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Snap’s first diversity report shows an overwhelmingly white workforce
Snap finally released its Citizen Snap Report, outlining the company’s diversity, community and environmental efforts over the past year and, wow, it’s easy to see why they decided to drop this information while everybody was paying attention to the… Source
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Bezos can’t promise Amazon employees don’t access independent seller data
During Wednesday’s antitrust hearing, Amazon and its CEO Jeff Bezos came under fire by lawmakers over the company’s alleged use of third-party seller data in developing its own products. Earlier this year, The Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon employees have accessed sales data from independent sellers on its marketplace…
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The cheapest gaming and workstation PCs might now sit in the cloud null
There are numerous video game streaming services around these days, and there are remote virtual workstations offered by large cloud companies like Amazon and Oracle. The former are limited to games, whereas the latter cost more than some people might want to spend. But apparently, there is a solution: a…
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Google’s business model ‘is the problem,’ David Cicilline says
During Wednesday’s tech antitrust hearing, Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) tore into Google CEO Sundar Pichai over the company’s dominance in search and its use of data to monitor would-be competitors. “It is Google’s business model that is the problem,” Cicilline said, alleging a pattern of anti-competitive behavior that allowed Google…
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These countries have the most exposed databases online database
Leaving a database exposed online without a password can be extremely damaging for both businesses and their customers. Despite this risk, a new report from NordPass has identified a total of 9,517 unsecured databases containing more than 10bn entries filled with data such as emails, passwords and phone numbers. To…
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Snap’s first diversity report says only 4 percent of the company identifies as Black
Snap, the company behind Snapchat, released its first diversity report today after years of resisting pressure to make those statistics public. The report details the minimal growth the 3,195-person company has made in regards to hiring people of color and women. Black and African American people only represent 4.1 percent…
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