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Reddit reports 18 percent reduction in hateful content after banning nearly 7,000 subreddits

The Verge

In June this year, Reddit began a huge campaign to remove hateful content from its site, blocking communities that engaged in hate speech and harassment. While I would love that number to be 100 percent, I’m encouraged by the progress,” writes Reddit user u/worstnerd , a member of the company’s Safety team. Image: Reddit.

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How Gen Z uses the internet to self diagnose and get help

Mashable Tech

Of the subset of nationally representative participants who had a diagnosis, a mere five percent, or 10 people, said they were self-diagnosed and had no plans to follow up with a clinician. Angel decided at that point to delete Reddit from their phone as a way of balancing their desire for information with maintaining positive well-being.

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StartupLab launches to coach America’s next generation of entrepreneurs

The Next Web

These include Junior Achievement, Georgetown University, BizWorld, Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, Startup Weekend, the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, and many more. The Young Entrepreneur Council may be familiar to you if you’re a regular TNW reader. StartupLab takes the form of a Facebook app.

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Tesla’s new Boombox feature will let car owners fart at unsuspecting neighbors

The Verge

The speakers were added because the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, “required electric cars that were silent to omit some noise to alert pedestrians,” according to Teslarati. A full list of updates can be read on Reddit. Tesla cars manufactured after September 1st , 2019 have the speaker built-in.

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Toyota is going to make you pay to start your car with your key fob

The Verge

This was first spotted in a post on Reddit , where the original poster added a link to Toyota’s Remote Connect marketing materials ( PDF ). Even more confusingly, only some Toyota models support the Audio Plus or Premium Audio packages that the free trial is offered with, which you can check out for yourself in this PDF.

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BioWare might be the next game studio with unionized workers in its midst

The Verge

According to a notice from the Alberta Labour Relations Board that was shared on Reddit , the group seeking to organize are includes “all employees employed in development support at the BioWare office in Edmonton.” Here is the notice that was shared on Reddit.

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Researchers produce collision in Apple’s child-abuse hashing system

The Verge

Early tests show that it can tolerate image resizing and compression, but not cropping or rotations,” Ygvar wrote on Reddit, sharing the new code. Under the new system, iOS will check locally stored files against hashes of child abuse imagery, as generated and maintained by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).

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