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In response to Oversight Board ruling, Facebook suspends Trump's accounts until January 7, 2023, and says it will then reconsider suspension if conditions allow — Last month, the Oversight Board upheld Facebook's suspension of former US President Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts following …
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Microsoft says Bing is not displaying image results for “tank man” on the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre due to “accidental human error” — “There are no results for tank man,” the Bing website reads after searching for the term. — Joseph Cox
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| Zoe Schiffer / The Verge: |
In a letter to Tim Cook, written and edited by about 80 people, Apple employees push back against a policy requiring them to return to the office in September — “Over the last year we often felt not just unheard, but at times actively ignored” — Apple employees are pushing …
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
A 2007 email between Steve Jobs and then Apple SVP of Software Engineering, approving 3rd party iPhone apps and an App Store, surfaces among Epic trial docs — An email has been going around the internet as a part of a release of documents related to Apple's App Store based suit brought by Epic Games.
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| Bloomberg: |
Investigator says hackers breached Colonial Pipeline through a VPN account whose password has since been discovered inside a batch of leaks on the dark web — - Investigators suspect hackers got password from dark web leak — Colonial CEO hopes U.S. goes after criminal hackers abroad
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| Michael McSweeney / The Block: |
Jack Dorsey says Square is considering the development of a bitcoin hardware wallet — Square is considering the development of a bitcoin hardware wallet, according to Jack Dorsey, CEO of the payments firm. — Such a product launch isn't a done deal, according to Dorsey, who previewed the concept in a Friday Twitter thread.
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| Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: |
Nigeria announces it will block access to Twitter, after the site deleted tweets of President Buhari making threats to the southeastern part of the country — The Nigerian government via its Ministry of Information and Culture today announced its decision to suspend the activities of social media platform Twitter in the country.| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Teams behind Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge unveil a development forum at W3C to standardize and build a unified, more secure foundation for extensions — The teams behind the Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge browsers have banded together to improve extensions …
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WebExtensions Community Group, AppleInsider, MUO, Android Central, 9to5Google, Thurrott, and 9to5Mac
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Director of FBI says it is investigating ~100 types of ransomware, many tracing back to Russia, and compares the challenge of this wave of cyberattacks to 9/11 — Christopher Wray points to Russian hackers, calls for coordinated fight across U.S. society — FBI Director Christopher Wray …
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| Bloomberg: |
Snowflake CEO says diversity shouldn't “override” merit in hiring decisions, claiming other CEOs feel the same way but are reluctant to say so publicly — - CEO Frank Slootman seeks ‘moderated’ approach on diversity — Cloud software maker went public in biggest 2020 U.S. IPO
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| Dani Blum / New York Times: |
Several companies and clinicians are using VR therapy, which has shown success in treating PTSD, to treat other disorders like social anxiety and phobias — An experimental treatment seems poised to address a dire mental health crisis. — When a Veterans Affairs therapist first suggested … | Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: |
Survey of ~400 open-source code maintainers reveals poor pay, with 46% saying they go unpaid and, of those who were paid, only 26% say they earn $1K+ annually — Maintaining open-source code is a vital but stressful job. Despite that, a recent Tidelift survey found that almost half of code maintainers aren't paid at all.| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
Mozilla report found more than a dozen TikTok influencers who had undisclosed paid relationships to post political messages; TikTok banned political ads in 2019 — TikTok has one of the strictest bans on political advertising in the tech industry. But partisan influencers are flying under …
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