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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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| 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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DOJ sues Facebook, accusing it of improperly reserving jobs for H-1B workers by not sufficiently advertising open positions and overlooking US residents — Justice Department lawsuit says social-media company didn't sufficiently advertise open positions, overlooked U.S. residents
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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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| 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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| 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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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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Google will let users with ARCore-compatible Android phones submit Street View imagery, starting in Toronto, NYC, 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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Sources: the DOJ is in talks with Huawei's CFO Meng Wanzhou that would allow her to return to China in exchange for admitting wrongdoing in ongoing case — Justice Department is discussing an arrangement that would allow her to return to China in exchange for admitting wrongdoing
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| Campbell Kwan / ZDNet: |
White House issues another executive order aiming to guide federal development of AI, focusing on nine principles to build public trust in the technology — This time, the order is focused on promoting the use of trustworthy artificial intelligence by the government.
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Facebook is reorganizing its unit focused on its role in global elections, moving staff into a larger organization called Central Integrity, led by Guy Rosen — Facebook is breaking up its unit focused on the social network's role in elections globally, dispersing the team of roughly 300 through …
Tweets: @jamesrbuk
| 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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Tweets: @bhansmeyer, @andreaskam, @marcoarment, @chrisoshea, and @marcoarment
| David McLaughlin / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Facebook's VR business practices have attracted the attention of the DOJ, which is talking to developers about their interactions with Facebook — - Justice Department asks app developers about Oculus actions — “Copy, acquire, kill” accusations echo House report critiques
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PYMNTS.com. Tweets: @kavyapearlman, @cixliv, @hoofnagle, @billfishkin, @andgokevin, and @vertis
| M.G. Siegler / 500ish: |
Despite Microsoft's present-day sales power, a wave of product-focused enterprise companies inspired by Slack and its peers will ultimately disrupt the giant — A quick rebuttal on the Slackforce Slacklash — Look, it's late. And everyone is happy enough so there's no pressing need to weigh in here.| 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.
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Tweets: @charlie_savage, @zackwhittaker, @digiphile, @jameeljaffer, @jakelaperruque, @snowden, @bradmossesq, @saramorrison, and @pt
| 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 …
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Tweets: @tyadkisson, @edbott, @rkyncl, @akilahobviously, @sarafischer, @youtubecreators, and @susanwojcicki
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Users can now share in-app purchases and subscriptions via Apple's iCloud Family Sharing, if developers enable the option in their apps — iPhone and iPad users who share apps with their families through Apple's Family Sharing feature can now share subscription apps as well.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Digital health startup Everlywell has raised $175M Series D at a $1.3B valuation to expand its virtual care options, after a $25M funding round in February — Digital health startup Everlywell has raised a $175 million Series D funding round, following relatively fast on the heels … | 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 … | 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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Twitter starts applying its Synthetic and Manipulated Media policy in India, as it labels a video tweeted by BJP's head of social media as “manipulated media” — Critics have been asking American tech companies to apply the same standards to the rest of the world as they do to the US.Sponsor Posts
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