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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 …
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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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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
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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| 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 … | Tom Simonite / Wired: |
Chinese scientists claim quantum supremacy with a system that calculated in mins what a supercomputer would take 2B years, using tech different than Google — 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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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| 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.
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| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
Interview with the mayors of London, Toronto, and Lisbon about their cities adopting new tech like facial recognition, managing public expectations, more — For the mayor of any modern city, an increasingly large part of the job entails managing the public backlash to new technology being deployed in those cities.
Tweets: @issielapowsky, @issielapowsky, and @issielapowsky
| 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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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Apple's Screen Recognition, a computer vision system in iOS14 trained on images of apps in use, labels the UI elements on screen for users who are blind — Apple has always gone out of its way to build features for users with disabilities, and VoiceOver on iOS is an invaluable tool for anyone …
Tweets: @vick08, @edapthere, and @sommer
| Nikkei Asia: |
As Facebook, Google, and Microsoft invest heavily in Indonesian tech companies, the nation's internet economy has grown to $44B, over fivefold from 2015 — Southeast Asia's No.1 digital economy attracts payment deals and cloud services — JAKARTA — For the major U.S. tech companies …
Tweets: @nikkeiasia, @er_maulia, and @nikkeiasia
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Revolut launches tools for its business clients to accept payments online, will take a 1.3% cut for UK and EU card transactions and 2.8% in other regions — - Revolut's new acquiring solution lets firms install plug-in checkout software or build their own custom features to take card payments online.| 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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| 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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| Reuters: |
The DOD has added China's largest chipmaker SMIC to its blacklist of alleged Chinese military companies — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Thursday added China's top chipmaker SMIC and oil giant CNOOC to a blacklist of alleged Chinese military companies …
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| 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.| Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News: |
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.
Tweets: @pranavdixit, @evelyndouek, and @pranavdixit
| 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 …
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