A US jury finds Tesla partially liable for Autopilot's role in a fatal 2019 crash in Florida, and orders the company to pay $243M in damages
Awards $329 Million In Damages Aarian Marshall / Wired : Tesla Found Partly Liable in 2019 Autopilot Death Ian Carlos Campbell / Engadget : Tesla found partially liable for a deadly 2019 crash Cassand...
Apple Q1 revenue: iPhone up 6% YoY to $69.7B, Mac up 1% YoY to $7.78B, iPad down 25% YoY to $7.02B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories down 11% YoY to $11.95B
sort of Ed Hardy / Cult of Mac : Strong iPhone sales power Apple back to revenue growth Larry Dignan / Constellation Research : Apple Q1 better than expected, services strong as product lines mixed Al...
Ring is sunsetting a tool that lets police request footage from users via its Neighbors app, forcing law enforcement to obtain warrants or evidence of emergency
mostly The Sun : Amazon announces major change to Ring doorbell over controversial police footage requests Matthew Guariglia / Electronic Frontier Foundation : Victory! Ring Announces It Will No Longe...
WhatsApp's AI generates stickers of kids with guns when prompted with “Palestinian”; prompts for “Israeli” generate stickers of mostly smiling people in uniform
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Documents show LAPD's new predictive policing effort is similar to surveillance programs PredPol and Operation Laser that were shut down amid public outcry
Johana Bhuiyan / The Guardian : Tweets: @fairtrials , @jmbooyah , @jmbooyah , and @jmbooyah Tweets: Fair Trials / @fairtrials : 📢Predictive policing tools rely on flawed datasets. They don't predict ...
Investigation: US military buys granular movement data of people around the world from a wide array of apps for Muslim dating, prayer, Craigslist, weather, more
A Muslim prayer app with over 98 million downloads is one of the apps connected to a wide-ranging supply chain … Tweets: @rowaida_abdel and @jmbooyah Tweets: Rowaida Abdelaziz / @rowaida_abdel : Musli...
Stories from tech workers who are women, people of color, and LGBTQ-identifying, describe discrimination, microaggressions, feelings of isolation, and more
Los Angeles Times : Tweets: @jmbooyah , @ekp , @csforca , @miscadooch , @danbeucke , @alexpadilla4ca , @cdiaz916 , @scrivenix , @latimes , @latimes , @jeffbercovici , @jmbooyah , and @jmbooyah Tweets...
Sources: Uber shuts down its customer support office in LA, laying off ~80 employees and outsourcing their jobs to a support office in Manila
Johana Bhuiyan / Los Angeles Times :
A group of four former Google employees who say they were fired for organizing are filing unfair labor practice charges against the company
Welcome to your next installment of Metal Machine Music. James Farrell / SiliconANGLE : Fired workers accuse Google of unfair labor practices Allison Levitsky / Silicon Valley Business Journal : Fired...
DOJ charges two ex-Twitter employees, arresting one, with spying for Saudi Arabia by snooping on kingdom critics; one allegedly accessed 6,000 accounts in 2015
but spying on private citizens by gaining access to their social media account information, if proven true, is illegal and completely unacceptable. https://twitter.com/... Molly McKew / @mollymckew : ...