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Meta blocks whistleblower from promoting book, guaranteeing way more people will read it

Mashable Tech

She is also temporarily barred from making any "disparaging, critical, or otherwise detrimental comments" about Meta, and has been instructed to retract any such comments she has previously made. Mashable has reached out to Meta for comment.

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TD Bank is closing dozens of branches across 10 states: Here’s the full list of doomed locations

Fast Company Tech

The branch closures were listed in filings to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). We’ve reached out to TD Bank for comment and to ask about the reason for the closures. As part of the settlement, the bank was required to pay hefty fines and cap its worth at $434 million.

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New York Times Encourages Staff to Create Headlines Using AI

Futurism

As Semafor reports , the New York Times recently informed employees that they now have a whole suite of AI tools at their disposal to write search headlines the version of headlines that appear on search engines like Google as well as code, social copy, quizzes, and more.

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Reply Comments on the Proposed Treaty for Access to Copyrighted Works

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We filed the following comments to the Copyright Office's request for comments on issues about access for people with print disabilities. Many of the comments critical of the proposed treaty come from parties that object in principle to copyright exceptions, rather than having a direct stake in the issue at hand.

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FCC’s net neutrality rollback overwhelmed by bogus industry comments, investigation finds

The Verge

The New York attorney general’s office issued a report Thursday confirming that some of the US’s largest broadband providers engaged in a massive campaign to flood the Federal Communications Commission with fake comments in the run-up to the commission’s 2017 order to roll back net neutrality. Out of those 18 million, 8.5

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Amnesty International calls for a ban on facial recognition in New York City

The Verge

Amnesty International has launched a new campaign against facial recognition titled Ban The Scan — and is launching with a demand for New York City to halt police and government use of the technology. Other major cities across the US have already banned facial recognition, and New York must do the same.”.

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Union Square Ventures and Learn Capital file paperwork indicating new funds

TechCrunch

As 2020 comes to a long-awaited end, a series of filings indicate that venture capitalists are ending the year with fresh money. According to SEC paperwork, Learn Capital and USV have filed paperwork that shows the firms have raised new, multimillion-dollar funds. The other, more nebulous filing , is the firm’s $22.4

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