A profile of right-wing video service Rumble, which made $6.5M+ in revenue in the first nine months of 2021 and provides Trump's Truth Social with tech support
The company, supported by Donald Trump, Peter Thiel and other prominent conservatives, wants to help build a “new internet” independent from Silicon Valley's titans. Tweets: @jaredlholt , @aaronwall ,...
Craig Federighi says introducing two similar features at the same time, iMessage protections for children and CSAM scanning of iCloud photos, caused confusion
no need to call it the privacy feature. We are not that gullible. All cloud service providers scan images but come on Apple Matthew Green / @matthew_d_green : In writing this op-ed for the Times, @ale...
In a complaint with the EEOC, a Black applicant alleges Facebook rejected her application due to a lack of “culture fit”, despite her qualifications
and my co-counsel @kmblegal & @FindJusticeLaw — for taking on how “culture fit” is used to discriminate against Black workers in hiring tech workers! https://theintercept.com/... by @samfbiddle @hyper...
Google employees believe the company is still working on Dragonfly, after finding recent code changes associated with the censored search engine and more
& took matters into their own hands. They began to investigate. Ryan Gallagher / @rj_gallagher : Hundreds of changes have continued to be made this year to code associated with the Dragonfly platform,...
How a cashless society enables more financial surveillance and censorship through choke points run by corporate intermediaries
How a Cashless Society Could Embolden Big Brother — In 2014, Cass Sunstein—one-time “regulatory czar” for the Obama administration—wrote an op-ed advocating … Tweets: @restlessdesign , @ryantate , @...
Blind Item: Which Editor of Valleywag Needs to Resign? Right Now.
Criticising Valleywag in 2010 is something of a pointless exercise, like offering diplomatic counsel to the Ottoman Empire ten years after the Treaty of Lausanne. More pointless still, attacking the ...
Yahoo's Historical Hit: The Obamas On Election Night
Barack Obama's longtime campaign photographer David Katz took 82 pictures of the soon-to-be first family election night. Later, Katz uploaded them to Yahoo's (YHOO) photo-sharing site, Flickr. Gawke...