Amazon walking back raises after internal bug miscalculated compensation
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Northzone, the European VC firm that backed Spotify and Klarna, has raised a €1B fund, its largest to date, and will allocate ~40% to later-stage investments
A look at Saudi Arabia's Kollona Amn app, launched in 2017 to let its citizens inform on activists, as the country expands the use of surveillance technology
Meta's BlenderBot 3 chatbot, released in the US on August 5, repeats antisemitic stereotypes, claims Donald Trump is the current US president, and more
As TikTok grows in the Middle East and North Africa, its regional content moderators complain of psychological distress and pay of around $2 to $3 per hour
Employees are defying orders to return to the office — and they’re getting away with it
Airbnb will up its penalty for hosts who cancel last-minute from $100 to $1k
'I want your Instagram account': a deadly campaign over coveted handles
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Live events startup Hopin, valued at $7.75B in August 2021, is laying off 242 employees, 29% of its staff, after cutting 12% of its staff in February 2022
Satellites can now find the sources of methane leaks
Mark Zuckerberg upping performance goals to get rid of employees
Meta bans staff from open discussion of Roe vs. Wade
Kinzinger Says He Received a Threat to 'Execute' Him, His Wife, and 5-Month-Old
Tiger Global-backed email service Superhuman lays off 23 employees, about 22% of its workforce; Superhuman was last valued at $825M in August 2021
Sources: Facebook is developing a "basic ads" product that uses metrics like engagement and video views instead of using anonymized personal info from users
Interviews with former and current Microsoft employees suggest a widespread pattern of executive misconduct persists, years after Satya Nadella vowed to end it
SpaceX Paid $250,000 to a Flight Attendant Who Accused Elon Musk of Sexual Misconduct
Docs: SpaceX paid $250K to settle a flight attendant's sexual misconduct claim that alleged Elon Musk offered a horse in exchange for an erotic massage in 2016
Jump Trading sues 79-year-old Carl Sagan fan over wormhole.com domain
Meta pauses all Facebook ads targeting people in Russia and stops letting marketers in Russia run ads globally, after Roskomnadzor blocked Facebook in Russia
Customers of sanctioned Russian banks are unable to use their cards with Apple Pay and Google Pay, according to the Central Bank of Russia
How Omicron Symptoms Differ From Delta, Past COVID-19 Variants: Charts
Social Capital founder and CEO Chamath Palihapitiya says the "ugly truth" is "nobody cares about what's happening" to Uyghurs in China, himself included
Capitol Rioters Called Pelosi's Office for 'Lost and Found': Raskin
A TikTok moderator sues the company for an unsafe workplace that gave her PTSD; her lawyer says TikTok stopped her from working a day after the suit was filed
MGM Resorts aims to reduce staff churn by having job seekers try out roles with VR, even simulations with tough customers, starting in Jan. with Strivr headsets
A CNN reporter tried Tesla’s Full Self-Driving in New York City. It kept trying to turn into oncoming traffic
Why Pine Nuts Are One of the Most Expensive Nuts in the World
Zillow has listed 93% of the hundreds of Phoenix homes it owns at a loss
Lambda School leaked documents show poor performance over the last two years
Florida Worker Applied to 60 Entry-Level Jobs, Got One Interview
Internal doc: Amazon held talks with Starbucks to put its cashierless tech in a co-branded coffee shop, at one point aiming for a Q4 2020 launch
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FB seals off some internal message boards to prevent leaking, immediately leaked
Intel said it didn't consider UK for new chip-making factory because of Brexit
Rivian R1T: First Drive in the Electric Pickup
Amazon Is Lobbying the US Government to Make Pot Legal
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Mailchimp founders promised to never sell, withheld equity, then sold for $12B
Tesla opens a center on Native American land, selling cars straight to consumers
Sources: Amazon will launch its own TV featuring Alexa software and without third-party manufacturer branding in the US, possibly as soon as October
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In an abrupt reversal, OnlyFans suspends its October 1 policy change banning porn after securing "assurances" and aims to provide "a home for all creators"
Amazon Staffer Says She Was Fired over Bathroom Breaks for Bowel Issue
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Google's payments team is seeing an exodus of executives and employees
Google is dismantling its health division
AstraZeneca Scientist Says Delta Variant Makes Herd Immunity Impossible
Robinhood buys Say Technologies, which has raised $8M and whose service helps stock shareholders exercise their voting rights, in a $140M cash deal
A wind-powered vehicle that can travel twice as fast as the wind itself
Uber CEO says Uber won't require drivers or passengers to be vaccinated, though will require corporate employees to be vaccinated before returning to the office
Filings: Starlink has secured a license to build a satellite ground station on the Isle of Man, aiming to provide "blanket coverage" across Great Britain
1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee
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