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A former Googler published a shocking blog post.
Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Thursday.
- A former Googler has explosively alleged that Google's top lawyer had a child with her while he was married and then cut her off, and described a toxic culture that protects "elite men.">$4 Jennifer Blakely, a former Google employee, published details about her relationship with Alphabet chief counsel David Drummond on Wednesday.
- $4. The $4 which is kept in a Microsoft Word document file and listed out insults from politicians and critics.
- $4. The company is making a few changes to how it grades Siri's accuracy, which entails not recording Siri conversations by default, among other new policies.
- $4. Huawei's flagship Mate 30 is on the way, and an executive said it cannot be sold with Google apps and services.
- $4. Antonov was Oculus's chief software architect but he left the Facebook-owned company earlier this year.
- $4. Prior to the announcement on Wednesday, a Change.org petition was published demanding Palantir be dropped as a sponsor.
- $4. The images shared by Pete Lau show him packaging the first OnePlus TV off the production line, as well as a OnePlus TV seemingly going through a screen calibration test.
- $4 The company flat out warns investors that if they don't like the way Neumann is paying himself or running the company, there will be little they can do about it.
- $4. Microsoft warned of issues with core functionality, including "signing in; creating, managing, or recovering an account; and search."
- $4. Starting in mid-September, organizations will have to prove they are registered with the US government to run political ads, and a disclaimer on the ad will list them as a "Confirmed Organization."
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