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Internal Kraken comms and interviews with five workers: some staff accuse CEO Jesse Powell of fostering a hateful workplace and dozens are considering quitting — Jesse Powell, who leads the crypto exchange Kraken, has challenged the use of preferred pronouns, debated who can use racial slurs and called American women “brainwashed.”
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[Thread] A look at Kraken's announcement of a culture overhaul, eschewing “stereotypical team diversity measurements”, as the crypto exchange touts hiring plans — Kraken, a U.S.-based crypto exchange, has announced they'll be continuing to hire, and have announced a culture overhaul that promotes “diversity of thought” over “stereotypical team diversity measurements” and prohibits describing another's words as “racist” or “x-phobic”. 🧵
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Japanese businesses and government agencies are panicking as Microsoft retires Internet Explorer; March 2022 survey shows 49% of organizations use IE for work — Government, corporate users scramble to find alternative to Microsoft program — TOKYO — Microsoft bids farewell to Internet Explorer …
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Internal memo: Meta plans to make Facebook more like TikTok, including bringing Messenger back into the app and recommending posts from “unconnected” sources — Facebook employees were recently given a new directive with sweeping implications: make the app's feed more like TikTok.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft patches the Follina Windows zero-day, which let hackers execute malicious PowerShell commands and had been exploited by state-backed actors — Microsoft has released security updates with the June 2022 cumulative Windows Updates to address a critical Windows zero-day vulnerability known …
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Investigation: 294+ US crisis pregnancy centers, which try to dissuade people from abortions, share website visitor info with Meta via Facebook's tracking pixel — The social media giant gathers data from crisis pregnancy centers through a tracking tool that works whether or not a person is logged in to their Facebook account| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Samsung merges its Pay and Pass apps to create Wallet, letting users organize ID cards, keys, and crypto, rolling out now — Bringing Samsung Pay and Pass under one roof — First, there was Samsung Wallet. Then it became Samsung Pay. Now, because time is a flat circle …
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Japan passes an amendment making “online insults” punishable by up to a year in prison, after the suicide of a reality TV star who had faced social media abuse — Tokyo (CNN)Japan's parliament on Monday passed legislation making “online insults” punishable by imprisonment amid …
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| Aislinn Keely / The Block: |
A US judge sentences BitMEX co-founder Benjamin Delo to 30 months probation without home confinement after he pled guilty to violating the US Bank Secrecy Act — BitMEX co-founder Benjamin Delo received 30 months probation without home confinement for Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) violations.
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| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
In occupied Ukraine, Russia is forcing multiple ISPs to reroute connections through Russian infrastructure, subjecting traffic to censorship and surveillance — In occupied Ukraine, people's internet is being routed to Russia—and subjected to its powerful censorship and surveillance machine.
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| Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day: |
A look at Twitter's research into its offensive content tweet pop-ups, resulting in a positive change in long-term behavior even though 69% still sent the tweet — This Is What Friction Looks Like — Twitter released some really interesting research last week regarding that sort …
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| Katie Collins / CNET: |
The EU toughens its disinformation Code of Practice, covering deepfakes, bots, fake accounts, and more; Meta, Google, TikTok, Twitter, and others have signed up — Katie Collins — Katie a UK-based news reporter and features writer. Officially, she is CNET's European correspondent …
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| Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: |
Alaskan, Finnish, and Japanese companies, alongside the Russian government, are planning Arctic undersea cables, made possible by shrinking ice coverage — So far, work is only possible in the summer months. But companies see the remote, fragile north as a future hub of crisscrossing digital infrastructure links| Javeria Khalid / Rest of World: |
After Pakistan banned dating apps Tinder, Grindr, and Skout in September 2020, Facebook matchmaking groups for Pakistanis gained tens of thousands of members — A ban on dating apps like Tinder has left young Pakistanis with limited avenues to meet new people. Facebook matchmaking groups are gaining popularity among them.
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Insider. Tweets: @ambreenali, @mvzelenks, @restofworld, @restofworld, @restofworld, and @javkhal
| Reuters: |
Sources: the US increased its funding into VPN companies nthLink, Psiphon, and Lantern by about 50% since February to support the surge in their Russian users — The U.S. government has pushed new, increased funding into three technology companies since the start of the Ukraine conflict … | New York Times: |
A lawsuit and interviews show that up to 12 members and relatives of religious sect Fellowship of Friends worked at Google Developer Studio, which makes videos — A video producer claims he was fired after he complained that an obscure group based in the Sierra foothills dominated a business unit at Google.| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
A look at hacking group Cyber Partisans, which seeks to overthrow Belarus' government and has disrupted Russia's supply lines in Belarus for the war in Ukraine — Russia's military began sending large numbers of weapons and troops into Belarus in late January.
Tweets: @rj_gallagher, @chafkin, @rj_gallagher, and @business
| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
Researchers say Big Tech's political ad bans are a charade and likely had minimal impact on curbing misinformation while hurting smaller advocacy groups — Say ExxonMobil wanted to run an ad on Twitter about how natural gas is actually totally climate-friendly.
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