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Sources: Microsoft's board decided in 2020 Gates should leave the board as it probed claims Gates sought to initiate an affair with a Microsoft engineer in 2000 — Company's board members began investigation in 2019 into woman's allegations of prior sexual relationship with Bill Gates …
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Sources: long after his marriage, Bill Gates would pursue women at Microsoft, at times creating an uncomfortable workplace environment — Melinda French Gates voiced concerns about her husband's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and a harassment claim against his money manager.
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Q&A with Rick Klau, an ex-Google product manager and California's new CTIO responsible for building apps and services for various departments across the state — When Rick Klau joined the California government, he expected a culture shock after 13 years at Google.| Jonathan Greig / ZDNet: |
Survey: over 60% of 1,400 CISOs in 14 countries expect a damaging cyberattack in the next 12 months, due to massive shift to remote work since the pandemic — Proofpoint surveyed 1,400 CISOs across the globe about the current cybersecurity landscape. — More than 1,000 CISOs around …
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Jon Prosser leaks what he claims are Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro renders, as well as a promo video and images of Android 12, ahead of Google I/O — Google is rumored to be revamping Wear OS this year and the update is said to be so substantial that even Samsung is on board with the plans.
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| Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News: |
Pandemic-induced rise in app ordering has given birth to the “appuccino”, a phenomenon driven by TikTok, where customized Starbucks drink suggestions go viral — Stomachs churned and food service workers broke out in a cold sweat when a photo of a long, complicated custom Starbucks order went viral on Twitter.
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| Parmy Olson / Wall Street Journal: |
Profile of Foxglove, a tech-activism group famous for pushing UK into reassessing its use of algorithms, that's challenging Facebook and Uber on worker rights — Foxglove successfully pushed back on government tech tools and now is looking into bigger corporate targets
Tweets: @catkins989, @foxglovelegal, @leonieclaude, @avilarenata, @seyiakiwowo, and @timcohn
| Matthew Gault / VICE: |
Study: being corrected by another user for posting false political news increases subsequent sharing of low quality, partisan, and toxic content — Twitter is a hellscape and it only gets worse when you point out some is sharing bad information. — Matthew Gault
Tweets: @iansherr, @katie_roof, and @adrienneroyer
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Clubhouse, which launched its Android app in beta in the US last week, to expand the app to Japan, Brazil, and Russia on Tuesday, and globally by Friday — Voice social network Clubhouse said on Sunday it will expand its Android app worldwide in a week, days after launching a beta version …
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| Zeke Faux / Bloomberg: |
An examination of Chamath Palihapitiya-sponsored SPACs, including Clover Health, which have plunged 50% on average after the SPAC market hit its peak in mid-Feb — One morning last October, as wildfires raged across Northern California, President Donald Trump convalesced from Covid‑ …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Ride-hailing giant Grab and e-commerce marketplace Tokopedia say they have merged to form GoTo Group, the largest tech group in Indonesia — Ride-hailing giant Gojek and marketplace Tokopedia said on Monday they have combined their businesses to form GoTo Group, the largest technology group in Indonesia.
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Researcher: Twitter is working on Twitter Blue, a $2.99/month subscription offering with “Collections” to organize favorite tweets and an “undo tweet” function — Twitter has been working on its subscription service for a while now.
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