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Less than three years after thousands of Google employees walked out of their offices to protest the company’s handling of sexual harassment, the search giant’s workers are again raising the issue in response to a damning report. In a letter published Friday titled “Alphabet, Stop Protecting Harassers,” LINK THIS dozens of employees said the company has a pattern of protecting those who have been accused of misconduct. They asked Alphabet Inc. GOOGL,

Yandex (NASDAQ and MOEX: YNDX), one of Europe’s largest internet companies and the leading search and ride-hailing provider in Russia, today announced that a data breach had been discovered during routine screening by Yandex’s security team. An internal investigation revealed that an employee had been providing unauthorized access to users’ mailboxes for personal gain. The employee was one of three system administrators with the necessary access rights to… Source link

Two new reports from Bloomberg and Wired have shed light on some of Google’s failures in building its Stadia cloud gaming service. The reports come just a few weeks after Google announced it would be shutting down its in-house Stadia game development studios. One key issue, according to Wired, is that Google may not have put as much investment in its internal studios as its much-hyped plans for Stadia may have suggested. Stadia chief Phil Harrison announced Google’s Stadia Games and… Source link

By Jeffrey Dastin, Paresh Dave (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google will change procedures before July for reviewing its scientists’ work, according to a town hall recording heard by Reuters, part of an effort to quell internal tumult over the integrity of its artificial intelligence (AI) research. FILE PHOTO: The Google name is displayed outside the company’s office in London, Britain November 1, 2018. REUTERS/Toby Melville In remarks at a staff meeting last Friday, Google Research… Source link

By Jeffrey Dastin, Paresh Dave (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google will change procedures before July for reviewing its scientists’ work, according to a town hall recording heard by Reuters, part of an effort to quell internal tumult over the integrity of its artificial intelligence (AI) research. FILE PHOTO: The Google name is displayed outside the company’s office in London, Britain November 1, 2018. REUTERS/Toby Melville In remarks at a staff meeting last Friday, Google Research… Source link

Russian web titan Yandex NV suffered an insider breach. An employee was selling sensitive user data to anyone who would pay, says Yandex. The perp was an admin of the firm’s email service, Yandex.Mail. It’s alleged they’d sold access to almost 5,000 mailboxes. No word on what’s happened to the scrote. In today’s SB Blogwatch, we visualize them chopped up and hidden in matryoshka dolls. Your humble blogwatcher curated these bloggy bits for your entertainment. Not to… Source link

NEW YORK (AP) — Google is closing the internal studio tasked with developing games for its Stadia cloud-gaming service, a move that raises questions about the future of the Stadia service itself. Google launched Stadia in November 2019 as a new type of video-game platform that operates without a console and that stores game-playing sessions in the cloud. It lets players jump across devices including phones, PCs and laptops. But in a Monday blog post, Google said it will no longer invest in… Source link

FILE PHOTO: Spectators look on during a Google keynote address announcing a new video gaming streaming service named Stadia that attempts to capitalize on the company’s cloud technology and global network of data centers, at the Gaming Developers Conference in San Francisco, California, U.S., March 19, 2019. REUTERS/Stephen Lam (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Monday it would stop internal development of games for Stadia, making the cloud-based game-streaming service entirely… Source link

FILE PHOTO: Spectators look on during a Google keynote address announcing a new video gaming streaming service named Stadia that attempts to capitalize on the company’s cloud technology and global network of data centers, at the Gaming Developers Conference in San Francisco, California, U.S., March 19, 2019. REUTERS/Stephen Lam (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Monday it would stop internal development of games for Stadia, making the cloud-based game-streaming service entirely… Source link

TipRanks 3 ‘Strong Buy’ Stocks With 8% Dividend Yield Let’s talk portfolio defense. After last week’s social flash mob market manipulation, that’s a topic that should not be ignored. Now, this is not to say that the markets are collapsing. After 2% losses to close out last week’s Friday session, this week’s trading kicked off with a positive tone, as the S&P 500 rose 1.5% and the Nasdaq climbed 2.5%. The underlying bullish factors – a more stable political scene, steadily… Source link