Venezuelan authorities arrest campaign staffers of opposition candidate in alleged violent plot

CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela’s top prosecutor on Wednesday announced arrest warrants for the presidential campaign manager of opposition powerhouse María Corina Machado and eight other staffers, accusing them involvement in a violent anti-government conspiracy. Attorney General Tarek William Saab said in a nationally televised news conference that campaign manager Magalli Meda and the other Machado … Read more

As Techstars retools, some former staffers say it lost focus on what made it successful

Well-known accelerator group Techstars announced a slew of changes to its operations this week, including the shuttering of some of its city-based programs.  Criticism from former members of its decisions lit social media channels who argued that the famed startup accelerator has lost focus on the very thing that historically made it so successful: city-based … Read more

Ex-Meta staffers sell trust and safety tech during Israel-Hamas war

People using their mobile phones outside the offices of Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, in King’s Cross, London. Joshua Bratt | Pa Images | Getty Images Lauren Wagner knows a lot about disinformation. Heading into the 2020 U.S. presidential election, she worked at Facebook, focusing on information integrity and overseeing products designed … Read more

Lizzo’s Tour Staffers Come to Her Defense in Dancer Banana Sex Show Lawsuit

Lizzo’s tour staffers have her back in the sexual harassment lawsuit leveled against the singer by some former dancers … saying Lizzo promoted a positive environment and never forced anyone to go to sex shows they didn’t want to attend. According to new legal docs, obtained by TMZ, 18 independent members of Lizzo’s touring company … Read more

Google staffers reward engineers for I/O, and poke enjoyable at execs AI use

Sundar Pichai talking on the Google I/O Developer’s Convention in Mountain View, Calif. on Might 10, 2023. Courtesy: Google Google workers have been paying shut consideration to the corporate’s annual developer convention this week in addition to to Wall Avenue’s overwhelmingly optimistic response. When in it got here to doling out credit score for the … Read more