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Laid-off Google employee files racism lawsuit claiming colleague attributed work mishap to ‘everything going on with George Floyd’

Laid-off Google employee files racism lawsuit claiming colleague attributed work mishap to ‘everything going on with George Floyd’

Tiffany Minott was laid off from her project manager role in January 2023  She claims colleagues made ‘thinly veiled’ racist insults against her   A former manager at Google has filed a lawsuit against the company which claims she was passed over for promotion because she is black and repeatedly faced ‘thinly veiled racist comments’ including a taunt about George Floyd‘s death. Tiffany Minott, 40, sued the company in New York alleging multiple civil rights violations and claiming that… Source link

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Republicans sue Google claiming spam filter blocks email

Republicans sue Google claiming spam filter blocks email

Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios The Republican National Committee (RNC) has filed a lawsuit against Google in a U.S. district court in California for allegedly putting its campaign emails in the spam folders of its millions of users. Why it matters: Google last month launched a pilot program to keep campaign emails out of spam. But the RNC has been criticizing the program, arguing it doesn’t help enough with political email filtering. The lawsuit alleges that Google “has relegated millions of… Source link

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2 former Tesla employees have filed a lawsuit against the company claiming its mass layoffs violated federal law

2 former Tesla employees have filed a lawsuit against the company claiming its mass layoffs violated federal law

Tesla CEO Elon Musk.Maja Hitij/Getty Images Two former Tesla employees have filed a lawsuit against Tesla, claiming its mass layoffs violated federal law. In early June, CEO Elon Musk said Tesla needed to cut 10% of its staff, per Reuters. The two former employees are looking to claim 60 days’ worth of pay and benefits. In a lawsuit filed Sunday, two former Tesla employees claim the electric carmaker violated federal law by laying off hundreds of employees on short notice. On June 2, Tesla CEO… Source link

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Google places an engineer on leave after claiming its AI is sentient

Google places an engineer on leave after claiming its AI is sentient

Blake Lemoine, a Google engineer working in its Responsible AI division, revealed to The Washington Post that he believes one of the company’s AI projects has achieved sentience. And after reading his conversations with LaMDA (short for Language Model for Dialogue Applications), it’s easy to see why. The chatbot system, which relies on Google’s language models and trillions of words from the internet, seems to have the ability to think about its own existence and its place in the… Source link

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Zillow responds to viral Tik Tok video claiming housing market manipulation

The popular real estate website Zillow was criticized on social media after a TikTok video decrying an unnamed real estate company’s potentially nefarious business strategies went viral. Las Vegas-based real estate agent Sean Gotcher (@seangotcher) posted a two-and-a-half minute video to TikTok earlier this month, describing a scenario where a so-called iBuyer uses its massive, user-generated database to scheme the local housing market. An iBuyer, according to Zillow, is “a company that… Source link

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Trump sues Facebook, Twitter and Google, claiming censorship

WASHINGTON, July 7 (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday filed lawsuits against Twitter Inc (TWTR.N), Facebook Inc (FB.O), and Alphabet Inc’s Google (GOOGL.O), as well as their chief executives, alleging they unlawfully silence conservative viewpoints. The lawsuits, filed in U.S. District Court in Miami, allege the California-based social media platforms violated the right to freedom of speech guaranteed by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Trump is seeking… Source link

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Google must face shareholder lawsuit claiming it hid security risks

June 16 (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday revived a lawsuit in which shareholders of Google parent Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) accused Google of misleading them by concealing security vulnerabilities, including in its Google+ social network. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said the lawsuit raised a “strong inference” that Alphabet and its then-Chief Executive Larry Page knew about the bugs and an internal memo on security issues, and Alphabet intentionally… Source link

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Putin defends charges of hacking and suppressing dissent by claiming U.S. does same thing

MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin denied ordering a hit on political rival Alexei Navalny, but in an exclusive interview with NBC News he did not guarantee that the jailed Kremlin critic, who survived being poisoned with a nerve agent, would get out of prison alive. “Look, such decisions in this country are not made by the president,” Putin said. That was one of several striking moments in Putin’s first interview in three years with a U.S. news organization, days ahead of his meeting… Source link

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