Lyft and Uber say they will cover legal fees for drivers who are sued under Texas' new abortion law for transporting women to abortion clinics
- Lyft and Uber said Friday they would cover legal fees for drivers on their respective platforms who are sued under Texas' restrictive abortion law that went into effect this week.
Apple delays the rollout of recently announced child safety features, says it will take more time to collect feedback from stakeholders and make improvements
Last month, Apple announced a handful of new child safety features that proved to be controversial, including CSAM detection features for iCloud Photos.
GoDaddy says it gave Texas Right to Life, an abortion “whistleblower” website, 24 hours to find a new hosting provider before cutting off service
To protest Texas' new abortion law, activists said, they pranked a website set up by the state's largest anti-abortion group.
#AppleToo publishes an open letter to Tim Cook, asking for transparent and fair compensation, reinvestigation of discrimination and harassment cases, and more
Among the requests in the open letter are transparent compensation and a reinvestigation of reports of discrimination and harassment.
Facebook apologizes after its AI recommendation feature categorized a video of Black men as “about Primates”; Facebook disabled the feature and is investigating
Facebook called it “an unacceptable error.” The company has struggled with other issues related to race.
Filings: NLRB is investigating two complaints by Apple employees, including one by senior engineering PM Ashley Gjøvik who alleges workplace harassment and more
even people who have been vocally supportive of others who've taken issue with policies and treatment of employees. I can only tell so much from the outside, but that seems odd. Jeff / @darchmare : @c...
Following Texas' abortion law, tech companies could face suits over providing on-demand rides to clinics, subpoenas requesting user data, and more
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US Cyber Command and CISA urge US organizations to immediately patch a critical Atlassian Confluence remote code execution flaw that is under mass exploitation
US Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) has issued a rare alert today urging US organizations to patch a massively exploited Atlassian Confluence critical vulnerability immediately. Source: @cnmf_cyberalert .
Interview with Harvard professor Willy Shih on the global chip shortage, supply chains, how much money it would take for the US to catch up with TSMC, and more
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the demand for microchips has far exceeded supply, causing problems in every industry that relies on computers.
Interview with Dom Hofmann on how and why he created Loot, the communities, creativity, and NFT speculation it spawned, and the future of the project
Loot (and Vine) creator Dom Hofmann on creating an open-source, decentralized game / financial asset / art project / metaverse (?)
Texas Right to Life whistleblower site is now using Epik for its name servers and as its domain registrar, as Digital Ocean appears to have cut off service
GoDaddy gave website “24 hours to move to a different provider.” — The Texas Right to Life group will have to find a new hosting provider …
Sources: Amazon will launch its own TV featuring Alexa and no third-party manufacturer branding in the US, possibly as soon as October
and that could be big Andrew / Phandroid : The first Amazon self-branded TV could be arriving as early as October Rob Thubron / TechSpot : Amazon expected to release own Alexa-powered TVs this year Ad...
Sources: SEC has launched a probe into the developer behind Uniswap; Uniswap delisted dozens of stock offering tokens in July, citing regulatory pressure
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Profile of Alvy Ray Smith, a Pixar co-founder who created the algorithms fundamental to animated movies and left after severe disagreements with Steve Jobs
Alvy Ray Smith helped invent computer animation as we know it—then got royally shafted by Steve Jobs. Now he's got a vision for where the pixel will take us next. Tweets: @stevenbjohnson , @stevenlev...
Amazon launches an app to provide info on crops to Indian farmers, as it looks to tap into the produce market that accounts for the bulk of India's retail spend
- It's promising timely info on crops via a mobile app — Amazon joins Reliance, Walmart in courting agriculture sector
Apple begins prompting iOS 15 users for consent to enable Personalized Ads for their Apple ID, which was previously on by default and led to antitrust scrutiny
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Source: Google has temporarily locked an unspecified number of Afghan government email accounts, as the Taliban seeks to acquire former officials' emails
Google has temporarily locked down an unspecified number of Afghan government email accounts, according to a person familiar with the matter …
NYU study: from Aug. 2020 to Jan. 2021, news publishers known for putting out misinfo got six times more engagement on Facebook than trustworthy news sources
China's SMIC will spend $8.87B to build a plant on the outskirts of Shanghai and set up a $5.5B joint venture with Shanghai's government to oversee the project
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Amazon launches the “Kisan Store” in collaboration with the Government of India to let farmers in the country buy seeds and farming tools on Amazon
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CB Insights: investment in e-commerce software startups reached $12.4B in H1 2021, up 51% from all of 2020, with investment in online payments startups up 172%
Spurred by record levels of online shopping, investors have rushed to back e-commerce software companies this year. Tweets: @luxeoflique . Thanks: @keithswiader Tweets: Malique Morris / @luxeoflique :...
Federal judge rules that AI can't be listed as an inventor on patents because US law requires that an “individual” take an oath that he or she is the inventor
Sources: Indian e-commerce retailer Snapdeal is considering an IPO in Mumbai that could raise about $400M and value the company at about $2.5B
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Sources: Automation Anywhere, backed by SoftBank's Vision Fund, is planning for an IPO later this year or in 2022; the company was valued at $6.8B in 2019
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US Commerce Dept. says it will close a unit that monitored Americans' social media for Census disinformation, after finding it had overstepped its authority
Kim Lyons / The Verge : Tweets: @davetroy Tweets: Dave Troy / @davetroy : No one owns anti-disinfo counterintelligence in the United States. And it shows. “discontinue the criminal law enforcement fu...
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
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