Friday, July 10, 2020
Amazon Bans, Then Un-Bans TikTok From Employee Mobile Devices
Pupils and teachers question the new grading algorithm used by the IB Diploma Programme to predict student scores after it canceled in-person tests this spring (Tom Simonite/Wired)
Pupils and teachers question the new grading algorithm used by the IB Diploma Programme to predict student scores after it canceled in-person tests this spring — The International Baccalaureate program canceled its high-stakes exam because of Covid-19. The formula it used to “predict” scores puzzles students and teachers.
Facebook mulls ban on political ads ahead of US elections: Report
Microsoft details how it is collaborating with Google to help developers get their Progressive Web Apps into the Play Store (Paul Thurrott/Thurrott)
Microsoft details how it is collaborating with Google to help developers get their Progressive Web Apps into the Play Store — Microsoft has been collaborating with Google to ensure that their tools interoperate and can help developers get their Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) into the Play Store.
Amazon bans, then un-bans TikTok app from employee mobile devices
SC okays summons via WhatsApp, email
Yevgeniy Nikulin, a Russian indicted for allegedly hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox in 2012 resulting in ~117M stolen credentials, is found guilty by SF federal jury (Joel Rosenblatt/Bloomberg)
Yevgeniy Nikulin, a Russian indicted for allegedly hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox in 2012 resulting in ~117M stolen credentials, is found guilty by SF federal jury — - Trial was the first in Northern California since the pandemic — Nikulin was of interest to U.S. for 2016 election meddling
India's Supreme Court rules in favor of allowing summons and legal notices to be served via messaging apps, such as WhatsApp and Telegram, as well as by email (Abhimanyu Sharma/Times Now)
India's Supreme Court rules in favor of allowing summons and legal notices to be served via messaging apps, such as WhatsApp and Telegram, as well as by email — This order marks as a huge step towards digitisation of Indian legal proceedings, where notices and summons used to be sent either by mail or delivered in person.
CBP says there is no practical way for Americans to avoid its license plate reader tracking, will use commercial database to pull private and public plate data (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
CBP says there is no practical way for Americans to avoid its license plate reader tracking, will use commercial database to pull private and public plate data — U.S. Customs and Border Protection has admitted that there is no practical way for Americans to avoid having their movements tracked …
Wells Fargo emailed a small number of employees who installed TikTok on corporate-owned devices, directing them to remove it over privacy and security concerns (The Information)
Wells Fargo emailed a small number of employees who installed TikTok on corporate-owned devices, directing them to remove it over privacy and security concerns — It was a head-spinning day for TikTok, the hit video-sharing app. Hours after Amazon told employees to delete TikTok …
Thursday, July 9, 2020
West Bengal Police 2020 – Constable, Warder/ Female Warder Interview Schedule Announced
RPSC Result 2020 – RAS/RTS Mains Result Released
RPSC 2020 – RAS/RTS Mains Result Released
RPSC RAS/ RTS Result 2020 – Mains Result Released
Alibaba's DAMO Academy releases RynnBrain, an open-source foundation model to help robots perform real-world tasks like navigating rooms, trained on Qwen3-VL (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg : Alibaba's DAMO Academy releases RynnBrain, an open-source foundation model to help robots perform real-worl...
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Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal : An interview with White House OSTP Director Michael Kratsios, a Peter Thiel protégé confirmed by ...
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