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Contact tracing is proving to be a hot topic by those 55 and over with a majority of Americans reject the idea of being traced. Meanwhile, a new initiative is proving to be unpopular with at least one of my former listeners. For those of you supporting the show in the ways you can I do appreciate it I really
Facebook has rejected a proposal by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) to share advertising revenue with Australian news organizations, The Guardian reported. Facebook says there would “not be significant” impacts on its business if it stopped sharing news altogether. The ACCC is an independent Commonwealth statutory authority whose role is to enforce the Competition and Consumer Act 2010
GitHub is working on replacing the term “master” on its service with a neutral term like “main”. The reason for this change is to avoid any unnecessary references to slavery, says GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, ZDNet reported. For those who are new to this terminology, PC Mag has an easy to understand explanation of what master/slave means. “An electronic interaction
The Joe Biden campaign posted an open letter to Facebook calling on Facebook to strengthen its rules on misinformation. As you may have guessed, Facebook has absolutely no interest in doing anything that would stem the tide of misinformation on its platform. Joe Biden is the presumptive presidential nominee of the Democratic Party. The open letter was addressed to Mark
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is investigating Facebook's acquisition of GIPHY. The CMA is considering whether that transaction has resulted in the creation of a relevant merger situation under the merger provisions of the Enterprise Act 2002. If so, then the merger may be expected to result in a substantial lessening of competition within any market or markets
It's a big weekend for gamers as E3 goes online because of Covid-19 with Sony launching the PS5, the Gaming Show 2020 and the latest games from EA and Ubisoft. Sony revealed the PS5 last night, and while the jury's still out on the design, the games line-up looks pretty solid with a ton of games trailers - GTA V,
Twitter disclosed 32,242 accounts to their archives of state-linked information operations. The account sets recently published to the archives include three distinct operations that Twitter has attributed to the People's Republic of China (PRC), Russia, and Turkey. Twitter states that every account and piece of content associate with these operations has been permanently removed from the service. According to Twitter,