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[ASK AN EXPERT] What Are The Pros And Cons Of Public Donor Listings?

Bloomerang

Todays question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on the pros and cons of public donor listings: Dear Charity Clairity, There has been some concern about the fact we have our $1,000+ donors listed on our website. People give larger gifts to receive public recognition. People complain about perceptions of exclusivity.

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How Just Stop Oil harnessed emotions to ignite public concern for climate change

Fast Company Tech

Many will read the groups legacy through the lens of public hostility: the frustration caused, the angry headlines, the outrage at its tactics. It is a sign that these activists succeeded in emotionally charging the public debate about climate change. But the intense backlash directed at JSO is not evidence that its campaign faltered.

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Instagram is testing a private downvote button for comments

Mashable Tech

Did you notice what looks like a dislike button next to comments on your Instagram account? Instagram is testing a new feature that would allow users to downrank comments that they don't like, be it because they're negative, harmful, or maybe just because they disagree with them, Social Media Today spotted.

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Resolving code review comments with ML

Google Research AI blog

As part of this process, the reviewer inspects the proposed code and asks the author for code changes through comments written in natural language. In our measurements, the required active work time that the code author must do to address reviewer comments grows almost linearly with the number of comments.

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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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Elon Musk’s xAI startup just bought X for $45 billion

Fast Company Tech

Neither X nor xAI immediately responded to a request for comment. Musk clinched a deal in 2022 to buy X for $44 billion, ending its run as a public company since its 2013 initial public offering, declaring that “the bird is freed” once the acquisition closed.

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Three-quarters of public comments want Microsoft to take over Activision Blizzard

TechSpot

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is one of the global monopoly watchdogs that is still investigating the $68.7 billion Microsoft/Activision Blizzard deal. The agency said in September that the merger could lead to competition concerns within the video game industry. This led to the CMA opening an extended.

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