Lee Kun-hee, who was chairman and chief executive of Samsung Electronics from 1998 to 2008 and its chairman since 2010, has died at age 78
Mr. Lee was convicted — and pardoned — twice for white-collar crimes, in a sign of the ills in South Korea's relationship with its business dynasties.
Facebook asks NYU Ad Observatory, which analyzes political ad targeting using data collected from a browser extension, to cease the practice for violating TOS
In letter this month, Facebook says the project violates provisions in its terms of service that prohibit bulk data collection
GitHub removes 18 projects related to YouTube download library youtube-dl after RIAA sent a letter saying it enabled infringement
Main target of the takedown was the youtube-dl project, a Python library that had amassed more than 72k stars on GitHub and was used in many YouTube video ripping tools and services.
Profile of Palantir CEO Alex Karp and the controversies around Palantir's trustworthiness; Karp claims his progressivism offsets Thiel's relationship with Trump
The tech giant helps governments and law enforcement decipher vast amounts of data — to mysterious and, some say, dangerous ends. Tweets: @chrisamccoy , @empo11on , @chrisamccoy , @warrenisdead , @tra...
Video games are helping veterans struggling with PTSD, anxiety, and depression and those adjusting to civilian life after deployment in combat zones
Veterans with PTSD, anxiety, and other mental health challenges often find solace in gaming. Research shows it's helpful—and could be used more broadly.
Patreon says it will remove accounts that actively spread QAnon's beliefs and will warn those that spread some QAnon ideas but are not dedicated to such content
- Accounts tied to QAnon-dedicated creators to be removed — Followers of conspiracy theory complain of being censored
Zoom deleted events planned for Oct. 23 on alleged censorship by the company after Zoom canceled an SFSU talk in Sept.; Zoom says the events violated its TOS
Zoom shut down a series of events meant to discuss what organizers called “censorship” by the company. Tweets: @camerontw , @audreywatters , @hypervisible , and @buzzfeednews Tweets: Cameron Tonkinwis...
Q&A with Vint Cerf, who has been working on building an internet for space, using disruption/delay-tolerant networking (DTN) protocol, an alternative to TCP/IP
Vinton Cerf helped create the internet 40 years ago, and he's still working to connect people around the world — and off it.
FinLocker, whose software helps consumers expedite the mortgage approval process, raises $19.8M Series A and announces a commercial agreement with TransUnion
FinLocker, a Clayton-based financial technology company, has raised $19.8 million in venture capital and reached a commercial agreement with a major credit bureau.
Survey of 17K developers in 159 countries: JavaScript is the most popular language with 12.4M active developers, followed by Python at 9M, and then Java at 8.2M
Plus: What puts off developers from adopting cloud? Price — A new developer survey has shown the popularity of C# …
Zest AI raises $15M for its AI-powered tech that it claims can help financial institutions reduce bias in loan portfolios, bringing its total VC funding to $87M
Zest AI, a company developing AI-powered loan decisioning products, today closed a $15 million funding round led by Insight Partners.
Fitbit CEO James Park says its app reached 500,000 paid subscribers this year and talks about expectations for life under Google, competing with Apple, more
Fitbit CEO James Park discusses the company's new products and competition as it prepares to close its acquisition by Google Tweets: @fitbit Tweets: @fitbit : Check out our co-founder and CEO @ParkJam...
Weibo users describe how political discussions on the platform have become even more muted amid pervasive censorship, as some resort to using burner accounts
Thousands of Weibo accounts have been deleted as China's government cracks down on free speech.
Sources: Big data analytics service Databricks is planning an IPO in H1, 2021; the company raised about $900M and was valued in 2019 at $6.2B
- Big data company is preparing IPO for first half of year — IPO plan comes on the heels of Snowflake's successful debut Tweets: @katie_roof Tweets: @katie_roof : Sources tell @crystalttc and I tha...
Italy launches an investigation into Telegram bots that make fake nudes from women's photos, after researchers found 100K+ images shared on its public channels
The bots were found to be generating fake nude images of unsuspecting women — The Italian Data Protection Authority has started …
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
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