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Newly filed Google Ireland Holdings accounts show $75B+ in profits moved through the subsidiary in 2019, the last year Google used the "double Irish" tax scheme (Will Goodbody/RTÉ)
Will Goodbody / RTÉ: Newly filed Google Ireland Holdings accounts show $75B+ in profits moved through the subsidiary in 2019,…
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US investigators probing a breach at Codecov, a software auditing company, that affected some of its 29K customers; the breach was in Jan. but detected in April (Raphael Satter/Reuters)
Raphael Satter / Reuters: US investigators probing a breach at Codecov, a software auditing company, that affected some of its…
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Company officials, victims, experts, and intel officials discuss the SolarWinds hack, which successfully compromised ~100 companies and a dozen govt. agencies (Dina Temple-Raston/NPR)
Dina Temple-Raston / NPR: Company officials, victims, experts, and intel officials discuss the SolarWinds hack, which successfully compromised ~100 companies…
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How Aurora, now the owner of Uber's ATG, is moving to bring its self-driving tech to market via deals with Volvo in trucking, Uber and Toyota in taxis, more (Ira Boudway/Bloomberg)
Ira Boudway / Bloomberg: How Aurora, now the owner of Uber’s ATG, is moving to bring its self-driving tech to…
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Sources: Ant Group is exploring options for founder Jack Ma to divest his stake and give up control to appease Chinese regulators (Julie Zhu/Reuters)
Julie Zhu / Reuters: Sources: Ant Group is exploring options for founder Jack Ma to divest his stake and give…
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Twitter says it is "investigating a possible system irregularity currently affecting all Twitter API v2 endpoints" that is causing issues for some users (Kim Lyons/The Verge)
Kim Lyons / The Verge: Twitter says it is “investigating a possible system irregularity currently affecting all Twitter API v2…
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Big tech whistleblowers describe the severe emotional toll that standing up to gigantic companies takes and how it sets them on the path to advocacy (Issie Lapowsky/Protocol)
Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: Big tech whistleblowers describe the severe emotional toll that standing up to gigantic companies takes and…
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Internet blackouts following a military coup have shut down swathes of the online economy in Myanmar, where internet penetration had surged to around 43% (Rest of World)
Rest of World: Internet blackouts following a military coup have shut down swathes of the online economy in Myanmar, where…
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As the EU considers new regulations for AI, 60+ NGOs ask the EC to ban automatic gender recognition systems, which rely on outmoded understandings of gender (James Vincent/The Verge)
James Vincent / The Verge: As the EU considers new regulations for AI, 60+ NGOs ask the EC to ban…
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How Weibo helps Chinese authorities quash the feminist movement by deleting activist accounts, while also profiting from their nationalist harassers (Shen Lu/Protocol)
Shen Lu / Protocol: How Weibo helps Chinese authorities quash the feminist movement by deleting activist accounts, while also profiting…
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