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Facebook Whistleblower Explains Why She Made Internal Documents Public

Facebook Whistleblower Explains Why She Made Internal Documents Public

A deeper investigation into Facebook’s lack of controls to prevent misinformation and abuse in languages other than English is likely to leave people “even more shocked” about the potential harms caused by the social media firm, whistleblower Frances Haugen told Reuters. Haugen, a former product manager at Meta Platforms Inc’s …

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Recommended Reading: Tech CEOs are yearning to be visionaries again

Recommended Reading: Tech CEOs are yearning to be visionaries again

The tech moguls are looking for a new playground Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic Mark Zuckerberg is building a metaverse. Jack Dorsey resigned from Twitter and is focused on blockchain and crypto. The Atlantic’s Charlie Warzel argues that two of the biggest figures in online culture focusing their ambitions on “the …

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First we SPAC, then we take down AWS – TechCrunch

First we SPAC, then we take down AWS – TechCrunch

If Donald Trump can do it, surely it’s easy. Right? The plan is simple: First, we create a knockoff of a popular digital service. Second, we cry political persecution. Third, we raise a bunch of money with a SPAC. And then, to cap it off, we take on AWS. Got …

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Getting software to “hallucinate” reasonable protein structures

Getting software to “hallucinate” reasonable protein structures

Enlarge / Top row: the hallucination and actual structure. Bottom row: the two structures superimposed. Anishchenko et. al. Chemically, proteins are just a long string of amino acids. Their amazing properties come about because that chain can fold up into a complex, three-dimensional shape. So understanding the rules that govern …

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Research: Amazon revenue from third-party sellers will reach $121B in 2021, up from $60B in 2019, as seller fees reach 34%, up from 30% in 2018 and 19% in 2014 (Stacy Mitchell/Institute for Local …)

Research: Amazon revenue from third-party sellers will reach 1B in 2021, up from B in 2019, as seller fees reach 34%, up from 30% in 2018 and 19% in 2014 (Stacy Mitchell/Institute for Local …)

Stacy Mitchell / Institute for Local Self-Reliance: Research: Amazon revenue from third-party sellers will reach $121B in 2021, up from $60B in 2019, as seller fees reach 34%, up from 30% in 2018 and 19% in 2014  —  Amazon’s dominance of online retail means that small businesses have little choice …

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