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X plans to hire 100 content moderators to fill new Trust and Safety center in Austin
28 Jan

X plans to hire 100 content moderators to fill new Trust and Safety center in Austin

John RoutledgeLatest News
X’s head of business operations Joe Benarroch said the company plans to open a new office in Austin, Texas for a team that will be dedicated to content moderation, Bloomberg reports. The “Trust and Safety center of excellence,” for which the company is planning to hire 100 full-time employees, will primarily focus on stopping the spread of child sexual exploitation…
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X confirms it blocked Taylor Swift searches to ‘prioritize safety’
28 Jan

X confirms it blocked Taylor Swift searches to ‘prioritize safety’

John RoutledgeLatest News
X has confirmed it’s preventing users from searching Taylor Swift’s name after pornographic deepfakes of the artist began circulating on the platform this week. Visitors to the site started noticing on Saturday that some searches containing Swift’s name would only return an error message. In a statement to the Wall Street Journal on Saturday night, Joe Benarroch, X’s head of…
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Narrative game Open Roads has been delayed by a month
27 Jan

Narrative game Open Roads has been delayed by a month

John RoutledgeLatest News
Annapurna is delaying the release of its upcoming narrative adventure game, Open Roads, by a few weeks so the team can do a little more refining. It’s now scheduled for release on March 28 instead of the originally planned date of February 22. The decision was made to “ensure the most polished experience for players,” a spokesperson for Annapurna told…
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Fossil is done making smartwatches but will keep releasing updates for a few years
27 Jan

Fossil is done making smartwatches but will keep releasing updates for a few years

John RoutledgeLatest News
Fossil is officially getting out of the smartwatch business. Following months of speculation about the future of its Wear OS smartwatch lineup, which hasn’t seen a new model since 2021’s Gen 6, the company confirmed to The Verge on Friday that it’s abandoning the category altogether. There won’t be a successor to the Gen 6, but existing Fossil smartwatches will…
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Lawsuit says 23andMe hackers targeted users with Chinese and Ashkenazi Jewish heritage
27 Jan

Lawsuit says 23andMe hackers targeted users with Chinese and Ashkenazi Jewish heritage

John RoutledgeLatest News
In October 2023, 23andMe admitted that it suffered a data breach that compromised its users' information. The company has been hit with several lawsuits since then, and according to The New York Times, one of them is accusing 23andMe of failing to notify customers that they were specifically targeted for having Chinese and Ashkenazi Jewish heritage. They also weren't told…
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