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50+ Microsoft staff sign letter to Satya Nadella and Brad Smith demanding an end to a $479M US Army contract to license HoloLens tech for combat and training — A group of Microsoft employees is circulating a letter among the company's over 130,000-person staff demanding that executives cancel a $479 million contract with the US Army.
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Tweets: @msworkers4, @fabiochiusi, @noonanjo, @feytechnologist, @guardian, @geekwire, @sydell, and @ceodonovan
| Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News: |
Sources characterize Zuckerberg's May announcement of Facebook's Clear History tool as an example of the company's history of prioritizing optics over substance — Last May, Facebook promised to create a “Clear History” function it said would give users more control over their data.
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New Yorker. Tweets: @joshconstine, @nickconfessore, @itsnicolenguyen, @morroweric, @eff, @shapingyouth, @pierresabbagh, @samueljscott, @johnpaczkowski, @tomnamako, @jgrovum, @mat, @mat, @rmac18, @rmac18, and @shiraovide
| Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed News: |
After reports of pedophiles using YouTube comments to sexualize videos of children, YouTube warns creators it may demonetize videos with inappropriate comments — A new controversy this week over the sexualized exploitation of children on YouTube has set off a wave of advertiser boycotts …
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| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Florida inmate sues the Florida Department of Corrections after he was told he has to repurchase $569 of music he bought after the FDOC changed music vendors — Prisoners who paid $1.70 per song lost access when the prison changed vendors. — Florida inmate William Demler says that since 2012 … | Monica Nickelsburg / GeekWire: |
Sources: Amazon may be scaling down its expansion in Seattle, including subleasing offices it rented in a new skyscraper, and expanding in neighboring Bellevue — For years, Amazon has gobbled up office space in Seattle at a breakneck pace, creating a red-hot commercial real estate market in the city's urban core.
Tweets: @mnickelsburg
| Wired: |
Social media companies should gain more in-house knowledge about mental health to realize the impact of recommendation algorithms on users with mental illness — IT'S TROUBLING ENOUGH that British teenager Molly Russell sought out images of suicide and self-harm online before she took her own life in 2017.
Tweets: @jvitak, @marylgray, @johndcook, and @wired
| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Twitter co-founder and former CEO Ev Williams is stepping down from the company's board — Twitter Co-founder and former CEO Ev Williams is stepping down from the company's board, according to a Friday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. — “It's been an incredible 13 years …
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| Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed News: |
YouTube says it will remove ads on anti-vaccine videos, launches info panel below anti-vaccine videos that links to the Wikipedia page for “vaccine hesitancy” — YouTube on Friday said it would prevent channels that promote anti-vax content from running advertising …
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| Shira Ovide / Bloomberg: |
Academic paper argues that Facebook's potential abuses of monopoly power and violations of users' privacy are not separate but are two sides of the same coin — Once it became indispensable, it gained the power to reverse promises it had made not to gather certain data.
Tweets: @profgalloway, @waltmossberg, @timobrien, and @waltmossberg
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
What to expect at MWC 2019: new flagships from Sony, LG, and Chinese companies, foldable phones from Huawei and others, return of HoloLens, and a lot of 5G hype — 5G's early steps will continue, and the Galaxy Fold could get some competition — In the next few days …
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
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The Verge, Phandroid, Firstpost, Pocketnow, Gizchina, ZDNet, Android Police, Engadget, Digital Trends, MSPoweruser, Pocket-lint, PhoneArena, Android Authority, Android Beat, and XDA Developers. Tweets: @caro_milanesi
| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
How New York City evolved into a tech hub over the last two decades, fueled by Google's DoubleClick acquisition and the Bloomberg administration's policies — Euan Robertson started his job with New York City's economic development team at an ominous moment.
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Fortune. Tweets: @stevelohr, @nytimestech, @rafat, @goldmansachs, @nytimesbusiness, @spencerfry, @scottbelsky, @nytimesbusiness, @diane_levitt, @stevelohr, @nytimes, and @anildash
| Bloomberg: |
A look at Chinese companies making surveillance-enabling tech, which count China's government as a major client or investor and have spawned 4+ billionaires — - Tiandy's Dai Lin is China's latest surveillance billionaire — Critics say the country's monitoring programs go too far| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
NY Governor Andrew Cuomo orders two state agencies to investigate a report that Facebook may be collecting users' health data and other sensitive info — NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Friday ordered two state agencies to investigate a report that Facebook Inc … | Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
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