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Facebook says it banned anti-vaccination news site Natural News for using content farms from Macedonia and the Philippines, not for the content it posted
Apple’s iOS update is here — and it includes coronavirus contact tracing
Restaurants rebel against delivery apps as cities crack down on fees
Facebook says it will start allowing many of its 50,000 employees and new recruits to work from home permanently
Pompeo's elite taxpayer-funded dinners raise new concerns
Lyft partners with anti-sexual violence organization RAINN to provide free rides to individuals who contact RAINN hotline in select, undisclosed US cities
iPhone spyware lets police log suspects’ passcodes when cracking doesn’t work
Current and ex-employees allege Google drastically rolled back diversity and inclusion programs
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Unreleased White House report shows coronavirus rates spiking in heartland communities
Twitter employees can work from home forever, CEO says
Shanghai Disney theme park reopens amid new rules to prevent coronavirus spread
Report: Facebook posts from 2012 show Iran's national broadcaster trialed a US political influence campaign via 300+ fake accounts, years earlier than thought
Cheap oil? A pandemic? No big deal for renewable energy, experts say
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos called to testify before House antitrust panel
Reddit · 5 months ago
Distribution of child sexual abuse materials increases across major sites including Facebook and YouTube, as moderation efforts are constrained during pandemic
Facebook ads, conspiracy theorists pushed bleach consumption and UV ray cures
Facebook removes some events calling for protests of stay-at-home orders, saying "events that defy government's guidance on social distancing aren't allowed"
Stopping COVID-19 will include monitoring and sharing personal data – “In a plague, civil liberties have to be suspended. There are good reasons for that.”
Americans are losing service despite FCC pledge not to disconnect – "Promises made not to cut off essential communications service during this time need to be kept," said one FCC commissioner.
Inside the global efforts to build a privacy-conscious COVID-19 tracking app, with experts contributing from the US, UK, Australia, Switzerland, and elsewhere
Evidence of 90M-year-old rainforest uncovered beneath Antarctic ice
YouTube is developing a rival to TikTok
Research: the number of coronavirus-related domains has grown to 68K+ this year; coronavirus.com, reportedly owned by GoDaddy, currently forwards to WHO's site
‘League’ of cybersecurity professionals band together to help hospitals
Coronavirus misinformation makes neutrality a distant memory for tech companies
‘A worldwide hackathon’: Hospitals turn to crowdsourcing and 3D printing amid equipment shortages
Subreddit /r/coronavirus has become one of the most authoritative and up-to-date sites on COVID-19, with 1.2M+ members, 1M+ of which signed up in past two weeks
What Taiwan can teach the world on fighting the coronavirus
Sources: ZTE is the subject of a new bribery investigation by the DOJ; ZTE pleaded guilty three years ago to violating US sanctions against Iran and North Korea
U.S. will suspend all travel from Europe for 30 days
Investigation finds that books dominating Amazon's search results on COVID-19 are often plagiarized from news outlets, with authors lacking verifiable IDs
Techmeme · 7 months ago
Google tracking a bike ride past a burglarized home made the rider a suspect
A county judge in San Diego has ruled that Instacart's classification of its California workers is not compliant with AB5; Instacart says it will appeal
Twitter confirms it is testing bright labels beneath lies and misinfo posted by politicians and public figures, and points-based "community badges" for users
Twitter is testing new ways to fight misinformation — including a community-based points system A leaked demo features bright red and orange badges for tweets that have been deemed “harmfully misleading."
Chess has seen rapid viewership growth on Twitch, with time spent watching rising by 500% since 2016, fostering a new culture in a previously staid domain
Texas man close to exoneration after computer algorithm leads to new suspect
Interviews with 40 police departments in eight states that partnered with Ring for at least three months show there is little evidence that Ring reduces crime
Techmeme · 7 months ago