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Super Mario Bros is 25 today, so here's a selection of facts and figures on the world's greatest platform hero…

I grew up just north of Dallas, Texas, spending most of my time at pool parties, trading Pokémon cards at school lunches, and lazily exploring the neighborhood with pals. When I went to college, I took every class under the sun, from microbiology to photography. It wasn’t until I started taking a class on entrepreneurship that I began to be really interested in bringing new ideas to life and l...

In May 2019, I was hired by Apple to check the transcripts of user recordings via their voice assistant Siri. I heard people talking about their cancer, referring to dead relatives, religion, pornography, politics, relationships, and drugs — people who had no intention to activate Siri whatsoever. This is my story of blowing the whistle on Apple’s mass surveillance operation.

“As a former employee, I disagreed with what they said, and as a communications professional, I think it was really bad PR.”

At least one trans employee is quitting due to the controversy.

The TV reporter’s father filed a complaint with the FTC demanding Facebook be held accountable for failing to remove the graphic footage.

Senior software engineer Terra Field says she "feels vindicated" after being suspended.

The Supreme Court gave the go-ahead Tuesday to a suit by current and former Google...

The walkout will take place on October 20th.

Instead of using 'creative freedom' to justify Chappelle's special, Netflix should just say what it means: Inclusion is great but money is better.

Netflix has reinstated me after finding that there was no ill-intent in my attending the QBR meeting. I've included the statement I requested below. I'm going to take a few days off to decompress and try to figure out where I'm at. At the very least, I feel vindicated.

“We can and must do better,” organizers at the streamer wrote in an internal memo.

The social network, which has been under increased scrutiny after a former product manager turned into a whistle-blower, is trying to prevent leaks.

Facebook is changing things to prevent further leaks.

Dragging 'first party shooter games' into this is a very odd thing to do, as employees plan a 'virtual walkout'

Apple has silently fixed a gamed zero-day vulnerability with the release of iOS 15.0.2, on Monday, a security flaw that could let attackers gain access to sensitive user information.

Last month security researcher Denis Tokarev, aka illusionofchaos, shared his experience of reporting three zero-day iOS vulnerabilities to Apple with specific criticism around how the company is slow to respond, act, and didn’t give him credit for one of the three flaws that were patched. Now it appears Apple has fixed another zero-day flaw, this […]

Facebook has worked with a number of researchers across the world to build a new set of training data in order to help AIs perceive the world as we do..

Former Twitch employees shared details of the hack the company suffered in 2014, and how the company's approach to security evolved after it.

Chappelle’s latest Netflix special, The Closer, may be a tipping point for trans people.

Clearly someone needs to watch “Disclosure.”

Guarding the bottom line while its cash-cow comedian grabs the low-hanging fruit.

A settlement agreement between the California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) and Apple Inc….

The reasons for firing Ashley Gjøvik include tweeting a photo of herself—taken by her own phone.

Another #AppleToo leader is on paid medical leave.

Haugen argues Facebook misled investors by failing to disclose its platforms' harms. If the SEC bites, the rest of tech could be next.

Netflix's CEO Ted Sarandos had invoked Gadsby's comedy to defend keeping Dave Chappelle's latest transphobic special on the streamer.

Janneke Parrish says her firing was retaliatory.

A trove of Amazon documents reveals how the company ran a campaign in India of creating knockoff goods and manipulating search results to boost its own products.

A few more thoughts about all this Chappelle stuff.

AI has only minimal success in removing hate speech, violent images and other problem content, according to internal company reports. It can’t consistently identify first-person shooting videos, racist rants or gruesome car crashes.

Taking down the Dave Chappelle special isn’t one of them.

Janneke Parrish says she was dismissed after deleting Robinhood, Pokemon Go and Google Drive from her work devices during an investigation inside the company.

Walkout organizers are asking for disclaimers for transphobic content and are not asking Netflix to remove content.

The company has two weeks provide evidence

The company decried the use of embargoes to coordinate a coming series of reporting on thousands of pages of leaks, despite regularly using embargoes itself.

If you have both a Facebook and Instagram account, the company may have figured out a way to double the money you generate.

My last meeting as Co-VP of the Netflix Trans* ERG was supposed to be October 5th. It was a positive day for me, because my ERG work was…

Many Instagram users saw a notification that if they have violated the platform's Community Guidelines in the past, they will no longer be allowed to use links in Stories.

Facebook launched a Novi pilot program Tuesday.

Facebook moderators are running a mobile billboard that demands better pay.

Ted Sarandos spoke with several publications late Tuesday.

“Truly dystopian that my first time going to my office will be in order to walk out of it.”

The Netflix employee resource group is demanding better LGBTQ+ representation at the company, both onscreen and off.

The company is dealing with an internal outcry unprecedented in its history.

The DOJ is fining Facebook $4.75 million.

The request follows testimony from Frances Haugen.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau seeks information on how those firms and others use consumers’ financial information.

"This job cannot be performed in the state of Colorado." If you see this on a listing it means they want to hire remote without disclosing salary. Part of being an "empathic engineering leader" is turning down companies like @Chime that want to cheat their marginalized hires

Hi there. You're reading this because I've shut down the Colorado Excluded website. I ran the site since early 2021, and when Colorado was the only state that had salary transparency laws, it was a great website to help people find out which companies were getting around the law. Now, multiple states have their own versions of this law, and I faced the question of what to do w...