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Union seeking to represent Amazon workers in AL says 3,215 ballots were cast; half of ballots have been counted, votes against unionization have 2-1 advantage — With about half the ballots counted late Thursday, votes against unionization had a more than 2-to-1 advantage over those in favor …
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Report: hackers scraped data of 500M LinkedIn users and posted it for sale online; LinkedIn confirms the dataset includes publicly viewable info from its site — - Personal data from 500 million LinkedIn users has been scraped and is reportedly for sale on a hacking forum.
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| Patrick McGee / Financial Times: |
A senior Apple engineer compared App Store's defenses against malicious actors to “bringing a plastic butter knife to a gunfight”, according to legal documents — Revelation part of legal documents released by Epic Games ahead of antitrust trial
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Robinhood says 9.5 million customers traded crypto on its platform in Q1 2021 compared to 1.7 million in Q4 2020, an increase of 458% — That's up 458% from just 1.7 million in Q4 of 2020. — In brief — Brokerage app Robinhood said 9.5 million of its customers traded crypto in Q1 of 2021.
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Tweets: @juthica, @alternatejones, and @masasoncap
| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Verizon is recalling 2.5M Ellipsis Jetpack mobile hotspots, ~1.3M of which are in use, after investigation found batteries could overheat and cause fire hazards — The CPSC says the devices' batteries are the source of the overheating — Verizon said Thursday it is working …
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| Amanda Macias / CNBC: |
US Commerce Department adds seven Chinese supercomputing entities to an export blacklist for allegedly building supercomputers used by Chinese military — - Commerce added seven Chinese supercomputing entities to a U.S. economic blacklist citing national security concerns.
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| The Markup: |
Investigation finds Google uses a secret blocklist to stop advertisers from making YouTube ad campaigns for hate terms; it worked less than a third of the time — Many well-known White supremacist and White nationalist terms and slogans were not blocked — First of two parts.
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Amid a mental health crisis because of COVID-19, Stanford researchers found that most tech platforms have no policies related to discussions of self-harm — Exclusive: Amid a rising mental health crisis, Stanford researchers find many companies ignoring posts about self-harm
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| David Priest / CNET: |
Samsung announces $40 SmartTag+, which uses Bluetooth and UWB to locate lost items, and AR to guide users to them, launching globally on April 16 — Samsung has announced it will launch its new $40 SmartTag Plus globally on April 16, with US availability to follow “in the coming weeks.”
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Tweets: @gigastacey, @techhighest, @mgsiegler, and @andrewmartonik
| Luke Plunkett / Kotaku: |
Intel details Bleep, which uses AI to redact audio when it detects “hate speech” and lets users toggle how much they want to hear — Intel gave a presentation at GDC a few weeks back, but I'm guessing nobody actually watched it because it took until this week for anyone to notice …
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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
Lawsuit alleges that, since 2017, civil rights groups have flagged hundreds of anti-Muslim Pages and Groups to Facebook, more than half of which stayed up — Suit says the company made false claims to consumers by promising, at congressional hearings, that it quickly removes hate groups and hate speech
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| Matt Mullenweg: |
Matt Mullenweg denounces Wix's bizarre marketing campaign against WordPress and says Wix's business model “is getting customers to pay more and more every year” — Wix, the website builder company you may remember from stealing WordPress code and lying about it …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Alyce, which uses AI to analyze users' relationships with their colleagues and provide gift recommendations, raises $30M Series B led by General Catalyst — Swag has a long and patchy history in the world of business. For every hip pair of plaid socks, there are five t-shirts you may never wear …
Tweets: @epaley
| R. Lawler / Engadget: |
Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp have recovered after a brief outage; Facebook says a configuration change caused the issue — After a brief outage, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are available once again.
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