周二，谷歌首席执行官Sundar Pichai将在众议院司法委员会作证。在某些方面，听证会将代表一个时代的结束。这是民主党明年接管众议院之前，我们最后一次看到一位科技高管在共和党控制的国会发表讲话。幸运的是，这可能意味着我们将再过两年，不会召开众议院听证会，调查关于政纲对保守派“偏见”的虚假说法。

Makena Kelly告诉我们期待什么：

Pichai is anticipated to face intense questioning from Republican lawmakers who are concerned with the Silicon Valley giant’s algorithms and how they may be biased to more c***ervative content.

Lawmakers are also expected to grill Pichai on issues related to data privacy and anti-competitive market behavior. In September, Pichai traveled to Washington, DC to meet privately with Republican lawmakers over concerns involving algorithms and the company’s Dragonfly search engine project, but he has not formally sat before the panel for a public hearing.

Pichai在国会的露面也将以另一种方式标志着一个时代的结束：它标志着他作为科技界最善良、最没有政治色彩的首席执行官时代的结束。我对Pichai的第一印象是在2013年的谷歌媒体假日派对上形成的，当时他是唯一一位出席并与记者闲聊的高管(据我所知，这是最后一次有高管参加这样的聚会。）

PIchai当时正在运行Chrome，他帮助Chrome成长为世界上最流行的网络浏览器。两年后，他以重组后的字母表成为谷歌的首席执行官。从大多数财务指标来看，他的任期都取得了巨大成功：在此期间，收入增长了81%，股价上涨了76%。

虽然谷歌面临的批评比同为广告技术巨头的Facebook要少——Facebook会准确地说，它受到的审查也更少——但Pichai面临的压力却显著增加。监管的威胁迫在眉睫；员工在一系列问题上公开反抗；而他任期内最重要的项目——寻求在中国发布一个经过审查的搜索引擎——可能会进一步分裂互联网，同时促进独裁言论限制。

在信息中，Sarah Kuranda考察了过去两年如何重塑Pichai在公司内外的形象（美元）：

Over the past year, he has struggled with employee revolts over Google’s handling of haras**ent allegati***, his plans to return to the Chinese market and the company’s work with the U.S. military. And he has grappled with the political fallout from a decision to fire a c***ervative Google employee for publishing a controversial essay.

Mr. Pichai’s penchant for c***ultation, once seen as a key ingredient in his success, is now viewed as indecision by some colleagues. Arguably, he has the most difficult job in Silicon Valley after that of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, a fellow besieged tech leader.

9月，随着围绕“蜻蜓计划”（Project Dragonfly）的问题纷至沓来，皮猜拒绝了出席国会的邀请，引发了一轮负面报道。其结果是，在谷歌面临其历史上最困难的一些问题之际，它缺乏强大的公众声音。

这一情况可能会在下周开始改变，届时皮切伊将在国会中姗姗来迟地就座。我希望我们会看到这位冷静、认真的领导者每年都会在谷歌I/O大会上登台展示公司的最新进展。房子是否会把他从他的谈话要点上推开，或者皮猜是否会把房子从他们的谈话要点上推开，还有待观察。和其他许多人一样，听证会总是有可能基本上一无所获。

尽管如此，风险仍然很高——这一事件是一个里程碑。政治终于赶上了另一位希望避免这种情况的科技公司首席执行官。在过去，一种稳定的诚恳态度对Pichai很有帮助，但是管理现在围绕着他的公司的所有争议可能需要一种更为好斗的方法。

民主

独家：2018年重大黑客事件中NRCC高层官员的电子邮件被盗

亚历克斯·伊森斯塔特（Alex Isenstadt）和约翰·布雷斯纳汉（John Bresnahan）报告说，未知实体——可能是一名外国演员——成功侵入了全国共和党竞选委员会高级官员的电子邮件账户：

The House GOP campaign arm suffered a major hack during the 2018 election, exposing thousands of sensitive emails to an outside intruder, according to three senior party officials.

The email accounts of four senior aides at the National Republican Congressional Committee were surveilled for several months, the party officials said. The intrusion was detected in April by an NRCC vendor, who alerted the committee and its cybersecurity contractor. An internal investigation was initiated and the FBI was alerted to the attack, said the officials, who requested anonymity to discuss the incident.

欧盟部长未能打破数字税收僵局

据Leigh Thomas报道，欧盟财长周二未能就数字收入征税达成协议。

In the original European Commission proposal, the tax was intended to be a temporary “quick fix” until a broader solution could be found among OECD members.

But this was opposed by Ireland and some Nordic countries, leading French and German finance ministers to focus solely on online advertising revenues instead. While this met with misgivings and outright opposition from at least four other ministers at a meeting in Brussels, they agreed to keep talking, said Austrian Finance Minister Hartwig Loeger, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency.

Facebook允许用户发布关于杀害移民和少数民族的信息

贾斯汀·格拉维在Facebook上发现了很多带有仇恨言论的帖子。

Facebook终止了禁止复制其功能的应用程序的平台政策

据Josh Contne报道，Facebook此举可能是为了规避监管，Facebook将开放API访问应用程序，复制其自身应用程序的核心功能，包括让用户找到Facebook好友并将其添加到其他服务的功能。

一项新的研究称，即使你注销了，谷歌也会对搜索结果进行个性化设置

DuckDuckGo资助了对谷歌搜索结果的研究，发现即使用户注销并使用匿名模式，搜索结果也有所不同。谷歌表示，这并不意味着搜索是“个性化的”，确切地说，搜索结果取决于你搜索的时间、你的实际位置以及其他因素。

在别处

Facebook的员工打电话给以前的同事，要求他们在公司之外找工作，并询问离职的最佳方式

Sal Rodriguez报道说，在经历了几年的痛苦之后，Facebook员工寻求退出的人数有所上升。他还透露，离职的员工要么被贴上“遗憾”（就像Facebook希望他们留下一样）要么被贴上“不遗憾”的标签，后者永远不会回来。

Another former Facebook director said he has seen a rise in the number of his ex-colleagues who have reached out to ask about openings at his current company, and these employees often ask about advice on the best way to leave Facebook. He’s also experienced an increase in calls from other companies that are running references on current Facebook staffers.

“Once it becomes weird to tell people that they work at Facebook, or once their moms aren’t proud of them anymore, that’s when people are going to head to the exits,” he said. “I think we’re already getting there.”

Facebook暂时删除，然后恢复批评该公司“黑人问题”的便条

马克·勒基（MarkLuckie）关于黑人员工在Facebook的经历的帖子被神秘地标记为违反了Facebook的社区标准；当天晚些时候，它被修复了。

Facebook上的非营利组织遭到黑客攻击，他们真的需要帮助

Louise Matsakis写到一家动物收容所Facebook页面的管理员，她无助地看着自己的账户不断遭到黑客攻击，Facebook无视她的帮助请求（直到她在推特上向一位提供帮助的高管发了信息）。更大的问题是筹资欺诈和缺乏客户支持，即使是拥有超过100万粉丝的账户。

Desperate, Alana reached out to Facebook for help by every method she could imagine. She sent emails, tweets, and even mailed letters to Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, and the company’s board of directors. She says she also tried contacting the FBI and the Better Business Bureau. Weeks went by before she reached anyone who could help. Finally, on September 29, Alana heard back from someone via Twitter: Guy Rosen, Facebook’s vice president of product management. It was the day after Facebook announced a cybersecurity breach that impacted around 30 million users.

让谷歌变得巨大的友谊

每个人都喜欢这个关于谷歌传奇人物杰夫·迪恩和桑杰·格马沃特的迷人故事，他们在电脑上共同编写代码，改变了人类历史的进程。詹姆斯·萨默斯（James Somers）的故事充满了关于谷歌早期的精彩轶事：

When a car goes around a turn, more ground must be covered by the outside wheels; likewise, the outer edge of a spinning hard disk moves faster than the inner one. Google had moved the most frequently accessed data to the outside, so that bits could flow faster under the read-head, but had left the inner half empty; Jeff and Sanjay used the space to store preprocessed data for common search queries. Over four days in 2001, they proved that Google’s index could be stored using fast random-access memory instead of relatively slow hard drives; the discovery reshaped the company’s economics. Page and Brin knew that users would flock to a service that delivered answers instantly. The problem was that speed required computing power, and computing power cost money. Jeff and Sanjay threaded the needle with software.

Tumblr的色情禁令是旧互联网终结的中间环节

凯蒂·诺托普洛斯说，Tumblr的色情文化是21世纪互联网文化的一个重要组成部分，这一文化已经逐渐消亡——目前还不清楚是否有任何色情文化能够得到有意义的保护：

A lot what Tumblr is banning is just gratuitous **** GIFs, and the internet is not lacking opti*** when it comes to free ****ography. But Tumblr is also a thriving place for the kind of sexual expression that you won’t find on Pornhub. “Tumblr sex sites created spaces for ALL KINDS of people who don’t have access to sexual community elsewhere,” wrote Steven Thrasher. It has always been a safe haven for young people exploring and expressing their sexuality. There is tasteful erotica, supportive places for people to post their own bodies — including those that don’t look like typical **** bodies — and to c***ume and engage with the wide swath of human sexual experience that can’t be replicated by logging on to xHamster and being greeted with a blast of extremely aggressive heterosexual facials.

And of course, where else could one go to see erotic fan art of the Laughing Cow cow having sex with the Lactaid cartoon cow? Personally, I enjoyed the funny crude/nude humor on Tumblr (I do a joint Tumblr, along with a few of my colleagues, called “Worst Things on the Internet,” which is very NSFW), and I’ll miss that. But I care more about the massive loss of internet history that will happen when all these images vanish forever.

路透社在推特上看到了视频浏览量货币化带来的收入增长

路透社…在推特上赚钱(但这并不意味着它不会裁员3200人。）

According to Dan Colarusso, executive editor at Reuters TV and Reuters.com, Twitter now brings in “significant revenue,” in line with what his company gets from Google AMP. “In terms of one product on one platform, Twitter is contributing the most,” said Colarusso, but he was unable to share specific revenue details in time for publishing.

库拉黑客

有人窃取了约1亿Quora用户的个人信息，透露有1亿人使用Quora。

播客

是时候删除Facebook了吗？

今天，解释道——2018年苹果下载量最大的新播客之一让我来谈谈Facebook的颠簸的月份、年份和未来听起来你基本上解释了所有的事情，但今天除外，”一位同事打趣道。）我没有写这个标题！

与Caroline Sinders游戏前后的在线骚扰历史

与此同时，在Vergecast，Nilay Patel和我谈论了网络骚扰的起源以及平台与互联网历史学家Caroline Sinders进行斗争的努力(她总结了我最近在这里联系到的骚扰的伟大历史。）

发射

Facebook继续把故事放在各处，现在所有的群组都能看到

感觉这可能是一些昂贵的广告房地产，如果团体接受故事：

Facebook announced today that it’s rolling Group Stories out globally, after initially debuting them last year. The feature allows Group members to contribute to a collaborative story. The company’s also launching reacti*** in Group Stories, so users can respond to other people’s contributi*** with a variety of emoji as they watch.

Facebook计划2019年4月30日至5月1日在圣何塞举行F8活动

我们现在有了F8的日期，而且它的位置也很不方便（无论如何，对我来说！）在圣何塞。”当我们走到一起时，谁也说不出我们能创造什么，”读一下我收到的保存日期通知。我想，至少我们可以创造一些东西！

默认情况下，YouTube移动应用程序现在将在“主页”选项卡上自动播放视频

今天，在无人要求的功能中：

YouTube has announced it’s trickling down a feature from its YouTube Premium apps, though it’s not the background playback that everyone really wants. Rolling out now, Autoplay on Home is a new default for YouTube’s Android and iOS apps that will automatically start playing videos you see on your Home tab. Google will allow the option to disable it, or only keep it on when connected to Wi-Fi, but the company appears convinced that Autoplay on Home is a better way to experience and browse YouTube on the move.

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推特的种姓问题

Thenmozhi Soundarajan，他创造了“粉碎”。婆罗门的。推特首席执行官在一张引发国际事件的照片中提到的“父权制”，认为多尔西站出来支持达利特阶层是正确的——达利特阶层的故事是推特上每一个代表性不足和被骚扰的群体的故事：

India, with almost eight million active Twitter users, is the platform’s fastest growing market. An increasing number of these users are Dalits or belong to other religious, cultural and gender minorities. There are over 260 million Dalits in India, and for many, Twitter truly represented a platform where they could speak and be heard while offering an alternative to mainstream Indian media, which has scant Dalit representation.

But India’s entrenched structures of caste privilege and power replicated on Twitter and forced caste-oppressed communities off the platform, traumatizing many in the process.

Tumblr刚刚用核武器攻击了最后一个安全空间，使其成为在线****

迈尔斯·克莱（Miles Klee）描述了Tumblr角质的独特现象，并对其即将逝去表示哀悼：

A quick search of the not-yet-deleted archive yields all kinds of curiosities you’re unlikely to find anywhere else. There’s the Anarcho-Feminist, curated by an anthropology student who went on to direct a multidisciplinary alternative-**** festival in Switzerland. Oldenskin collects vintage nudes going back decades. Here’s an account that blends steamy lingerie spreads with astrology — and here’s one exclusively for admiring men’s sculpted butts. All of them reach for an aesthetic familiar to anyone who has used Tumblr over a sustained period: lush, gentle, dreamy, intimate. In a word, arty. Users wanted the same palettes and contours, the same cinematic angles and black-and-white exposures, as they did for their photos of architecture and Sunday morning coffee. In fact, I just found a Tumblr dedicated to naked people drinking coffee.

最后。。。

这是一张关于一位政治家亚历山大·奥卡西奥·科尔特斯（Alexandria Ocasio Cortez）的惊人图表，他一手支持保守派出版商。他们的观众对她了解不够：

我敢打赌那些文章中有几篇是真的！

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