100,000 children are sexually harassed on Meta platforms every day. Under the disinterest of the management 🔐 #WEEKLY ~ January 21st

Every Facebook user is tracked by thousands of companies. VMware has eliminated 56 products. Google search has gotten worse.

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Every Facebook user is monitored by thousands of companies. In a Consumer Reports study of 709 volunteers, a total of 186,892 companies shared volunteer data with Facebook, an average of 2,230 companies per person. (The Markup)

Meta documents show that 100 000 children are sexually harassed on its platforms every day. According to internal documents released as part of the lawsuit, employees were concerned about the company's "negligible" response to child grooming. (The Guardian)

VMware is discontinuing 56 products as part of a "tectonic" infrastructure change. VMware confirmed in a stern Jan. 15 statement that it was "discontinuing availability" of a number of products and that "these products are no longer available for purchase" - although most continue to be enthusiastically advertised on slick corporate websites for now. (The Stack)

Microsoft announced that the Russian-linked Midnight Blizzard group hacked some employee emails starting in November 2023. The same group was behind the SolarWinds hack in 2019. (Bloomberg)

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Researchers examining Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo search results for a year: search engines are losing a cat-and-mouse game of SEO spam, likely fueled by artificial intelligence. (404)