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A former alt-right YouTuber details how he tailored videos for the "echo chamber", including focusing squarely on confrontations to drive views on YouTube (Cade Metz/New York Times)
on April 18, 2021 at 10:05
Cade Metz / New York Times: A former alt-right YouTuber details how he tailored videos for the “echo chamber”, including focusing squarely on confrontations to drive views on YouTube — Focus on conflict. Feed the algorithm. Make sure whatever you produce reinforces a narrative. Don't worry if it is true.
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Roblox is working on content ratings for games and on ways to make parental controls easier to find and use, to address sexual content issues on its platform (Julie Jargon/Wall Street Journal)
on April 18, 2021 at 06:00
Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal: Roblox is working on content ratings for games and on ways to make parental controls easier to find and use, to address sexual content issues on its platform — Sexual role-play and ‘dating’ are common on the children's gaming platform; parental controls help make it a safer space
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Charles "Chuck" Geschke, who co-founded Adobe in 1982 with John Warnock and helped develop PDF technology, died on Friday at 81 (Fiona Kelliher/Mercury News)
on April 18, 2021 at 04:35
Fiona Kelliher / Mercury News: Charles “Chuck” Geschke, who co-founded Adobe in 1982 with John Warnock and helped develop PDF technology, died on Friday at 81 — Survived kidnapping at gunpoint — Charles “Chuck” Geschke, co-founder of the iconic Silicon Valley company Adobe Inc. and prominent cheerleader of downtown San Jose, died Friday at age 81.
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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)
on April 18, 2021 at 01:40
Will Goodbody / RTÉ: 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 — Newly filed accounts show that over $75bn in profits moved through a subsidiary of Google that was incorporated in Ireland 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)
on April 17, 2021 at 23:25
Raphael Satter / Reuters: 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 — U.S. federal investigators are probing an intrusion at San Francisco-based software auditing company Codecov that affected …