Sunday, June 13, 2021
Secret gag orders imposed by the US government on tech companies must stop, as they abuse citizens' fundamental freedoms and are no longer even used sparingly (Brad Smith/Washington Post)
Secret gag orders imposed by the US government on tech companies must stop, as they abuse citizens' fundamental freedoms and are no longer even used sparingly — Brad Smith is the president of Microsoft. — The past seven days marked another bad week for the collision between technology and democracy.
UNESCO: AI and robotics have "dominated scientific output" in recent years; ~150K research articles were published on those subjects in 2019, up 44% from 2015 (Sage Lazzaro/VentureBeat)
UNESCO: AI and robotics have “dominated scientific output” in recent years; ~150K research articles were published on those subjects in 2019, up 44% from 2015 — Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. — The United Nations Educational …
Profile of DigitalMint, a final-mile crypto broker that helps ransomware victims pay ransoms in cryptocurrency, within 30-60 minutes of contact from the hacker (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
Profile of DigitalMint, a final-mile crypto broker that helps ransomware victims pay ransoms in cryptocurrency, within 30-60 minutes of contact from the hacker — - A business will fall victim to a ransomware attack every 11 seconds this year, according to research firm Cybersecurity Ventures.
Sources: many Apple US stores to drop mask requirement for vaccinated customers as early as Tuesday; mask requirement to be dropped at some Cupertino offices (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Sources: many Apple US stores to drop mask requirement for vaccinated customers as early as Tuesday; mask requirement to be dropped at some Cupertino offices — Apple Inc. plans to drop its mask requirement for vaccinated customers at many U.S. stores beginning next week …
Krafton to launch $5 billion plus IPO next week, sources say
[Thread] Former Facebook employee, now Coatue Management Chairman, shares his experiences working with Mark Zuckerberg during Facebook's early days (Dan Rose/@danrose999)
[Thread] Former Facebook employee, now Coatue Management Chairman, shares his experiences working with Mark Zuckerberg during Facebook's early days — In my experience the best founders develop a fighter mentality. Mark Zuckerberg was a fighter, and without that mentality Facebook would never have achieved its full potential. Here's what I saw over 13 years working for Zuck:
After El Salvador's president, many Latin American politicians are expressing interest in adopting cryptocurrencies, as a PR exercise to elevate their profiles (Alex González Ormerod/Rest of World)
After El Salvador's president, many Latin American politicians are expressing interest in adopting cryptocurrencies, as a PR exercise to elevate their profiles — El Salvador's president Nayib Bukele set off a movement for political opportunists and crypto-enthusiasts alike. — • MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
CB Insights: VCs invested $1.5B into mental health startups in 2020, a record high that is 5.5 times the funding invested in this space in 2016 (Katie Jennings/Forbes)
CB Insights: VCs invested $1.5B into mental health startups in 2020, a record high that is 5.5 times the funding invested in this space in 2016 — I am a staff writer covering healthcare. Email me at kjennings@forbes.com. — Investors poured $1.5 billion into the market in 2020 …
Saturday, June 12, 2021
Interview with two Apple executives about changes to multitasking in iPadOS 15, SharePlay, Universal Control, Quick Note, and more (Matthew Panzarino/TechCrunch)
Interview with two Apple executives about changes to multitasking in iPadOS 15, SharePlay, Universal Control, Quick Note, and more — Apple executives talk about the new iPad software's mental models and multitasking enhancements — The announcement of new iPad software at this year's WWDC conference …
China pushes to subject data-related activities to government oversight, as it worries tech giants could use collected data to build alternative power centers (Lingling Wei/Wall Street Journal)
China pushes to subject data-related activities to government oversight, as it worries tech giants could use collected data to build alternative power centers — Beijing is calling on tech giants to share their information—and asserting its authority over data held by U.S. companies in China as well
A look at the rise of BitClout, a burgeoning crypto service monetizing social influence, valued at more than $1B in April, but operating in a legal gray zone (Caroline Lester/New Yorker)
A look at the rise of BitClout, a burgeoning crypto service monetizing social influence, valued at more than $1B in April, but operating in a legal gray zone — BitClout collapses everything—art, humor, personhood—into money, laying bare just who, and what, we are willing to pay for.
Thai SEC orders exchanges to delist NFTs and meme coins, defined as those with "no objective or underlying value" whose price relies on social media trends (Robert Stevens/Decrypt)
Thai SEC orders exchanges to delist NFTs and meme coins, defined as those with “no objective or underlying value” whose price relies on social media trends — Thailand's Securities and Exchange Commission wont crack a smile at crypto's meme coins. — Dogecoin — In brief
Amazon raises minimum pay in Germany to 12 euros per hour
Profile of Praveen Khandelwal, leader of a network of ~80M SMBs in India with deep ties to Modi, who evokes British colonial looting in his fight against Amazon (Nilesh Christopher/Rest of World)
Profile of Praveen Khandelwal, leader of a network of ~80M SMBs in India with deep ties to Modi, who evokes British colonial looting in his fight against Amazon — Praveen Khandelwal has built a name fighting against e-commerce. Now, he's launching his own online marketplace. — • BANGALORE, INDIA
A look at Meta's convoluted or contradictory guidelines for those working on its user content, allowing derogatory remarks about races, nationalities, and more (Sam Biddle/The Intercept)
Sam Biddle / The Intercept : A look at Meta's convoluted or contradictory guidelines for those working on its user content, allowing ...
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Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist : Since October, the NYPD has deployed a quadruped robot called Spot to a handful of crime scenes and hostage...
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Lorena O'Neil / Rolling Stone : A look at the years of warnings about AI from researchers, including several women of color, who say ...
