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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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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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Sources: in a flurry of parting actions against China, Trump's admin has notified Huawei suppliers including Intel that it's revoking licenses to sell to Huawei — NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration notified Huawei suppliers, including chipmaker Intel …
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| Medium: |
A look at the shady aspects of Tether, the stablecoin being probed by SDNY for over a year, widely used to buy BTC and other cryptocurrencies on many exchanges — This is the story of a Bitcoin trade — the most financially impactful trade I've ever made in my life.
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Social platforms are neither communication services nor publishers, and society will have to evolve new norms to regulate speech on them — What mattered in tech this week? — Once a week, I send a newsletter to 150k people - what happened in tech that actually mattered, and what it means.
Tweets: @benedictevans, @stevesi, and @robinkwong
| 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.| Joan Donovan / HBR.org: |
The dominant business model of social media platforms, which emphasizes scale over everything else, makes them particularly vulnerable to disinformation — Summary. — The attack on the U.S. Capitol building was the culmination of years of disinformation and conspiracy theories that had been weaponized on social media networks.
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| Sohee Kim / Bloomberg: |
Samsung Electronics heir Jay Y. Lee was sentenced to 30 months in prison over bribery charges; Lee still faces a second prosecution related to succession — - Lee sentenced to two and a half years in jail after court case — Samsung succession scandal has rocked South Korea for years
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Sources: Citrix is in advanced talks with Vista Equity Partners to buy Wrike for $2B+, after the PE firm acquired the work-management service for ~$800M in 2018 — - Deal for work-management platform could be reached this week — Vista invested in Wrike at an $800 million valuation in 2018| Will Knight / Wired: |
A Harvard medical student used OpenAI's GPT-2 to submit comments on Idaho's Medicaid draft proposal; volunteers couldn't tell them apart from those by humans — A Harvard medical student submitted auto-generated comments to Medicaid; volunteers couldn't distinguish them from those penned by humans.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Tencent-backed Hike, once India's answer to WhatsApp and valued at $1.4B in 2016, says it is shutting down its messaging app Sticker Chat — India's answer to WhatsApp has completely moved on from messaging. — Hike Messenger, backed by Tencent, Tiger Global and SoftBank and valued … | 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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