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GitHub apologizes to the employee it has fired for using the term “Nazis” on Jan. 6 and offers him his job back, says the company's head of HR has resigned — The company is offering the employee his job back — GitHub is admitting that a Jewish employee was fired in error and is offering him his job back.
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| Washington Post: |
Dating apps like Tinder and Bumble are banning users identified in photos from the Capitol riot, and some users are relaying incriminating evidence to the FBI — Bumble, Tinder and others are freezing out rioters with help from law enforcement — and, in some cases, their own photos.
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A look at the incentives, like guaranteed auction win percentages, that Facebook got from Google in the ad partnership that is now a focus of an antitrust suit — Facebook was going to compete with Google for some advertising sales but backed away from the plan after the companies cut a preferential deal, according to court documents.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
DuckDuckGo surpassed 100M daily search queries for the first time on Jan. 11; since August 2020, the search engine began seeing over 2B search queries per month — DuckDuckGo reaches historic milestone in a week when both Signal and Telegram saw a huge influx of new users.
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| Washington Post: |
Analytics firm Zignal Labs: online misinformation about election fraud dropped 73% in the week after several social media sites suspended Trump and key allies — Zignal Labs charts 73 percent decline on Twitter and beyond following historic action against the president
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| Alex Danco: |
A critique of Canada's tech startup ecosystem, whose growth is being held back by the mindset of angel investors, the government's SR&ED tax credits, and more — Toronto is not the next great startup scene. Neither is Waterloo, or Vancouver, or anywhere in Canada. — I'm sorry that I have to write this.
Tweets: @ianhathaway, @soundboy, @timkastelle, @sebangelist, @philmorle, @prashanth_krish, @constantijn14, @hkanji, and @julien
| Kevin C. Tofel / Stacey on IoT: |
CES 2021 demonstrated that the smart home industry is at a pause after moving a little too rapidly for several years without understanding what consumers want — Although the Consumer Electronics Show 2021 event is technically only half over, most of the big news typically lands in the first half of the week.
Tweets: @iotwatcher
| Nellie Bowles / New York Times: |
Interviews with more than two dozen tech execs and workers who have left San Francisco for other parts of the US over the last year amid a rise in remote work — As a tech era draws to an end, more workers and companies are packing up. What comes next? — SAN FRANCISCO — The Bay Area struck a hard bargain with its tech workers.
Tweets: @jennifersey, @usabilitycounts, @carolynryan, @peterproperty, @g_myaccesshub, @jessefelder, @timothynoah1, @adamnash, @nealbloom, @ameliaboone, @mpelletiercio, @reallisac, @nytnational, @petersavodnik, @taupeavenger, @swgoldman, @kaliouby, @websterdrake, @nelliebowles, @vkhosla, @vkhosla, @jaycuthrell, @edzitron, @richard_florida, @audreyhasnews, @kantrowitz, @liz4aker, @daisy, @yaeltabouhalkah, @obrien, @genejo, @frankba, @peterhartlaub, @hooleil, @andrewzimmern, @wongmjane, @hkanji, @kari_paul, @rich_roberts, @heatherkelly, @thekenyeung, @taylorlorenz, @jpmanga, @julietlapidos, @nelliebowles, @nelliebowles, @scottlucas, @curtisingraham1, @bsmithwood, and @ingrahamangle
| Heather Knight / San Francisco Chronicle: |
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| Jason Snell / Six Colors: |
Due to Apple's security limitations and additional work required, few developers are bothering to port Chrome extensions to Safari, despite WebExtensions API — At WWDC 2020, Apple announced it was going to support Chrome-style browser extensions (the WebExtensions API) in Safari.| Eileen Brown / ZDNet: |
Trend Micro: 32% of 500 IT leaders believe AI will replace all cybersecurity roles by 2030; 19% say attackers using AI will be commonplace by 2025 — In 2021 Trend Micro predicts that cybercriminals will look to home networks as a critical launch pad to compromising corporate IT and IoT networks.
Tweets: @padresj, @samharrelson, and @cubicleapril
| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
More than 20 current and former CD Projekt staff say development of Cyberpunk 2077 was marred by unchecked ambition, poor planning, and technical shortcomings — CD Projekt SA Chief Executive Officer Marcin Iwiński made a public mea culpa this week about the disastrous rollout of the video game Cyberpunk 2077 in December.
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Forbes, Game Rant, GamingBolt, Tom's Guide, GameSpot, VG247, Wccftech, TechSpot, Blue's News, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, IGN, The Verge, dexerto.com, Engadget, PC Gamer, and Kotaku
| Miriam Berger / Washington Post: |
Iran blames legal and illegal crypto mining for massive blackouts in the country, shuts down a large, licensed Chinese-Iranian mining operation — Massive blackouts and smog have hit cities across Iran. It's a toxic mix as the country, already under economic duress and suffocating U.S. sanctions …
Tweets: @ourielohayon, @blmohr, @gulf_news, and @caleb_scharf
| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Researchers working on Twitter's bluesky effort discuss how its open decentralized standard for social media could hinder efforts to stop online radicalization — The platform's vision of a sweeping open standard could also be the far-right's internet endgame
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OneZero . Tweets: @54thparallel, @bradmichelson, @tayhatmaker, @planetaryinc, @jerrybrito, @pbrody, @martinsfp, and @techcrunch
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