Techstrong News Recap – December 1, 2022
On Dec. 1, William Willis covered Twitter’s ending of its COVID-19 misinformation policy, Google facing a lawsuit from UK publishers over online advertising and DoorDash laying off 1,250 workers. He also talked about how Renault and Airbus are teaming up to develop the next generation of batteries. Finally, he previewed articles from DevOps.com, Security Boulevard and Container Journal, which covered Datadog’s universal service monitoring platform, how to adapt to tightening security budgets and how Kubescape added vulnerability scanning capabilities.
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Hi again, everyone here the headlines for December 1st. First up Twitter announcer will stop enforcing its covid misinformation policy. The company said it stopped taking action against tweets that breach the previously held covered rules yesterday.
Under the misinformation policy Twitter used a five strike system for misinformation with the account being suspended indefinitely after the fish strike. Well, this system was never perfect. It did suspend over 11,000 accounts for covid misinformation.
Now, however, some of these accounts that broke the rules are returning causing concerns that these accounts could provide misinformation that could influence how many people make Health decisions. Next Google was sued by several British Publishers on the basis that Google abused their dominant position in online advertising. The claim was filed yesterday at the competition appeal tribunal according to economic research done for the lawsuit.
Google may have reduced ad revenue for companies by up to 40% with an estimated loss of 16 billion dollars since 2014. Zooming out online advertising has begun to be heavily scrutinized by Regulators worldwide as with the case earlier this year with the 150 million dollar euro fine in post on Google from France. This claim itself is acting in conjunction with an EU claim that is expected to be filed next year.
In other news doordash has joined the ranks of companies laying off workers by announcing that they are laying off 1,250 employees themselves. This being said the company is not yet made it clear which departments the layoffs are hitting the most. Doordashes should be the layoffs to Growing the company too quickly during the pandemic with it.
Now facing operating costs. That would quickly rise above its Revenue. While doordash has seen success during the pandemic.
It is not immune from the current economic environment. The workers that have been laid off will receive 17 weeks of compensation as well as their their February 2023 stock vest. Next up the plane maker Airbus has teamed up with the car maker Renault to create the next generation of electric batteries.
Both of the companies will work together to create batteries for cars and planes with increased energy storage. Energy storage is one of the major factors holding back long range EVS currently. The two companies have said that they will work on Energy Management optimization as well as looking the full life cycle of batteries to determine their future carbon footprints.
com we have an article looking at how datadog has made a universal monitoring service generally available. The service takes advantage of the extended Berkeley packet filtering micro kernel to automatically detect all the services that make up an application environment. Datadoga said that the goal is to close the visibility Gap that is emerged in it organizations as you specific application services.
com. On Security Boulevard, we have an article looking at how to adapt to tightening security budgets. This article looks at what's worrying security teams putting risk into context and the tools paradox.
com. Finally our container Journal we even article looking at how koobscape has added a new functionality to help scan for vulnerabilities. com.
And that's today's text wrong news recap.
