[ad_1] Frustrated fans have been posting about the invasion in the TF2 Steam forums, and on Reddit, Twitter and YouTube. Valve, the company that created TF2 and Steam, has responded with silence. “I would describe it as disastrous,” longtime TF2 player Jason Hughes said. (His name has been changed to protect against targeted in-game attacks.) […]
Category: sexism
California says Riot Games’ discrimination settlement isn’t enough
[ad_1] DLSE, meanwhile, believed that the attorneys for the women didn’t do their homework and missed out on valid claims against Riot. Reportedly, the lawyers misfiled a notice for equal pay violations and didn’t account for overtime or minimum wage violations in the settlement deal. The court will decide on DSLE’s right to intervene on […]
Federal study shows face recognition accuracy varies by gender and race
[ad_1] In one-to-one matches, there were dramatic increases in false positives for African American, Asian and native American faces compared to their Caucasian counterparts, with mistakes frequently happening “10 to 100 times” more often. African American women were also more likely to be the victims of false positives in one-to-many matches, and women as a […]
Goldman will re-check Apple Card credit scores after sexism claims
[ad_1] The outcry against the Apple Card began when Basecamp founder and Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson accused the bank of sexism after he was offered twenty times the credit limit that his wife was, even though they file joint tax returns. In response to the controversy, Goldman posted a statement on Twitter […]
New York investigates claims of sexism in Apple Card credit limits
[ad_1] The department told Bloomberg that the investigation will both look into any legal wrongdoing as well guarantee that every customer is treated equally. Any algorithmic bias (including unintentional bias) “violates New York law,” department superintendent Linda Lacewell said. Goldman maintained in a statement that credit decisions were based solely on “creditworthiness” and not qualities […]
Emerging from the shadow of GamerGate
[ad_1] After reading Lawhead’s post on the 26th, Developer Zoë Quinn published a note on Twitter describing past emotional, physical and sexual abuse by Alec Holowka, a prominent independent developer and co-creator of Night in the Woods. Holowka’s studio, Infinite Fall, cut ties with him days later, saying they believed Quinn. On August 28th, developer […]
Riot Games settles class action lawsuit over sexist culture
[ad_1] The issues at Riot Games came to the attention of the public last year, after Kotaku published an investigative piece into the alleged sexism; the story included interviews with 28 current and former employees. Because the details of the settlement are not finalized, we don’t know what it entails or how favorable the outcome […]
Senate bill would make tech companies test algorithms for bias
[ad_1] The bill would only apply to companies that either make more than $50 million per year or have data for at least one million people or devices. Small businesses would theoretically be safe. The senators saw this as a civil rights issue and pointed to recent incidents as examples. Facebook is still facing a […]