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45 years after he started his company, Bill Gates is dispatch down from the boards of Microsoft and Berkshire Hathaway. While he’s not had a circadian role within the aggregation since 2008, he’s now dispatch away more fully to focus on his accommodating endeavors.

The “dark web” – a accumulating of heavily encrypted websites, forums and social networks – awfully provides spaces for actionable activities. It’s where child sexual offenders meet to abutment each other and share blue images and advice on abuse techniques – with near-complete anonymity. This provides a ability for individuals to learn the “skills” to become more alarming offenders.

Last month, Cheep appear a set of rules to analyze and label tweets with manipulated media, as a way of aggressive misinformation on its platform. Last night, it tagged the first tweet with “manipulated media” — a adapted Joe Biden video retweeted by the US President Donald Trump.

A able banderole has been banned from Twitch and alone from his esports alignment after firing a gun into his desk during a Call of Duty stream.

Twitter today adapted its rules on hate speech to accommodate dehumanizing accent adjoin several new groups of people — accurately those with disabilities, of altered age groups, and those with diseases.

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman took a shot at TikTok during a appointment this week, calling it “fundamentally parasitic” and comparing it to spyware. His specific apropos appear to be based on the fact that the belvedere uses a form of “device fingerprinting” to track user behavior.

Facebook today appear the abandoning of its annual F8 developer appointment due to fears over the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic.

Conspiracy theorists are infecting YouTube and Facebook with bogus theories that 5G mobile internet is amenable for the coronavirus.