by crissly | Aug 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
In June, Global Witness and Foxglove found that Meta continued to approve ads in Amharic targeting Ethiopian users that included hate speech and calls for violence. Facebook has been implicated in spreading hate speech and stoking ethnic violence in Ethiopia’s ongoing...
by crissly | Jul 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
“There is a really deep interconnection between the chip industry and the US defense industry,” says Chris Miller, an assistant professor at Tufts University and the author of Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology, a forthcoming book about the...
by crissly | Jul 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
But the turnaround is far from uniform. Everstream’s data shows that lead times for some advanced chips needed for medical devices, telecommunications, and cybersecurity systems is around 52 weeks, compared to a prior average of 27 weeks.Automotive companies that were...
by crissly | Jul 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
Hi, folks. The winner of the week is Reed Hastings, who lost a million subscribers but saw Netflix’s stock skyrocket because he didn’t lose more. What a showman!The Plain ViewI got an email from Google the other day. “Dear Steven,” went the text, “This is a reminder...
by crissly | Jul 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
TikTok has begun a global restructuring of its business that includes layoffs, according to five people with knowledge of the process.The short-form video app, owned by Chinese parent company ByteDance, has rapidly expanded both its user base and workforce in recent...