2×34: Destroying Angel
Jeremy Garcia, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which vertical video is truly a thing, editing doesn’t happen as much as it should, and:
- [00:03:22] News: Ubuntu release a first analysis of the data they collect about user hardware … WHO add “Gaming Disorder” to their disease classification manual … Gitlab move from Azure to Google Cloud … symbolics.com is the oldest domain, from 1985, according to Frederic Cambus … Akon wants to build a “techno city” in Senegal and fund it with cryptocurrency to make “a real-life Wakanda” … Tencent joins the Linux Foundation … the US supreme court declares that protection from searches applies to cell tower tracking … Instagram are estimated to be worth more than $100 billion …
- [00:38:30] In January, Microsoft published a blog post proudly boasting of the contracts it had signed with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement division. Recently, ICE have been in the news a lot over border control issues and separation of children from parents; MS therefore got a bunch of pushback about this, and Satya himself commented, walking it back. Google were part of a US military AI project and in April 3100 employees signed a petition requesting that they pull out; they walked it back. The Open Source Definition specifically says that there will be “No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor”. Should tech companies take ethical stances, or is the software industry merely a neutral provider of technology and the users have to deal with all the ethical questions?
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