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| Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian: |
1,200+ Google employees and 1,500+ academic, industry, and civil supporters have signed a petition condemning the termination of AI scientist Timnit Gebru — More than 1,500 researchers also sign letter after Black expert on ethics says Google tried to suppress her research on bias
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| Reuters: |
In an internal email, Google's head of AI says that Gebru threatened to resign unless she was told which colleagues deemed her draft paper as unpublishable — OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - A top Google scientist on ethical artificial intelligence says she was fired after criticizing …
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| Forbes: |
Friends and colleagues of Tony Hsieh say he was privately coping with issues of mental health and addiction, made worse by COVID lockdowns, over the past year — When the business icon died in a fire last week, questions abounded. The answers seem rooted in a Covid-period spiral, where he turned to drugs and shunned old friends.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple launches a display module replacement program for iPhone 11 devices manufactured between November 2019 and May 2020 experiencing touch issues — Apple today launched a new display replacement program for iPhone 11 devices to address a problem that cases a “small percentage” of iPhone 11 displays to stop responding to touch.
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| Nicholas Kristof / New York Times: |
How Montreal-based Pornhub profits from child and revenge porn, rape, spy cam and other criminal, non-consensual sex videos — Why does Canada allow this company to profit off videos of exploitation and assault? — Pornhub prides itself on being the cheery, winking face of naughty … | Eileen Yu / ZDNet: |
Singapore issues digital bank licenses to Ant Group, Sea, and joint bidders Singtel and Grab, with operations likely to start in early 2022 — Alibaba's Ant Group and joint bidders Grab and Singtel are amongst bidders that have snagged licences to offer digital banking services in the country …
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / FinLedger: |
Moov Financial, which developed an open source platform for adding banking and payment functionality into apps, raises $27M Series A led by a16z — Startup's goal is to empower developers with developer-first code that's “modular, portable, and bank agnostic”
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| New York Times: |
EU law inhibiting the monitoring of email, messaging, and other services that takes effect Dec. 20 would also restrict scanning for child sexual abuse imagery — Regulators argue that while abuse imagery on the internet is abhorrent, unchecked scanning for it by tech companies could violate privacy rights.
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| Jessica Toonkel / The Information: |
Sources: WarnerMedia is weighing two new streaming services, with a subscription service based on CNN content in 2021 and a free entertainment service for 2022 — AT&T's WarnerMedia, long a giant in cable TV, was a late arrival to streaming video. Under its new CEO, Jason Kilar, Warner is trying to make up for lost time.
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
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| Dade Hayes / Deadline: |
Amazon adds live and on-demand US local news to its news app on Fire TVs, starting with 12 major markets and expanding into 90 more during 2021 — At the end of a record-setting year of news consumption, Amazon Fire TV said local TV stations in 12 U.S. cities will be added to Amazon's news app, with another 90 on deck for 2021.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the US will not extend the December 4 deadline for TikTok's forced sale but will not enforce the order either, allowing the negotiations to continue — - No new deadline is expected while deal discussions progress — Administration wants to finalize deal before Trump's term ends| Hollywood Reporter: |
Activision sues Netflix for poaching its CFO, says Netflix induced him to breach his contract; Fox and Viacom also have said Netflix illegally poached staff — The gaming giant alleges “Netflix's tortious and unethical conduct is intentional and a directive ‘from the top.’”
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Gamasutra, Reuters, GamesIndustry.biz, Silicon Valley Business …, Deadline, PC Gamer, Bloomberg, The Wrap, and Variety. Tweets: @thewrap
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
US and Australia sign an agreement allowing the US Cyber Command and Australia's IWD to jointly develop and share a virtual cyber training platform — The United States and Australia have signed a first-ever bilateral agreement that allows the U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) … | Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed News: |
NLRB has issued a complaint against Amazon in November over firing of warehouse employee who discussed pay and other workplace issues with her coworkers — This spring, six different Amazon employees claimed they were wrongfully terminated by the company in retaliation for their involvement in organizing to improve working conditions.| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
Chinese scientists claim quantum supremacy with a system that calculates in mins what would take a supercomputer 2B years, using tech different than Google's — Google trumpeted its quantum computer that outperformed a conventional supercomputer. A Chinese group says it's done the same, with different technology.
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Science, Scott Aaronson, The Next Web, Bloomberg, and Slashdot
Tweets: @csvoss, @sarah_ellyn, @albaclierta, @fulvioflamini, @wired, and @quantumhazzard
| Emily Bell / Columbia Journalism Review: |
The remit of Facebook's Oversight Board is narrow by design and its 90-day time frame per case is too long, hindering its ability to have any lasting impact — This week saw the long-awaited public debut of Facebook's Oversight Board, a group of twenty eminent lawyers, human rights experts … | Amy Thomson / Bloomberg: |
DoorDash raises its IPO price range to $90 to $95 from $75 to $85 per share, aiming to raise up to $3.1B — - Company raises share price range to $90 to $95 apiece — Startup is part of a wave of tech IPOs planned this month — DoorDash Inc. said it's seeking to raise …
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TechCrunch, Gizmodo, SiliconANGLE, Fortune, Silicon Valley Business …, PYMNTS.com, and TheStreet
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Zephr, a London startup that offers a no-code tool publishers can use to increase subscription revenue, raises $8M Series A led by Bertelsmann Digital Media — Zephr has raised $8 million in a new funding round led by Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (owned by media giant Bertelsmann).Sponsor Posts
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