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Tile accused Apple of acting anti-competitively at a House antitrust hearing on Friday, while Sonos testified against Google, and PopSockets against Amazon
Techmeme · 15 hours ago
The e-sports industry is increasingly coming under tax scrutiny by US states, amid ever-rising sums of prize money and an uptick in interstate competitions
CollegeHumor shuts down
NSA found a dangerous Microsoft software flaw and alerted the firm — rather than weaponize it
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A look at problems actors in video games face, including a lack of standard contracts, as the profession falls in a legal gray area between technology and art
People are seeing ‘Cats’ while high out of their minds. These are their stories.
TikTok outlines more concrete global content moderation rules following criticism, including banning election misinformation and videos glorifying terrorism
Dating apps need women. Advertisers need diversity. AI companies offer a solution: Fake people
Facebook bans deepfakes, but its new policy may not cover simpler forms of deception like with the distorted Pelosi video
Ivanka Trump’s CES keynote address sparks backlash
As AB5 takes effect, Uber added features in California like allowing drivers to be favorited, in its apparent attempt to claim that drivers are independent
Myths about Diabetes
Native American tribe insulates itself from CA blackouts with microgrid utility
A top Google exec pushed the company to commit to human rights. Then Google pushed him out, he says.
Amazon threatens to fire critics who are outspoken on its environmental policies
Reddit · 2 weeks ago
How we survive the surveillance apocalypse
Perspective | I ignored warnings from friends and family not to marry my husband. Was I making a big mistake?
Facebook has quietly started removing some misleading ads about HIV prevention drugs, weeks after activists said they could cause a public-health crisis
Rachel Maddow rooted for the Steele dossier to be true. Then it fell apart. – The Washington Post
Tuvalu, a tiny island nation with the .tv TLD, has been cashing in on domain sales to Twitch and others, representing ~8% of the island's gross national income
Livestreams have become a popular venue for charity fundraising, replacing legacy telethons, with Twitch users raising $75M+ for charities between 2012 and 2017
Colleges are turning students phones into surveillance machines
3-D printing is about to save the military billions of dollars
Sources: building on tactics deployed during 2018 midterms, US Cyber Command is exploring additional strategies to counter Russian 2020 election interference
Many schools in the US, including Syracuse U., track students' phones to monitor class attendance, as some worry it desensitizes students to 24/7 surveillance
India’s Internet shutdown in Kashmir is the longest ever in a democracy
New prosthetic limbs go beyond the functional to allow people to ‘feel’ again
No matter where you live, rural broadband is a big issue in Virginia
She installed a Ring camera in her children’s room for ‘peace of mind.’ A hacker accessed it and harassed her 8-year-old daughter.
Netflix sends journalists on pricey trips
MeetMe, which combines dating with live streaming, admits it let a "VIP" user keep streaming even after he was outed as a sex offender
Researchers find Facebook's ad targeting tools, which charge less for ads to users already interested in the content, have worsened polarization in US politics
Confidential documents reveal U.S. officials failed to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan
Pinboard · 1 month ago
Facebook ads with millions of views have pushed misinfo about HIV prevention drugs; LGBT advocates say FB's refusal to take them down is harming public health
Amazon says Trump launched ‘repeated public and behind-the-scenes attacks’ over massive cloud contract
Reddit · 1 month ago