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    • Ethics can provide blueprints for good tech, but it can't implement them; ethics boards should raise awareness and drive self-criticism, not just be moral cover (Daniel Susser/Slate)

    Daniel Susser / Slate: Ethics can provide blueprints for good tech, but it can’t implement them; ethics boards should raise awareness and drive self-criticism, not just be moral cover  —  Ethics can provide blueprints for good tech, but it can’t implement them.  —  The New York Times has confirmed what some have long suspected …

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    • A profile of Zoom and its founder Eric Yuan, who led Webex's engineering group at Cisco before leaving to build the video conferencing company (Alex Konrad/Forbes)

    Alex Konrad / Forbes: A profile of Zoom and its founder Eric Yuan, who led Webex’s engineering group at Cisco before leaving to build the video conferencing company  —  Zoom CEO Eric Yuan cut an unlikely figure as he addressed the cheering throng in the moments before ringing the opening bell at Nasdaq … A

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    • As some militant groups find ways to maintain a social media presence despite bans, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter struggle to enforce rules toward the groups (New York Times)

    New York Times: As some militant groups find ways to maintain a social media presence despite bans, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter struggle to enforce rules toward the groups  —  SAN FRANCISCO — In July 2013, a broadcaster affiliated with the Islamist group Hezbollah posted a threatening video on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. As some militant

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    • Amazon says it now requires Amazon Flex delivery drivers to snap selfies on the road to verify their identities (Hayley Peterson/Business Insider)

    Hayley Peterson / Business Insider: Amazon says it now requires Amazon Flex delivery drivers to snap selfies on the road to verify their identities  —  – Amazon is requiring delivery drivers to snap selfies to verify their identities.  — The selfies are meant to protect drivers from unauthorized usage of their Amazon Flex accounts, an

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    • Report finds that 26 states now either restrict or outright prohibit towns and cities from building their own broadband networks, up from 20 in 2018 (Karl Bode/Motherboard)

    Karl Bode / Motherboard: Report finds that 26 states now either restrict or outright prohibit towns and cities from building their own broadband networks, up from 20 in 2018  —  Many of the laws restricting local voters’ rights were directly written by a telecom sector terrified of real broadband competition. Report finds that 26 states

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    • Profile of autonomous trucking company TuSimple, which is valued at $1.1B and claims it has developed a proprietary vision system that can see a kilometer ahead (Alan Ohnsman/Forbes)

    Alan Ohnsman / Forbes: Profile of autonomous trucking company TuSimple, which is valued at $1.1B and claims it has developed a proprietary vision system that can see a kilometer ahead  —  Southeast of Tucson’s airport, tucked into a patch of Sonoran Desert dotted with cholla cactus and paloverde trees … Profile of autonomous trucking company

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    • A look at a heated discussion about diversity, reminiscent of Google's Damore incident, on an internal Microsoft board for communications with CEO Satya Nadella (Dave Gershgorn/Quartz)

    Dave Gershgorn / Quartz: A look at a heated discussion about diversity, reminiscent of Google’s Damore incident, on an internal Microsoft board for communications with CEO Satya Nadella  —  Some Microsoft employees are openly questioning whether diversity is important, in a lengthy discussion on an internal online … A look at a heated discussion about

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    • In an Apple memo shown in Apple v. Qualcomm, Apple execs described Qualcomm tech as "the best", raising questions about Apple's belief in its legal arguments (Reed Albergotti/Washington Post)

    Reed Albergotti / Washington Post: In an Apple memo shown in Apple v. Qualcomm, Apple execs described Qualcomm tech as “the best”, raising questions about Apple’s belief in its legal arguments  —  Sealed documents, obtained as part of a trial between the two tech giants, offer a rare window into the decision-making process … In

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    • Google says it will block any user login attempts from embedded browser frameworks to better prevent man-in-the-middle attacks starting in June (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

    Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Google says it will block any user login attempts from embedded browser frameworks to better prevent man-in-the-middle attacks starting in June  —  Google previously banned logins initiated from browsers where JavaScript had been disabled.  —  Google announced today a security update … Google says it will block any user login attempts

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    • Eyal Gutentag, CMO of ZipRecruiter, has resigned after a report detailed an alleged sexual battery incident involving Gutentag when he worked for Uber in 2015 (BuzzFeed News)

    BuzzFeed News: Eyal Gutentag, CMO of ZipRecruiter, has resigned after a report detailed an alleged sexual battery incident involving Gutentag when he worked for Uber in 2015  —  Eyal Gutentag, the chief marketing officer of the employment job site ZipRecruiter, has left the company following … Eyal Gutentag, CMO of ZipRecruiter, has resigned after a

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    • Supply chain and logistics cloud software startup STORD raises $12.3M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins, says it has more than five Fortune 500 clients (Holly Beilin/Hypepotamus)

    Holly Beilin / Hypepotamus: Supply chain and logistics cloud software startup STORD raises $12.3M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins, says it has more than five Fortune 500 clients  —  Details have emerged about supply chain software startup STORD’s latest funding round, a $12.3 million Series A. The round was led … Supply chain and

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    • Scribd took down multiple copies of the Mueller Report, which is in the public domain, claiming that its algorithms identified it as a copyrighted work (David Yanofsky/Quartz)

    David Yanofsky / Quartz: Scribd took down multiple copies of the Mueller Report, which is in the public domain, claiming that its algorithms identified it as a copyrighted work  —  A convenient feature of nearly all documents created by the US government is that they have no copyright. Scribd took down multiple copies of the

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    • Marcus "MalwareTech" Hutchins pleads guilty to entering a conspiracy to distribute the Kronos malware, aiding and abetting its distribution (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

    Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Marcus “MalwareTech” Hutchins pleads guilty to entering a conspiracy to distribute the Kronos malware, aiding and abetting its distribution  —  WannaCry hero faces up to ten years in a US prison.  —  Marcus “MalwareTech” Hutchins, the British security researcher known for stopping … Marcus "MalwareTech" Hutchins pleads guilty to entering a

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