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An excerpt from Emily Chang's upcoming book Brotopia, on Silicon Valley's drug-fueled sex parties attended by powerful investors and well-known entrepreneurs — Some of the most powerful men in Silicon Valley are regulars at exclusive, drug-fueled, sex-laced parties—gatherings they describe …
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Germany starts enforcing law under which social networks will be fined up to €50M if they fail to remove hate speech, fake news, and illegal material — Germany is set to start enforcing a law that demands social media sites move quickly to remove hate speech, fake news and illegal material.
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Study shows Facebook's hate speech rules are unevenly enforced, with the company agreeing its censors made mistakes on 22 of 49 posts submitted for explanation — We asked Facebook about its handling of 49 posts that might be deemed offensive. The company acknowledged that its content reviewers had made the wrong call on 22 of them.
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Smart lock maker Otto, which unveiled its first product in August 2017, suspends operations — Otto showed the world its digital lock in August. Four months later, the company has suspended operations. Hardware is hard. It's a cliche for a reason. — The company made the decision … | Justin McCurry / The Guardian: |
YouTube star Logan Paul sparked outrage by posting a now-removed video of an alleged suicide victim in a Japanese forest — American YouTuber joked with friends on film after coming across the apparent suicide victim — The celebrity YouTuber Logan Paul has sparked outrage after posting …
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| Fred Wilson / AVC: |
Three interrelated macro themes dominated this year in tech: the breakout of crypto, beginning of the end of white male dominance, and the backlash against tech — As has become my practice, I celebrate the end of a year and the start of a new one here at AVC with back to back posts focusing …
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| Anita Balakrishnan / CNBC: |
Report: after years of trying, Amazon and Salesforce have made “significant progress” in move away from Oracle tech by building their own and using open-source — Amazon and Salesforce have long searched for alternatives to Oracle's technology — and now, the pair have made … | Freedom to Tinker: |
How third-party scripts on websites exploit a flaw in browsers' built-in password managers to identify and track users — In this second installment of the No Boundaries series, we show how a long-known vulnerability in browsers' built-in password managers is abused by third-party scripts for tracking on more than a thousand sites.| Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal: |
Alibaba's UC Browser, with 430M+ users worldwide, leads in emerging markets with low-end smartphones, with 51% of India's mobile browser market vs Chrome's 30% — Alibaba's UC Browser is dominating in emerging markets with lower-end smartphones — JAKARTA, Indonesia …
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| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
Stanford AI car-image project analyzed 50M Google Street View images and location data to find geographic trends in race, voting behavior, wealth, and more — What vehicle is most strongly associated with Republican voting districts? Extended-cab pickup trucks. For Democratic districts? Sedans.| Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times: |
Groups skeptical of climate change are gaming Google's largely automated ad systems to promote misleading claims that reject established climate science — Groups that reject established climate science can use the search engine's advertising business to their advantage … | CNBC: |
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