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An online developers conference was canceled after several tech executives pulled out of the event following accusations that the organizer fabricated female speakers' profiles. High-profile engineering leaders in the developer community — including Microsoft Corp.'s Scott Hanselman and Kelsey Hightower, a former developer advocate at Alphabet Inc's Google — withdrew on Monday from DevTernity, where tickets were sold for as much as $870.The event's organizer, Eduards Sizovs, confirmed the cancellation of the event. “It…

The blowback over Elon Musk's endorsement of an antisemitic conspiracy theory on X gathered steam Friday, as several major advertisers on his social media platform cut off their spending after his comments.The Walt Disney Co. said it was pausing spending on X, as did Lionsgate, an entertainment and film distribution company, and Paramount Global, a media giant that owns CBS. Apple, which spends tens of millions of dollars a year on X, also suspended advertising on the platform, a person with knowledge of the situation…

The grind is here. While the pep rallies were fun, the temperature is rising, and the hardest part is yet to come. The grumbling has started: that Spielberg will call Zaslav to save TCM, but not help the folks making movies now. That not enough big-name showrunners are on the lines. (‘Cause they’re too busy herding cattle on their mega-ranches.) Gavin Newsom or Karen Bass or Joe Biden haven’t intervened to force the AMPTP to the table.  There’s anxiety, too: the fear is we’ll be alone in the end, as…

Many U.S. biomedical researchers and their collaborators abroad are reacting with alarm to a new National Institutes of Health requirement that foreign groups send their NIH partners copies of their lab notebooks and other raw data at least every few months. It’s “crazy,” says Brazilian researcher Mauro Teixeira, who gets NIH funding through a U.S. university for a mosquito-borne disease study. The 19 May policy change, sparked by concerns about U.S.-funded…

Streamers are up in arms over a change to Twitch's Branded Content Guidelines, which banned "burned-in" video ads, audio ads, banner ads, and limits on-screen logos to just 3% of screen size. After outcry from streamers, including some of the platform's biggest names, Twitch has released an apology, though hasn't yet clarified how the guidelines will be further modified.The initial change was shared on Twitter by streamer Zach Bussey, showing a series of illustrations that demonstrate what will and won't…

Google has withdrawn a gaming app that allowed players to buy, sell and torture Black virtual "slaves" after a racism outcry in Brazil.Dubbed "Slavery Simulator," the Portuguese-language game saw players trade in slaves and strategise to prevent the abolition of slavery in order to amass virtual riches.The prosecutor's office said it had opened an investigation for "hate speech" related to the game downloaded by hundreds of people.The app itself had come with a disclaimer condemning "all types of slavery" and insisting…

Google has withdrawn a gaming app that allowed players to buy, sell and torture black virtual "slaves" after a racism outcry in Brazil.Dubbed "Slavery Simulator," the Portuguese-language game saw players trade in slaves and strategize to prevent the abolition of slavery in order to amass virtual riches. The prosecutor's office said it had opened an investigation for "hate speech" related to the game downloaded by hundreds of people. The app itself had come with a disclaimer condemning "all types of slavery" and insisting…

Within 2 weeks after a preprint was posted to arXiv on 31 March, outrage erupted on Twitter and multiple co-authors requested their names be removed. The issue wasn’t the science, which focused on the detection of exoplanets, but its authorship. To the dismay of many astronomers, Geoff Marcy was listed as the third of 16 authors. Marcy was once a prominent astronomer at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, known for leading efforts to search for planets…

Activision is finally investigating Call of Duty: Warzone 2 server issues that have plagued the game since the start of Season 3, which launched on April 12.Since then, numerous players have encountered issues getting into games, stuttering during matches, and a plethora of other server-related issues. But now, over a week since the Season 3 launch, Activision has acknowledged the problem and is working on a fix. You need a javascript enabled browser to watch…

Three years after the outcry over an all-white acting nominations lineup overshadowed the Bafta film awards, 2023’s event might have been the one where it was just all about a celebration of cinema.Yet, despite a complete overhaul of its system after being denounced for a lack of diversity in nominations, viewers and critics have once again been voicing disapproval – albeit while also laying blame on the industry at large.“I watched clips of the #BAFTAS and didn’t see a single black or brown person win. Not because…