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[Link] Facebook Engineers Admit They Don’t Know What They Do With Your Data
Read: 8/9/2022 www.vice.com
Earlier this year, Motherboard reported about an internal Facebook document that said the company has no idea where users’ data goes, and what the company is doing with it.
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[Link] Guy Whose Companies Keep Getting Sued For Discrimination Threatens to 'Improve' Twitter
Read: 5/4/2022 www.vice.com
Elon Musk has joined the board at Twitter, saying he plans to make several improvements to the platform.
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[Link] I Lost $400,000, Almost Everything I Had, on a Single Robinhood Bet
Read: 2/12/2021 www.vice.com
I was 26 and stupid. I had arrived in the U.S. when I was 18. I didn't have money and worked shitty jobs to get through college. I didn't go to a nice school, and I've worked in sales ever since I graduated. My first job paid me $40,000. Next one $50,000.
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[Link] How Activision Blizzard employees made CEO Bobby Kotick powerless in just 30 minutes
Read: 2/12/2021 esports.gg
Amidst calls for resignation, CEO Bobby Kotick seemed to be all but untouchable. Blizzard employees proved him wrong in 30 minutes. Someone like Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick will do whatever it takes to hold onto their power.
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[Link] More Software Isn't Better Software
Read: 14/11/2021 www.wired.com
Last month, Eugen Rochko learned that the software project he started building during his university days, called Mastodon, is running Donald Trump’s new Truth Social network.
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[Link] Techies demand top dollar as skills shortages bite
Read: 27/10/2021 www.afr.com
Australian tech companies are turning down new business because soaring pay rates being charged by workers with in-demand skills are making projects unprofitable, instead turning to training and other non-financial strategies to try to lure and retain staff.
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[Link] People are chatting through your Microsoft Teams call? It's probably a good sign
Read: 15/8/2021 www.zdnet.com
If you've ever found yourself more interested in the chat than the presentation while on a Microsoft Teams video meeting, you're not alone. In fact, most of the people inside Microsoft are doing exactly the same thing, and they like it.
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