark, @panama_tj, @paulrberg, @meanhash, @cynthiamlummis, @mayazi, @galgitron, @jameswester, @ofnumbers, @alongoren, @santiag78758327, @novogratz, @cryptocobain, @iamnomad, @lopp, @cduhaime, @ahcastor, @matthew_d_green, @nikhileshde, @cmsholdings, @doveywan, and @mikeinspace
| Anna Irrera / Reuters: |
S&P Dow Jones Indices says it will launch cryptocurrency indices in 2021, using data from crypto company Lukka on more than 550 of the top traded coins — LONDON (Reuters) - S&P Dow Jones Indices, a division of financial data provider S&P Global Inc, said on Thursday …
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Amazon introduces a feature that lets users text Alexa on iOS to ask for things instead of only using their voice, now available in public preview — Type with Alexa is available now as a ‘public preview’ — Amazon is testing a new feature for its iOS Alexa app: the ability to type out Alexa commands …
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Facebook says it will start removing false claims about coronavirus vaccines that have been debunked by public health experts — - Facebook's policy has been to remove false claims about Covid-19 that it says could lead to “imminent physical harm.” — Now, Facebook said it will …
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| Reuters: |
Source: a group of more than 40 US states, led by New York, plans to file an antitrust suit against Facebook next week — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of U.S. states led by New York is investigating Facebook Inc for possible antitrust violations and plans to file a lawsuit …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
PhonePe is partially spinning off, reducing Flipkart's stake from 100% to 87%, and raises $700M led by Walmart at a post-money valuation of $5.5B — PhonePe, the crown jewel in Flipkart's acquisition by Walmart, is “partially” spinning off, the financial services firm said on Thursday.
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The Economic Times, The Economic Times, Tech in Asia, TechCircle, MediaNama, and Reuters
Tweets: @sub8u, @tsuvik, @cnbctv18news, and @meghavishwanath
| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
YouTube will warn users before they post comments that “may be offensive to others” and adds better content filter systems for creators — An attempt to weed out offensive comments — YouTube is trying to combat offensive comments that appear under videos by following … | Charlie Savage / New York Times: |
In a letter to Sen. Wyden, ODNI says FBI used Section 215 of the Patriot Act to collect website visitor logs without a warrant, but not keywords from searches — A disclosure sheds new light on a high-profile national security law as lawmakers prepare to revive a debate over it in the Biden administration.
Tweets: @charlie_savage, @snowden, @jameeljaffer, @digiphile, and @zackwhittaker
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Thoma Bravo buys Flexera, a Chicago-based IT asset management company, sources say for $2.85B; Thoma Bravo previously bought Flexera in 2008 and sold it in 2011 — Thoma Bravo must really like Flexera, an IT asset management company out of Chicago. The private equity firm bought the company for the second time today.
Tweets: @quinnypig
| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
GitHub: JavaScript, Python, and Java remain the most popular languages on GitHub in 2020, followed by TypeScript; open source project creation jumped up 40% YoY — GitHub released its annual Octoverse report today to reveal trends found in one of the largest developer communities on the planet … | Meagan Simpson / BetaKit: |
Affirm to acquire Canada-based PayBright, which offers a buy-now, pay-later service for both e-commerce and in-store transactions, for around $340M CAD — PayBright, one of Canada's leading buy-now-pay-later providers, is set to be acquired by San Francisco-based Affirm.Sponsor Posts
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