Anti-abortion activists are using license plate tracking and body cameras to collect data on people arriving at clinics for prosecutions post-Roe v. Wade
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Developers suspect that China has forced Gitee, the Chinese equivalent to GitHub, to censor open-source code, a move that harms trust and the quality of code
Many suspect the Chinese state has forced Gitee, the Chinese competitor to GitHub, to censor open-source code in a move developers worry could obstruct innovation. Tweets: @charlottejee , @giano , and...
How AI data-labeling companies like Appen profit from cheap labor in crisis-ridden countries like Venezuela to meet exploding demand
It was meant to be a temporary side job—a way to earn some extra money. Oskarina Fuentes Anaya signed up for Appen, an AI data-labeling platform … Tweets: @miad , @akurmanaev , @skinosian , and @char...
Instead of using its successful door-to-door vaccination approach, India is scaling up a glitchy biometric software system, hampering its vaccination goals
Instead of using its successful door-to-door approach, it's scaling up a new system linked to fingerprints and iris scans. — hide Tweets: @charlottejee , @varshaabansal , @engagemedia , and @techrev...
An inside look at internal strife and dissent within Facebook, as employees warn the company is “hurting people at scale” and reckon with what they've built
Nine different Facebook employees told the company that a Trump ad with Nazi symbolism was hateful. Facebook only listened when the Washington Post covered it as news. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ .....
Inside DayLife Army, a social media cult, spun off from a Facebook group, that seduces young people with empty promises of a better world
The DayLife Army always seemed like a troll. Then it became a nightmare. — started with a tweet. In the fall of 2013, Matthew had recently turned 18 … Tweets: @judyberman , @charlottejee , @adhoce...
Recap of Pichai's testimony before Congress, where he said Google had 100+ people working on a Chinese search engine but has no plans to launch it “right now”
does it? Washington Post : Google CEO Pichai says in Post interview the company is still figuring out China and hate speech … Ina Fried / Axios : Google's Pichai on antitrust: There's more internation...