2025-12-24
When I was an exec assistant over a decade and a half ago, it was fairly obvious even then that I could have been replaced with 2 chrome extensions. It's why I maintain suspicion that anything automated that still has to be operated by the person being assisted is doomed to have... challenges. …
TechCrunch
Marissa Mayer's new startup Dazzle, which is building next-gen AI personal assistants, raised an $8M seed at a $35M valuation and plans to exit stealth in 2026
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch :
2021-11-05
To be clear: still a good thing to not have a gigantic facial identification dataset hanging around to be breached or reused on even worse ideas later. I just am skeptical that FB's decision wasn't largely based on having already extracted value from it.
Vox
Meta will retain some of its facial recognition systems, including its DeepFace model, and plans to incorporate biometrics into its metaverse products
Rebecca Heilweil / Vox :
Facebook deleted all that faceprint data because the recognition modeling created, DeepFace, is already trained. They get to look magnanimous by tossing something they don't need anymore.
Vox
Meta will retain some of its facial recognition systems, including its DeepFace model, and plans to incorporate biometrics into its metaverse products
Rebecca Heilweil / Vox :
2021-11-04
Facebook deleted all that faceprint data because the recognition modeling created, DeepFace, is already trained. They get to look magnanimous by tossing something they don't need anymore.
Vox
Meta will retain some of its facial recognition systems, including its DeepFace model, and plans to incorporate biometrics into its metaverse products
The social network is scaling back facial recognition, but similar technology could show up in the metaverse.
To be clear: still a good thing to not have a gigantic facial identification dataset hanging around to be breached or reused on even worse ideas later. I just am skeptical that FB's decision wasn't largely based on having already extracted value from it.
Vox
Meta will retain some of its facial recognition systems, including its DeepFace model, and plans to incorporate biometrics into its metaverse products
The social network is scaling back facial recognition, but similar technology could show up in the metaverse.
2021-09-06
It's important to note that this practice is not specific to this Texas law or to any laws pitted against people who seek abortions. Tech companies are sent subpoenas and other legal requests regularly, and in many cases have to respond. https://www.protocol.com/...
Ars Technica
Texas Right to Life whistleblower site is now using Epik for its name servers and domain registrar, after DigitalOcean appears to have cut off service
from voting to reproductive choice. #BansOffOurBodies https://www.cnbc.com/... Nicole Perlroth / @nicoleperlroth : GoDaddy tells me it's going to kick Texas Right to Life's whistle...
2021-01-19
This kind of shitshow is what happens when ex: a director or VP is consistently enabled by their company to disappear employees they don't like or consider troublemakers. It's not worth this just to keep some senior manager from having a tantrum. https://twitter.com/...
The Verge
GitHub apologizes to the employee it fired for using the term “Nazis” on January 6, offers him his job back, and says the company's head of HR has resigned
Zoe Schiffer / The Verge :
2021-01-18
This kind of shitshow is what happens when ex: a director or VP is consistently enabled by their company to disappear employees they don't like or consider troublemakers. It's not worth this just to keep some senior manager from having a tantrum. https://twitter.com/...
The Verge
GitHub apologizes to the employee it fired for using the term “Nazis” on January 6, offers him his job back, and says the company's head of HR has resigned
The company is offering the employee his job back — GitHub is admitting that a Jewish employee was fired in error and is offering him his job back.
2021-01-13
There's a pattern in tech company firings where an outspoken employee has a manager eager to take advantage of any situation to finally fire them. Then it blows up, because the reason was inappropriate/illegal, and leadership has to try and fail to cover everyone's asses. https://twitter.com/...
The Verge
Report: GitHub fired an employee who used the term “Nazis” in an internal Slack during the US Capitol riot; ~200 staff signed a letter questioning the firing
Roughly 200 employees have signed an open letter asking for answers — GitHub reportedly fired a Jewish employee … Source: Business Insider .