Facebook admits that AI can’t stop hate speech
One in every 2000 posts still contain it
Social notworking site Facebook’s Guy Rosen, who has the unfortunate title of head of integrity, admitted that one in every 2,000 content views on Facebook still contained hate speech from April to June of this year.
Apple fires another woman who alleged harassment
Claimed she had deleted material on her computer
An Apple employee who led fellow workers in publicly sharing instances of harassment and discrimination has been fired.
Republicans want US without Honor
Marco Rubio claims honor is a threat to US security
Republican US senators led by Marco Rubio called on the Biden administration to blacklist Honor, a former unit of embattled Chinese telecoms giant Huawei, claiming, without any evidence that the firm was a threat to national security.
Commodore 65 finally might be released
30 years late
The follow on from the fabled Commodore 64, the fabled Commodore 65, might finally be released, 30 years after it was cancelled.
Microsoft suffers LinkedIn mental breakdown in China
Regulators got us in the pooh
PutativeSoftware King of the World, Microsoft, has decided to shut down LinkedIn in the country as the regulators are getting on its tits.
Palm coming back from the dead
Seems the old brands are the best
Palm recently posted some teasers on Twitter foreshadowing a new gadget coming out later this month.
US governor thinks reporters who discover website flaws are hackers
One of the reasons that the media is in such a shocking state
A US governor was so terrified that a reporter was doing his job and investigating a shonky government website that he attempted to name and shame the hack and his paper.
Firefox for PowerPC Macs finally killed
TenFourFox ports end after a decade
TenFourFox, a fork of the Firefox browser for G3, G4, and G5-based PowerPC Macs running Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5. has finally been shut down.
US telcos telling porkies about 5G coverage
Less available than COVID-19, report claims
US mobile phone companies have taken to making up figures about their 5G coverage according to new data released by OpenSignal.
AMD chips suffer under Windows 11
Probably better to give the OS a miss for a bit
AMD has warned that its chips are experiencing performance issues in Windows 11, and now Microsoft’s first update to its new OS has made the problems worse.