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10 things in tech you need to know today, October 15
Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Monday.
SoftBank shares have fallen dramatically, slashing its value by
$20 billion. Bloomberg ascribes the dive to a
rocky few weeks for tech companies and the outcry at Saudi
Arabia — SoftBank’s biggest outside investor — following the
disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Chinese regional authorities laid out the kind of speech
suppression that Google will likely have to facilitate for the
country’s persecuted Muslim ethnic minority to launch its new
product in China. Regional authorities in
China passed new laws on how to crack down on its Uighur ethnic
minority, which includes heavy surveillance, policing, and
censorship from tech companies.
Tech billionaires Marc Benioff and Jack Dorsey are clashing
over a key law that could seriously impact the San Francisco
homelessness crisis. Proposition C would tax
the largest businesses in the city to fund homelessness
services, and it could bring in $250 million to $300 million in
revenue annually.
Two US senators encouraged the Indian Prime Minister to adopt a
more lenient stance towards data localization.
Reuters obtained a letter in which Senators John Cornyn
and Mark Warner encouraged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to
adopt a “light touch” so data can easily cross national
borders.
An ex-Googler who was part of a Noble Peace Prize-nominated
project wants to reinvent the photography
market. Patrick Ip, an ex-Googler who was
involved in a Nobel Peace Prize nominated project, has a new
startup called Catalog.
Reddit’s former product chief said he made the world “a worse
place” in his pursuit of growth at all
costs. Former Reddit head of product Dan
McComas told New York magazine that he believes a
relentless pursuit of growth led to user safety and wellbeing
being sacrificed.
An intelligence group has found that Islamic extremists are
using YouTube less. New analysis from the Site
Intelligence Group indicates that organisations
like Islamic State and al-Qaeda are using YouTube much
less to spread propaganda.
The latest spammy viral Facebook post warns users about account
“cloning,” but it’s nothing to worry about.
A chain-mail-esque post has been spreading in recent
weeks, warning of the purported dangers of cloning and asking
people who read it to copy and paste it into their own posts,
so other users can be warned.
A British startup will let people buy shares in pilot TV series
and film. Bombay Sour describes its platform as a
“crowdfunded Netflix,” and has brought the producer of “The
King’s Speech” onto its management team.
Elon Musk says it’s time to create a “mecha” or giant fighting
anime robot. Elon Musk tweeted about his love
for a 2016 anime film and followed it up by saying it was time
to create a “mecha,” or giant fighting anime robot in the wee
hours of Sunday morning.
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