Margaret Mitchell, co-lead of Google's Ethical AI team, says she has been fired; Google says an employee conduct review confirmed multiple policy violations
Margaret Mitchell, the co-lead of Google's Ethical AI team, says that the company has fired her following an investigation into her use of corporate email.
Twitch replaced the audio for Metallica's “For Whom The Bell Tolls” with folk music during the band's BlizzCon livestream, presumably to avoid a DMCA notice
The Twitch Gaming stream gave us this beautiful moment — Despite its later-than-usual timing and going completely virtual …
Internal memo: Google's AI Chief Jeff Dean apologized after Timnit Gebru's exit, saying his team should have managed the situation “with more sensitivity”
even worse, way worse than the rest of the company. Hopefully no one will ask why. https://twitter.com/... Avi Asher-Schapiro / @aaschapiro : Here's a sentence: “Google told employees Friday it has wr...
Researchers discover macOS malware dubbed “Silver Sparrow” on at least 30K Macs, which includes a native M1 version and leverages the Installer JavaScript API
With no payload, analysts are struggling to learn what this mature malware does. — A previously undetected piece … Source: Red Canary .
Facebook's Australia ban is acute for people in places like Fiji, who rely on phone plans with cheap Facebook access as going to news websites costs more data
Media experts fear that communities reliant on the site for information will suffer significant impact
App Annie: Australian Broadcasting Corporation's news app was briefly the most downloaded app on the AU App Store after Facebook's news ban and is now second
to be clear, this graph shows the drop in traffic from Facebook to Australian news publishers. It's obvious, yes, but that makes it no less dramatic. The article goes on explain the situation in detai...
WhatsApp says users who haven't accepted its new privacy policy by May 15 can receive calls and notifications “for a short time”, but not read or send messages
WhatsApp said earlier this week that it will allow users to review its planned privacy update at “their own pace” …
An in-depth look at Amazon's ubiquitous presence in California's Inland Empire, with 16 facilities, as COVID-19 spurs Amazon workers nationwide to organize
Covid-19 has cemented the e-commerce giant's hold on the economy — but it has also spurred employees all around the country to organize.
For many services, moderating content has become an existential crisis; some services are even establishing rules that pre-empt the need for costly moderation
Content moderation rules used to be a question of taste. Now, they can determine a service's prospects for survival. Tweets: @mims , @wiczipedia , @roncharles , @mims , @maxabrahms , @aditi_muses , @...
Titan, which offers online investment management services to both accredited and unaccredited investors, raises $12.5M Series A led by General Catalyst
Titan, a startup that is building a retail investment management platform aimed at millennials, has closed on $12.5 million in a Series …
Synthetix, which develops a DeFi protocol for trading derivatives, raises $12M after three VC firms purchased its native tokens directly from its DAO treasury
As the community debates VCs participating in DAOs, Synthetix welcomes three new community members
Facebook deletes the main page of the Myanmar military for “repeated violations of Community Standards prohibiting incitement of violence and coordinating harm”
(Reuters) - Facebook on Sunday deleted the main page of the Myanmar military under it standards prohibiting … Tweets: @haritho , @militarymonitor , @watchingmyanmar , @arvindhickman , @iainlevine , @w...
PE firm Carlyle Group invests $200M in Kakao Mobility, which offers South Korea's most popular taxi-hailing service, valuing the company at about $3.1B
SEOUL (Reuters) - Carlyle Group Inc agreed to invest $200 million in South Korea's Kakao Mobility, valuing the firm at 3.42 trillion won …
Apple's new Platform Security user guide follows the industry trend of growing vertical hardware, software, and cloud integration to improve ecosystem security
Even as a security professional, it's easy to get lost within the digital covers of Apple's latest Platform Security user guide.
Brazil-based Descomplica, which offers online undergraduate courses and test prep for university and civil service entrance exams, raises ~$83M led by SoftBank
A group of investors led by Softbank Group has invested 450 million reais ($83 million) in Brazilian test-prep startup Descomplica …
An ex-ByteDance employee recounts the inner workings of the company's complex content moderation system and the role of China's internet censorship policies
because the human rights of *all* users matter. For more: https://www.hrw.org/... https://twitter.com/... Emily Birnbaum / @birnbaum_e : This is the story of a former content moderation employee at By...
Apple's app tracking transparency pushes publishers like Zynga to acquire or build their own ad tech, creating first party walled gardens that Apple can't touch
Eric Benjamin Seufert / Mobile Dev Memo : Tweets: @carnage4life , @eric_seufert , @matthausk , @erosresmini , @eric_seufert , @skwilder , @basche42 , @benedictevans , @benedictevans , and @benedictev...
As Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Uber, Amazon, and others play larger roles in OpenStreetMap, hobbyists fear private sector will overshadow their work
Corey Dickinson / Bloomberg : Tweets: @citylab , @johnjcz , @wongmjane , @mslaurabliss , @kmanaugh , @citylab , @citylab , @citylab , and @citylab Tweets: Bloomberg CityLab / @citylab : “These compan...
US video streaming giants are finding it more challenging to cash in on India, amid outcries over edgy content and difficulties in convincing consumers to pay
Financial Times : Tweets: @rmantri , @ftopinion , @financialtimes , @amykazmin , @rajit_h , and @b_parkyn Tweets: Rajeev Mantri / @rmantri : “If China is not available to you and you have already con...
Interview with founder of Koo, a microblogging service for regional language speakers in India that recently passed 3M users, fueled in large part by Modi's BJP
Nilesh Christopher / Rest of World : Tweets: @restofworld , @evelyndouek , @ndcnn , @marklittlenews , @anupkaphle , @restofworld , @anupkaphle , @bibhasdn , @restofworld , @cengizyar , @leomschwartz ...
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