A look at The News Alerts of Beaver County, a 43,000-member Facebook Group in PA that fills the local news void but often hosts exaggerations and falsehoods Techmeme · 5 days ago
A look at the challenges in building workable vaccine passport apps, including dealing with forged records, protecting privacy, and interoperability Techmeme · 1 week ago
Fired, interrogated, disciplined: Amazon warehouse organizers allege year of retaliation Reddit · 2 weeks ago
Analysis shows DoorDash has added supplemental local fees in 57 of the 68 locations that imposed caps on the size of commissions it could charge restaurants Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
Mission To Clean Up Space Debris Around Earth Is Poised For Launch – Low-Earth Orbit, A Narrow Band Of Space Around Earth, Is Crowded With Thousands Of Tons Of Space Junk. Reddit · 3 weeks ago
Uber and Lyft partner with background screening service HireRight to share data on drivers deactivated after being accused of serious offenses Techmeme · 1 month ago
Current and former Google employees say the company's HR routinely offers mental health counseling and medical leave when staff complain about racism and sexism Techmeme · 1 month ago
Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft are having mixed results in building statewide vaccination sign-up websites, due to difficulties in integrating county systems Techmeme · 1 month ago
Medical records "in the tens of thousands" from two U.S. hospitals have been published on the dark web, including diagnoses and other personal identifying info Techmeme · 2 months ago
Amazon will pay $61.7 million to settle claims it withheld tips from delivery workers Reddit · 2 months ago
Twitter launches ‘Birdwatch,’ a forum to combat misinformation | Twitter said it hopes to build a community of "Birdwatchers" that can eventually help moderate and label tweets in its main product. Reddit · 3 months ago
Twitter debuts Birdwatch, in testing since last year, which lets select users flag and add notes about tweets they think are misleading or false Techmeme · 3 months ago
Profile of Jessica Rosenworcel, the second woman to lead the FCC as acting chair and a big proponent of net neutrality and expanding broadband access Techmeme · 3 months ago
USAGM CEO Michael Pack, who oversaw the Open Technology Fund, has resigned at the request of the Biden administration Techmeme · 3 months ago
Sources: Facebook has no plans to lift Trump's indefinite suspension following his departure from the White House Techmeme · 3 months ago
Right-wing extremists move to encrypted channels to plan for Inauguration Day violence Reddit · 3 months ago
Boeing charged with criminal conspiracy and fined $2.5 billion for coverup over 737 Max crashes Reddit · 3 months ago
Google told its scientists to ‘strike a positive tone’ in AI research, documents show Reddit · 3 months ago
Zoomification of society: Tech’s influence (and necessity) was impossible to ignore in 2020 Reddit · 4 months ago
Τrump downplays Russian hack in first comments on massive breach, implicates China Reddit · 4 months ago
YouTube suspends OANN for violating its Covid-19 policy | YouTube removed an OANN video for violating a policy prohibiting the posting of content that spreads coronavirus misinformation. Reddit · 5 months ago
Criminals launder coronavirus relief money through Venmo, Cash App, PayPal and other apps; so far 80 have been charged with trying to steal $240M+ from the PPP Techmeme · 5 months ago
Almost 60 percent of business closures are now permanent, new Yelp data shows Hacker News · 5 months ago