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Tech workers sound off on Washington state’s proposed ‘billionaire tax’ at first public hearing

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Bill Gates, left, and Jeff Bezos. Washington state lawmakers target Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and other billionaires with wealth tax. They are Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, his ex-wife MacKenzie Scott, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, and former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. GeekWire, Economic Club Photos). I came up pretty good.

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Google made AI language the centerpiece of I/O while ignoring its troubled past at the company

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The story of their departure is complex but was triggered by a paper the pair co-authored (with researchers outside Google) examining risks associated with the language models Google now presents as key to its future. For one thing, they fired two of the authors of that paper, nominally over the paper.

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The latest 007 saga has a space billionaire, quantum computers — but no James Bond

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That’s the unconventional tack taken by British author Kim Sherwood in her first-ever spy thriller, “Double or Nothing” — the kickoff to a trilogy that introduces a new cast of secret agents, plus some old favorites including M, Miss Moneypenny and CIA agent Felix Leiter. Now imagine that James Bond is missing from the story.

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THE best Enterprise 2.0 experts and consultants in Australia share their expertise in workshops at Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum

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Stephen Collins, Founder, acidlabs. Jeff Gilling, Director, Strategy and Research, McCrindle Research. Jeff has been researching generational trends and helping organizations to understand and leverage them for over 15 years. Blog : [link]. Twitter : @kcarruthers. and Enterprise 2.0 into organizations. Blog : [link].

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As privacy issues worsen, Congress looks to the FTC

The Verge

It has limited resources and limited capabilities to engage in privacy work, plus all of the other work it has to do,” Sara Collins, privacy policy counsel at Public Knowledge, said Tuesday. It’s a competition authority. It’s a general consumer protection authority. They have to have more resources to do this work.”.

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How the forced sale of TikTok could splinter the internet

The Verge

Ben Collins / NBC). Newley Purnell and Jeff Horwitz / The Wall Street Journal ). Germany’s anti-trust authority has launched an investigation into Amazon’s relationship with third-party selling. Facebook announced a new policy to crack down on political content disguised as local news, but it’s not as strict as it appears.

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Quitting Elon

Vox

There is no comparable adoration for Jeff Bezos, who also believes humanity should go to Mars, or even for the late Steve Jobs. This concern is indicative of the strain of tribalism running through Musk’s fandom. To a degree, that may be a feature of any insular community — but it’s remarkable that a fandom exists at all for a tech CEO.

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